| July 4 - 26, 1845 1845 July 4. Cutting oats. Plasterers & work
man here. Mr. Johnson making door to
old house in passage up stairs.
Plasterers finishing getting lathes this day
12 Plasterers finished off dining room
& have got one coat all over house
Finished this day chopping our corn &
harrowed over mountain field & now
harrowing at Stony Point
Weather tremendous dry & hot & have
had no rain for 3 weeks. corn looks
badly & everything else - in fact it
looks like it will dye --
23rd Plasturers finished plastering our
house last Saturday 19 July 1845
then they were nearly two days & 1/2
about two chimneys, weather very
dry & hot & windy equal to 1838.
there will be not be anything
made this year
26 still very dry & weather somewhat
cool, cloudy yesterday & last night
& little mist rain but nothing to do any
good, & the whole country dry almost
everywhere, never has been such a time
known by the oldest settlers; at the Baptist
churches there has been fast days for | July 4 - 26, 1845 1845 July 4. Cutting oats. Plasterers & work
man here. Mr. Johnson making door to
old house in passage up stairs.
Plasterers finishing getting lathes this day
12 Plasterers finished off dining room
& have got one coat all over house
Finished this day chopping our corn &
harrowed over mountain field & now
harrowing at Stony Point
Weather tremendous dry & hot & have
had no rain for 3 weeks. corn looks
badly & everything else - in fact it
looks like it will dye [sic] --
23rd Plasturers finished plastering our
house last Saturday 19 July 1845
then they were nearly two days & 1/2
about two chimneys, weather very
dry & hot & windy equal to 1838.
there will be not be anything
made this year
26 still very dry & weather somewhat
cool, cloudy yesterday & last night
& little mist rain but nothing to do any
good, & the whole country dry almost
everywhere, never has been such a time
known by the oldest settlers; at the Baptist
churches there has been fast days for |