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Showing posts with label Oyler. Show all posts

Friday, January 28, 2011

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

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

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