Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1870 May 2 Planted about ½ my Garden in Greens to day Planted some early York in there 3rd May Raining again this morning quite cool tobacco not in order to strip Keatts fixed plows made 2 Plow handles inpart Planked Cart Body Sam fencing in morning & in evening both halling rails Cart & waggon Still Cloudy & like for rain

4th Cleaned off new ground & halled 2 Loads Corded wood & then to Planting corn Bees swarm I went to shop 1 H Hoe Rod for Dutch Plow Pretty weather;

5 Plowing second years Land to day rained at 12 oclock Grubbing & shrubing in new ground

6 Rained in evening fencing cleaning up new ground little cloudy & like for rain

7 I went to meeting pretty day

8 I went to meeting Ed & Doron

9th Keatts Harrowing on Branch in Lot & has broke the Harrow twice & done but little he has got Bill to Harrow & Bed Lot Clabe ditched for me below lot & ^{Charles Lovelace} & I have made a bargain with Clabe to clean out the Ditch below my spring from lot fence down the branch to Mr Lewis Lain^Line from a certain deep place washed out in Ditch to Mr Lewis Lane I am to find him & give him 5¢ a yard from that up the way to Lot fence I am to find him & give him 8¢ a yd & Claborn has agreed to Hilled & have hilled my new ground @75¢ a thousand hills to be made good - he owes me 3/- now Sam is cutting in new ground Nat Raking & cleaning up this side of Ditch in new ground

10 sent after cotton seed to Yates Hired [?] Planted some Corn Peas, Snaps, simblings etc etc etc