Page 158 - 1844 House Raising

September the 17.th. 1843 158

Elem tree hall or do not medle with what does

not belong to you I love to tell a cheerfull tale in

Sat 14 of September 1844 H. R. L

I raised my house and stable M. L

the names of each person at it

Aaron yarnold 1 Wm. Kleppinger 2

'Jesse W Robenson 3 george franklin

4 Jacob snider 5 Egburt Patterson 6

Wm. Patterson 7 James Patterson Jun

8 Vancamp 9 James Shearer 10

Stephen Barnard 11 daniel ogden 12

Benjamin Lucas 13 Pope white 14

Hiram gennings 15 Wm. Mansfield 16

Harmon R Lucas 17 John MC Neel 18

David Pulver dr to harmon R Lucas

for 1 pair of pantiloons price 250

and he was to worke ten days for them

this is 1111

October the 5the 1842

David Klepinger got of beef 31 paid . . . 0.62

Wm. Klepinger got of beef 23 paid . . . 0.46

J. patterson of beef 1.32 . . . 3.96

B Lucas got of beef 1.28 . . . 3.84

J graves got of beef 46 and paid . . . 0.92

J shigley got of beef 52 pounds . . . 1.04

H genings 57 pounds . . . 1.14

Hide weighing 64 pounds . . . 2.87

Jacob pierce got of H. Lucas 4 calves

and is to let him have 3 hundred

rails half white oak rails . . . 3.75

he all so got 1 pair of boots and is

to give me 2 hundred rails

half white oak rails . . . 2.50

Page 80 - August 11, 1839 - Ready to Start

August the 11. 1839 . Pag. 80.

Sun 11 Cloudy this morning and raining it

rained very hard withe heavy thundr

and lightning quite cool it has the appear

ance of contingung to hold out the day

but soon broke away the sun shoen

out I fixed up and started to meeting

but was none I went on to James K

and started back to meeting and got

back as far as J. Servisons and it

came up a terible storm with a heavy

thunder and sharp flashes of lightning

accompaned with wind and rain I staid

all night at servison 1839 2.00000

Mon 12 Clear this morning and pleasant I

went to Wm Robisons and got me

a yoke of cattle and I bought 28

sacks of John Rowls for 22 cts each

and got home at one oclock in the

after noon I went and got my waggon

Tue 13 Clear this morning quite pleasant

I thrashed 30 bushels all day no mer

Wed 14 Clear this morning quite pleasant

all day I claned up 30 bushels of oats

and in the evening I went down to

Wm Robisons on my Journey to

Chicago I started withe 65 bushels

of ats I staled 5 times before I got down

Thu 15 Clear this morning quite pleasant

I had to com back after a yoke of cattle

of Klepingers we got back in the

evening we made the calculation to

wait till sat 17. 1839 I fixed in my

tiing in the waggon I came home

Fri 16 Clear this morning quite pleasant

I bound up oats and stacked them

at four I started back to Wm

Robisons to mak ready to start to

chicago the next morning 1839