Peters, Alonzo

Sept 1846 12.Spent the forenoon ploughing Calvin complained of being sick_ ~nd I had to keeep the p1ougb goi.ng .i.n the· aft_ernoon 1 went up to lJncJe Dan1eJs· by ·invite

Miss Mary Con kl in was invited to dinner. Aft.er spendirig a snort time Uncle

Daniel insisted that I shou1d.go with hi-m to calkas meeting I returned in s.horts order aft.er .Ji.riisning voting just at rii ght. 13.,Went to churcb in the morning the Methodist minister that preached at the · .village and _C)inton exchanged with·Mr Wile

14.Spent the day cutting corn, Calvin ploughing, Father budding in the peach nursery. 15.I spent the day cutting corn Stephen Wesley helped. Calvin helped in the afternoon. Father had the team to go to Pokeepsie for a load of seed wheat. 16.Stephen Wesley and myself _spent the day in the cornfield. Calvin ploughed

Father spent,the day budding. 17.In the morning I finished cutting corn after which Father and myself went in the orchard and picked some apples for drying. After dinner Father and myself .toped the hay stack in the long field that blew off last Saturday night.

In the evening I went to the Valley. 18.I spent the day round the house and the mill. In the morning I took the horse and wagon and took the weights and scales up to Uncle Daniels and weighed his seed wheat. Grandpa came up to our house just before noon after dinner

Grandpa and Father went to Harbey Pettits to see him after they returned I went to the Valley to take Grandpa and to attend to some other matters. 19.Father and myself spent part of the forenoon fixing the water wheel to prevent the waters flying over and waisting after which Itook the Billy horse and corn plough and furrowed out the ground for sowing in the west lot. Just before night I went down to the Valley and took Aunt Clarissa out a short distance riding after which Letty Smith and myself road down to Mr Platts and made a call to see Mrs Angell and sister before they went west expecting to start on Monday if nothing happens. 2O.Sabbath. Iattended the funeral of Alonzo Petres (being one of the bearers) the funeral was at the house a Universalist preacher preached a good long sermon after which we had to go up to the family ground at Col William Smiths which made a very long tegious job of it got home about four oclock got an early dinner 21.This morning it was raining after clearing off I went to the west lot and burned brush and spread manure until noon.At noon we put the horses to the wagon and drew the seed wheat out. In the afternoon I sowed until night. 22.In the morning early went and sowed wheat until nearly ten oclock after which

I went to Pokeepsie after timothy seed and Father finished sowing the field.

Miss Pierce returned home with mean my way from Pokeepsie and staid all night with us. Calvin commenced harrowing the middle of the forenoon. 23.After Calvin finished harrowing the lot over I commenced sowing the timothy seed before the harrow (which was about the middle of the forenoon) that it might get harrowed in . 24.Calvin and Ispent the day he harrowing and myself sowing seed jusf before night we ploughed furrows in the 1gW ground and father cleared them out.

Sept 1846' 25~1 spent the day sowing wheat and timothy seed in the ground in the meadow

Father sowed·seed in the forenoon. Just at night Father and myself mowed weeds that had grown up in the potato field 26.In the morning I wrote a letter from Oswego after which I helped plough some ditches. In the afternoon drew some stone off the plough ground to the west line fence.

27,Sabbath. In the morning went to church Mr Wile preached. In the evening Father and myself went to Temperance meeting. Mr Alanson Thorn spoke and entertained the audience for a proper time. 28.Calvin and myself spent the day drawing off weeds harrowing out potatoes and ploughing the ground for the purpose of seeding down. The potatoes were so poor that we did not stand to pick them but got all we could find after harrowing ploughing & there where a part of them that roted in the fore part of the season which is a general complaint. 29.In the morning early Father and Mother went to the Valley to get some writings executed ( A deed for Mrs Crandell lot) after which Father went to Pokeepsie.

Calvin and myself spent the day in the meadow except I spent a short time in the mill. In the afternoon drew stone and manure a load of manure and a load of stone back again. Just at night I went to Uncle Daniels and got some oats to grind for the pigs and horses.

3O.Calvin and myself spent the day drawing stone from the ploughed ground and the rye stubble ground. Just at night Father went down to the Valley expecting to see Harvey Pettit and Grandpa together on business but did not succeed as Harvey did not come

October 1846 1.Early in the morning Calvin started with the pigs for Pokeepsie. !helped him drive them as far as the Valley Hotel. We started at half past three oclock in the morning I went to see them weighed: They were weighed on the hay scales.

Calvin staid down to drive the horse home for Father as he expects to': start for the west to night with the night boat. As Father got belated in getting to Pokeepsie Calvin started for home and by some means they missed each other and Calvin came home without the horse

2. 'Calvin helped Uncle Daniel 1 s boys thrash in the forenoonwhile Daniel Wesley went to Pokeepsie after the horse and wagon found him in the care of Abraham

Smith. I spent the day getting the stone from wash way that had fallen in from the old saw mill wall.Calvin helped in the afternoon. 3. In the fore part of the day I spent my time in the mill. In the afternoonjust toward night I went round by the way of Gilbert Senvers to see if he had finished weaving-some bag stuff for us from there returned by the way of the Valley. 4. Sabbath. In the morning went to Church Mr Wile preached. There was a funeral the child of Richard Dates. Spent the rest of the day home. · 5. I spent the forenoon grinding. In the afternoon leveled off the dirt and sods from the banks of the ditches and sowed timothy seed spread the weeds that were drawn from the potato patch to the up ground. Calvin commenced husking corn.