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DIARYOF ALSON WARD.
March 1846 29.Sabbath. All went to church except Mary Mr Wile preached. In the evening Father, Sarah and myself went to temperance·meeting.
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3O.Father went to Pokeepsie to get the plough mended and got some lime and some other articles, got some raspberry bushes from Mrs Vails and some cherry grafts from Daniel Beadles nursery. 31.I spent the day ploughing in the peach orchard a very stiff difficult patch to get along with. April 1846
sod and a very
1. I spent the day as yester'day ploughing the hardest of a 11 patches,
stumpy and a very stiff
stony, sod. Father and Calvin spent their time in the mill.
2. I continue speeding the plough. Father tended the mill. Toward noon Grandpa came up with a letter from the west from Luther. 3. I continued ploughing the weather is fine and sufficiently pleasant ploughing for the team.
cool to make it
4. In the morning Father went to Zacheus Newcombsto get some pare grafts from Mr Newcombsverg a loc trees. I ploughed. Father graft€d cherry,pares,plumbs :-:alvin shelled corn and other chores. In the evening Mary,Sarah and myself went to Qr Canfields with the Malodian to practice some tunes for the convention. 5. Sabbath.All went to church.Mr Hoyt of Pleasant Plains exchanged with Mr Wile 6. Father went to Pokeepsie with Mary and Sarah to make some purchases & I spent the day in the mill. ?.-Town meeting day towards noon. Iwent to the Valley on foot. In the afternoon Father came downas the church committee met on _.the ground to make some arrangement towards procuring more ground to attach to the church lot&. Daniel O Ward was at the head of the Democratic ticket for supervisor. 8. In the morning Father, Calvin and myself went to the peach nursery west of the house (ploughed yesterday) to plant the peach pits after which I went to ploughing in the peach orchard or east lot but had ploughed but a few rounds before the plough caught in a rock and it broke the large wiffletree and I had to come back home and get a new one made. Spent the afternoon ploughing. Father spent his time in the mill. 9. In the forenoon finished ploughing sod. In the afternoon Calvin ploughed stalk ground in the meadowfor oats. Mr Ross and Miss Pierce came to our house just before night and took tea with us. Mis Pierce staid all night with us. 1O.In the morning Iwent to the Valley with the one horse wagon to get billy shod. Uncle Daniel went with me left the horse and wagon for Grandpa to draw some manure and walked home after which I helped NemiahRobinson or rather he helped me draw rails from the lane fence in the lot west of the house to stake and rider the fence along the road to prevent Uncle Daniel 1 s sheep jumping over when·he drives them from one place to the other. In the afternoon I cut some locust trees from the grove on the hill for stakes. 11.In the forenoon finished cutting locust stakes. In the afternoon fixed the stone wall in places before staking and ridering. Father spent part of the day grafting, part tending the mill. In the evening Mary,Sarah and myself went to,the village to the Me church to practice some pieces of music for the convention with the choir.
