Page 118 - April 16, 1840 - Easter Sunday

April the 16 , 1840 Page 1 . 18

Thu 16 Clear this morning with a frost

on I made rails till at nine oclock

I hurt my right eye so that I

done no more that day I was in

a perdigious site of pain mind I tell

you after night it raind quite hard

Fri 17 Cloudy this morning but soon

brok away and got quite warm I

made some rails a little while but

my eye hurt so bad that I quit

and went to traden I traded off my

spunkey mare to David Clevenger

for tow three year of stears and one

two year old stear I give him a halter

and .50. cts quite windy at night

at dark it thundred lightned and

rained per digious hard quite a storm

Sat 18 Cloudy this morning but soon broke

away I went down home a foot and back

again then I fixed and went down to

Mr. Genings I got there at darke

Sun 19 Clear this morning I went down to

Egbot Pattersons to meeting from

Mr. Gening quite a frost on quite

pleasant all day at four I came up to

Salem meeting house this being on

easter Sunday in the year of our lord

Mon 20 Clear this morning quite a frost on

quite pleasant all day I made rails all

day quite a fine day for working 18

Tue 21 Clear this morning for a little season

and then it got cloudy and in the after

noon it rained some I made rails all

day after night I went to the young

converts meeting then home again

so no more at this time but

Reemmember your affection

or your friend Hiarm Lucas

Page 93 - November 7, 1839 - Wagons North

November the 7 . 1839 Page 93

Thu 7 Cloudy this morning but soon broke aw

-ay it got clear in the evening in the

evening it turned some cloudy I work

-ed the road begining at Feelden

Clevengers and we cut one half mile

dew west Father and Mother went

ona visit to St. Mendenhalls 1839

Fri 8 Clear this morning with the exception

of a few flying clouds quite cool a heavy

frost on I helped Timmons husk corn

Sat 9 Clear this morning with a heavy

frost on I puled corn till noon for my

self in the after noon I kiklled a hog

Sun 10 Clear thiis morning with a heavy on

in the evening it got cloudy at 11 I

went Salem meeting house B. E.

Wood preached was quite a congragation

out to hear him after night I went John

graves to singing school 1839 H . L

Mon 11 Cloudy this morning and rained all

day after night it easeth some we lay

at big pine cool a and disagreeable we

was that for on our journy to Chicago

Tue 12 Cloudy this morning the sun shoen

out once we killed 2 hens and 3 pesants

we met 16 waggons from Chicago

we lay at sugar creek at old pecks

Wed 13 Cloudy this morning we got to the

buck horn tavern after night it rain

-ed I got 25 cts worth of powder

and shot and 6 cts worth of oats 1839

Thu 14 Cloudy this morning and raining some

we came to the kankakee the sun

shoen out clear I spent 43 cts 1840

noe more at this time I thank

you sir Harmon R Lucas

Page 51 - February 24, 1839 - Rain Bow

Febuary the 24 , 1839 Page 51

Sun 24 Cloudy this morning and raining

slowly quite warm and foggy

this morning it continued so all day

I fig wrvited all day . H. R. L.

Mon 25 Cloudy this morning and rained

some little it turned some cooler

than it was Father Went to tend

Court in Lafayette I killed a

goose fourty two steps with my

shot gun I made 25 rails for Silas

Tue 26 Cloudy this morning and some

foggy I worked for Joshua Burch

in the evening it rained some the

sun shoen out very pleasent it

its setting it formed a beautiful

rain bow it turned some cooler

Wed 27 Clear this morning and froze

the ground some some time in and

through the course of the day it

clouded up in the evening it turned

some cooler it snowed a little

squall it got quite cloudy at dark

I worked for Joshua Burck H. L

Thu 28 Cloudy this morning and snowed

it snowed about one inch deep

last evening it proved to be a

Blustering day the sun shon out

some few times I killed five

doves at one shoat and two

prayre hens at one at an other

shoot I got some little wood

one day after date Value Reced

we or either of us promised

pay H. Calhoon the sum of ten

cents in full Thornton Clevenger

David Klepinger Harmon L

E. G Layne got elected and John

Downing and oyler all got and

office two March the first 1839

Page 46 - January 22, 1839 - Go Baering

Jenuary 22 1839 Page 46

Tue 22 Cloudy and windy and after night

it blowed Desperately hard I worke

for Jacob Klepinger and after

night went to Sollomon Bests

and it stormed quite hard 1839

Wed 23 clear and continud so all day after

night I went to meting I worked

for JacB Klepinger I went home

with H. B. their was 20 out

Thu 24 clear this morning I worked for

Jacob Klepinger after night

Mahen and the wife caame to Jacob

Fri 25 cloudy and snowing and raining

som all day after noon it rained

quite hard I finished my work

for Jacob Klepinger H L 1839

Sat 26 cloudy this morning it got some

clear I and David and Samuel

Klepinger had the most fun with

a little calf it would make at us

as hard as it could I got it of

Wm. Burch Feelden Clevenger

had a child to depart this life.

Sun 27 clear this morning Mr. Wood

preached at Salem meeting house

after meeting I went to the baering

then to Mr. Barnards to meeting

Mr. Cook preached their was

eight or ten Joined meeting 1839

Mon 28 cloudy this morning it snowed

ritet smart all day I worked

for John Graves till three O

clock it comtined to storm so Bad

that quit and went home 1839

One day after date I promised

to pay Thomas C Barnes the

sum of tten dollars Value Reced

Page 29 - October 15, 1838 - Clothing Swap

October the 15. 1838 Page 29

Mon 15 cloudy part of the day some cooler

than common I worked on the canall

father got home at two O clock 1838

Tue 16 cloudy and a heavy frost this morning

Beard and fraiser had a fight old

beard came on with 8 hands and

went to work on the culbert he worke

till noon and gave it up for a dry

Job I worked on the canall 1838

Wed 17 some cloudy all day and cool easy work

on the canall I worked on the canall

Thu 18 cloud this and mist a little at noon

it raind hard for a while I traded

coats with dow Chism and gave eleven

Dollars to boot and .Robert hill

andnd Robert hodgens swapt even

Alfred toliver and thornton

Chevenger traded coat and thornton

Received 2.75 cents to boot 1838

and I trded pantaloons even with

Robert Chism dow and James

toliver traded wescots I worked 1838

Fri 19 cloud and cool all day I worked on

the canall 19 1838 Indiana 1838

father and mother started to shoney

Sat 20 tolerable clear till noon then it

got cloudy and cool I came home

against noon then I went out

and killed three wild hens so no more

Sun 21 clear and cool with a heavy frost

quite nice I went to meeten over

at the salem meeten house 1838

Mon 22 cloud this morning I started over to

the canall at day light it continude

so all day Mcenelld dide at night

we dell went to set up there

I worked half of the day 1838