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Feb 1845 16~Sabbath Woke up in the morning found it raining quite hard found the water higher than I have known it for a long .time H. ran, over the dam i.n several .P1aces in fr.ont ·of _tbe .. miJ'.)._-Accor.ding to. the testimony of _seve~al it thundered quite ·violently in the ni'ght a number of _times I 'did not hear it myself .

In the forenoon went to church It was communion there were quite a number connected Converts at the last protracted meeting most of them There were perhaps fifteen connected themselves with the church and a number more placed themselves under the care of the Session 17,Spent the day in the mill It was a unusually warm and pleasant day as warm as an April day In the afternoon took up the lower run of stone finished them in the evening. 18.Spent the day in the mill it was an uncommon warm day for the time of year.

The going is~ getting quite bad on account of the thawing. Yesterday the farm of Abraham Pells deceased was tried at auction to be sold. The highest bid that was offered was thirty nine dollars per acre two or three years 1.00 I think last spring he paid forty seven dollars per acre The administrators did not allow it to be sold.

19.Spent most of the day clearing out the corn house a small part of the splitting wood & In the morning Father went to the Valley and pond hills to engage our former hired girl and returned home about two oclock He stopped to see Aunt Suckey at Daniel I wards he thought that she could live but a short time. In half an hour Daniel 1 s hired man came after Father informing us of th~ death of Aunt Suckey I think it was in her nintyeth year. Father went over and remained until night. John H Green and myself sat up with the corpse . 20. In the morning returned home from Daniel I's and after breakfast made preparations for going to Hughson town to inform Mr Pulloe of the funeral of Aunt

Suckey started about half past ten oclock in the morning arrived there about four oclock a very muddy and tegous journey but not cold in the least. Called at D Hughson's to get Mrs Hughson to return with me by a request of Uncle Daniel 1 s family but she did not on account of sickness of one of the childfen returned as faP as D Remsons and staid all night

Mr and Mrs Remson went to a party in the evening I spent the evening with the girls and a young married man a Doctor by profession settled over the river expecting to move and settle at Franklindale I have forgotten his name it rained very little about eleven in the evening. 21. Made preparations for starting for home started about nine oclock in the morning and came leisurely along through the mud until I arrived at Mr

Jerry Platts about eleven oclock Stopped and took dinner with them Was well entertained until time to leave which was about two oclock. Mr Platt and wife live in fine style and have the means to live as they please and

I think the disposition to enjoy it disposing for the good of themselves as well as others It was an uncommon and warm and fine day I did not get home in time for the funeral therefor Father had to leave the mill to its own tending I a~rived home soon after sundown. 22.Spent the day in the mill it being a very warm day and the whole of this week has been of this character. The thermometer has ranged as high as sixty and has not settled to the freezing point during the week this I think remarkable for this season of the year indeed there has been but a few cold days during this month some quite cold early in the month. 23.Sabbath. Spent the day home it being a rainy and unpleasant day.

Feb 1845 24~In the morning went to the post offi~e got a paper from the west. Spent most of _the day in the mi11 ._

25.Spent part of the day in the mi11 the rest of ·the day taking away the old garden fence. 26,Father went to the Valley in the forenoon to see John Lockwood for the purpose of;y-procuring stone from· his quarry as a substitute for wooden ci11s in front of the house the old fence being old and rotten a new one to be substituted. Father did not get any as there were none quarried out suitable. He stopped at the office to get the paper & I spent the day in the mi11 and wood pile splitting wood. 27.Spent the day mostly at the woodpile splitting wood Father spent part of the time hewing posts for the fence rourd the door yard as we intend building a fer.ice to keep the Chickens from coming in the yard garden & 28.Father and Mary went to Pokeepsie took part of a load of aats I spent the day in the mi11 fixing new plank over the water wheel where they had rotted through while the mi11 was running. Father and Mary_ returned home in the evening comp1airaied some of bad going This week as the former has been very warm for the time of year A Short Review of the Past Month

This month with the exception of a few days has bren a very warm ~nd pleasant one would be a monththat would pass ordinarily for March as regards mildness. There has been plenty of mud and bad going. The river has been open or nearly so during the winter~~the boat has visited Pokeepsiewith perhaps the exception of a month during the whole time The river was crossed on the ice by teams for a very short time. The boats go throggh to Albany now and have for nearly two weeksThe protracted meeting mentioned in last month's review is sti11 going on being protracted by the Methodist Mr Wile and others preRchin the school districts on the borders of the congregations

The trial of the anti renters little and big thunder and btheir leading characters on one indictment had been concluded and fined one hundred do11ars cashthe most important is not yet settled with them.

March 1845 l.Spent the day in the mi11. In the forenoon went to Uncle Daniels barn with the circular saw to try it with the horse power but before we got ready to operate it there came some eastoners to the mi11 and I had to leave

Father soon fo11owed not carrying into effect our object. In the afternoon

Father and Mother went to Mr Pni11ips on a visit. Just at night I carried the bees from the ce11ar to their respective places out doors our stock is quite diminished perhaps not over one dozen good ones left. Mr Thomas

Phi11ips has I believe lost the whole of his This seems a ca1amtty universal among them at this time last year being an unusua11y poor one. 2. fSabbath it being a warm and pleasant day we a11 went to meeting in the two horse wagon it being rather bad going we went in the old wagon. The church was we11 fi11ed Mr Wile preached after whir:h Mr Dean made a few remarks. Mr and Mrs Edward Vanwyck were at church for the first since their 3, Copartnership They appeared we11. I commenced upsetting the stone wa11 on the west side of the dooryard setting posts in for building picket fence to keep the chickens out of the yar.9, Ward Wesley helped lay the wa11. Father fixed the bottom I helped fix the posts tore down the old wa11 tended mi11&