Oct 5, 1824; Apr 2, 1825; Sept 1825; Feb 28-Mar 2, 1833

Grastys Store Mount Airy 5 Oct 1824
I planted my Peach nursery at Green
Grove this day. the nursery is 16 yds wide
& upwards of Twenty yds long - Containing
Twenty Three or four Rows ———
Jer. W Graves
Dark moon in march, for planting forward
Irish Potatoes, & the Dark moon in June
for planting winter Irish Potatoes -
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The 2nd day of april 1825 being
Saturday it commenced Snowing in
the morning, & continued untill ½ past
Six O^cClock in the Evening, the Snow
is full¹⁴⁺ Inch[es] Deep, & Several poeple
have began to plant Corn
I have never seen
the like before JWGraves

Daniel Ring planted me a
Peach nursery on the place he lives
in Septemr 1825 — J.W. Graves

1833
Thursday Evening the 28th & last day of Feby it comm=
=enced raining and it Freezed as it fell & continued
so doing that night,- the next day the 1st day
of March it was cloudy & Rained Smartly
& Continued freezing & in the Evening the wind
began to blow & for several hours & never saw^{& heard}
the trees break so much in my life, they have
so much Ice on them, on Saturday the 2nd Mar
the Ice has scarcely melted any it being a very
cold day the wind is from N. W quite clear
& such a time I never saw in my life; the reflection of