March 15 - May 13, 1844

¹⁸⁴⁴ March 15. Finished stripping Tobacco & prized our
lugs & a part of our short Tobacco.
Commenced sewing oats the 12^th March
but so wet only sewed 5 Bus & now all
malling & fencing children started to
school about 6^th March but so wet
they have gone only 5 days to this day.
sewed Peas & Planted onions 1^st March.
Planted Potatoes 1^st & finished the Patch

14^th March by the spring.
Sewed Peas Last Feby or 1^st March.

28^th Finished sewing oats this day.
Sewed Flax seed also this day.
Breaking up corn ground.

April 12. Sewed a flax seed this day.
Planted Irish and sweet Potatoes
on hill 5^th Inst & set out yams.
Began to make Tobacco Hills 11^th Inst
april Planted Snaps & corn in Garden
this day. Tobacco Plants Square

12 Began to Plant corn far side of Johns
field,- Flies just begun to eat Tobacco Plants.

15 Planting corn all hands this day.
weather dry & Hot – for april.

16 This day Mr Moon & Irby come here
to work to build new room mentioned.
Commenced getting shingles first.
Rained the[sic] this day in the night very cool.

17^th Rained again about

19 Raining this morning. Prizing good Tobacco.

29. April has been generally warm.
On last Saturday it rained hard &
Hailed about Heavily but not none here.
Finished Plank k[?] this morning.

May 4^th Finished Plowing Flat ground for corn.
Tobacco Plants on mountain large
enough to plant.

13^th Finished Hilling N. ground 11^thInst
Planted nearly 2000 new ground Toba. Hills
[unclear] & Hilling second years ground.