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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November the 12. 1838 Page 33

Mon 12 cloudy and rained a little quite warme

Mr. Mendenhall bought a barrel

of salt he paid one dollar and a quart

down it broke away some but rained

sevrel times through the day in the

evening it rained hard I gethered two

loads of corne Wm Simes signed five

Dollars and paid it down Adam Best

signed 2.50 cents Jacob Klepinger signed

and paid one dollar Benjamin Enoch

Wood paid one dollar Wm Burch paid

one dollar and eighty cents Benjamine

Burch signed one dollar and thirty one

James W Ireland signed 3.00 dollars

Benjamin Lucas signed one dollar

Eligah Timmons signed one dollar

Tue 13 some broken wind blows quite hard at

present it turned quite cold it was

partly clear all day I helped to gether

three loads of corne Mr. Mendenhall

helped us gether all day so ends the

Wed 14 tollerable pleasent to day I gethered

corn Mr. Mendenhall and me gethered

four loads of corn it clouded up late in

the evening after dark it rained some

I went over to Salem meeten house to

prayr meeting it was rather intended

for the purpose of letting out the

stove for to be keped up warm and

the house cleand and candles to be

found to be for one year Benjamine

Lucas under took it for six Dollars

Thu 15 sprinkled some this morning it was

cloudy all day and desperate cool all day

I gethered or drawed fodder for John grave

Fri 16 clear this morning and quite cool it was

cold all day it snowed all the after

noon I went and found my colts over

to moatses creek amen to me c 1838

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November the 6. 1838 Page 32

Tue 6 Very smoky and some cloudy and cool it

continued cool till in the after noon then

began to snow desprately hard it got harder

and harder till night then it paused a while

then it commenced hard night I went to

help Mr. Benjamin Burch to raise a

smoke house and stable the names

as--rted on this page begins with

Wm Burch Joshua Burch Jacob

Kleppinger Aaron Yarnold John

Clark Joseph Bolen John Graves

Adam Best. Sollomond Best

Silas Colbert Jacob Potter Benjamin

Burch John. G. Smith Eligah timon

now the wemond Mrs Kleppinger

Mrs Burch Mrs. Wm. Burch Mrs

Ireland Miss Harriet Burch

Wed 7 it is a drisling this morning and continued

so all day very smokey and tollrable

warm rain for the tim I cut logs for a

Thu 8 clear and very coald this morning the

sun shoen out nice it was broken all

day I husked one load of corn by my

self father came home from court

Fri 9 clear and pleasent this morning it was

considerable warmer than it was yester

at noon at clouded up and got deperately

cold I gethered one load of corn I killed

two praire hens at two shots 1838

Sat 10 clear this morning as it could be it

clouded up in the after noon I cut wood

this makes fiften loads of corne

Sun cloudy this morning it snowed some

in the morning I went over to hunt

my coalls and at eleven O. clock

I wnt over to Salem meeting house

to hear Selkelk preach how

the mew preache cam on to day

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Sun 1 quite clear and pleasent the sun rose and

shoen out warm it has the appearance of

the weather being changed for a short

space of time it raind at two a fine little

shower the sun shon out all the time I

went to Mr. Simeses to hear Mr.

Paul preach at three .O. clock went to

Mr. Benjamin Graves to prayr

meeting I steped up to S. G. and

my company was excepted so I went

to Mr. Eliga Graveses with her then

back to meeting then back to home and

I came away at dy light what good luck

Mon 2 quite clear and pleasent at this time

it was quite warm I plowed in the corn

Tue 3 quite clear and pleasent the sun rose and

shoen out clear it has the appearance

of more fineer weather in the evening it

had some appearance of raind the sun

shoen out all day I plowed in the corm

I started in it for the second time over

Wed 4 it is cloudy and has the appearance of rain

the sun shoen out wind south west at

seven .O. clock I started to Lafayette to

see a freat show and my company was

granted with Miss. S. G. to town

I took her in the show I never was so

nisely fooled in my lifetime before

I went and got two 25 cent tickets and

tried to goe in but alas when I got there

there was nothing but a little pen and

that dident soot us so I went back and

got one tickit for the other two and went

and tride to git her to goe in but she

wouldent goe her self I seen that she wante

to goe in so I went and got 50 cents of

Mr. watson and went and got two ticket

it pleased hear mightly as good luck would

have it I got in jest before the sircus

begun quite warm itn ther yes