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Page 127 - June 8, 1840 - Surveying

June the .8. 1840 Page 1.27

Mon 8 Clear this morning quite pleasant and nic
I laid up fence all day quite nice Har

Tue 9 Clear this morning quite pleasant I made
some rails then I went up and laid up
fence till noon and counted up my rails
I had 12 . 30 rails one the side of the lot
and 11 hundred on the south string in the
after noon I went to mill and got a bag of flo

Wed 10 Clear this morning quite pleasant in
the morning I went up to the shop then
I went and helped to run off our land
John Graves Isaac Klepinger Elijah
Timmons . Samuel pulver Cournal
Oiler the survyor and mee was at it
quite tired of it too we run we run half
a mile line betwene us thence we rune
back .80 rods thence east 80 rods thenc
we commenced at the section line thence
haf a mile mile West thence we came back
80 rods we ran thence half a mile south
betweene John Graves and Isaac best
we came back and started at the section
corner and run thence 40 rods west
thence south 80 rods thence east
40 rods we got done and thank god
for it for I lwas tired as I could be

Wed 11 Clear this morning quite pleasant all
day I drowd and laid up fence all day
quite warm and sweltry Harmon

Fri 12 Clear this morning quite pleasant
I drowd rails till noon then I broke
my ox bough tremendiously warm
it thundred some in the evening like
that we might have a rain after
night it rained it continued all night
Maria Mansfield was born May 14 1823
in the state of new york she now lives
in the state of Indiana Tippecane Co
Tippecanoe Township 1841 Harmon

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