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November 1861
Monday 25th
Wind NW Clear & cold. Cutting down & hauling
Stalks to Farm Pen. Hauled Slabs Plates &c to the [guards?]
home. Building the Guard’s house. Got Wood.
Jefferson & Fayette Sinclair are at their Father’s
Tuesday 26
Wind NW Clear. Cutting down Corn Stalks. Raking &
hauling Wood’s litter to hog & Cattle Pens.
Wednesday 27
Wind E Clear & cloudy alternately. Cutting down & hauling
Stalks. Sent to Saw Mill for Plank & could not get it.
Got some Stocks to saw some. I went to Adams’s
Tanery where I bought 18 lbs sole Leather at 60c per lb.
Thursday 28
Wind SE Clear. Took up & put away Turnips in Mounds
and in the barn. John & Younger sawing. Shelled Corn.
Fayette Sinclair here in mg. he & I went Partridge shooting
Dr Byrd & Mr Curtis dined here. Warner went to the C.H.
Our little Baby is quite unwell, I thing she is teething.
Friday 29
Wind S. alternately Clear & cloudy. Making Winter
Farm Pen & Shelters for Cattle, & Hauling Stalks to it -
John & Younger sawing. Landon Davies dined here.
Saturday 30
Wind NW Clear & cold. Rained last night. Got Wood. Raked litter
John & Younger Sawing. Warner started where he goes on the legislature
it meets Monday. Maria & the children spent the day at Mr Davies’s
