October 13 - 30, 1846
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13th Rained hard till 12 Oclock & then broke
off Cool, we did do much out this day
14 Housing Tobacco & shoemaking
15 gone to Mr. John D Hunts to get apples
to put up for winter = ground still full
wet to sew wheat — = Picking out cotton
16th Sewing wheat in fresh ground next
to orchard - spreading f[l]ax to rot
16 Sewing wheat in fresh ground nextorchard
17. Do Do & spreading out flax
cutting down corn stalks next to middlebarn
18. Sunday S.S. meeting clear fine day
19. Finished sewing wheat in Granary lot
& Killed Beef. weighed 200 lbs
20 Digging sweet Potatoes large frost &
up for seed 1 Bbl in closet & Box
& Bbl in stack ——— Top stack
21. Sewing wheat in fresh ground
& putting up apples & Irish Potatoes
22nd Finishing fresh groundsewingwheat
& Pulling corn & halling wood
23. sewed square opposit[e] to middle BarnMy wife taken sick before day this
morning & about 8 Oclock in morning
had her second children Doct Sutphin & Mrs. Neal here Girl
Pulling & halling corn out of Big field
left hand side of Path towards Barns —
24 Halling up corn etc —25th Sunday
26 Halling up corn & finished the big field
27. Shucking & Housing corn — & had
at night a Shucking & finished
28 & 29th Finishing HousingCorngot big
corn House nearly full & short corn to
Fatten Hogs & cutting down & getting up
corn stalks to sew wheat —
30 Halling corn stalks & began t[o]
Break up ground for wheat
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