Locust Grove

May 1845 2., ana wrote a, Jetter to Father and sent by the morning mail Spent the rest day-in the-mill fixing-harrow &

3. I spent most of my time fixing the fence putting wire over the pickets round the hog pen to keep the chickens out of the yeard In the afternoon spent most of my time in the mill Titus ploughed most of the forenoon

In the afternoon he spread some sods from the ditches and drew his wood home. He went to the shop and got some harrow teeth and to Mr Simmons shop and got a pair of lather halters or head stalls In the afternoon just at night Mr Boss and Miss Pierce came to our house and took tea. It is getting quite dry we need rain very much The apple trees are in full bloom the peach have been 4. Sabbath today in the forenoon had been a remarkable fine and warm day went to church in the morning Mr Wile preached a very excellent sermon.

In the afternoon a little after two o clock it commenced raining moderately and it rained for the rest of fhe day. 5. In the morning early I fixed the hog pen and gate for the purpose of keepjng the chickens out of the flower beads and garden & We ploughed the garden in the forenoon. At noon I went to the Val~ey to shop after some harrow teeth fixed the harrow so that Titus used it in the afternoon Carpenter came to our house just before noonand went to Charles Brown and took dinner a·nd got Henry as a subscriber to the Sears magazine 6. Spent part of the forenoon taring away the bee house or rows back of the house fixed the hea~th under the Franklin in the parlor & At noon Titus and myself made a couple of beds in the garden and sat out onions Carpenter

Angell and Mr Ross came soon after noonfor a ride but did not come in the house as our folks were cleaning house Titus spent most of the day harrowing 7. In the morning I went to the Valley to the post office and to the shop to get the horse shod & Titus went to the field with the Dick horse for the purpose of furrowing for corn but he got in a passion and come to the house in a great rage with the horse and said he would not furrow another atom with shuch a horse I gave him quite a scolding and he felt quite ashamed of it We spent the rest of the day in the garden and digging holes for dalias and drawing stone and manure to and from the garden 8 I spent most of my time in the mill in the forel1lDon Titus furrowed until noon. In the afternoon I went to Pokeepsie Carpenter went with me Met Father at Dr Canfield on his return from bhe West To day a!!lld yesterday have been very windy and some frost during tee night I forgot to mention a call from

Martha Angell accompanied by Carpenter and Hetty Smith and her brother quite a small boy the older folks spent the afternoon at Grandpas On May· 7 or yesterday the younger ones took the ride to Locust Grove. 9. We all worked in the garden setting out dalias planting watermelon seed &

We manured them in the hill with a large scoop full of yard manure and part of a scoop full of ashes unleached. In the afternoon Charles Platt came to the mill and for the purpose of getting some word from the West

I rode to the Valley with him for the purpose of driving the Billy horse home as Carpenter and Aunt Clarissa and Letty Smith took a ride in the afternoon to Pond City quite a rarity I presume I brought Grandpa's calf up in the wagon for the purpose of raising it 10. Titus went home last night for the purpose of making a garden for himself

Ispent most of the forenoon in the mill in the afternoon painting the fence looking for the calf as he got in the rye field and cannot be found

11.Sabbath In the morning and afternoon we went to church at the Presbyterian house. In the afternoon after meeting there were several presented themselves for examination admission in the church on next Sabbath it being then communion.

12.Early in the morning I went to the Valley to get some help to plant corn and take James Lewis a bbl of fl our and some feed did not succeed i n getting any help so I returned home_and went at it ourselves In the afternoon I attended the fum=ral of the child of Lenard Marshall being appointed as one of the barers at the Episcopal church returned and went in the corn field. At night Titus left us finishing his services with us forever I hope. He quit without the least provocation without even making a single excuse The only reason that I can give is that he has been offfered better wages. 13.In the morning early I went to the Valley with the one horse wagon after

Minard Dean to help finish planting. In the afternoon Ftther went to Pokeepsie and left Minard and myself to plant alone Mother and Ruth (the hired girl) went with him

14.James Lewis narid Minard came to help us to day. James worked at the wood pile splitting wood We found some logs of hard mapel so hard and knotty that we thought best to try some powder to aid in getting them in pieces we ~ade some match stuff and charged the logs with a sufficient quantity of powder and used beach sand for tamping it down pm per exicution. 15,Father Minard and myself planted potatoes, sweet corn, beans & We manured the potatoes in the hill finished planting corn and all just before night 16.is crossed off but is as follows Father and myself tended the mill painted some and done some chores around the house In the afternoon it rained some.

There was a man at our house peddling sales and staid to dinner his name was Skinner from Columbia CO. Nothing for 17. 18.I spent the day home. Father went to Pokeepsie to take the pleasure wagon from Mastain 1 s shop to be painted and varnished at Pokeepsie they having put a new sett of wheels on it It rained moderately some of the time. 19.It rained quite moderat~ly most of the day it being quite windy and cold it~blowing hard from the north during the day. 2O.Sabbath. Went tochurch in the morning to the Valley. It looked very much like rain but as there was an appointment for communion there were quite a number there. It did not rain as we expected .. In the after noon we went

Carpenter Uncle Daniel and myself to the Baptist church to a temperance meetirm addressed by Mr Wile and Mr Edward Ross. 21.In the forenoon we finished picking the upper run of stone and put them down and started the sharps. I forgot to mention that we dressed the lower run last Friday ·we·"'.opend,the furrows'in.the whea·t-rurtwithout'::-di-sturbirig the face:-~In the afternoon James Lewis and myself ploughed and drew gravel in front of the platform. In the evening went to the Valley and to Mr Wiles to make a ca 11