Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 3

1846 14th July. Plowing fresh ground Corn & hilling up Lot Tobacco, I am Toping Tobacco Lila Hilling up cotton alse working out Garden & Hilling up Peas & Irish Potatoes

15 Plowing Corn in Fresh ground. balance Finishing hilling^upLot Tobacco & wh[e]at they begin on yesterday Potatoes Peas etc etc,

16th hilling Branch Tobacco — Plowing corn yet & nearly done laying by, Raining this morning beautifully -

17 Finishing laying by Corn this^yesterdaymorning but Little rain, - Stacking oats this day & Hilling up branch Tobacco

18. Raining to day more or less all day - Working at branch Tobacco

19. Raining all night & Still raining this morning ground quite wet, the Lord be thanked — an elegant time for corn etc etc etc etc

20 Went to Court Rained a little choping new ground Tobacco & Toping all we have over Plowing up ground for Buck Wheat

21st Sewed Buck Wheat & Hilling up second yrs ground Tobacco —

22nd Hilling up same & Halling leaves to stable —

23rd Started to Milton with F. White to School this day. got there 24 & Returned home 25th July 1846 Started the Oats & worked out our Tobacco while I was done alse choped some in corn

26 Sunday & cloudy —

27 Monday Toping Tobacco choping Corn etc

28 getting & Beeting apples, at night Rained hard ground quite wet

29 Beeting apples & treading out wheat.

1847 25th Augt. Jacob ^{James Dearing}started to school & this week went 2 days

Sept 3rd Friday went 1 hr week 4 days “ 10 went 4 days 1 hr week 4 “ 17 went 5 days 1 hr week 5 “ 21 went 1 hr day & stayed 12 oclock “ 24 ^{Mr Waddel went to [Corcons?]}went 3½ days this week Oct 1st went 4½ days this week 8 went 2 days this week 15 went 5 days this week 22 went 5 days this week 25 went Monday of this week Nov. 22 went this week 3 days “ 24 went Monday 1 day

1848 Jany 31st Jacob starts to school Feby 4 went 4 days this week Jacob has missed 3 days^{this day} or 4 do to Jerry starts to make up his lost time Jacob miss 1 day more Jery about made up Jacob lost time up to this day Jerry gone to day

[three sentences crossed out diagonally:] augt 30th^mondayTalton at building chimny 1 day &^{began 9 Oclock say little ps} " Sept worked 2 1/2 days & went Home 25 " worked 2 1/2 days on ^{[?] it}& went home Entered on bond — = 1848 May 22nd Jerry 2 days to school 2 23 Jerry 1 day to D^o 1

1847 Feby 1^st Memorandum of an agreement made & entered between J. W. Graves & Benj. F. Lain both of Pittsy^a County V^a Wheras the said Lain has agreed to do Carpentry work for said Graves, and the said Graves agrees to pay the said Lain 3/- pr. day for every day the said Lain shall work. Given under hands this the date & year above written

J . W. Graves Benjamin F. Lain

Commenced 2^nd Feby 1847 & worked this week 5 days " 13 " " & worked this week 5 ½ " " came 14 & worked continued on Book to his credit " 20 " " till Saturday this week 5 days. " 25 worked till Thursday 10 @ 3 " Came 8 March to work again " 10 worked 2 days this week 2 -- Came 16 came to work this morning- ^{4 or 4½ days}_{10 oclock} } 4 ½ " 20 work from Tuesday till Saturday 9 or " 22. came again this morning 2 Two days this [?]

Dr My Negro Man Fled Cr 1846 Dec 25 Molasses 9c Honey 9c - 0.25 1847        .13 Feby 13 1lb cotton 9c Mar 29 2lb Bn Sugar 1/6 0.37 June 3 yds cotton cloth @ 10c/ 30 _____ F c. This sum in full 1 - 05 R 17 --------- $ 1 - 22 --------

1846 Dec 10 Cr by Amt ^Cr forward $1.22

Memo of cotton sent to Machine 1848 Octr 1 Bag weighing 30 ¾ bag toll

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