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August 1861
Tuesday 20
Wind E & NE. Cloudy & clear alternately.
Men ditching. Hauling out & scattering
manure. Boys & women cutting bushes.
Wednesday 21
Wind NE Cloudy & rained hard from 2, O.clk
Ditching. Hauling out & scattering manure.
Warner returned from Richmond
The Soldiers not very well.
Thursday 22
Wind SW. Cloudy & clear. Ditching
Hauling & Scattering manure. Grubbing bushes.
Powhatan Clarke is very ill
Mr Jef B Sinclair’s health is very bad, he made
his will Today and sent for me to witness it
Friday 23.
Wind E. Clear. Ditching. Hauling out Manure
and scattering it. I went to see how Pow Clarke
is. he is extremely ill – Mr Heslin sick.
Saturday 24
Wind SW Clear. Ditching, Hauling out & scattering
Manure, Grubbing bushes.
Sunday 25
Wind NW Clear. I rode to Warner Hall in Morning
Powhatan Clarke much better. Mr Galpin sick
F Sinclair & a Mr Jones of the Comsy dept at York here.
he wanted Lambs.
