Page 82 - August 26, 1839 - In Chicago

August the 26 . 1839 Page 82

Mon 26 Clear this morning quite pleasant we

lost 2 yoke of oxen belonging to James

Pierces we laid at Jacksons all day and all

night he found the cattle Just at night

Tue 27 Clear this morning we got in to Chicago

we got in about ten oclock I got 25 cts

for oats I sold 57 bushels of oats and

I got six barles of salt three of them

containing 3. 10 pounds each and three

barles containing 2. 90 pounds each and

it cost 16,93. cts three pints of tar at

18 3/4 we got back to Jacksons six miles

east of town I got half pound of reasons

at 12 cts one dosen of appels 6 cts 1839

Wed 28 Clear this morning we started from Jacksons

we lay by thorn creek and camped all night

quite cool I got a cag at 37 cts half pound

of raisens 12 cts H. R. Lucas 1839

Thu 29 Partly clear this morning quite nice

we lay at a grove 8 miles north

of the kankakee quite pleasant 1839

Fri 30 Clear this morning but soon clouded

up and rained it rained in the evening

again we lay at Rake straws 183.9.8

Sat 31 Clear this morning quite pleasant

we came from Rake straws to the

Irecoise to Wm Buckleses after

night when wee got their 1839 H

one day after date we or either of us do

promise to pay the sum of one hundred

dollars for Value Received Witness our

hands and seal this the 10 of December

1839 James live for ever and Jonathan

never die Received on the within note

fifty dollars January thee 16. 18340 er

Andrew nichelos Thomas anthony peter

dunfee and John Love gold. 1839 H.

Page 78 - July 29, 1839 - Salted Heifer

July the 29 . 1839 Page 78

Mon 29 Clear this morning quite pleasant it

got some cloudy in the evening I cut and

bound up oats and Michel dunfee cut hay

Tue 30 Clear this morning but soon got som

cloudy and sprinkled some of rain I

drowed in wheat for our selvs in the fore

noon in the after noon I drowed wheat

for Adam Best quite warm all day

Wed 31 Clear this morning quite pleasant I

bind up oats in hunts field we put up

66. dosens of oats in the after noon I

cradled in oats quite pleasant. 1839. 31

Thu 1 Clear this morning quite cool and nice

I am very much afflicted with boils at

this time other wise I feel quite well at

this time I finished cutting my oats in

the fore noon in the after noon I raked hay

I counted up the dayys which made four

hundred and eighty one days 1839 20

Fri 2 Cloudy this morning and raining

it continued raining we drowed in oats

in hunts field we built 2 stacks up

their it broke away the rest drowed down

oats I bound up oats for my self in

the evening I went and hired Johnsons

Graves wagon he gave me the waggon a

tirip and one dollar for a parcl of salt

Sat 3 Clear this morning quite pleasant I

bound up oats for my self in the after

noon I helped to draw in oats and claar

of a thrashing flower and then I went

down to Hirams Ginings to salt my

heifer and back home Faher and mother

went on a visit to Wm Pierces 1839

Sun 4 Clear this morning quite pleasant it got

very warm I went to Salem meeting hous

at 11 oclock I wrote some little I was in

a good dale of pain 1839 . and bouoth

Page 67 - May 29, 1839 - Yarnold Scared

May the 29 . 1839 Page . 67.....

Wed 29 Clear this morning and had the appearance

of a fine day some considerable warmer

than it has been for some two or three days

past it got some cloudy and rained som

I went to Mill in the fore noon in

the after noon I grubed Father came

home from Chicogo he got ten bushels of

potatoes at fifteen cents per bushels and one

barel of green aples at seven dollars per

barel and six bolts of factry cotten at

eight cts per yard he stored up his butter

for to be sold at the rise of the market

Thu 30 Clear this morning and quite pleasant

it turned quite warm it continued prety nice

till late in the evening then it clouded up

I groubed till four O clock in the evening

then I went over to Timmons to thear

brother Springer triy to preach after

the meeting I went after a cow that

Father had bought of John Mahen

he gave him eighteen Dollars for her

Fri 31 Some cloudy but soon broke away and got clear

with the exception of a few flying clouds

it continued in that position till late in the

evening it clouded up and sprinkled some

of rain Father went down to Laffayette

I groubed bresh Michel Dunfee he also

groubed for us too after night what do you

think hapned with Mrs. Yarnold now

I.ll enter in with a brief detail of what

hapned well it has been for nearly ten

years since she had an hair before and at

this timi she has a fine large sone on

which its name is Yarnold Aaron

I never expected such would ever come too

pass on this earth again I think that

Yarnold is very proud of it which noe

dought is I would bee if it was my case

I asertained that said Yarnold was

nearly sceard to death which mow douth

was the case with him for noe wonder