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Diaries of Julia Bickford

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Diaries of Julia Bickford

1880, 1882, 1891 & 1901

Transcriber’s notes: I have taken the liberty of adding some periods to make reading easier. Commas were not used to separate names in the diary and I have not attempted to add them.

The Plains – refers to Rochester, once known as Norway Plains.

The Dock – Farmington. Some believe this refers to the town once being known for lumbering activity on the Cocheco River. Others think it refers to the dock plant growing in that area.

1880

Thursday, January 1, 1880

Today came in cool and blustery. Isaac cut wood in the woods this forenoon hauled it out in the afternoon. Isaac and Cora went down to Mr. Huckins tonight for a meeting. Obed was here this afternoon.

Friday 2

Today has been warm with wind. Isaac has been down to the Village with a load of wood. Mrs. Seavey and Gertie has been up here today. Sarah Seavey got home today. Cora has gone over to the donation and is going to stay with Alma tonight. Thomas [Portsmouth] today.

Saturday 3

It has been very pleasant today. Isaac hauled a load of wood for Charles William this morning. Hauled wood from the woods this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Huckins and family were here and spent the evening. School kept today. Made nine pies today. Apple

Sunday, January 4, 1880

This morning came in with a warm south wind. Cora went to Rochester to meeting today. Annie Charlie and [Lena] also Frank and tonight Obed has been down. We got some powder of the Dr. today for the baby.

Monday 5

Very pleasant today. Isaac has been hauling wood from the woods. Tonight he has been collecting money for The Mirror and Farmer. Charlie Grey was in here tonight.

Tuesday 6

Cool this morning but moderated down and is raining tonight. Isaac when down to the mill this forenoon. This afternoon helped Mr. Huckins. John Bickford got hurt today killing a cow for S. Grey. Cora did not go to school today. Mr. Huckins was in here this morning.

Wednesday, January 7, 1880

This morning Isaac went to the Plains with Mr. Huckins. This afternoon hauled a load from the woods. The day has been very warm and pleasant. Isaac sent the money today for The Mirror.

Thursday 8

It has been a very pleasant day splendid sleighing. Isaac has been to the Plains with wood. Fetched up Asa Hall’s old horse. Bought part of a quarter of beef of Mr. Seavey paid for the same. Cora has gone over to Strafford to meeting tonight with Johnnie and Willie.

Friday 9

Today a cold northeast rainstorm. Isaac hauled a load of wood to George Page. Mother Patience and Edie have been here today. Mother has been shivering. The Young Men’s Christian Association commence their meeting tonight.

Saturday, January 10, 1880

Cleared off this morning with a high wind but not very cold. Isaac went up to Mr. Varney’s this forenoon to mend a bridle. This afternoon went up in the woods and got a load of wood. Joe was here this morning. Cora has gone over to Strafford with them tonight. Made 12 pies apple.

Sunday 11

Has been a very pleasant day today. Went up to Mr. Varney ‘s today. This evening Mr. Bickford and wife were over here. Cora has been to Strafford today.

Monday 12

This morning was cloudy and damp rained some just at night. In the evening the wind changed and now we are having a northeast snow storm. Isaac hauled wood from the mountain this afternoon. Went out to Straw’s tonight. Clara and Katz was here at noon.

Tuesday, January 13, 1880

Snowed this morning but cleared off cold. Isaac and Walter went foxing. This afternoon went out to Straw’s. Charlie G was here tea. Got a letter from Mother tonight. Got cold so I can’t speak.

Wednesday 14

Very pleasant- pretty sharp air. Isaac hauled some wood for Charles William. Charlie Grey here twice fetched up Cora’s gloves was here to tea. Walter was in today been foxing. Rene Horne‘s house was burnt last night. Fixing mince meat

Thursday 15

This morning cool and clear. Isaac hauled a load of wood for Mrs. Hayes. Mr. Folsom was here and got a load. Cally has been down here today to work. There was a meeting here tonight. Lizzie is quite sick today. Sent a letter to Sarah today.

Friday, January 16, 1880

Cloudy today and looks like a storm. Isaac hauled Charles Estes a load of wood today and tonight has been down to the mill. Mrs. Straw was in here today. Made 10 pies cake and snaps.

Saturday 17

Quite pleasant today. Quarterly meeting commenced today. Isaac has been this forenoon and evening. Mr. Huckins in this afternoon. Jack and Cally down this evening. Fetched down my baroque. Cora has gone over to bow pond with Charlie Grey after Cora Foss.

Sunday 18

Cloudy today but warm. Have been down to quarterly meeting today. Isaac has been down tonight. Charlie Cora Foss and Tuttle were here to tea. Hosea was up tonight. Charley and Cora Foss staid all night.

Monday, January 19, 1880

Very pleasant and warm today. Isaac went to mill this morning. This afternoon to Rochester with the horse and sleigh. Charlie and Cora went away after dinner. Got our scales today. Asa Hall here after wood.

Tuesday 20

Commenced snowing this morning and snows and blows tonight. Isaac went down to the mill this morning then up to Jack’s shop. Mr. Folsom came here this morning after a load of wood paid for the same. Obed was here this afternoon. The Kenney boys were down and got 2 pounds 5 ounces butter.

Wednesday 21

The snow drifted so they had to break roads. Today cleared off and is quite pleasant tonight .Obed was here this afternoon.

Thursday, January 22, 1880

Cloudy today rains tonight. Isaac chopped wood for Obed today. Mr. Folsom came after a load of wood today. Mrs. Straw was here this afternoon. Fannie Grey was here to tea. She Cora and I went down to Mrs. Huckins to meeting. Tuttle was here. Wesley came up after his scales.

Friday 23

Cleared off this morning quite pleasant and warm. Isaac has been up to Mr. Varney’s forenoon. This afternoon up to Miles Scruton’s after a [crowes]. [Ugene Chesney] here. No other callers today.

Saturday 24

Fair but windy. Obed Varney helped Isaac chop wood in the woods today. Mr. Folsom came after the rest of his wood paid 60¢. Hosea came home tonight. Joseph Seavey was up here this evening. I received a letter from Sarah Mace today. Baby has been quite sick today. Made 12 pies five apple 7 mince. Tuttle came here tonight and took Cora to meeting. Wrote a letter to Sarah.

Monday 26

Very pleasant and warm today. Splendid moonlight night. Cora has gone skating. Isaac worked out to Mr. Jordan’s this forenoon. Hauled wood from the woods. Mr. and Mrs. Straw was here and spent the evening. Willie and Ida G over here this noon. Mr. Hawkes had a meeting tonight over to Strafford. Has one two years from tonight.

Tuesday 27

Commence to raining this afternoon. Obed chopped wood here today or this forenoon. Isaac went out to Straw’s and got me some [barense]. Irving rained down tonight. Sent a letter to Sarah. Mrs. Bickford here this afternoon.

Wednesday, January 28, 1880

Cleared off today and is quite pleasant today windy tonight. Isaac went down to the mill this morning Afternoon hauled wood from the woods. The baby quite sick today. Obed here tonight. Ida Katz and Clara here this noon.

Thursday 29

Pleasant but cool and windy. Isaac hauled wood from the woods today. Henry Sanborn was here signed for The Household. When down to Mr. Seavey’s to meeting tonight. Mr. Hawkes was there. Had a good meeting.

Friday 30

Cloudy and cold this morning rained tonight. Isaac went to the Plains to get some medicine for the baby’s canker. Cora went over to Strafford today. Obed was here this morning. Received Nettie’s card today. Received a first volume of The Farmer today. Dr. Farrington paid $2.00 for four bushels of potatoes.

Saturday, January 31, 1880

Very warm and windy today. Snow went nearly off last night. Isaac has been to work today on a calves’ yoke. Mr. Huckins was over here tonight.

Sunday, February 1, 1880

Pleasant this morning came up squally and tonight windy and very cold. Mrs. Straw has been over here this afternoon. Cora came home with Charlie and Addie Foss. There was to be a meeting here tonight. No one here but Johnny and Willie and Joe. Obed was here this afternoon. The baby quite sick.

Monday 2

The wind went down this morning and has been quite pleasant. Pretty sharp this morning. Washed today. Mailed a letter to Sarah Mace today. Isaac went over to Asa’s this afternoon to fix a yoke. Charlie and Willie was up here tonight and they all went skating.

Tuesday, February 3, 1880

Clouded up last night and today it snows and blows terribly. Charlie Willey and Eugene was here to dinner today. Asa was down here this morning.

Wednesday 4

The wind changed last night up in the west and this forenoon the wind blew and snow flew but has been quite calm this afternoon. Charlie came up this morning and carried Cora and Addie Foss down there. Irving came over to carry Cora over to the Good Templars supper to the Grange Hall. Isaac has been out to Straw’s to get his yoke fixed.

Thursday 5

Very pleasant today. Isaac broke out to the corner today. Asa Obed Straw Walter Cora Ella and Maria Young has been here today Irving staid here last night. Isaac chopped in the woods this afternoon. Henry Wilson got kicked by his horse today. Got a letter from Alf today.

Friday, February 6, 1880

Quite pleasant today. Isaac has been cutting and hauling wood today. Asa was down here this morning and brought me some turnips. James Varney died this morning.

Saturday 7

Been squally all day cleared off tonight. Isaac went out to Straw’s this forenoon and hauled a load of wood afternoon. Charlie Grey Obed and Joe has been here this afternoon. Sarah-Ann George Hosea came up and staid all night. Elder Warren was buried today.

Sunday 8

Quite pleasant today. Cold and windy tonight. Uncle James Varney was buried today. He was 88 years two months and 21 days old. Isaac and Cora went to the funeral. Frank Willey Lilla Willie Otis and Irving was here today. Mr. Tuttle had a meeting to the school house.

Monday, February 9, 1880

Squally this morning and cold and windy all day. Isaac went up in the woods chopping this afternoon. George Sanborn was over here this afternoon. Shelled corn tonight to carry to mill.

Tuesday 10

Very cold morning snowed by spells all day and tonight snows quite fast. Clara and Nina were here to tea came up to go to the Lyceum. Mr. Seavey was here this afternoon. Commenced hooking on my rug. Isaac went to mill and got a load of wood from the woods. Maria was in this morning.

Wednesday 11

Very pleasant today. Isaac hauled wood for Mr. Varney this forenoon. This afternoon Obed helped him up in the woods. Jacob Charlie and Mr. Straw was here today. Got a letter from John last night.

Thursday, February 12, 1880

Clouded up last night and snowed a little it rained this morning. Snow has gone off very fast. [Jimmy]Conovan Mr. Dow was here today. Isaac went down to Mr. Straw’s this morning to get a shoe put on one of the steers. This afternoon up in the woods to get a load.

Friday 13

Rained this forenoon this afternoon . Charley and Sadie Varney was here to supper. Ida Edna Alma and Lizzie Bickford Ida Grey and Katie Hobbs were here. Isaac worked up to Asa’s awhile this morning chopped wood at the door this afternoon. Mr. Emerson finished school today.

Saturday 14

Rained last night cleared off this morning very warm and pleasant. Snow most all gone. Obed and Asa have been down here cutting wood at the door. Isaac has been over to William Wentworth’s. Genie and George Kenney have been here today. Received my first Household.

Sunday, February 15, 1880

Cloudy stormed by spells all day. Meeting here tonight.

Monday 16

Quite pleasant some windy. Mrs. Straw was here and H Wilson called. Isaac has been helping Asa chop in the woods this afternoon.

Tuesday 17

Very pleasant and warm today. Mother Ricker has been up here visiting today. Isaac has been helping Asa chop today. Got a letter from Mother today and a paper. Irving was here tonight.

Wednesday, February 18, 1880

Cloudy today rains hard tonight. Isaac helped Obed chop wood. This afternoon Mr. Varney was down here. This morning Sarah Frank Alice and Ida were here to tea. Ida staid all night. Finished my rug today.

Thursday 19

Cold today with a high wind. Isaac went to mill. This afternoon Cora has been down to Lena’s. Fannie was over here to tea. Obed was here this morning.

Friday 20

Cold and windy. Fannie staid here last night. This afternoon Isaac went into the woods chopping. Went out to Mr. Straw’s tonight.

Saturday, February 21, 1880

Cloudy and snowed some cleared off tonight the wind blows and is cold. Obed worked here in the woods. Went rabbiting this afternoon. Mr. Huckins and Mr. Straw have been here. The French house burned last night. Marked out my rug.

Sunday 22

Very pleasant and warm. Jacob Matilda and Charles has been here. Willie John Ida and Lilia and Henry Hayden have been here. Wrote to John.

Monday 23

Commenced snowing early this morning and snowed till middle of the afternoon. Tonight it blows the snow flies. Isaac has been up to Asa’s hauling wood. Joe Wilson and George Kenney have been here.

Tuesday, February 24, 1880

Pleasant but cool all this forenoon. Isaac hauled wood for Henry Wilson. Afternoon went to Rochester. Commenced hooking on my rug today. Got Nettie’s pictures today. Maria and Lizzie were in here tonight.

Wednesday 25

Very pleasant and warm. Isaac hauled a load of logs and a load of wood from the woods. In the afternoon fixed the sheep pen. Sadie was here and brought Lizzie’s baby. Katy Ida Mrs. Straw and Obed have been here.

Thursday 26

Cloudy today and rained some tonight but has cleared off tonight. Isaac has been up to Asa’s to file his saw. This afternoon went rabbiting. Obed and Gene and George Kenney have been here. Cora has gone over to Ella’s to stay tonight.

Friday, February 27, 1880

Pleasant and very warm snow about all gone. Isaac went to Rochester today to carry the Dr. potatoes. Tonight Obed and the president was here.

Saturday 28

Overcast today and rain tonight. Isaac has been down to the mill twice and has been up in the woods. Mr. Straw has been here also Ida and Edie. Mr. Yeaton called to see the calf. Cora went down to uncle Sam’s today and stayed tonight.

Sunday 29

Rained all last night cleared off this morning. Frank and Charlie have been here Hosea Calvin and Obed and Willie. Wrote to Mother and Annie.

Monday, March 1, 1880

Cool and windy with some wind. Isaac has been up to Mr. Varney’s then down to Emerson’s. Straw has been here and Ida Katy Clara and Ella. Cora went over to Strafford to work today. Frank started for the west today. Sent a letter to Sarah today. Sheep had two lambs.

Tuesday 2

Quite pleasant today. Isaac has been up to Mr. Varney‘s this afternoon. Mrs. Bickford was in here tonight.

Wednesday 3

Quite pleasant today but rains tonight. Asa and Obed cut wood at the door today. Straw two Kenney boys have been here and today. Mr. Pease’s folks came back today on their old place.

Thursday, March 4, 1880

Very pleasant today. Isaac worked up to Mr. Varney‘s this forenoon. Lilla Edie Mrs. Straw Mr. Hanscom and Sam were here. Did not have any meeting.

Friday 5

Rained all the forenoon cleared off warm and pleasant this afternoon. Isaac when down to Mr. Young’s this forenoon to get his planes to fix the barn door. Out to Straw’s. [ ][Tara] was here to tea. Mrs. Straw Mr. Straw Mr. Hanscom was here to an oyster supper. Lillia and Emma Varney were here and Lucy W.

Saturday 6

Cloudy and snowed some. Isaac worked in the barn. Been out to Straw’s and Merrill’s. Obed Jack Mr. Straw and Mr. Merrill have been here. Lizzie’s birthday two years old. Hosea came home tonight.

Sunday, March 7, 1880

Cloudy today and looks like a storm. No one here today but Hosea.

Monday 8

Snowed a little last night. Pleasant today but cool. John Grey and Obed and were here this forenoon. Ida Bickford was in here tonight. Isaac built wall for Mr. Merrill this afternoon.

Tuesday 9

A cold north east wind snowed a little. Town meeting today. Isaac did not go. Mrs. Ham and Cally was here and helped me on my rug. Isaac went out to Mr. Merrill’s and got the papers tonight.

Wednesday, March 10, 1880

Cool today with snow squalls. Isaac went up to Mr. Varney ‘s this forenoon to get ready for sapping. Obed came down this afternoon to fix some spiles . Ella was in here tonight. Frank Thompson died today.

Thursday 11

Squally today. Isaac hauled rocks up in the pasture this forenoon. This afternoon went out to Straw’s to get the steers shod. A few met for a meeting but did not have any.

Friday 12

Squally and cold today. Isaac hauled rocks in the field am. Pm worked for Mr. Merrill in the afternoon hauling rocks. Straw Genie and George Kenney have been here Charlie Grey was here to tea. Cora came home today.

Saturday March 13, 1880

Quite pleasant pretty cool. Mr. Varney George Canney Mr. Tuttle Walter and Lizzie Bickford have been here. Isaac went up in the woods this forenoon after logs. To the mill this afternoon. Frank Thompson was buried today.

Sunday 14

Stormed this morning cleared off tonight. Walter Lizzie Bickford and Scott Clara Charlie [Eugene] Maria Preston Young and George Sanborn have been here. Benjamin Perry was buried today.

Monday 15

Cool and cloudy this forenoon cleared off this afternoon. Isaac picked over beans this forenoon. Hauled rocks for Mr. Varney this afternoon. Obed and Ella Bickford have been here today. Had a sing tonight down to Joe’s. Lillia came up and staid tonight.

Tuesday, March 16, 1880

Snowed all day today. Isaac sawed wood in the shed today. Hosea was up today. Isaac went out to see Mr. Merrill tonight.

Wednesday 17

Cleared off this morning cool and windy. Isaac hauled two loads of hay for Mr. Merrill. This afternoon went to the Plains and got a barrel of flour. The girls had a bake bean supper tonight. Cora has gone Straw and Walter have been here.

Thursday 18

Quite pleasant today. Obed J. Bickford Mr. Young was here this forenoon. Set out to have meeting here tonight but did not. Isaac hauled two or three loads of wood from the woods today. Bought a couple of baskets today.

Friday, March 19, 1880

Cloudy today looks like a storm. Isaac hauled two loads of wood for Asa this forenoon John Hawkins Mr. Harry Wood was here this morning Jennie Grey was here and Cora has gone home with him to stay all night. The heifer calved this morning. Isaac hauled rocks this afternoon.

Saturday 20

Quite pleasant today. Isaac has been to the mill twice and hauled some rocks. Alma and Charlie Grey have been here. Hosea came home tonight. Johnny Grey went to Pelham today.

Sunday 21

Snowed a little last night cleared off this morning. The snow is going about as fast as it came. Hosea and Isaac set up with Mr. Merrill tonight.

Monday, March 22, 1880

Quite pleasant this morning but squalls of snow and rain this afternoon. Mr. Varney was here this morning. Mr. Pease and wife Alma George Sanborn and John Huckins was here tonight.

Tuesday 23

Quite pleasant today. Obed was down this morning. He and Isaac have tapped some trees today. Katy and Ida was here. Lyceum tonight.

Wednesday 24

Cool and windy this morning squalls of snow this afternoon very cold tonight. Isaac helped Mr. Varney split wood today. Sam and Mr. Young Obed and Jack were here today.

Thursday, March 25, 1880

Cold and wind. Mr. Straw here this afternoon. Cora went up to Cally’s today. A few met here for meeting but had none.

Friday 26

Pleasant but cold Isaac went to mill this forenoon and hauled home some lumber. Up in the woods this afternoon. Obed Willie Grey Ida and Lizzie Bickford have been here. Cora gone down to town to a Candy Scrape. School finished today.

Saturday 27

Quite pleasant this morning clouded up this afternoon. School meeting today. Cora went to Rochester with Sam and Sarah. Charlie was married tonight. The Bickford girls and the Kenney boys and Sam were here today.

Sunday, March 28, 1880

Snowed all the forenoon cleared off just at night Mr. Varney and Maria Young has been here.

Monday 29

Looks very much like snow this morning but cleared off tonight. Isaac went down to the mill this morning. Lizzie Bickford Obed Varney have been here. John Brock came here and bought some dried apples. Isaac has been to the corner tonight. Set hen today.

Thursday 30

Pleasant today but cool and windy. Isaac went to mill this forenoon up in the woods sapping this afternoon. The Kenney boys here this morning.

Wednesday, March 31, 1880

Quite pleasant. Isaac helped Obed split wood today. Ada and Edie Rowe were here this morning. Cora went up to Cally’s to get her dress cut this afternoon.

Thursday, April 1

Very pleasant today. When down to Mr. Seavey ‘s this morning. Isaac sapping this forenoon. This afternoon went to Mr. Thompson’s funeral. Cally was here to dinner. Fannie Grey here to tea. Meeting closed. Annie and Charlie and Hosea came up tonight.

Friday 2

Very pleasant today. Isaac went to Rochester. Mr. Varney and Sadie were here tonight. The Kenney boys have been down today. Sam and Mr. Merrill have been here. Hosea went to Concord today.

Saturday, April 3 1880

Rained nearly all day. No one here today. Isaac went up to Asa ‘s and fixed his boots. Sawed wood in the shed in the afternoon.

Sunday 4

Pleasant today. Isaac went down to see Mrs. Seavey. Patience and Lillia were here.

Monday 5

Windy today. Isaac worked for Mr. Merrill building wall. Wesley gave an oyster supper tonight. Isaac and Cora have gone. Mrs. Bickford called. Lillia Mr. Varney Obed was here.

Tuesday, April 6, 1880

Cool and windy today. Isaac has been over to the mill twice today with logs. Mrs. Straw and George Canney have been here after milk.

Wednesday 7

Windy and squally today. Obed Walter and Coleman have been here. Cora has been out to Mr. Jordan’s visiting. Johnny Grey got home last night.

Thursday 8

Cool and windy. Isaac went up and hauled Obed’s sand. Mother Edie and Johnny have been here visiting. Ella B Uncle Jacob Charlie’s [ ] folks boy were here today.

Friday, April 9, 1880

Cool and windy. Asa and Obed have been here cutting wood today. George Genie and Maria Young have been here. Got a letter from Wilder.

Saturday 10

Pleasant today but windy. Isaac helped Asa chop today in the woods. Johnny G has been here tonight.

Sunday 11

A very heavy wind today and quite cool. Mrs. Straw Eddie Foss and Lillia have been here.

Monday, April 12, 1880

Cold again with heavy wind. Isaac went to mill this forenoon and got some boards up in the woods awhile this afternoon. Cora has been down to Maria’s.

Tuesday 13

Cool and windy. Isaac went down this morning and got Hosea’s things. Up in the woods this afternoon. The Kenney boys Mr. Straw and Patience have been here.

Wednesday 14

Looks like rain this morning but cleared off quite pleasant. Isaac went to the mill this morning and blowed rocks this afternoon. The Kenney boys Clara Mrs. Varney and Wesley have been here. Cora went a- maying today. Isaac went to Asa’s tonight.

Thursday, April 15, 1880

Very pleasant and warm. Mr. Wormwood the Bickfords Obed Varney girls Lillia and Fannie Patience Wesley Obed Scott Clara have been here. Isaac helped Jacob today. Had the doctor to the baby.

Friday 16

Quite pleasant today. Isaac and Obed went to the Dock today. A number has been here to see the baby. There were fourteen here. Doctor here today.

Saturday 17

A rough stormy day snow and rain and hail. Isaac and Obed to work on the cart. Got a letter from Sarah today. Doctor Today.

Sunday, April 18, 1880

Cleared off quite pleasant. Mrs. Folsom and Mrs. Roberts buried today. 12 here today.

Monday 19

Pleasant but quite windy. Isaac and Obed worked on cart. In the forenoon hauled rocks and manure in the afternoon. Doctor today. Sowed peas today.

Tuesday 20

Cool and windy today. Isaac and Obed hauled manure and plowed some today.

Wednesday, April 21, 1880

Very pleasant and warm. Mother Lillia and Mrs. Straw here today. Obed here to work today. Joe plowed here this afternoon. Letter from Hosea today.

Thursday 22

Pleasant and windy. Obed worked here today. Isaac sowed his wheat and harrowed it in. Patience and Lillia was here today.

Friday 23

A cool but windy. Isaac worked up to Obed’s building wall. Had a letter from Frank.

Saturday, 24^th, 1880

Quite pleasant. Coleman and Isaac worked up to Obed’s building wall. Cora stayed down to Patience tonight.

Sunday 25

Pleasant today. Cora went to the Plains with Patience. Matilda George Lavina Mrs. Straw and Obed were here.

Monday 26

Obed worked here this forenoon. Rained this afternoon. Isaac went up to Ladd Kenny’s and went a- fishing.

Tuesday, April 27, 1880

Cold windy today. Isaac plowed for Obed today. Cora went down to Mrs. Varney ‘s this afternoon.

Wednesday 28

Pleasant this morning cloudy and wind this afternoon. Isaac went over to Frank Colbath’s hauled out some manure. Planted a few potatoes up to Asa’s tonight.

Tuesday 29

Very windy today. Obed worked here plowing. Mr. William Canney stabbed his son tonight.

Friday, April 30, 1880

Rained last night most all night. Isaac and I went to the Plains today. Emma Jordan and Lillia came and stayed with Cora.

Saturday, May 1

Pleasant today. Obed worked here this forenoon plowing and hauling rocks. Isaac helped them chop in the afternoon. Sarah Grey was here tonight. Lillia stayed up here tonight.

Sunday 2

Quite pleasant today. Isaac and Cora went to Sam Canney ‘s funeral. Maria Young was here. Irving was here.

Monday, May 3, 1880

Pleasant but windy. Isaac broke up for Asa. Sarah Ann came up with Scott and Clara and staid all night.

Tuesday 4

Very pleasant and warm. Obed worked here today plowing. Went down to Jacobs with Sarah Ann. Cora went up to Cal’s.

Wednesday 5

Very warm and pleasant. Obed and Asa have been at work here planting potatoes.

Thursday, May 6, 1880

Pleasant but windy. Isaac went to mill and got the steers shod this forenoon and plowed for Asa this afternoon.

Friday 7

Pleasant today. Isaac hauled manure for Joe in the forenoon hauled manure for Straw this afternoon.

Saturday 8

Cool out wind. Isaac plowed and hauled manure for Asa. Cora has gone over to Strafford tonight to a supper. Annie and Charlie were up tonight.

Sunday, May 9, 1880

Pleasant and very warm Went down to Mothers and Sarah. Isaac killed a raccoon. Obed was here also Mrs. Straw.

Monday 10

Pleasant and warm today. Isaac plowed for Straw and sheared the sheep.

Tuesday 11^th

Pleasant and warm. Isaac and Obed shingled on the meetinghouse in the forenoon. In the afternoon Isaac went up and helped Asa ‘s folks plant potatoes.

Wednesday, May 12, 1880

Cool and windy. Isaac broke up for Joe today.

Thursday 13

Joe plowed here with his horse today. This afternoon Obed and Isaac broke up. Showery all day.

Friday 14

Cool and windy. Isaac worked here today breaking up. The doctor came up to see the baby.

Saturday, May 15, 1880

Pleasant with a cool wind. Isaac hauled down a load of wood for Hollis. Canney hauled a load of coal up for Mr. Straw.

Sunday 16 -

Monday 17 -

Pleasant but windy. Our darling Lizzie has been taken from us today.

Tuesday, May 18, 1880 -

Wednesday 19 -

Thursday 20 -

Today we laid our little darling in her grave never to look upon her sweet face anymore.

Friday, May 21, 1880

Pleasant today. Hosea went back to Concord.

Saturday 22

Pleasant and very windy. Obed worked here getting ready to plant corn. Sarah Mace went home today.

Sunday 23

Had a shower this morning cleared off before noon. Obed has been down here. Cora has been down to the graveyard.

Monday, May 24, 1880

Pleasant and very warm. Planted corn today. Mr. Varney and Obed worked here. Patience was here today.

Tuesday 25

Pleasant and warm. Obed worked here part of the forenoon on plowing in the garden.

Wednesday 26

Pleasant the warmest day we have had. Isaac planted cucumbers and watermelons. Cora and I went walk up to Cally ‘s tonight.

Thursday, May 27, 1880

Pleasant and very warm. Isaac went out to Straw’s and fixed two tie irons on the wagon in the afternoon. Worked on the road for Mr. Merrill.

Wallace shop burnt.

Friday 28

Cloudy and cooler. Isaac worked on the crossroad.

Saturday 29

Pleasant and cool. Cora Isaac and I went to Rochester. [Phebe Canal] died this morning. Obed was here.

Sunday, May 30, 1880

Commenced to rain today. Mr. Young has been here.

Monday 31

Pleasant and windy. Annie and Charlie came up today. Isaac went to Rochester to carry the sheep down. Mrs. Straw and Pray were here today.

Tuesday, June 1

Pleasant and very windy. Isaac worked in the road today. Annie Charlie and myself went down to Seavey’s. Got a letter from Hosea.

Wednesday, June 2, 1880

Raining in the morning. Isaac cut bushes on the road.

Thursday 3

Quite pleasant today. George Bickford raised his barn. Asa was down here. Isaac has been hoeing. Calvin was here tonight also Irving.

Friday 4 –

Saturday, June 5, 1880

Some cloudy today. Annie and I have been down to Mother’s. Isaac and I have been down to Mrs. Pray’s. Isaac has been hoeing potatoes. Paid Mrs. Varney some money.

Sunday 6

A wet drizzly day. Wrote a letter to Sarah and Hosea.

Monday 7

A wet and gloomy day. Charlie Grey came home from Pelham today.

Tuesday, June 8, 1880

Another wet nasty day rained nearly all night. Obed was here today.

Wednesday 9

A little more like fair weather. Isaac and I have been to the Plains this afternoon. He went gunning. James Bickford died today.

Thursday 10

Pleasant. Obed worked here plowed the garden and hoed potatoes.

Friday, June 11, 1880

Pleasant and very warm. Annie and I went to Sam’s today hooking. The teacher Lilia Ada Willie and Walter Bickford was over here. Mr. Bickford buried today. Isaac cultivated Asa’s corn helped Straw cultivate.

Saturday 12

Pleasant with a good breeze. Isaac helped Straw hoe.

Sunday 13 July

Pleasant with heavy shower at night. Mr. Tuttle had meeting at the school house this afternoon. Ida Ella Cora and Walter Bickford were here. Jake Foss’s little boy was buried today. Obed was here.

Monday, June 14, 1880

Quite pleasant. Isaac Obed and Charlie went crow hunting. In the afternoon went up to Johnny Thompson’s.

Tuesday 15

Very pleasant. Isaac and I went to Dover. Bought bag of meal. Sarah and Joe were here.

Wednesday 16

Pleasant with showers in the afternoon. Anna went to Rochester. Lena came up this afternoon. Cora went down to Scott’s. Isaac sowed his corn. Straw and Isaac cultivated his corn.

Thursday, June 17, 1880

Pleasant and warm. Annie went down to Mr. Seavey ‘s. Isaac hoed his corn.

Friday 18

Pleasant. Cally worked here today. Isaac and Charlie hoed. Lena was up here.

Saturday 19

Pleasant and very warm. Isaac helped Elwood Roberts hoe.

Sunday, June 20, 1880

Pleasant in the morning- come up cloudy in the afternoon . Went down to Bow to see Miss Mckeen. Obed was here.

Monday 21

Pleasant. Went blueberry[ing] up on Elwood[‘s]. Isaac hoed in the afternoon.

Tuesday 22

Pleasant. Isaac helped Elwood hoe. Annie and I went down to Mother’s and helped her hook.

Wednesday, June 23, 1880

Pleasant. Isaac went to Rochester bought a barrel of flour. Helped Straw to cultivate in the afternoon. Went over to Mrs. Bickford’s and got some greens.

Thursday 24

Pleasant with a good breeze. Isaac and Sam went to Dover bought a harness. Got a letter from Sarah. Cora Charles has been here.

Friday 25

Pleasant and very warm. Showers at night. Cora went over to Mrs. Bickford’s. The teacher was here to tea. Obed was here. Isaac hoed and went huckleberrying.

Saturday, June 26, 1880

Warm and pleasant. Isaac hoed. Cora keeping house for Mrs. Bickford. Annie and Charlie went down to Mother’s and staid all night. Obed was here.

Sunday 27

Pleasant and very warm. James Meader and family were here. Went up on the mountain. George and of Lavina were here.

Monday 28

Pleasant. Isaac cultivated his corn and hoed.

Tuesday, June 29, 1880

Pleasant and very warm. Isaac finished hoeing his corn. We went to the Plains in the afternoon. Had peas for dinner meal. Isaac sick.

Wednesday 30

Pleasant. Isaac sick.

Thursday, July 1

Pleasant and warm. Isaac not very well.

Friday, July 2, 1880

Wet and lowery. Isaac put Paris green on potatoes.

Saturday 3

Showery. Celebrated with a dinner at the house. Hosea and Henry came from Concord tonight.

Carried the calf up to pasture.

Sunday 4

Pleasant and very warm. We went down to Mother’s and Sam’s.

Monday, July 5, 1880

Pleasant. Commenced mowing. Isaac went to the Plains to carry Henry down. Bought a bag of meal.

Tuesday 6

Showery. No hay day. Isaac mowed. Annie and Charlie when down to Scott’s. Obed worked here.

Wednesday 7

Pleasant. Obed helped Isaac mow.

Thursday, July 8, 1880

Pleasant. Annie and I went down to Maria’ s. The teacher and Lilia came here and staid all night. Obed worked here.

Friday 9

Pleasant. School finished today. Obed worked here.

Saturday 10

Pleasant. A good hay day. Obed helped Isaac today.

Sunday, July 11, 1880

Quite pleasant and cool. Elder Tuttle had a meeting at the school house. We all went. Frank staid here.

Monday 12

Very pleasant good hay day. Obed worked here.

Tuesday 13

Rained last night and this forenoon. Cora went to Dover today.

Wednesday, July 14, 1880

Pretty good hay day. Obed worked here today. Minnie Meserve came to Mr. Huckins tonight. Annie and I went up to Mrs. Varney to carry some peas.

Thursday 15

Poor hay day. Dug rocks this forenoon. Obed worked here today. This afternoon he and Charlie went fishing. Mrs. Straw was here.

Friday 16

Cloudy with heavy shower at night. Mrs. Straw and I went berrying. Isaac and Charlie went.

Saturday, July 17, 1880

Very pleasant. Good hay day. Obed worked here. Annie Isaac Charlie and went down to George Bickford’s.

Sunday 18

Very pleasant. At Mrs. Straw’s. Ida Edie have been here.

Monday 19

Pleasant good hay day. Isaac mowed.

Tuesday, July 20, 1880

Cloudy in the afternoon rained. We went up to Mr. Scruton’s berrying.

Wednesday 21

Cloudy poor hay weather. Annie and Charlie went home today. Mrs. Straw Ida M and Walter was here.

Thursday 22

Cloudy and rains tonight. Obed was here this morning.

Friday, July 23, 1880

Wet and lowery. Went up to Mr. Dolby’s and got a pig. Got a letter from Cora.

Saturday 24

Quite pleasant. Isaac mowed a little.

Sunday 25

Very pleasant. Mr. Durrell had a meeting at the school house. Scott and Clara were here.

Monday, July 26, 1880

Good hay day. Obed worked here.

Tuesday 27

Good hay weather. Obed worked here. Hauled up a load of hay for Obed. Rode up.

Wednesday 28

Pleasant. Good hay day. Lillia Woode up today. Obed worked here today.

Thursday, July 29, 1880

Pleasant with showers in the afternoon. Finished haying.

Friday 30

Isaac went to Rochester today bought a bag of meal and a bag of racked corn. In the afternoon we went down to Nathan’s berrying. Called to see Patience.

Saturday 31

Pleasant and very warm. Isaac helped Mr. Sanborn mow.

Sunday, August 1, 1880

Pleasant and very warm. Cora came today. Mrs. Varney was down here today.

Monday 2

Pleasant and very warm. Went blueberrying and made wine.

Tuesday 3

Rain today. Isaac and Cora went to the Plains today. Hosea stopped down to John’s.

Wednesday, August 4, 1880

Rained today. Isaac went up to Mr. Varney ‘s.

Thursday 5

Pleasant. Went down to Patience. Isaac went down to Sam’s. Hosea came up from John’s.

Friday 6

Pleasant good hay day. Isaac helped Nathan down on Mr. Nutter ‘s place. Hosea went over to Mr. Bickford’s.

Saturday August 7, 1880

Good hay weather. Hosea went to Dover. Cora came up tonight.

Sunday 8

Pleasant. Mr. Tuttle had a meeting at the school house. Mrs. Johnson died today. Lizzie Young was here. Hosea left for the beach as far as John’s.

Monday 9

Warm. Went to the Plains today. Carried Cora down to take the train for Dover. Bought me a dress. Annie came up with us. Went to Mrs. Straw’s up to Cally ‘s down to Sam’s and Wesley’s.

Tuesday, August 10, 1880

Warm and pleasant. Went up to Mrs. Straw’s down to Wesley’s and Sam’s went to get some [snapping ]. Isaac went blackberrying. Cut bushes pulled peas.

Wednesday 11

Pleasant. Annie went to Concord with Mrs. Straw. Isaac mowed bushes and weeds. Obed was here.

Thursday 12

Pleasant in the morning with showers at night. Cally was down and cut my dress. Charlie and Cora were up here to tea.

Friday 13

Pleasant and hot. Isaac mowed bushes.

Saturday 14

Some clouds with showers in the afternoon. Isaac cut bushes in the forenoon and helped Asa in the afternoon dig out a watering place. Annie and Charlie came from Concord Today. Obed was here.

Sunday 15

Windy and quite cool.

Monday, August 16, 1880

Pleasant and cool. Isaac and I went to Rochester. Bought Isaac some shirts. Asa helped Isaac chop wood in the woods. Shoe firm started up today. Eliza came home.

Tuesday 17

Mr. Leighton had a shock. Pleasant and warmer. Cally was down and helped me on my dress. Lizzie Woodes and Linda Hobbs were here visiting. Isaac and Asa chopped wood in ours in the forenoon. Isaac pulled beans in the afternoon. Went in to see Aunt Katherine.

Wednesday 18

Pleasant. Obed Mr. Wormwood Mr. Marshall & Cally were here. Isaac and Asa chopped wood in ours in the forenoon. Isaac pulled beans in the afternoon.

Thursday, August 19, 1880

Cloudy looks like a storm. Isaac hauled wood and picked rocks for Asa. Edie Mr. Boothby C Jordan were here.

Friday 20

Pleasant. Isaac and Asa chopped this afternoon. I went down to Mother ‘s this afternoon. Eliza was at home. Went out to Straw’s to carry a letter.

Saturday 21

Rained a little this morning. Isaac went up in the woods and hauled out some trees. Went gunning this afternoon and shot four squirrels.

Sunday, August 22, 1880

Pleasant and very warm. George and Lizzie Woodes was here. Sent blackberries down to Stephen’s. Willey Mother a lad Fred and Mr. Clark Mr. Straw and wife Jack and Cally were here. Mr. Durrell had a meeting at the school house. Mr. Leighton buried today.

Monday 23

Pleasant and very hot. Isaac and Asa chopped in the forenoon. In the afternoon got his cattle shod. Went to Mrs. Straw ‘s and plated trimming. Mrs. Sanborn and wife Mrs. Smith and boy came here today.

Tuesday 24

Pleasant very very hot- 90 in the shade. We all went to see Aunt Catherine 100 years old today. Straw was up here tonight. Asa was here.

Wednesday, August 25, 1880

Cool and cloudy. We went to the Plains.

Thursday 26

Pleasant today and cool in the afternoon. Isaac hauled hay for Mr. Jordan. We went up to Asa’s to carry up some cabbage. George Varney’s baby was buried today.

Friday 27

Pleasant and cool. Isaac cleaned out the well. Picked beans. Obed was here.

Saturday, August 28, 1880

Pleasant and very hot. Isaac Asa and Obed dug out mud and built wall. Clara Varney was here.

Sunday 29

Cloudy rained a little in the afternoon. Wrote to Hosea and Cora. Ida Grey was here today.

Monday 30

Pleasant. washed ironed and churned. Obed and Sadie here tonight.

Tuesday, August 31, 1880

Pleasant and warm. Isaac and I went to Rochester. Ruth and Alonzo was here tonight. Charlie Grey moved pegging awls on the[ ].

Wednesday, September 1

Pleasant and warm. Isaac dug potatoes in the forenoon. In the afternoon went up on the mountain after crows. Ruth was here.

Thursday 2

Cloudy today but no rain. Isaac got the wood in the shed and dug potatoes. Isaac and I went to the Carnes tonight. Got a postal from Sarah.

Friday, September 3, 1880

Very hot today. Isaac dug potatoes. We went up to see Charlie and Cora tonight. Obed and Mr. Shaw have been here.

Saturday 4

Very hot. Isaac pulled beans in the forenoon. In the afternoon went up in the woods got three gray squirrels.

Sunday 5

Very hot and dry.

Monday, September 6, 1880

Warm again. Isaac pulled beans and cut a few stalks and went with Sam up to the mountain and got the calf. Sam was up here.

Give the chickens wheat.

Tuesday 7

A little cloudy and very smoky. Isaac dug potatoes and pulled beans. I went up to Cally’s. Cora Charles and Obed was here. Also Mrs. Bickford. Edna is quite sick.

Wednesday 8

Cool and some clouds. Mother and Sarah was up here also Ruth and Cora. Charlie hurt his leg. Isaac went to the Plains. In the afternoon helped Asa chop.

Thursday, September 9, 1880

Looks like rain. Isaac and Obed burnt brush. Picked up apples. I went down to see Edna. Called into Mrs. Merrill’s. Rains tonight.

Friday 10

Rains this morning. Isaac went up to Asa’s to thrash but come home. In the afternoon went up to the woods. I went out to Merrill’s and Straw’s. Isaac and I went out to Straw’s tonight.

Saturday 11

Pleasant and warm. Asa helped Isaac thrash his wheat. Isaac and Obed winnowed it up. Mr. Watson’s barn was burnt tonight.

Sunday, September 12, 1880

Very pleasant today. We went out to the school house. Mr. Tuttle had a meeting. Cora and Charlie were here tonight. Mr. Watson’s barn was burnt last night. Mr. Berry was buried today.

Monday 13

Pleasant in the morning rains tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Straw was here tonight. Asa and Charlie Grey at work here today. Sadie was here.

Tuesday 14

Cloudy this morning rains this afternoon. Asa thrashed here today. Alonzo was here. Ida Katz and Justin was here to dinner. Got a letter from Cora.

Wednesday, September 15, 1880

Rained nearly all day. Isaac went up to Asa’s to get an axe fixed and an umbrella. Asa was down here.

Thursday 16

Cleared up today. Isaac went to the Plains. Bought a barrel of flour. In the afternoon fixed his strawberry bed. Cora Charles was here Sadie and Asa. Picked over barberries. Obed was here. Woody Smith buried today.

Friday 17

Very pleasant. Isaac set out his strawberries and dug potatoes. Obed and Cally was here. Moved the stove. Made barberries sauce put up peaches pared apples.

Saturday, September 18, 1880

Rained in the morning cleared off. Isaac thrashed beans dug potatoes went up in the woods with his gun. Mr. and Mrs. Straw was here.

Sunday 19

Some cloudy. Isaac when down to Jacobs. Enoch Whitehouse wife and Fred came today.

Monday 20

Wet lowery day. Isaac went gunning. Mr. Jenness and Mr. Merrill was here.

Tuesday, September 21, 1880

Cleared off. Isaac went to Rochester. Fred went home. Alonzo and Ruth were here. Mr. Hurd’s barn and house were burned.

Wednesday 22

Pleasant. Enoch went away from here today. Started for Concord today. Cora came home.

Thursday 23

Pleasant but cool wind today. Arrived at Concord today.

Friday, September 24, 1880

Pleasant today. Went to the asylum.

Saturday 25

Very pleasant and warm. Came home from Concord today. Stopped at Mrs. Mckeen to tea.

Sunday 26

Quite pleasant. Mr. Durrell had a meeting at the school house. Mr. Wilkinson died today.

Monday, September 27, 1880

Looks like rain. Isaac hauled in some corn for us and some for Asa. Husked for the first time. Obed was here.

Tuesday 28

Cloudy and rained some. Isaac husked this forenoon. When down to Henry Wilson’s this afternoon. Obed was here. Mr. Wilkinson buried today.

Wednesday 29

Very pleasant. Went to the fair today. Obed was here and helped us husk tonight.

Thursday, September 30, 1880

Pleasant. Isaac helped Asa thrash his oats this forenoon. This afternoon hauled in corn.

Friday, October 1

Pleasant today. Isaac hauled in corn and husked. Ruth and Alonzo were over tonight. Clara and Lena Browning were here.

Saturday 2

Pleasant. Isaac hauled in corn and husked. Hauled up some cider apples to Henry Nutter’s for Mr. Jordan. Cora Charlie and Obed and were here.

Sunday, October 3, 1880

Quite pleasant. Isaac and I went down to the graveyard. Called to Jacobs.

Monday 4

Some clouds looks like rain. We finished husking tonight.

Tuesday 5

Pleasant and cool. Isaac went to the Plains this morning. Help Charlie cut wood this afternoon. Hosea came home today.

Wednesday, October 6, 1880

Cool and windy. Isaac dug potatoes this forenoon. Helped Charlie chop this afternoon. I went out to Ruth’s this afternoon.

Thursday 7

Pleasant and windy. Isaac hauled rocks this forenoon. Obed helped him this afternoon. We went down to Jacobs husking.

Friday 8

Pleasant. Picked apples up to Asa’s. Hauled home a barrel. Charley and Cora Willie were here tonight. Peeled apples tonight.

Saturday, October 9, 1880

Pleasant today. We picked apples up in the orchard. Finished digging potatoes today.

Sunday 10

Very warm and pleasant. Mr. Tuttle had a meeting at the school house. We went. Annie Charlie John and Willie Grey Jacob and wife and Obed have been here. Willie Otis was baptized today.

Monday 11

Pleasant. Isaac went down to Wesley’s and tonight went to Ephraim’s and got a sheep. Got the horse shod. Picked apples etc. Cora and I went down to see Mrs. Tufts.

Tuesday, October 12, 1880

Pleasant but squally in the afternoon. Isaac and I went to Rochester in the evening. We went up to Asa Varney’s.

Wednesday 13

Cold and windy. Isaac picked apples in the forenoon. In the afternoon went to the funeral of Abigail Jenness. Alvah Otis married.

Thursday 14

Very pleasant and warm. We picked apples down to Jacobs. Had a husking there tonight.

Friday, October 15, 1880

Pleasant today. Obed worked here helped plowing hauled rocks etc. We went to the school house tonight to see about a singing school.

Saturday 16

Pleasant came up cloudy and rained a little tonight. Isaac helped Asa plow this forenoon . Intended to go to Barrington but did not.

Sunday 17

Cloudy today commenced raining this afternoon. George Rollins his mother and Walter were here. We went down to Mother’s.

Monday, October 18, 1880

Pleasant and windy. Obed worked here helped plow and haul manure. Went up to Varney’s and helped peel apples tonight.

Tuesday 19

Cool and windy. Isaac hauled manure. Enoch Mr. Clark and Fred came up tonight.

Wednesday 20

Pleasant and cool. Enoch went home today. Obed and Sadie came down and helped us fix apples. Isaac went to Rochester this afternoon.

Thursday, October 21, 1880

Cool and windy. I went into school this afternoon. Obed works here today plowing and picking rocks.

Friday 22

Cool today. Obed worked here today hauling manure etc. Rained tonight.

Saturday 23

Quite pleasant today. Isaac went up to Asa’s this morning and hauled up a barrel. Helped me put down my carpet this afternoon. Obed was here tonight.

Sunday, October 24, 1880

Cool and a strong wind. Lillia staid here last night.

Monday 25

Cold with high winds. Obed worked here today hauling rocks. Got cabbage and parsnips in the cellar.

Tuesday 26

Torchlight procession at Rochester. More mild clouded up tonight it rains. Quarterly meeting commenced today at Strafford. Obed worked here this afternoon picking rocks. Isaac went to Straw’s and got his rack.

Wednesday, October 27, 1880

Pleasant and cool. Isaac went to the Plains with straw and husks. Ruth and Alonzo was here this evening. Cora walked over to Strafford to meeting.

Thursday 28

Quite pleasant. Isaac worked around home in the forenoon. In the afternoon helped Obed dig rocks. In the evening we went over to Strafford to meeting. Torchlight procession at Farmington.

Friday 29

Warmer today. Isaac went to Farmington with Mr. Huckins and Willie Nason. Obed and Jacob have been here. Cleaned my sitting room.

Saturday, October 30, 1880

Cloudy and rained before night. The Democrats had a torchlight procession at Rochester. Isaac blowed rocks. Obed helped him this afternoon. Willie Nason here to dinner. Alma was here. Rained all night.

Sunday 31

Cleared off this morning very windy. George Rollins here today Walter Hall Irving Tuttle. Got in our dahlias.

Monday, November 1

Pleasant. Obed work here plowed and hauled rocks. Had Mr. Jordan’s cattle in the afternoon.

Tuesday, November 2, 1880

Pleasant for the time of year. Isaac went to town meeting. Mrs. Seavey Sadie Alma and Joe were here. Isaac came home from Concord. David Thomas moved to the mill today.

Wednesday 3

Mr. Henry Jones buried today. Pleasant. Mrs. Drew and Pray have been here also Obed. Cora and Lilia have gone over to Strafford tonight with Walter Hall. Isaac and I have been out to Straw’s tonight. Isaac went to the Plains this forenoon groundout apples for cider this afternoon.

Thursday 4

Pleasant and quite warm. Isaac made cider. Mr. Seavey Horace Bickford Alonzo and Ruth were here. Republicans celebrated to Rochester. Mr. Walker got killed.

Friday, November 5, 1880

Rained today. I cleaned and my meal room and back entry. Isaac went out to Straw’s and got a chain mended. Banked a part of the house. Went out to Merrill’s tonight thrashed beans[ ].

Saturday 6

Wet and foggy today. Isaac worked at home banking house etc. I went up to Cally’s this afternoon. Obed was here. Cora went down to Sarah Pease’s Horn’s etc.

Sunday 7

Cleared off this morning very windy. Hosea came up from John’s this morning. Ida Grey came up and staid all night.

Monday, November 8, 1880

Very pleasant. I went down to Sarah’s to help her hook on her rug. Isaac plowed for Joseph Seavey.

Tuesday 9

Pleasant today. Isaac broke up. Obed helped him – had Mr. Jordan’s cattle. Maria Young was here this afternoon. Lyceum commenced tonight.

Wednesday 10

Pleasant and warm today. Isaac and I went to the Plains this forenoon. This afternoon Obed came down and helped dig rocks. David and Frank Bickford came today. Jacob and Matilda came up tonight. Bought Cora shoes myself rubbers and slippers.

Thursday, November 11, 1880

Clouded up rained this afternoon. Obed helped Isaac plow this forenoon. Cleaned my kitchen.

Friday 12

Pleasant but cool and windy . I went down to the mill to get some corn ground. Obed worked here digging rocks. Joe was here tonight.

Saturday 13

Cold and windy today. Obed worked here plowing banking up the house etc. Frank Mc Duffee buried today.

Sunday, November 14, 1980

Quite pleasant today. Obed Mother Edie Willie Nason Scot and Clara Mrs. Straw and Minnie have been here. Isaac when down to Joe’s and Sam’s.

Monday 15

Pleasant day. Isaac ploughed down in the little field. Asa and Obed helped. Had Henry ‘s cattle. Cora and I went down to Mother’s to carry the wool down. Cora Charles and Willie was up here tonight. Took sprig to board.

Tuesday 16

Pleasant. Isaac plowed for Joe today. Hosea came up after Cora today to go down to John Rowe’s. Obed here tonight.

Wednesday, November 17, 1880

Quite pleasant. Isaac worked up to Asa ‘s hauling rocks. Alonzo was in here tonight.

Thursday 18

Clouded up and rained this forenoon had a snow squall this afternoon. Isaac and Asa went to the Plains this morning got a case of shoes.

Friday 19

Pleasant. Isaac plowed for Mr. Straw today. Cora went to the corner to singing school.

Saturday, November 20, 1880

Commence to raining rained all the afternoon and evening. Cleared off in the night. Isaac went down to the mill. Mr. Wilkinson moved to Rochester today. Frank Mill’s goods was moved up today.

Sunday 21

Very cold and windy. Cora went down to the temperance meeting. Minnie was over here this morning. Isaac went out to Straw’s and up to Asa’s. Obed was down tonight.

Monday 22

Very cold and windy. Isaac butchered our pig. Mr. Varney and Obed helped kill some chickens. The Canney boys was here and Isaac [Rousou].

Tuesday, November 23, 1880

Very cold and windy. Isaac went to the Plains with some chickens. Mr. Varney was here and the Canney boys. Stephen Young’s wife died today.

Wednesday 24

A little more mild today. Isaac went down to carry Sam’s scalding tub home. Down to Ephraim’s and got a sheep. Helped Henry Wilson butcher. Annie and Charlie came up tonight. Mr. Merrill and Coleman were here tonight.

Thursday 25

Thanksgiving. We were all down to Mother’s. They were all up here in the evening. Snowed last night in the night enough to cover the ground.

Friday, November 26, 1880

Quite mild and pleasant. Isaac went down to the mill this morning with some corn. Frank Grey came home from out west today.

Saturday 27

Quite pleasant today. Frank came up today. Isaac hauled some limbs in the forenoon from the woods. Mother fell and got hurt today. Eliza went away.

Sunday’s 28

Quite pleasant. Went down to Mother’s today. Stephen Young ‘s a wife buried today. Clara and Scott up here tonight. George Day came up here tonight.

Monday, November 29, 1880

Quite pleasant. Obed helped Isaac sawing logs in the woods and the forenoon. Isaac hauled up limbs in the afternoon. School commenced today. Jim Conovan was here.

Tuesday 30

Pleasant today. Isaac and George cut wood at the door. Joe went to the mill for us. Mr. Kenney was here. Henry Wilson fixed our windows. Wentworths block burnt last night.

Wednesday, December 1

Snowed all day today. Isaac went up to Asa’s to get my shoes mended.

Thursday, December 2, 1880

Cleared off this morning cold and windy. Went down to Mother’s tonight Isaac and I with a horse and sleigh. Isaac went out to Straw’s this morning and got the steers shod.

Friday 3

Cold and blustery. Isaac went up and cut a few birches.

Saturday 4

A little more mild today. Isaac and I went to Rochester today. George Day went down to Jacobs tonight. Obed was here this evening.

Sunday, December 5, 1880

Snow this morning rained this afternoon. This afternoon and evening and no one here but John Grey today.

Monday 6

Pleasant. Isaac hauled out wood for Asa this forenoon. Went down to the mill this afternoon. Cora went over to Mark Foss’s with Willie and Johnny.

Tuesday 7

Pleasant with snow squalls. Isaac and Asa chopped wood up in our woods today and Nettie Addie Foss Scott George Day Johnny and Willie Grey were here.

Wednesday, December 8, 1880

Cloudy today looks like snow. Cora went down to Cora Pease’s this morning. Down to Mr. Seavey’s visiting this afternoon. Isaac Asa and Obed chopped up in in our woods today.

Thursday 9

Cold looks like a storm. Isaac and Asa chopped wood in the woods in the forenoon. Killed some hens in the afternoon. Cora went over to Strafford to the sewing circle tonight. Staid down to Tom’s tonight.

Friday 10

Very cold north east wind. Isaac went to the Plains today. Asa was down. Cora went to the Plains with Tom Pease. Got some kerosene.

Saturday, December 11, 1880

A little more mild. Isaac hauled a load of wood down to [Mick] Wallace.

Sunday 12

More mild but looks like snow. Isaac and I went down to Mother’s Sam’s and out to Ruth’s. Lillia has been up here also Wesley brought up our meat. Thomas and Sarah Pease the Hall boys John Willey and Lilia were up here to sing tonight.

Monday 13

Quite mild and pleasant. Isaac helped Straw and Mr. Jordan butcher. Hauled rocks for Joe in the afternoon. I went down to Mother’s this morning. Lillia Edie Emma Varney John Grey was here. David and Corina here tonight.

Tuesday, December 14, 1880

Quite warm. Isaac hauled a load of wood for Mr. Wallace. Hauled up a load of coal for Mr. Straw. Ella Bickford here to supper. Snow tonight.

Wednesday 15

Cleared off today. Isaac hauled a log down to the mill for David. Went up in the woods and got another. Mr. Varney was here this morning. Got a letter from Mother today.

Thursday 16

Pleasant and windy. Isaac helped David today in the woods. Worked half day with cattle. Sold the steers and cow today. Willie came over and watered the cattle. Cora went down to Corrins.

Friday, December 17, 1880

Pleasant but cool and windy. Isaac helped David in the woods getting out logs. Henry Sanborn was here. Signed for The Household.

Saturday 18

Clear and cold. Obed was down here this morning. Isaac went up there and got his mitten mended. Mrs. Straw was here. We went out to Mr. Merrill’s tonight. Sam had a present of a [pickle] tonight.

Sunday in 19

Cold in the morning but more mild this afternoon. Cora and Lilia have gone over to Strafford to the temperance meeting to sing. Asa and Mr. Seavey were here.

Monday, December 20, 1880

Quite mild today. Isaac helped David in the woods today. Willie and Ida were here to dinner. Edie and Lillia was here this afternoon.

Tuesday 21

Pleasant today. Isaac worked for David this forenoon. Went down to get some corn ground this afternoon. Went to the Lyceum tonight.

Wednesday 22

Pleasant today. Isaac went over to Hiram Felker’s and bought a steer. Tom and the girls came here to practice for the Christmas Eve.

Thursday 23

Quite pleasant today. Have killed some chickens. Went to Rochester. Mr. Smith folks came today.

Friday 24

Frosty air today. Isaac and Mr. Smith went up in the woods this afternoon. We went into School this afternoon. Friday night went to the singing school.

Saturday 25

Very pleasant. We had a Christmas tree at the School house. Isaac killed our old horse.

Sunday, December 26, 1880

A cold northeast wind. Mr. and Mrs. Smith went down to see George Bickford. Henry Wilson J Conovan Forest Leighton Obed & Owen Varney and Willie Hall were here.

Monday 27

A little warmer snowed a little tonight looks like rain. Isaac went down to Asa’s tonight to get a yoke. Worked on the barn today.

Tuesday 28

Isaac and Mr. Smith chopped wood for George Bickford. Pleasant today but cold. Cynthia and I went out to hear the mock trial.

Wednesday, December 29, 1880

Snowed today. Isaac and Mr. Smith helped George chop in the forenoon. I went down to Wesley’s in the afternoon with Mrs. Smith and Lavina. The men folks came down in the evening. Charlie Grey’s baby was born today.

Thursday 30

Cleared off last night and very cold. Went visiting down to Mr. Adam’s. Isaac went out to Straw’s shop just at night. Lillia staid here tonight. Ed Evans baby born today.

Friday 31

Very cold and blustery. We shelled corn to carry to mill. Went to singing school. Ella Bickford staid here tonight.

Memoranda

January 1880

January 3 made nine pies apple

January 10 made 12 pies apple

January 16 made 10 pies mince

January 24 made 12 pies five apple seven mince

January 31 made 12 seven apple five mince

February 5 11 pies nine apple two mince

February 13 nine apple pies five mince February 20 12 apple pies

February 27 11 apple and two mince pies

March 5 eight apple, one custard

March 12 nine apple pies

March 19 11 apple pies

March 26 nine apple pies

April 3 eight apple pies

April 10 eight apple, one custard

April 15 one custard

April 17 three mince four apple

April 21 nine apple and seven mince

April 30 eight apple 2 mince

May 5 three blueberry pies, one custard

May 7 10 dried apple pies, one blueberry, one green apple

May 12 2 [mo] pies 1 custard, 1 dried apple

May 14 7 dried apple pies, three cream pies

May 21 20 apple pies / green, 8 custards

May 29 seven dried apple pies, 1 rhubarb

June 3 3 cream and 1 rhubarb

June 5 10 dried apple pies

June 10 3 cream pies, 2 rhubarb

June 12 9 dried apple

June 19 7 dried apple, 1 rhubarb

June 25 3 cream and two dried apple

June 26 [7] dried apple

July 1 5 blueberry pies

July 2 2 lemon pies

July 3 three dried apple, three berry

July 7 3 berry, 2 dried apple

July 10 5 berry and four dried apple

July 15 4 berry, 3 dried apple

July 17 9 blueberry pies

July 23 5 berry 2 green apple

July 28 3 green apple, 2 berry pies

July 31 5 green apple, 1 berry pies

August 5 4 green apple, 2 berry pies

August 7 6 green apple

August 12 3 pumpkin, 1 berry

August 14 5 green apple

August 18 4 green apple

August 21 6 green apple

August 22 5 green apple

August 28 5 green a[apple pies

Sept 1 3 pumpkin, 1 green apple

Sept 4 6 green apple

Sept 8 4 green apple

Sept 11 6 green apple

Sept 15 7 green apple

Sept 21 8 green apple

Sept 26 5 green apple pies

Oct 2 6 green apple, 1 custard

Oct 4 8 green apple, 5 pumpkin pies

Oct 16 7 green apple, 4 pumpkin pies

Oct 19 5 green apple pies

Oct 20 5 green apple pies

Oct 23 7 green apple pies

Oct 26 6 green apple pies

Oct 28 1 green apple pie

Oct 30 4 pumpkin & 7 green apple pies

Nov 4 6 green apple pies

Nov 6 4 pumpkin and six green apple pies

Nov 13 5 pumpkin, 10 green apple pies

Nov 18 4 green apple pies

Nov 19 6 pumpkin

Nov 20 9 green apple pies

Nov 24 5 green apple pies

Nov 27 3 green apple pies

Dec 3 9 green apple pies

Dec 11 8 mince, 7 pumpkin

Dec 17 5 mince, 6 apple

Dec 24 5 mince, 5 apple

Dec 27 [15] apple

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The other side of this page has a list of 11 figures which add up to 497 and another list of 3 numbers adding up to 100; also the number 115. There is one entry “113 ¼ pounds of pork of Mrs. Straw”

The only remaining entries are Jan 30 rec’d of Dr. Farrington $2.00 for potatoes, From Mrs. Kelly for butter $3.00; Feb 24 Mrs. Kelly 5 ½ pounds butter , Feb 27 5 bushels of potatoes; July sold Mrs. Kelly 9 ½ pounds butter.

The last page records some letters sent and rec’d.

1882

January 1882

Sunday, January 1, 1882 – Cloudy with a cold wind snows tonight. Isaac went down to Sam’s. Mr. Young and Obed worked here. Sarah Jane Emma came after milk.
Cleared off very cold and windy. The snow all blowed into drifts. Very cold night.
Pleasant today but a sharp wind. Isaac went out to Straw’s this morning. Then helped shovel the roads out. John Whitehouse here after a shovel. Obed and Mr. Young here. Pig’s foot pie and apple dumplings for dinner. Lyceum finished up tonight.
Blustery and very cold. Isaac went out to Mr. Jordan’s this morning. Churned for me this afternoon. Scott Mr. Young Obed and Charlie Jordan were here. Lillia was here.
Very pleasant. Isaac went to Rochester. Asa came down this afternoon got some roots.
Clouded up this morning tonight snows. Isaac hauled off rocks this forenoon. This afternoon went up and got a load of wood.
Cleared off this morning. Snow enough to make the first sleighing. Isaac when down to the mill and went up in the woods and got a load of wood. Jonathan and Cora Bickford here. The heifer calved tonight.
Clouded up and rained hard tonight. Cora George Rollins Lillia and Obed were here. Isaac went with Preston tonight to find his horse. Azariah Pearl buried today.
Cleared off this morning. Tonight cool and windy. Isaac went out to Straw’s got the horse calked up. Preston here tonight. Isaac went up in the woods. Picked over apples etc. Sleighing spoilt.
Looks like a storm Asa Mr. Young and the Jordan girls were here. Isaac went this forenoon and afternoon for The Farmer. This afternoon churned.
Snowed all day. Cleared off tonight. Isaac went up to Asa’s. Made a whipple tree. Made me a salt roller.
The wind blows the snow all up in piles very blustery day. Jonathan was here. Coleman brought me over a letter from Mother. Isaac fixed some arms for a clothes reel and went up in the woods and got a load of wood.
Snowed all day. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains. Sent off money for The Farmer. Got ½ dozen milk pans. The Jordan girls here. Isaac got some flannel for the baby dresses.
Cleared off today. Isaac hauled home wood out to the corner. Went out to Mr. Jordan’s tonight. Killed the heifer’s calf.
Quite pleasant today. Wesley Patience Sarah Willey Alice and Obed Varney have been here.
Quite pleasant this afternoon. Isaac went up and hauled wood for Asa. Jonathan here tonight. Sara Jane here after milk.
Snowed in the night. Blows today. Obed and Isaac went to the Plains with apples. Mrs. Straw here cut out the baby’s dress.
Pleasant and cold. Isaac broke the road with cattle- in the afternoon went up in the woods. Tonight carried Mr. Jordan’s pung home. Jonathan and Preston here tonight. Cleaned clock. Ruth and Alonzo went to Dover.
Quite pleasant. Obed helped Isaac in the woods today. Asa here.
Snows tonight. Isaac went to the Plains. Jonathan here tonight. Sara Jane here after milk.
Snowed all the afternoon. This forenoon Isaac broke road with cattle. This afternoon hauled cordwood from the woods to the corner. Quakers quarterly meeting.
Cleared off this morning and the snow has flown like a good one. Isaac went down to meeting with Preston and Maria. Horace Bickford was here.
An awful cold blustery day. Snow flies like everything. Preston come in to warm.
The wind went down so they went shoveling on the road-out 6 hours. Obed came down after some milk. Jonathan here to dinner. Straw here tonight.
Pleasant and cold. Isaac broke the road with cattle today. Snowed tonight.
Cleared off today. Isaac went down to Jonathan’s this morning then up to Asa’s to get a corn pared. In the afternoon went up in the woods and got a load of wood. We went over to John Bickford’s tonight. Mr. Harker had a meeting to Strafford.
Pleasant and very windy. Obed Jonathan and Preston was here. Isaac went up in the woods cutting wood. Blowed chimneys down to Rochester and the shed on the Fairground.
Looks like a storm and snow tonight. Isaac went to the Plains this forenoon- this afternoon Obed and Asa helped him cut wood up on the mountain. Mrs. Straw here.
Cleared off today and the snow has flew like an old one. Isaac went out to Mr. Jordan’s to carry the baby’s shoes.
Quite pleasant today. Isaac broke roads today. Asa was here.
Pleasant this morning but a northeast snow storm tonight. Obed and Sadie here tonight. The Old Folks concert to Rochester tonight. Mrs. Straw and Sarah Jane year put the baby in short clothes. Isaac hauled wood from the woods out to the road. Child up to Ladd Canney ‘s died.

February

Wednesday, February 1, 1882 – Quite pleasant. Isaac went down and helped Jonathan load a load of hay. In the afternoon hauled wood out to the corner. Went up to Asa’s to get some vinegar. Tonight went down and helped him load again. Scott and Clara here tonight.
Pleasant. Isaac went to the Plains this morning. To the mill this afternoon. Down to Sam’s tonight. Ladd Canney’s grandchild buried today.
Windy the snow flies like everything. Isaac chopped in the woods. Obed here. Mrs. Tufts came to Sam’s to board.
Snows tonight and the wind blows and snow is all drifting up. Isaac helped Obed chop this forenoon. This afternoon shoveled in the road. Emma Jordan here.
Snow blowing like everything all day. The roads all drifted up. Jonathan was in here tonight.
They broke roads but the snow drifted right in again.
Cloudy today and snows tonight. Isaac broke roads today. Scott Charlie and Obed was here. Isaac went out to Mrs. Jordan’s tonight and got me some cheese. God bless her soul. Party to Jacobs tonight.
Pleasant and very windy. Isaac helped Obed cut timber today. The Bickford girls here.
Pleasant and warm. We went to the Plains. Cora came up home with us. Snows tonight. Isaac went out to Asa’s.
Snowed today and blows. Willie Gray here to dinner. Isaac hauled a load of wood to the school house – in the afternoon went up to Asa’s. Willie come up after Cora tonight.
Pleasant. Isaac broke roads today. Willie Ida Alice come up and brought Cora home. George Rollins come up tonight.
Pleasant and warm. Lillia was here. Cora went to Rochester today.
A warm south wind rained this afternoon. Obed was here. Isaac went up in the woods and got some axe handle stuff. Churned etc.
Pleasant and warm. Snow going off fast. Isaac helped Obed chop in the woods. Mrs. Straw here. Lillia went to Rochester to work. Party down to Snell’s.
Very pleasant and warm. Isaac went to the mill this morning. I rode out to Mr. Jordan’s. This afternoon Isaac and Jonathan filled up holes on the road. Obed and Jonathan here. John Wingate’s wife died this week.
A lovely day. Isaac and Obed went to Rochester. Mrs. Straw spent the afternoon. Alonzo came to tea. Jonathan here. Rained in the night snow melting away fast.
Cleared off this morning cool and windy. Isaac cut some wood at the door. Went up in the orchard and cut some wood. Asa here. School finished today.
Pleasant cold. In the forenoon Isaac went up and cut some birches. In the afternoon cut some wood at the door. Obed was here.
Snowed today. Mr. Jordan and Charlie here after milk.
Pleasant. Isaac hauled a couple load of wood from the woods today. This afternoon Obed helped Isaac chop in the woods.
Snowed and blowed all day. A rough night.
Snowed most all day. Isaac broke roads. Obed here. Churned etc.
Pleasant today. Isaac hauled wood from the woods. The baby and I went down to Mother’s. Straw and Jonathan here tonight.
Pleasant and sharp wind. Went to Rochester today. Party to Preston Young ‘s tonight.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac went to the Plains today to see about Martha Varney’s things.
Pleasant and warm. We rode up to Mrs. Varney’s. Cora Charles Willey and Ida were here.
Pleasant and warm. Snow going off fast. Isaac drove the farrow cow over to John Bickford’s. Went down to the mill with some logs. Ruth and Alonzo here tonight. Sheep lambed tonight.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac cut wood at the door. Preston and Obed were here.

March

Wednesday, March 1, 1882 - Rained today. Isaac sawed wood in the shed. Went out to Straw’s and got my churn handle. Down to Jonathan’s got my flat irons.
Wind this morning cleared up tonight. Obed here this afternoon
Pleasant and warm. Isaac helped Obed chop. Emma Jordan and the Bickford girls here. Isaac went out to the corner tonight.
Windy with snow. Squalls. George Rollins and Mr. Twombly came up today. Mr. Twombly and George here to dinner and tea. Show at the school house. Isaac went to the Plains today.
Warm and cloudy rain tonight. Cora at home today. Obed Corrina and David here.
Rained today. Straw here after milk.
Cleared off cold tonight. Isaac helped Asa saw off some logs this forenoon. This afternoon hauled a rack load of wood. Emma Jordan here cut her dress.
Very pleasant. Isaac churned this forenoon. This afternoon cut wood at the door. Calvin was here also Emma Jordan. Rev. Otis baby died. Supper at [Week] Otis.
Clouded up this forenoon and snowed this afternoon. Obed and Asa chopped this forenoon at the door Emma Jordan here finished up her dress. Samuel here.
Snow and rain this morning. Went down to the mill. Obed here.
Cleared off today. Isaac went to the Plains. Mrs. Straw and Obed here
Snow squalls all day. Helen and Frank here to dinner today.
Cleared off today cold and windy tonight. Isaac hauled some logs from the woods. Churned etc. The old sheep had two lambs last night. Crystal Wedding down to Mr. Pease’s tonight. Joshua Roberts died.
Cold and windy. Isaac worked in the woods this forenoon. In the afternoon helped Obed chop. Town meeting today.
Pleasant. Isaac chopped in the woods today. Alonzo and Ruth were here tonight after milk. Got Nettie’s baby’s picture.
Cool and windy. Isaac went to Rochester. Frank Gray here. The sheep had twin lambs.
A cold north east wind. Isaac worked up in the woods. Obed and Sadie down here tonight after milk.
Wind northeast snow squalls all day. [Abe] came up and brought the papers. Isaac chopped for Asa on his lot. Mr. Jordan here after milk. Frank Hussey here and left the blank.
Pleasant and warm. No one here but Obed.
A cool out wind. Isaac went to Milton to mill. Mother Edie Scott Clara Charlie Frank Jordan Jonathan and Asa were here. Lillia went to Rochester to work.
A cold east wind today. Mrs. Straw Edie and Scott have been here. Isaac helped Obed chop today.
Snowed a little last night cloudy today with more squalls. Isaac hauled up a load of wood for Asa. Hauled a load of birches for himself. This afternoon went to mill and up to Ladd Canney’s. Hosea came home sick tonight.
Pleasant cold this morning. Isaac went to the Plains. Obed and Sadie here.
A cold out wind looks like a storm. This morning Isaac went up to Ladd Canney’s and got a pig. This afternoon helped Obed cut oaks. Ida came up this morning and got some spools. Sheep had a lamb.
Isaac went out to the Straw’s and got the horse shod. David Bickford was here to tea.
Cold and snow squalls. Scott was here after Isaac. Obed was here.
A wet drizzly day. Isaac helped Scott about moving his barn. Hosea went to the Plains. The Bickford girls were in here.
Pleasant and cold. Isaac churned. Put up wheat for mill etc. Hosea came home today. Jonathan and Obed was here.
Pleasant. Isaac went over to Milton to mill. Obed here tonight. Hosea went down to Jonathan’s tonight. Sarah Jane brought me some meat.
Cloudy this morning with scuds of rain cleared up this afternoon cold and windy. Isaac went to Rochester this afternoon. In the forenoon hauled some stakes for Straw. Mother Ricker 77 years old.
Cold and windy. School finished today. School meeting tonight. Isaac hauled some logs to the house from the woods. Hosea twenty three. Henry Wilson Committee.

April

Saturday, April 1, 1882 – Snowed this afternoon. This forenoon hauled some logs down to the mill. Obed and Mrs. Straw were here. Sowed tomato seeds. Johnny Gray went to Pelham.
Snow all melted off. Cloudy today. Set two hens.
Pleasant with a south wind. Isaac and Hosea went to Rochester. Eddie Edgerly died. Selectman here. Mr. Seavey had a shock. Isaac went down there and to Mr. Jordan’s tonight.
Cloudy with thunder showers. Isaac hauled wood for Asa this forenoon. This afternoon Obed helped Isaac split wood in the woods. Ellen was up and cut my dresses. Mrs. Straw and Cally here. Hosea mended my shoes. David Bickford moved from Kingston.
Pleasant. Isaac chopped wood at the door. Obed and Frank Bickford here.
Cloudy today. Edie and Mother up here spinning. Isaac and Hosea went to the Plains.
A wet drizzly day frozen rain etc. this morning. Isaac went down to the mill hauled some logs. Cora 19 years old. Isaac carried the old cow over to Mr. Bickford’s.
A very pleasant day. Carried the baby out for the first time. Isaac cut wood at the door. Obed here.
Cloudy with a cool out wind. Mr. Varney Lillia and Ida were here.
Quite pleasant. Washed and churned. Tonight Ruth and Alonzo here after milk. Frank Bickford here. Isaac cut wood at the door and lugged in the shed. Frank Gray moved to Strafford. Set hen in hen house.
Pleasant with a cool wind. Isaac and Hosea went to the Plains. In the afternoon Isaac helped Obed chop. Tonight out to George Jordan’s and got a bag of meal.
A cold wind squalls of snow. Isaac hauled some logs to mill this morning. This afternoon sawed off some stakes for Straw. Jonathan here. Hosea commenced work down to the sawmill.
Cool and windy. Isaac went down to the mill this forenoon after some lumber. In the afternoon Obed helped him plow his rye piece and a piece for peas.
Pleasant but windy. Isaac and Asa went to Farmington today. Asa went to see the Doctor. Mrs. Straw William Jenness and the Bickford children here.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac went down to the mill this forenoon after lumber. Sowed his rye. Blowed a rock etc. Obed and Maria Young here.
Pleasant. George Bickford and wife Mr. and Mrs. Straw and Coleman here.
Pleasant and windy. Obed worked here plowing etc. Isaac sowed piece of wheat.
Cloudy looks like showers. Isaac hauled wood for Asa this forenoon. This afternoon Obed helped Isaac plow. Isaac sowed some more wheat. Mrs. Straw here [ ] Alonzo.
Cloudy rains tonight. Isaac sowed five bushels of wheat for Henry Nutter. Obed had the cattle this forenoon to haul rocks. This afternoon Obed helped Isaac plow his wheat ground. John Garland died.
Rained last night. Cloudy this forenoon cleared off this afternoon cool and windy. Isaac went up to Asa’s this forenoon and marked and harrowed. This afternoon went to the Plains. Obed here tonight.
Cool and windy. Obed worked here today hauling out and spreading manure on his wheat ground. Isaac went up to Asa’s and got a calf. Obed carried home his pig.
A cold north wind. Obed works here. Isaac sowed and harrowed in his wheat. Emma Jordan was here. Brought baby a dress. John Garland buried today.
A cold day the wind north. Jacob and Matilda here.
Pleasant with a cold wind. Obed works here this afternoon. [Tarpoled] the fence to keep the sheep out. Mr. John Bickford here.
A cold wind again. Obed and Isaac plowed and picked rocks down in the little field. Asa Sadie Cora Charles have been here.
Pleasant warmer today. Isaac finished plowing his little field this afternoon. Plowed in the field over by Straw’s. Obed helped him. Straw here tonight after milk. Mrs. Pray got home from Dover. Sam Foss buried today.
Snowed today. Isaac went up to Asa’s welded a harrow down to Straw’s. Obed here this afternoon.
A cloudy wet day. Snow nearly gone. Isaac and Obed went crow hunting.
Pleasant but cool and windy. Isaac and I went to Rochester. Straw and Obed here tonight. Bought Isaac shirts. Got a letter from Sarah Mace.
Pleasant today with an out wind. We went out to Asa’s. Cora Charles Frank Helen Joe Seavey Hannah and Ellen Stevens here. When down to Jonathan’s.

May

Monday, May 1, 1882 – Pleasant but cool and windy. Obed helped Isaac plow today over next to Straw’s and his potato piece down in the field. Patience here tonight. Mrs. Johnson Amos Tuft’s sister died tonight.
Showers this forenoon snow squalls this afternoon. Isaac helped Obed plow. Willie Nason here John [P] Varney of Dover killed.
Cool and windy. Isaac plowed and hauled rocks for Obed. Willie Nason and the fisherman here.
A strong wind but a little warmer. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains. Mrs. Straw here cut out Alonzo’s shirt. Mrs. Johnson at the Gonic buried. Conductor O’Brien killed.
Pleasant and windy. Mrs. Straw and Pray here helped stitch Alonzo’s shirt. Obed works here plowed the garden picked rocks. Amos Varney hung himself.
Pleasant today. Obed worked here down in the piece next to Jonathan’s. Frank Bickford here to dinner. Isaac and Obed went [barreling] but nary a fish.
Pleasant and warm. We went down to David’s. Old Mr. O’Brien and Amos Varney was buried.
Pleasant. School commenced. Obed helped Isaac plant potatoes etc. Ida Cora Ellen B. in here.
Showery this morning. Cleared up. Obed came down and planted potatoes down the little field. Patience and Lillia here tonight. Set up mash today.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac plowed for Asa. Fred Jenkins here. I went out to Straw’s and got some milk and into Jordan’s.
Snowed all the morning the ground covered with snow. This afternoon Isaac and Asa went to Rochester.
A cold north east wind. Isaac went to the Plains to get some bills made out on Martha’s estate. [Ehh] Kimball sick. Harriman here. Mrs. Moses Hussey died.
Cloudy with showers. Isaac went to Rochester. George Day came home with him. Sarah Jane brought a pail of milk. Ida and Lizzie Bickford were here
Cloudy rains tonight. We went down to Mothers this afternoon. Obed here. Harry weighed 23 ¼ pounds.
A snow storm this forenoon. Isaac went crow hunting. Tonight Isaac went down to the mill to get some corn ground. Mr. Thompson and Henry here.
Pleasant and warm. Obed helped Isaac haul manure and plow. Isaac got some hay of Jonathan. Mr. Young sold his farm. Lizzie and her father here. George dug out my flower garden. Set out my dahlias.
Pleasant with an east wind. Isaac plowed and hauled manure for Straw. Jonathan and Lizzie Ida Ella and Cora Bickford here. Two years ago today our darling was taken from us. Mrs. Moses Hussey died this week.
A cold east wind. Isaac plowed for Straw this forenoon. This afternoon picked rocks on his potato piece.
A cold east wind. Isaac went to Rochester. Mr. Varney Obed came down this afternoon then went crow hunting. Mrs. Straw and Pray here.
Cloudy this morning with a heavy rain this afternoon and tonight. This morning Isaac went down and helped Jonathan load a load of hay. This afternoon he and Obed went down to the graveyard. Drilled some holes in the posts. Willie Gray here.
Quite warm and pleasant. Went out to Mr. Jordan’s. Aunt Catherine had a shock. Hosea went trouting. Eli Foye shot his wife. Eliza and her man came home.
Cloudy with an out wind. Isaac plowed and harrowed for Asa this forenoon. This afternoon harrowed his potato piece and picked rocks. Mrs. Bickford came over for some pear grafts. Festus and Charlie Jordan here tonight.
Rained all the forenoon. Isaac Obed and Joe Thompson went crow hunting. Isaac went out to Jordan’s and Straw’s tonight.
Cleared off quite pleasant. Ira Hayes here after the farrowing out plow. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains. Frank Jordan hauled the oak butts. Isaac sheared a sheep. Carried it over to[ ]. Mr. Downing Scott Clara and Charlie here.
Pleasant today. This morning Isaac went to the Dock. Got superphosphate. Harrowed his corn piece over by Straw’s. Cut potatoes etc. Ruth here. Circus at Rochester.
Pleasant. Isaac helped Jonathan load a load of hay. Obed worked here today planting potatoes. Maria Young here. Hosea off tonight.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac planted his corn one piece. Obed and Asa helped him. Tonight he went down to Mrs. Pray’s – got some hay. Hosea went to the Plains tonight. Annie and Charlie come up. The Jordan girls brought me over some dahlias. Isaac helped Jonathan load a load of hay. Preston came from New York today.
Pleasant very warm with showers. Tonight we went down to Mothers and Sam’s. Hosea went to the Plains carried Annie and Charlie down slept in the sitting room tonight. Mrs. Straw Mr. Jordan Preston Young here. Wilson Tufts died.
Rained all last night cleared off this morning. First mess of dandelion greens. Cleaned my chambers. Isaac fixed a rod in the burying yard posts. Jonathan got hurt.
A lovely day. Obed helped Isaac haul out manure harrow the garden beds corn piece next to Straw’s. Asa here. Wilson Tufts buried.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac finished planting corn. Obed helped him. This afternoon Asa dropped corn planted cucumbers squashes beans watermelons potatoes in the garden. Mother up here spinning.

June

Thursday, June 1, 1882 – Rained this forenoon. Isaac sheared sheep etc. I cleaned back room and bedroom. Ida B Cora Ella here tonight. Preston here tonight.
Lovely day. Isaac went to the Plains. In the afternoon Obed helped plow. Cora Charles helped me on the baby’s dress. Bought room paper and the baby’s bonnet.
Cloudy. Isaac worked up to Asa’s planting corn. Ruth here.
Rainy day no one here. Put on babies dresses on the baby.
Showery today. Isaac got young crows fixed pig pen etc. Hosea went to Dover and Portsmouth. Cora walked up with him. Straw here after turnip seed. Prescott’s folks came today.
Quite pleasant. Isaac fixed up the grapevines went fishing crow hunting. Asa and Obed and Ruth Ida[M.] the girls here. Cleaned my kitchen cupboard.
Pleasant and warm. Mr. Prescott and Jacob here. I went down to Jacobs.
Warm a shower this afternoon. Isaac went to the mill with logs this afternoon to the Plains. Tonight Prescott and Mary came up and staid all night.
Showery this morning. Cleared off windy. Isaac went down and farrowed out Henry W. corn piece. Mr. Prescott’s father here today. David Tufts baby born.
Some cloudy. Isaac went to Dover to settle up on Martha Varney’s estate.
Pleasant. Mr. and Mrs. John Bickford Sadie and Obed Varney and Joe Worcester here.
Pleasant. Isaac went to Dover to settle Martha’s estate. Mrs. Straw and Obed here
A lovely day. This morning Isaac went out to Straw’s and got some hay. This afternoon he plowed and harrowed for sowed corn up to Asa’s. Kizzie Bickford here.
Pleasant and very warm. Isaac helped Asa a little[ ]. Cora and [Geo Cuff] here. Obed worked here this afternoon.
This morning Isaac and Asa went to Rochester. Towards night Obed came down helped plow a piece for sowed corn. Got a box from California.
Yesterday morning Isaac hauled slabs away from the mill for Mr. Jordan. In the afternoon Obed helped him cultivate his corn. Mrs. Straw here.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac finished sowing garden this afternoon. Obed came down helped cultivate potatoes. Cora Charles and Helen here. Canned mincemeat. Isaac hoed some in the garden.
Overcast and rain. Jacob and Charlie Durgin here. Doctored [Cuff]. Isaac went over to Mr. Downing’s.
Foggy rained nearly all the afternoon. Isaac Obed and peeled bark all the forenoon. Cleaned my front entry.
Obed helped Isaac peel bark this forenoon. In the afternoon cultivated corn and potatoes. Cleaned my kitchen.
Pleasant windy. Isaac hauled logs for David to the mill. Patience and Obed Cora Charles Ida and Elwood here.
Pleasant windy. We went to Rochester. Bought some curtains stockings etc. Obed here tonight. Got baby carriage.
Pleasant and warm. Obed helped Isaac cultivate and hoe potatoes.
Pleasant and very hot. Isaac and Obed hoed the Company potatoes. Cleaned my milk cellar. Edna [ ]
Pleasant and very hot. Jacob and Charlie up and had their hair cut. Isaac and I rode down to the burying yard and called to Jacobs. Thunder showers this morning.
Pleasant and a little cooler. Isaac cultivated and hoed potatoes for Asa today.
Pleasant and windy. Isaac and I went to Great Falls and had Harry’s picture taken.
Some clouds but quite pleasant. Aunt Catherine died. Dr. Steven’s wife had a baby. Obed worked here hoeing potatoes and corn. Sarah Jane and Sadie Harry here tonight.
Pleasant and cool. Isaac and Sarah Jane went to the Plains and got whitewash brush. This afternoon Obed helped hoe corn.
A cool out wind. Isaac hoed garden and [ ] corn. Obed helped. Papered [ }. Catherine Hanson buried. [Katty] and Maria here. Baked bread for the truck men. School finished.

July

Saturday, July 1, 1882 – A rainy day. Isaac fixed the screens for my kitchen. Hosea made my screen door.
Cleared off cool and windy. We went up to Asa’s and got some vinegar. Annie and Charlie came up in the afternoon went down in the little field our first strawberries.
Pleasant and windy. Isaac killed a couple of the lambs. Went to the Plains in the afternoon with them. Charlie went down. Bought me a dress. Bought dripping pan and screening. Hung screen door.
Clouded up today. Isaac cultivated and hoed his corn. Finished hoeing his corn. Obed helped him. Went down and brought Mother up. Lamb for dinner. Hosea went to Boston.
Rained today. Annie and I went down to Mother’s and Sam’s visiting.
Cleared off this morning. Isaac Obed and Charlie Boston went to the Plains. Commenced papering my kitchen. Hosea fixed round the windows. Ruth and Emma Jordan got her ruffles stitched.
Pleasant. Finished papering my kitchen this forenoon. This afternoon Isaac helped Obed cultivate and hoe. Annie put up strawberries.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac carried Asa down to see the doctor. In the afternoon put Paris green on potatoes. Annie went up on the mountain strawberrying. Got Harry’s pictures. Shower this afternoon.
Pleasant and warm. Willie and Charlie Gray here. The baby quite sick.
Pleasant. Isaac went to the Plains to get some doors for the kitchen. Hosea carried Charlie and Annie to Rochester. Cora came home. Hosea to work in the kitchen. The baby quite sick.
Pleasant and hot. Isaac put Paris green on potatoes. Mowed the front yard.
Pleasant out. Good hay day. Isaac helped Obed mow.
Rained this forenoon cleared up windy. Isaac went to the Plains.
Pleasant good hay day. This afternoon Isaac helped Obed get in his two loads of hay. Worked all the afternoon. Cally was here. Cora went down to Jacobs and staid all night. Doctor here to see the baby.
Good hay day. Isaac went up and hauled in a load of hay for Obed. Then Obed helped him get in a load in the [garden]. Isaac and Hosea went to Rochester. Got a pig up to Elwood’s.
Pleasant. Lillia Nettie [Perry] here.
Pleasant. Hosea taken sick. Isaac went down for the doctor. Commenced mowing. Obed commenced work here.
Not a very good hay day. They mowed. Mrs. Straw here.
Showery this morning. Obed went home. Come down and worked this afternoon. David Bickford here to dinner. David Tufts here. The doctor here to see Hosea.
Pleasant. Isaac went to the Plains. Doctor here to see Hosea. David [Carissa] Joe Sadie Patience and Ruth here. Bought horse rake. Obed worked here.
Pleasant. Mrs. Pray Straw and Mrs. John Bickford here. Obed worked here. Lydia and Clara here.
Pleasant. Obed sick went home after dinner. Doctor here to see Hosea.
Sunday. A pleasant day. A lot in here to see Hosea. Baptism over to the mill. Doctor here.
Good hay day. Obed worked here. Mrs. John Varney died. Ida and Hosea Bickford here also David Tufts. Samuel mowed about 2 hours with machine down side of the road.
Good hay weather. The doctor here. Obed worked here.
Pleasant and hot. Eddie Edgerly and Emma Scruton were here. Mrs. John Varney buried. Obed worked this afternoon. Mrs. [Horne] and Sadie Seavey here.
Pleasant with an out wind. Isaac went to the Plains this morning then up to Miles Scruton’s. New green apple pies.
Pleasant good hay weather. Isaac and Obed mowed up on Miles Scruton’s place. Lavina and Lydia Rowe here.
Good hay weather. Isaac and Obed mowed on Miles Scruton’s . Hauled home a load of hay tonight. Ruth and Mrs. Pray here.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac carried Hosea and Mr. Varney to the Plains. Isaac’s birthday 54.
Not a very good hay day. Isaac and Obed mowed on Miles Scruton’s farm. Mr. Springfield Jonathan Maria and Straw have been here.

August

Tuesday, August 1, 1882 -Warm and dry. Isaac went up to Tom Scruton’s. Hauled a load of hay home in the afternoon. Obed helped get in the rye.
Good hay day. Isaac Obed mowed the three cornered field. Sadie [ ] and Varney here.
Good hay day dry and hot. Isaac finished the three cornered field. Isaac went to the Plains this morning. Mr.and Mrs. Straw and Pray here. Obed worked here.
Hot and dry. Obed worked here. Hosea came home today from Annie’s. First mess of blackberries and cucumbers. David Folsom died.
Very hot. Obed finished haying here-got hay down in the little field. Eliza and her Will came.
Still hotter and dry. Thermometer 120. Tonight we rode down to Mother’s. Obed here helped pitch off a load of hay.
Pleasant and hot. Isaac and Obed worked on Tom Scruton’s place. Hauled home a little jag of hay. Hosea went off today.
Hot and dry. Looks like showers. Isaac and Obed went up to Tom’s place this forenoon. This afternoon commenced cutting his wheat. Hosea went to the Gonic.
Clouds in the morning. Cleared off hot. Isaac cut his wheat. Sam Willey and Obed helped
South wind not a very good hay day. Isaac and Obed worked haying on Tom Scruton’s. Isaac went to the Plains this morning.
Pleasant. Isaac and Obed worked on Tom Scruton’s. Hosea went to the Plains got my sink.
Good hay day. Isaac and Obed worked up to Tom Scruton’s. [Toward] Hosea went to the Plains. [ ] [ ] and Charlie Norton Mrs. Pray and the Bickford girls here.
Pleasant and dry. The Strafford minister had a meeting at the school house.
Pleasant. Isaac finished haying on Miles Scruton’s. Hosea made my sink. School commenced. Ida Bickford teacher.
Pleasant with a light shower this morning. Isaac hauled home his last load of hay from Tom Scruton’s. In the afternoon he and Obed went berrying.
Pleasant this morning. Shower after dinner. Mr. Marden’s folks and Jacob and wife here. Obed worked here this afternoon helping Hosea in the kitchen. Isaac and Obed went berrying down to the old heath.
Pleasant and windy. Isaac went down to the Plains bought some flour.
Pleasant cool and windy. Isaac hauled some wheat in for Mr. Springfield and oats for Mr. Jordan. Hosea went to the Gonic today. Ida Clara V. etc. here. Shell beans for dinner. Put up blueberries.
Cool and windy. Hosea finished his work in the kitchen. David Tufts here this morning. Obed here. Isaac pulled beans cleaned out the spring worked in the kitchen and commenced to lay [water].
A cool out wind. Isaac Harry and myself went out to Jacobs and Mrs. Straw ‘s.
Pleasant and cool. Hosea commenced working at the Gonic.
Pleasant and dry. Isaac worked on the road blowing rock. Asa and Jonathan here.
Pleasant. Isaac worked on the road. Eliza Willey and Lilia here Frank Bickford here to dinner.
A little shower this morning. Isaac went to Rochester. Tin peddler was here. Picked my first cucumbers for pickles. In
Pleasant with an out wind. Isaac worked on the road blowing rocks. Obed here tonight. Fred Ornes’ boy had his leg taken off.
Cloudy. Looks like rain. Asa the Roberts girls Lilly and Amy Woodes and Ruth Straw here. Hosea come home tonight. Isaac worked on the road blasting rock. Jake Smith’s wife burned.
A cool out wind. Isaac went to the Gonic this afternoon to carry Hosea. This morning we went to ride over the crossroad called to Mr. Bickford’s.
Pleasant. Isaac thrashed beans hauled bedding for Mr. Jordan. Map agent here to dinner. Preston fixed our clock. Methodist camp meeting commenced today. Lillia went into shoe firm to work. Obed here.
Pleasant and hot. Mother Mrs. Page here this forenoon. Isaac and Obed dug potatoes down in the little field. Tore out behind the stove. Down to Ivory Varney ‘s in the afternoon. State Grange meeting at the Weir’s.
Hot and dry. Isaac and I went up to Othaniel Varney’s down to Jacobs. Obed here.
Pleasant hot and dry. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains. Thrashed winter rye etc. The Granger’s got home from the Weirs.

September

Friday, September 1, 1882 -Still hot and dry. Isaac hauled water from the Spring. Got sand cleaned out Spring. Thrashed yellow eyed beans. Winnowed rye etc. Mrs. Straw Pray here. Patience came up this afternoon. Sewed on my dress.
Dry and warm. Jacob worked here bricking up the fireplace.
Pleasant. We went down to the mill. Got some lumber. No one here.
A nice shower this morning. Jacob was here finished bricking the fireplace up. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains tonight. Sadie came and stayed with me. Mrs. Straw here.
Pleasant. Isaac cut up corn pulled beans. Obed helped. We went down to the mill. Jack and Cally started on their journey up country.
David Tufts worked in the kitchen this forenoon. This afternoon Isaac went over and helped John thrash.
Pleasant. Isaac went to Rochester this morning. Thrashed his wheat this afternoon. Thrashers staid all night. Jonathan had his auction. Scott [ ] Varney here to dinner.
Pleasant. Isaac went over to John [F] helped winnow his wheat. This afternoon the minister came here from Strafford. Obed helped.
A cool out wind. Isaac David and Obed worked in kitchen laying floor etc. Hosea came home tonight. Alvah Otis here.
A cool out wind. Isaac carried Hosea to the Plains. David Calvin George Lavina and George Whitehouse’s daughter here.
A rainy day. Henry Wilson here. Slacked lime to plaster. Straw here.
Cleared off cool and windy. Henry up. Plastered the kitchen. Obed here tonight. Jacob here.
Pleasant. Isaac hauled rocks for Jacob. Cleaned my kitchen. Obed and Sadie and Jonathan here.
Rained all day. I went out to see Ruth. She was sick. I had the sick headache. Thunder shower tonight.
Cleared off cool and windy. Isaac went to the Plains. David Tufts came up and fixed the doors. Henry came up commenced to paint. Springfield’s man staid here tonight.
Cool and windy. Henry Wilson worked here painting. Obed worked here digging potatoes. Straw here. Hosea came up tonight.
Cool and windy. Mr. Young here. Brought sewing machine.
Pleasant and warm. Henry painted here. Isaac went to the Plains this morning. Robert Smith died. Mrs. Young came here to board. Sarah and Alice Gray here. George Springfield moved up.
Pleasant and hot. Isaac painted. Topped corn. When down to see Ed Meader. Henry finished painting. Obed and Asa here. Robert Smith buried. Bert Jackson’s baby born.
Pleasant and warm. Obed worked here digging potatoes topping corn etc.
Rained today. We had our kitchen grained today.
Rainy. Papered our kitchen. Obed here.
Rainy. Varnished our kitchen.
A wet lowery day. Enoch Whitehouse and wife came up today. Jacob and Matilda came up. I went out to see Mrs. Straw. Obed here.
Clouds. Mrs. Whitehouse and I went out to see Mrs. Straw.
A cool out wind. Jacob and Matilda here. Cabbage for dinner. Fair commenced at Rochester.
A cool out wind. Mrs. Straw died. Isaac went to the Plains.
Looks like a storm. Isaac hauled in corn. Husked tonight for the first time. Ezekiel Wentworth’s house burnt.
Looks like rain. Mrs. Straw buried today. Patience Edie and Obed here.
Commenced raining a little tonight. This morning Isaac went down to Crosses and got the horse shod. This afternoon went down to Jacobs. Husked tonight. Mr. Young went two Barrington to a [festival]. Alonzo here.

October

Sunday, October 1, 1882 - A pleasant warm day. We went down to Scott’s and Jacob’s stopped to tea. Asa was here. Isaac put up grain for mill.
Pleasant. Isaac went to Alton to mill. Mr. and Mrs. Maxfield and David Bickford folks here. Obed and Asa here.
Pleasant. Isaac helped Sam and Wesley thrash. Obed here helped husk tonight.
Pleasant. Isaac helped Asa pick apples. Hauled in corn fodder etc. Alonzo was here.
Cloudy today. This forenoon Isaac hauled in corn. In the afternoon went down to Jacobs picking apples. Mother and Patience here. Lyman Stockbridge wife and Mrs. Pray here. Obed here tonight.
Cloudy. We went to the Plains. Cora came up with us. Eat dinner with Cora Charles.
Pleasant. Isaac finished thrashing his rye. Went down tonight after Charlie and Annie. Preston Young staid here tonight.
Pleasant and warm. Obed here. Isaac carried Annie and Charlie to the Plains. Preston staid here tonight.
Warm and pleasant. Isaac finished digging potatoes. Tonight Obed and Mr. Young helped husk.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac picked apples down to Jacobs. Husked corn tonight. Jonathan went to the Falls. Etta Whitehouse came here. Mrs. Pray here.
Quite pleasant. Preston here to dinner. Asa here. Isaac picked apples to Jacobs. Husked corn tonight. I peeled apples to dry for the first time tonight.
Cloudy looks like rain. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains. In the afternoon hauled out wood for Asa. Tonight Obed came down and finished husking. Etta went over to Hayes’s.
Quite pleasant. Isaac hauled his apples from Jacobs. Preston started for Biddeford. Cora went down to her grandmother’s. Ida came up and staid tonight. Peeled apples tonight.
Rained this forenoon cleared up this afternoon. Tonight Willie Gray May Rollins were here. Isaac carried some corn down to the mill. Sorted corn, etc. Hosea came home tonight. Ann Brock had a shock.
Pleasant and warm. Isaac went to carry Hosea up. Cora and May Rollins walked to the Plains. John Bickford and wife were here.
Pleasant this morning rained this afternoon. Isaac dug potatoes for Elwood Roberts. Mr. Young went to Milton Rochester and Farmington. Moody’s Smith wife buried today. John Furber died.
Showery. Isaac worked on the road taking out rocks.
A little pleasanter showery tonight. Cora came up from Rochester with Frank Jordan. Sara Jane here tonight. This afternoon Isaac hauled dirt and rocks and this forenoon built fence across the field.
Cloudy rain this afternoon. This morning Isaac went out to Straw’s settled for butter.
A little pleasanter. Isaac and Asa went to the Plains this afternoon. Mrs. Pray here. A cool out wind. Jacobs’s folks started on their visit.
Quite pleasant. Cora went to the Plains with Jonathan. Obed helped Isaac plow this afternoon back the barn where the corn was planted. Hosea came home tonight.
Looks like a storm. Isaac carried Hosea to the Gonic. Mr. Young went to Milton and Farmington.
Looks like rain. Obed worked here digging out rocks and plowing. Jonathan went to Farmington.
Looks like rain again. Isaac helped Sam build wall up on the mountain. Straw and Obed here also the Bickford girls.
Pleasant and windy. Isaac went to Farmington with turnips. Lydia Ann Hayes and Etta here to tea.
Pleasant with a strong wind. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains. In the afternoon finished plowing where the corn growed. Isaac fell from an apple tree got hurt.
Pleasant. Isaac helped Sam build wall on the mountain. Man with beef here to dinner. Peeled apples today.
A beautiful day. This afternoon Sadie Seavey here. Isaac went out in the woods. Shot a mink and partridge.
A wet drizzly day. The baby got cold. Isaac side pretty bad.
A very pleasant day. Isaac side lame. Tended the baby while I washed. In the afternoon went up to Asa’s. Ida Gray here to dinner. Mary Wilson’s school commenced at the corner.
Pleasant this morning. Clouded up this afternoon. Asa and Mrs. Varney here visiting. Eli Meader’s boy died. Isaac shot two partridge.

November

Wednesday, November 1, 1882 – Very pleasant. Obed worked here hauling manure. Isaac went down to Sam’s got a plaster to put on his side. Eli Meader’s little boy buried.
Cool and windy. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains. Isaac bought rubber boots. Obed worked here this afternoon got in beech. Jonathan went to Farmington. Mother Ricker here got patent head.
A cold windy day. Obed worked here spreading manure. Got in cabbages and apples in the cellar.
Cold and pleasant. Isaac helped Sam break up with one yoke of his steers. The baby quite sick. Mr. Young went to Farmington.
Pleasant and cold. Isaac went out to Straw’s got some pork.
Cold and windy. Sam helped Isaac break up. Obed worked here. John Young came from New York today.
Cloudy looks like rain. Town meeting. Mr. Huckins County commissioner. Mr. Hale governor
Cloudy with a little snow squall last night. Isaac went to the Plains. This afternoon Asa and Obed here. Isaac commenced banking up the house. Jonathan and John been to the Plains. John Ira county commissioner.
A pleasant warm day. Killed our pig today. Mr. Young and John went over to Milton staid all night. Isaac banked up the back of the house.
Pleasant warm day. I was sick today. Patience come up and doctored me. Obed worked here till about three hauling rocks and dirt.
Indian summer day. Obed worked here this forenoon. Finished banking up house. This afternoon Isaac went up and helped Obed bank his. Sarah Jane came over and helped me today. Jonathan and John went to the Plains.
Cloudy and warm. Salted our meat. Scalded our pickles, etc.
Foggy rained tonight. Warm day. John Young come from Rochester. Obed and Isaac put wood in the shed. Plowed this afternoon. Hauled dirt. We made hogshead cheese tonight.
Pleasant cold and windy. Isaac hauled rocks for Asa. Jonathan and John went up to Sandwich. Mrs. Pray here.
Warmer today quite pleasant. Isaac plowed for Asa. Sam in here – drove home his steers. Jonathan and John got back tonight.
Cool and windy. Isaac went to Rochester. John Young went to Rochester to stay tonight to go to Biddeford. Sadie and Obed here tonight. Isaac went over to John T. Got a buck.
Snowed most all day. Isaac carried some corn to mill. Hauled up some lumber. Hauled off some rocks.
Cold and windy. Jonathan walked to the Dock. Isaac cut up some wood in the back part of barn. Hauled out rocks to the spring.
Cold and windy.
Cloudy and cold. Jonathan went to Rochester and Farmington. John Young come from Biddeford tonight. Isaac hauled rocks and two loads of sawdust.
Quite pleasant and mild. Obed worked here plowed a piece for cabbage and a piece for mustard in the garden. Jonathan and John went out to Strafford tonight. Out to Straw’s. Hosea came home tonight. Isaac hauled two loads of sawdust tonight.
Pleasant. Sam and Obed worked here breaking up over next to Straw’s. Jonathan and John went to Rochester and Farmington. Hosea went to Rochester.
A very pleasant mild day. Isaac went to the Plains carried Mrs. Rollins husks. Isaac and Obed got four loads of sawdust. John Young went to Florence. Cora came home. Mrs. Pray here. Fixed mincemeat.
A pleasant and warm day. Isaac helped Sam break up with one yoke of steers.
The cold windy day. Isaac helped Obed butcher tonight. Hauled a load of sawdust. John Young came from Florence. Jonathan went to Farmington and Rochester.
Cold and windy. John Young went to Farmington and staid all night.
Cold wind. Snowed last night. The ground covered this morning. Isaac cut bushes on the road
Quite pleasant. Jonathan and John went to Alton Corner. Isaac went up and hauled some wood for Asa. Put on double windows. Went down tonight he and Obed got a load of sawdust. Cora went down to see Minnie out to Jordans got some sow’s milk.
Cool and wind. Isaac went to Rochester brought Annie up. Charlie came up tonight carried Mrs. Kelley.
Thanksgiving day. Isaac went to the Plains after Sarah and Henry Mace. Snowed last night.

December

Friday, December 1, 1882 – Cold disagreeable day to be out. Isaac carried Charles and Annie down. Went down to Jacobs carried his wheels home.
Quite pleasant and mild. Sarah and Henry went to Concord. Come up cold tonight and snowed.
Cold windy day. Sarah and Willie Gray here. Obed here. Ida Bickford’s husband buried. Lizzie Evans buried.
A cold windy day. Mercury zero Isaac hauled wash water from the field. Helped Obed chop a little while and Jonathan and John went to Farmington.
Quite mild and pleasant. Isaac went to Berwick to mill. Jonathan and John to Rochester. Joe Seavey here.[Gust] Hayes left Henry Nutter’s.
Quite mild. Isaac helped Obed split wood in the woods. Jonathan went to Farmington with a barrel of straw. Moved the steam mill.
A cold raw day. Isaac and Cora went to the Plains. Snowed this afternoon. Cold and windy tonight. Obed here tonight. George Springfield moved home.
Cold and windy. Obed helped Isaac in the woods today. John Young went to New York. Jonathan to the Plains. Mr. Young hauled up his stove etc. The old cow calved.
A cold day. Isaac and Jonathan settled up. Mr. Young carried his trunk over to Farmington. This afternoon Isaac helped Obed in the woods. Otis Scruton and George Bickford here. Emma Stevens married.
Snowed all day. Mr. Young went over to Farmington to board. Obed here tonight.
Snowed all the forenoon. Isaac put some shelves in my milk cupboard. John Bickford here. Paid Isaac some money. Obed here tonight.
Pleasant and cold. Isaac helped Obed chop on his lot.
Cold cloudy this forenoon snowed all the afternoon and evening. John Bickford come over helped Isaac kill a calf.
Quite pleasant but cold Isaac hauled a couple of loads of wood from the woods. Obed here this morning.
Pleasant and cold this forenoon. Isaac and Obed went to the Plains. This afternoon Isaac helped Obed chop. Mr. Downing paid for lamb. Isaac bought a suit of clothes and overcoat.
Clear and cold. Isaac helped Obed chop.
Cold windy day. Obed here tonight.
A pleasant mild day. Mrs. Pray here also Jonathan. Ida Sarah Jane and Emma Jordan. This forenoon Obed helped Isaac sawing logs in the woods. This afternoon Isaac hauled limbs. Frank Gray’s baby born.
Pleasant and warm. Mr. and Mrs. Seavey here visiting. Obed and Isaac cut wood at the door. I went out to Straw’s tonight.
Pleasant this morning. Isaac helped Mr. Jordan butcher. This afternoon hauled out wood for Asa. Mrs. Bickford here. Matilda Kenny’s boy buried.
Pleasant mild day. Obed here tonight. Isaac went to the Plains and got the baby shoes. Mr. Hodgdon’s house burnt -Pickering Crossing.
Pleasant. Isaac went to the Dock today to pay his tax. Went up this morning helped Obed cut down some oaks.
Hailed and snowed last night and this morning. Afternoon Isaac went over to Steven’s mill. Went up in the woods hauled home a couple of logs. George Bickford come after the yearlings. Joe here after money for the minister.
Quite pleasant. We rode down to Mother’s. Jacob and wife here tonight.
Pleasant thawed a – cold wind. Isaac hauled some logs to the mill. Tonight went over to John Hurd’s with Frank Jordan. Scott and Clara here tonight.
Quite pleasant. Isaac hauled some logs down to the mill. Obed here tonight.
Quite pleasant. Mr. Downing here to look at corn. Isaac finished hauling his logs to the mill. Hauled home some lumber. The French family moved from Springfield house.
Quite pleasant. Hosea come home from the Gonic finished work. We went to the Plains. We got Isaac gloves undershirts overalls,etc. Obed here tonight.
Pleasant. Isaac sold corn to Mr. Downing. Hauled a load of limbs from the woods. Obed and Sarah and Willie Gray here tonight
Pleasant but cool. Isaac hauled 6 feet of wood to the school house. Hauled home a load of lumber from Steven’s mill this afternoon. Hauled down Obed’s apples to the Plains.
Quite pleasant. Obed here tonight.

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On the back cover: Harry’s stocking leg.

68 ankle Around heel 11 narrow 4 foot 54

1891

January

Thursday, January 1, 1891. Snowed. Isaac hauled a load of wood for Obed.
Rain and sleet. Isaac went to Sargent’s up to pond. Scraped snow and ice.
Fair. Isaac and Harry went to Plains. Obed here.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to Great Falls to carry Sarah’s meat. Obed watered the cattle. Ella B. here.
Northeast snowstorm roads drifting up. Isaac split out [ ] gourds. Charlie Jordan here for bows.
Snow squalls. Broke out road far as Merrill’s.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went up to Othaniel’s pond. Didn’t get any ice. He and Obed shoveled on road. Tonight he went down to Joe Seavey’s. Made Sarah Ann stocking bag.
Fair and mild. Isaac commenced getting ice. Obed helped him. Got it down to whalesback. Mrs. Joseph Thompson died. Capt. Cane’s baby born.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Afternoon got ice. Obed worked all day. Emma Merrill here. Isaac got Joe’s butter worker and churn. Lame toe.
Fair and mild. Isaac and Obed and cut and hauled one load of ice and packed the rest. One hundred and eight cakes. Tonight Isaac went out to Straws. Paid tax money.
Rain. Capt. Cane had meeting at school house. Isaac and Harry went. Mrs. Joseph Thompson buried. Ella Charlie Tripp and Straw here.
Rained. Rise water in well. Isaac went over to pond to see ice. Went up to Sargent’s.
Fair cold and windy. Isaac hauled wood for Obed all day. Carried heifer out to Sargent’s. Cleaned pigs feet. Chopped meat and apples for pies.
Snowed. Afternoon Isaac went over to whales back. Sawed out little ice. Fixed mincemeat.
Cloudy. Forenoon Isaac and Obed cut ice afternoon Isaac went to Plains. Tonight Isaac went out to Straws.
Fair. Went to Waldron Ham’s funeral. Isaac went over to John T’s. Mrs. Sargent’s.
Snow rain and hail etc. Isaac hauled ice this forenoon. Packed this afternoon. Obed helped.
Rain and sleet. Broke out roads with harrows. Everything all ice.
Cloudy afternoon Isaac went up in the woods sawed logs.
Cleared off. Isaac got ice. Straw here to dinner.
Fair and warm. Isaac cut and hauled ice. Obed here. Pigs feet for supper.
Rained all day. Isaac packed ice.
Fair mild. Isaac went down to mill got sawdust. Obed here. Isaac broke path up in woods.
Fair mild. We went to Plains. Carried Cora’s machine down. Mrs. Sargent here for butter. Stephen came up. Staid tonight
Snowed and blowed all the forenoon. Stephen went home. Afternoon broke roads.
Cloudy. Broke roads forenoon. Straw here for milk. Tonight Isaac carried butter out to Sargent’s.
Snowed part of the day. Henry Wilson Charlie Jordan and Ella here.
Clouds and sunshine. Warm. Mrs. Bickford here. John T. commenced getting ice. Isaac hauled two loads of logs to mill. Tonight we went out to Obed’s got Isaac’s saw. Got Straw’s churn. Made Harry’s overalls.
Snow forenoon. Isaac went to mill. Sawed ice for John T. Finished Say Ann’s stocking bag.
Fair thawy. Isaac went to Plains. Got oil cloth for cupboard. Afternoon Isaac finished getting ice. Obed helped him. Ella B. here.
Clouds and sunshine. I. hauled load of sawdust – hauled load of wood for Obed. Mrs. Sargent here. Mrs. Jenkins bought black cow.

February

Sunday, February 1, 1891. Fair warm thawy. Mr. Cane had meeting at schoolhouse. We went. Mr. Logan buried. Ella B. Cora B here. Merrill’s folks killed pig.
Fair. Windy. Isaac helped John T. get ice. Tonight I. rode over on sled with ice. Cora B. here Straw here for milk.
Rained. Isaac cut some pines in woods. Went out to Sargent’s.
Fair cold and windy. Isaac worked for Mr. Sargent getting ice.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac worked for Mr. Sargent getting ice. Ella B. here.
Cloudy snow squalls. Isaac went to Plains. Ella rode down with him. Straw here for milk.
Fair and warm in morning clouded up wind out east. Isaac hauled two loads logs to mill. Harry went to Plains with Straw got boots and rubbers. I went out to Mrs. Sargent’s. Sargent had pung to go to mill.
Snowed. Ella and Obed here.
Snowed. Walter and Isaac went rabbiting. Isaac cut some pines. Picked over beans tonight.
Rained in morning cleared off. Isaac broke toads. Went over to see John T. Got lame back. Ella B. here. Picked over beans.
Fair windy. Isaac cut and hauled pines to mill. Picked over beans.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to Great Falls. Got potatoes changed. Mr. Coat’s wife buried. Alonzo here to supper.
Friday warm and pleasant. School finished. Lizzie Varney teacher. Cora B. here. Went up to Walt’s tonight. Isaac hauled load of wood from woods.
Fair and cold. Isaac went to Plains. Got barrel flour six dollars and half. Ella B. here. Mother Ricker came from Lawrence.
Clouds and sunshine. Charlie Tripp and Wesley here for ice tongs. Tonight we went down to see Mother Ricker. Gene Kenney’s baby born.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac chopped in woods. Ada Sanborn here.
Snowed and rained. Isaac cut Hackmatic and Oaks in field.
Cleared off today cold and windy. Straw Obed Cleon and Johnny Merrill here. Afternoon Isaac cut some trees in woods.
Thawy. Isaac broke path in woods. John Huckins’ baby born boy No. 4.
Isaac went to Plains. Harry went down to see Cleon Tufts. Snowed this afternoon. Straw here for milk.
Rain snow. Isaac went out to Corner carried catnip. Helped Lou Scruton pack ice.
Cleared off cold and windy. Went to Plains see Cora got measles. Say Ann George Jennie come up stayed tonight.
Fair cool. Say Ann and George went home. Tonight we went up to Tripp’s. Ella and Obed here.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac hauled load of logs to mill. Load of firewood. Cleon Tufts here staid all night. Corinna Tufts here.
Snowy and rained. Isaac got load of firewood. Got shoe put on steer.
Snowed this afternoon. Isaac hauled Cora some wood. Got hogshead. Obed here three times. Got cattle to haul wood. Mrs. John Varney Ten Rod road buried.
Snowed and blowed.
Cleared off. Isaac broke roads. Went to Rochester. Commenced making dried apple pies.

March

Sunday, March 1. Clouds and sunshine snow flew this forenoon. This afternoon broke roads. Charlie Tripp and Obed here.
Fair. Isaac and Harry carried corn to mill. Obed here.
Snowed. Northeaster. Isaac sick. Cora B. and Straw here.
Snowed and blowed all day. Isaac sick. Charlie Jordan watered cattle.
Cleared off. Snow flew terribly all day. Henry Wilson Walter Bickford and Johnny Merrill here.
Wind went down this morning. Roads piled full of snow. Men out shoveling. Frank Jordan Straw and Obed here. Obed fixed pen for jersey.
Fair warm. Broke roads. A lot of snow. Went to the Plains with Sarah Jane. Isaac sick. Obed here to dinner. Straw here. Owen Varney’s baby No. 2 born.
Fair warm thawed. Straw and Obed John T. and wife here. Hosea and Mr. Pitman here to dinner.
Cleared off this afternoon. Isaac sick. Lu Tripp Dr. Elkins here. Obed hauled home a load of wood from here. Straw Charlie Tripp here.
Fair windy thawy. Town meeting. Sam and Johnny Gray called to see Isaac. Cora came up with Willy Foss.
Fair warm. John T and wife Straw and Huckins here. Obed carried corn to mill. Cut wood at door rest of the day. Harry and Cora tapped tree.
Cloudy. Obed cut wood at door. Mrs. Sargent Sarah Jane Cora B here.
Rained. Obed took care of cattle. Mr. Sargent here.
Cold and windy. Went to Plains with Sarah Jane. Charlie Tripp and Straw here.
Clouds and sunshine cool and windy. Clara and Harry went down to Wesley’s stopped to supper. Mother Frank Jordan John Gray and Charlie Tripp here.
Snow squalls cold and windy. Obed cut wood at door.
Fair windy. Got in Cora’s rug. Obed helped mark out. John Hobbs had writings done. Sold his farm.
Clouds sunshine. John T and wife Straw and George Bickford and soap man here. Obed cut wood at door.
Cleared off warm. Isaac and I rode over to John T. Obed here watered cattle. Last sleigh ride.
A cold northeast wind. Obed cut wood at door. Straw here. Cora and Ella B. here brought sugar and Harry’s boot. Set first hen.
Rain and sleet. Isaac carried Annie’s clothes to the Corner. School meeting. Isaac not able to go. John Chesley one of the Board.
Rain. Obed and Charlie Tripp here.
Northeast rainstorm. John T. here. Obed here.
Cleared up a little. Tonight Isaac went out after mail. Finished Cora’s rug.
Fair and windy. Obed here. Isaac went out to Straws. Jack Kenney and John Hobbs moved. Jersey heifer calved last night.
Fair cool and windy. Isaac went over to John T. Ella Cora and Straw here.
Went to Plains. Got bag corn. Put in courthouse steps rug. Alonzo here. Lovely day.
Lovely day. Isaac hauled some wood down in the pasture to cut for firewood. Ella B here.
Quite pleasant. Edie V. Obed here. Cora and we went out to Jordan’s tonight.
Fair. Isaac carried Cora to Plains. Got cattle shod etc. Commenced on courthouse step rug. Obed here. Ella here after Cora’s rug.
Fair. Isaac hauled trees down off mountain. Split wood at door etc. Cora came up with Willie Foss. Ella B. here.

April

Wednesday, April 1, 1891 Fair. Isaac hauled trees down off mountain. Split wood at door etc. Obed and Nathan Sanborn here.
Cold north east wind. Fast Day. Isaac and Harry went to Farmington got phosphate. Straw here. Nathan Sanborn here for wood.
Snowed and blowed. Isaac went to Corner.
Clear cold windy. Mrs. John T and Obed here. Isaac shoveled snow on road. Jonathan Wentworth’s wife buried.
Fair cool and windy. Obed and Charlie Tripp here. Clara and Harry went down to Wesley’s.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains carried Cora down to work. Isaac carried Obed’s meal up. Sugar 20 pounds for dollar.
Cold windy snow squalls. Isaac cut up old boards and stuff. Ella and Obed here. Cora 28.
A cool wind. Isaac cut wood at door. Obed here. Isaac went down to Sam’s.
Fair. Isaac cut wood at door. Tonight he went out to Jordan’s. Obed and Nathan Sanborn here.
Fair warm. Isaac and Harry went to Plains. Charlie sick. Cora and Ella B here. Mr. Jones here.
Rained. Obed and Ella here. First chickens hatched- 8.
Cleared off windy. Trippy here. Harry went down to Henry Wilson’s got hair cut.
Fair windy. Isaac pulled down some trees of from the mountain. Cut wood at door etc. Walter here. School began Miss White teacher.
Fair warm. Isaac cut wood at door. Ella helped me hook. Walter here tonight. Obed here. Sadie Varney here. Mabel Moore went away.
Cold east wind rained a little. Isaac went out to Straws. Got ice tongs fixed. Henry Wilson here. Cut bean poles. Set hen no. 2.
Cleared off. Obed Charlie Tripp two Mrs. Wyatts here. Isaac carried saw down to Henry. Got a load of wood up in woods. Fred Stanton moved.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Hauled out manure and spread it. Harrowed potato piece plowed a little etc.
Fair warm heavy thunder showers tonight. Isaac planted early peas and potatoes. Ella B. here finished courthouse step rug. Sowed first peas and potatoes.
Fair warm. Walt Nutter and wife Eva Straw and Obed here. Commenced on ice. McDuffe killed woman at Rochester.
Fair warm. Isaac helped Obed cut up barb wire. Fixed up bars. Harrowed potato piece etc.
Fair warm. Isaac went to Farmington got phosphate and corn. Got pig up to Mr. Winn’s. Ella and Henry Wilson here. Swept attic.
Fair warm windy. Isaac plowed and harrowed hauled out manure hauled logs on the brow etc. I cleaned meal chamber back chamber little bed room etc. Mr. John T. here. George Day married.
Windy light showers. Isaac plowed hauled out manure helped Obed put up barb wire. Children gave Jimmy Connell ring. Cleaned front chamber washed Harry’s bed tick. Grated horseradish. Obed here.
Cold winds. Went to City got straw carpet. Rained little in morning. Harry went down to Cleon’s. Straw and Henry Wilson here. Got horse shod.
Cold and windy. Isaac and Harry plowed over next to Straws. Filled Harry’s featherbed. Ella B here.
Pleasant cold and windy. Obed here. Went down in little field got ivory plums.
Windy clouds and sunshine. Isaac plowed and hauled out manure furrowed out Obed’s potato piece. Washed my chamber windows. Waldron Ham’s son died.
Very windy cool. Isaac plowed and hauled out manure. Obed helped plow this afternoon till Harry got home. Cleaned my chamber. Charlie Tripp here.
Cool and windy. Isaac went to the Dock. Got dog collar and license. Obed went with team got phosphate. Commenced putting down carpet on chamber. Charlie Jordan here. Dog bit Frank. Lyman Wyatt’s wife died 1890.
Fair warm. Isaac sowed grass seeds for Jordan’s folk’s wheat for Henry Nutter. Hauled manure plowed etc. Cleaned entry up stairs. Straw here to dinner. Willie Foss here with trees. Mrs. Merrill Ella B. Charlie Tripp Mrs. Jordan here.

May

Friday. May 1, 1891 Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to Plains. Put down carpet in my chamber. Mother Ricker had a shock. Obed here. Set out trees.
Fair. Isaac hauled phosphate up to Obed. Got rhubarb up to Tripp’s set out. Went down to see Mother Ricker. Isaac went down and brought Charlie and Annie up. Cleaned kitchen cupboard.
Rained cleared off tonight. Went down to see Mother. Isaac carried Charlie and Annie to Plains. Charlie Tripp worked dog collar. Straw here.
Clouds and sunshine strong wind. Obed worked here plowing and hauling manure. Washed kitchen windows. Planted a few potatoes. Tonight went down to see Mother.
Cloudy cold windy froze last night. Forenoon Obed helped Isaac plow. Afternoon Isaac helped him with cattle. Ella and Bickford boy here.
Cold windy. Isaac planted few potatoes hauled manure plowed etc. Cleaned kitchen fixed shelf in meal room.
Cool. Isaac finished plowing corn piece harrowed the same. Went down to Mother’s up to Tripp’s got rhubarb. Ella here.
Fair cool. Isaac went to Plains. Picked rocks hauled up load of wood cut in pasture. Cora came up with John T.
Fair. Isaac planted potatoes. Cora went down to see her grandmother.
Fair very warm. Capt. Cane had meeting at school house. Straw here. Mrs. Silas Wentworth had leg taken off died tonight.
Fair hot. Isaac hauled manure in gardens. Went to Farmington to see Dr. Elkins. Cora went to Plains with Straw.
Cold and cloudy. Obed worked here hauling manure. Isaac sowed peas in garden. Harry planted his potatoes. Bonfire up in field. Mrs. Dan Smith and Bert’s wife stayed here tonight. Cleaned bedroom.
Fair. Obed worked here hauling manure plowed a piece for squashes etc. I cleaned back room. Mrs. Smith Clarke buried.
Fair. Isaac plowed for Obed. First dandelions. Dug up flower garden.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to Plains. I rode over to Francis Colbath’s with Mrs. Sargent. Isaac carried corn to mill. David and Frank Bickford here to supper. Cleaned up sitting room. Isaac sowed beets early beans. Spelling school at schoolhouse.
Rained. Isaac put netting on screen door. Walter Hussey‘s wife buried.
Clear cold windy. David and Frank Bickford and Charlie Durgin here to eat. Obed and Ella B. here. David and Frank went home tonight.
Squally cold and very windy. Isaac helped plow Obed’s corn field hauled manure etc. with one yoke of cattle. Obed killed Tripp’s dog.
Fair windy. Isaac planted corn piece. Went to Straws. Obed helped. Ella B here.
Fair warm finished planting corn and potatoes planted string beans sowed parsnips planted pole beans cucumbers sweet corn etc. Obed worked here.
Showery. Isaac helped with yoke cattle hauled manure and harrowed corn piece. Greens for dinner.
Showers this afternoon. Went to Plains got Harry suit clothes shoes – curtain chair covering etc. Cora came up with Straw.
Fair. Isaac and Harry helped Obed plant corn in forenoon. Afternoon furrowed out some for him. Carried Phoebe down to Joe’s pasture. Straw here for milk.
Fair. Capt. Cane and Mr. Hall had meeting at schoolhouse. Carried Cora to Rochester.
Fair. Isaac helped Henry Wilson cultivate. Hauled out two load of manure for Frank Jordan. Planted cranberry beans in garden- first ones – sweet corn sowed onions etc. Isaac plowed little piece for cabbage. Straw here for milk. Sowed flower seeds etc.
Fair. Sowed flower garden. Planted squashes cucumbers citrous watermelon etc.
Fair. Frank Jordan helped Isaac plow piece for sowed corn. John T. helped furrow out. Hauled out manure planted snapping corn anise beans etc. Put screens on windows back entry screen door etc. Dug greens. Spelling school at schoolhouse.
Fair. Isaac cultivated and hoed Strawberries. Hosea come home sick with a cold.
Rained. Isaac went to Plains got barrel flour six and ½. Ella B here.
Cloudy. Say Ann George and wife Cora Dennis Gray and wife here. Hosea and Harry went to Farmington. Straw here.
Clouds and sunshine warm. Isaac carried Cora to Plains. Say Ann went down to Matilda’s. Obed here.

June

Monday, June 1, 1891 Fair. Isaac worked on road. [foggy]. Henry Wilson and Straw here. Hosea and Harry went fishing trouting.
Showery this afternoon. Isaac and Hosea cultivated peas and potatoes. Isaac carried Hosea to Farmington. Mrs. Huckins Ella B. Obed here
Cloudy. Isaac worked on road. Mr. Bickford here to dinner. Rained tonight.
Cleared off tonight. Isaac worked on road this afternoon. Obed Straw and Walter here.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Afternoon cultivated for Obed. Forenoon Obed hoed peas in orchard.
Fair. Isaac worked on road. Mrs. John T here. Children’s day at Strafford. Commenced barrel flour.
Fair. Capt. Cane had meeting at school house. Isaac drove heifer out to Wesley’s pasture. Ella and Ada Sanborn here. Mrs. Tripp died.
Fair and windy. Isaac hoed potatoes in orchard. Went to mill got shingles. Straw here for milk. Planted cranberry beans cucumbers for pickles etc. Set geraniums outdoors.
Fair hot. Isaac finished hoeing potatoes in orchard hoed strawberries and hoed in garden. Ella here. Mrs. Tripp buried.
Fair warm. Went to Plains set for pictures. Afternoon Obed acme down cultivated potatoes. Bought paper for sitting room.
Fair very hot. Isaac hoed potatoes. Went out to Straws. Got wheel fixed. Straw here for milk. Ella B here. Edie Bickford came to John T.
(Cow Jersey) Fair windy. A little cooler. Isaac went to Plains. Mr. Merrill died. Went out to Mr. Richards. Isaac got horse shod. Hoed potatoes etc.
Fair warm. Obed worked here cultivated corn. Ella B here.
Fair warm. Went down to see Aunt Sarah Burnham. Mr. Merrill buried
Fair hot. Forenoon Isaac cultivated for Obed. Afternoon hoed potatoes. Harry went fishing with Obed. Rode up after him called on Mrs. Varney. Mrs. Sargent and Straw here.
Fair hot. Isaac finished hoeing potatoes. Matilda John and wife here. Sprouted potatoes wed garden etc.
Cold east wind rained little. Steer sick. Mr. Sargent John T Henry Wilson here.
Rained. Steer better. John T Mr. Sargent and Obed here.
Cloudy. Isaac went to Plains. Mr. Richards here to paper and whitewash. Pulled out some weeds out of corn. Straw here. School closed Miss White teacher. First Strawberries.
Cloudy. Mr. Richards finished papering. Cultivated little in garden hoed few Strawberries. Stephen Bickford came up tonight.
Cloudy. Stephen went home. Went to meeting at schoolhouse. Mr. Hall had it.
Rained. Isaac fixed spout on house. Went to Corner etc.
Cleared off. Picked 30 quarts Strawberries first ones to sell. Set for pictures. Ella B here.
Fair. This morning Isaac helped Obed cultivate. Obed come down helped him cultivate corn. Planted two rows cranberry beans in garden. Hoed in garden etc. Straw went to Concord.
Fair. Picked 14 quarts Strawberries three pecks peas – first ones. Walter helped hoe corn next to Straws. Mr. Hall and wife called. Obed here. Set Mrs. Kimball’s monument.
Light showers. Isaac went to Plains. Put on Paris green. Hoed little corn etc. Sold nearly three pecks peas 15¢ a bushel.
Scuddy. Isaac hoed in garden. Went down in field got Strawberries. Straw here to supper. Ella B carried Walt’s folks Strawberries.
Canned up Strawberries. Picked a few blueberries. Obed here.
Fair. Picked 44 quarts Strawberries 12¢ quart. Isaac carried them to the City. Got pint cans. Obed helped Isaac cultivate corn.
Fair with clouds. Mr. Sanborn and Obed hoed corn. First blueberry pies.

July

Wednesday, July 1, 1891 Fair. Isaac finished hoeing corn hoed cabbages and in garden. First peas for dinner. Canned Annie’s Strawberries. Obed and Straw here. Got pig out to Mr. Sargent’s.
Cloudy. Picked Strawberries. Went up in Tripp’s berrying. Obed helped cultivate sowed corn. Ella and Eddie Bickford here.
Fair. Isaac went to the Plains sold [3]2 quarts Strawberries. Afternoon helped Obed cultivate. Annie and Charlie came up tonight. Covered Isaac’s chair.
Showery all day. Ella here. Isaac went out to Corner. Carried Jersey out to Mr. Sargent.
Cloudy windy. Went out to Capt. Cane’s meeting. Mr.[Nickn] solo. Went down to Henry Wilsons.
Cloudy cool windy. Obed here. Isaac hoed Strawberries.
Rains tonight. Isaac hoed beans and Strawberries. Isaac hauled up wood for Obed.
Fair windy. Annie and Charlie and we went up on Othaniel’s mountain berrying. Straw here to supper. Isaac got horse shod. Obed here.
Clouds looks like showers. Mother Ricker here spent the day. Peas for dinner. Ella B here. Hoed in garden. Put on Paris green mowed back of barn picked 8 quarts Strawberries. Killed two hens.
Fair good hay day. Hauled in first hay for himself from garden.
Fair. Isaac mowed a little below garden. Ella B here.
Fair. Mr. Danforth had meeting at schoolhouse. Charlie Tripp here.
Fair. Good hay weather. Isaac commenced haying here. Picked currants.
Fair. Obed worked here haying. Straw here. Sent pictures to California. First beet greens.
Thunder showers this afternoon. Obed worked till about 3:00.
Fair. Obed worked here. Went out to Straws to get cherries. Ella B here.
Fair Obed worked here haying. First string beans first new potatoes.
Showers this afternoon. Clara and Arthur came up on the mail. Stayed tonight. Isaac went to Plains. Obed worked here till about four o clock. Finished getting hay from the big field.
Fair. George Lavina & girl Charlie Tripp and Obed here. Isaac carried Cora and Arthur to Plains. Harry and I rode down. Strawberry short cake.
Fair. Isaac put on Paris green forenoon. Afternoon mowed for Obed. Wed garden. Built pig pen. Ella brought barberries.
Showers. This morning Isaac hoed cabbage squashes cucumbers etc. Straw here for milk. Mr. Danforth and Mr. Dyer here. Canned raspberries and cherries.
Fair. Isaac helped Obed hay. Mrs. John T here.
Fair. Isaac finished Obed’s haying. Picked bushel string beans. First blackberries.
Friday. Rained. Isaac went to Rochester. Obed here. Picked 3 quarts blackberries over in Straws.
Fair in morning showers this afternoon. Isaac commenced mowing in little field. Ella B here. Straw here for milk.
Fair. No one here. Tonight we rode down to Matilda’s. Woodbury Downing ‘s wife died.
Fair. Isaac mowed in little field.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac hauled all hay in field next to road. Picked blackberries at Straws. Frank and Helen called. Commenced mowing in three cornered field. Straw here for supper.
Rains. Isaac got shoes set on horse. Woodbury Downing’s wife buried. Eddie Bickford here. Isaac got blueberries up in in Tripp’s.
Clouds and sunshine rains tonight. Picked blackberries. Went up in Wesley’s berrying. Isaac 62.
Rained in morning cleared up this afternoon. Isaac went to Plains. Frank Helen and Annie here to tea.

August

Saturday, August 1, 1891 Cloudy. Isaac mowed a little. Picked some blueberries and blackberries. Annie gray here this afternoon to play with Harry. Clara and Ella B here.
Fair. Went to meeting at school house. Capt. Cane had meeting. Frank Helen Ida and Obed here.
Fair. Finished getting three cornered field. Straw here for milk.
Rain this afternoon. Isaac commenced mowing in field next to pasture.
Cloudy. Isaac went to Plains. Got malt. First green apple pies. Obed and Ella Eddie Bickford here. Isaac lugged wood in shed.
Clouds and sunshine. Went berrying twice today, up in Tripp’s. Isaac picked pail full up in Othaniel’s. Ella B here.
Isaac and Harry went to Great Falls. Went to Dover on Electric Cars. Canned blueberries. Straw here.
Fair. Isaac helped Frank Jordan mow and Springfield place. Straw here. Charlie Tripp here.
Clouds and sunshine looks like rain tonight
Fair hot. Isaac mowed in little field in forenoon. Afternoon went berrying down to Emerson’s.
Fair very hot. Isaac finished haying. Ella Straw and Obed here. Canned up two cans blueberries for Annie.
Fair very hot. Sarah and Henry Mace come. Grange picnic at the park. Straw here. Isaac went to Plains got malt and corn.
Fair. Hosea and Mr. Hersey here to dinner and to supper. Henry went to Farmington with Straw. First shell beans Quaker beans.
Fair. Isaac and Henry went to Plains. Cut wheat etc.
Clouds and sunshine.
Clouds and sunshine. Afternoon went down to Lavina’s and Wesley’s.
Fair. Went to Plains in Breeds Shop to see Annie. Sarah Henry and myself. School commenced Miss Howard teacher.
Showers this afternoon. Isaac went to Othaniel’s berrying. George and Lavina’s here tonight. Picked first pickles. Alonzo went to Plymouth.
Fair. Isaac went to Farmington carried Sarah and Henry to take the train. Afternoon dug potatoes in orchard. Ella here. First pumpkin pies.
Fair warm. Isaac dug potatoes. Obed and Mr. Tripp here. Found [Almy]. Scalded first pickles.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to Plains. Dug potatoes. In the afternoon rode over to John T. Obed here. Arthur Jenkins died.
Fair very hot. Mr. Tripp and Obed worked here this forenoon plowing down in little field. Isaac dug potatoes. Ella B here.
Fair hot. Mr. Denton had meeting at schoolhouse. Arthur Roberts Walter Ella and Cora B here.
Fog and sunshine. Isaac pulled beans and dug potatoes. Arthur Jenkins buried.
Fair and hot. Isaac dug potatoes pulled beans and so on. Cora Mr. and Mrs. Hurd Edie came up. Obed here.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to Plains got malt and barrel flour.
Overcast forenoon. Isaac and Mr. Hurd went out to Alonzo’s. Afternoon foggy. Charlie Tripp here.
Foggy in morning. Went to Plains got Harry blouse and cap broom etc. Mrs. John T. here. Mr. Hurd piled wood in shed.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and Mr. Hurd pulled beans and dug potatoes. Went up on the [ ] old pond. Mother Ricker here.
Cloudy a cold east wind. Isaac carried Mr. and Mrs. Hurd to City. Mr. Danforth had meeting at school house. Straw here.
Cloudy. Isaac pulled beans dug potatoes. Went down to Matilda’s. Got corn beef.

September

Tuesday, September 1, 1891 –rained last night. Isaac went over to Neck. Ella and Obed here.
Fair. Went to Reunion down on The Neck. Mr. Twombly buried.
Fair hot. Isaac dug potatoes. Mrs. John T here.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Dug potatoes etc. Cora went to Plains. Ella B here. Obed here.
Cloudy rained little. Isaac dug potatoes. Went up and hauled in some for Obed. Annie and Charlie came up tonight.
Foggy and wet. Charlie Tripp Horace Bickford Straw and Ella B here.
Rained. Isaac carried Annie and Charlie to the City. First cabbages.
Fair. Isaac cut bushes on road. David’s folks here to dinner.
Fair cool frost down to the City. Soapman here. Bought soap. Isaac went to City got malt. Mr. Hurd came up. Mr. Sargent Straw and Ella here. Canned up pears.
Fair warm. Isaac plowed for Mr. Sargent with cattle. Mr. Hurd finished digging potatoes. Piled wood in shed etc. Straw here.
Fair warm Isaac and Mr. Hurd hoed Strawberry patch.
Fair warm. Isaac went to Plains carried Mr. Hurd down. Picked apples. Isaac finished hoeing Strawberries. Red heifer calved.
Clouds and sunshine thunder tonight. Obed and Ella and Charlie Tripp here. Dany Page buried.
Fair. Isaac shocked corn next to Straws. Peeled first apples to dry. Obed here tonight.
Fair. Isaac shocked corn pulled beans etc. Killed calf. Straw and Ella here. Fair commenced at Tilton.
Fair. Isaac thrashed some beans. Went after malt etc. Cora came up. Ida Vickery here fitted my dresses. Canned grapes.
Fair warm. Isaac thrashed beans. Abbott’s folks and Jordan’s went barberrying.
Fair warm. Isaac went to Plains. Went over to John T got peppers. Richard’s folks Matilda George and Lavina here tonight. Willie Gray here. Made pickle Lily. Last shell beans.
Fair warm. Isaac plowed on potato piece husked little corn etc. Went out to Straws tonight.
Fair warm. Enoch wife and Fred came up. Mr. Hall had meeting at school house.
Fair hot. Enoch and Isaac went gunning. Emily and Enoch went to Matilda’s.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac shocked corn. Fair commenced at Rochester. Richard’s folks came from Gilmanton. Cora and I went to Mrs. Sargent’s.
Fair hot. Richard sick. Went down to Mary Foss’s. Annie and Charlie come up.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac finished cutting corn hauled in a load of stalks for Obed. Made barberries sauce chily sauce. Finished cutting corn.
Fair hot. Isaac went to Plains. Enoch’s folks Charlie Durgin Mother Ricker here to dinner.
Fair hot. Isaac husked little finished thrashing beans etc. Ice failed up. Enoch folks went down to George’s.
Fair warm. Isaac carried Annie Cora and Charlie to Plains. Mr. and Mrs. John T. here. Charlie Tripp and Straw here.
Fair hot. Isaac picked apples. Hauled in corn. Husked tonight etc.
Showery. Isaac picked barberries in Henry Nutter’s. Hauled in corn. Husked tonight. Picked apples and husked tonight.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains got malt. Got Sargent’s hay rack loaded wheat etc. Husked tonight. Obed here.

October

Thursday, October 1, 1891 Fair. Isaac hauled wheat down to mill. Got it thrashed. Picked apples down in little field. Hauled up pumpkins etc. Peeling apples tonight. Ella here. Mrs. Charles Scruton buried. Picked over barberries.
Fair hot. Isaac went to Plains. Picked apples etc. Sadie Varney here. Straw here to supper.
Fair very hot. Isaac picked apples in orchard. Rode down to Wesley’s to see about getting peaches. Lucy and Mary Wilson called.
Fair hot. Annie and Charlie came up. Harry and they went to ride. Obed here. Mr. Cane had meeting at schoolhouse.
Light showers cleared up this afternoon. Isaac went to Plains got barrels. Got in corn etc. I went down to Wesley’s. Got peaches. Canned them up and a can of pears. Husked tonight.
Fair cool and windy. Isaac picked apples. Got in squashes and pumpkins. Husked tonight.
Cloudy. Isaac picked some apples. Hauled in corn. Husked tonight. Obed here. Rained tonight. Straw here for milk.
Rained last night. Isaac picked cider apples. Husked etc. Husked tonight. Fixed last pears. Got pigs in barn.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Sarah Ann came up with him. Sorted up corn. Mrs. Merrill here.
Fair. Isaac picked apples. Say Ann and I went over to John T tonight. Walt Nutter and family here. Straw here for milk.
Rained some. Obed here. We rode down to Wesley ‘s. October 11 Caroline Thompson married.
Cloudy a cold out wind. Isaac picked apples and husked corn.
A cold out wind rains tonight. Isaac husked traced up corn etc. Aunt Sarah knit Harry a pair of mittens.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains got malt. Sarah-Ann and I rode down to Mrs. Ham’s and Sarah Gray’s. Husked tonight.
Clouds and sunshine. Say Ann and I called down to Emma Abbott’s up to Mrs. Sargent’s. Obed and Straw here. Husked tonight.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Sorted corn etc. Mrs. Tripp here. I went to Plains carried bonnet got Harry’s shirts. Husked tonight.
Lovely day. Isaac picked apples. Finished hoeing corn. Got cattle in field etc. Quarterly meeting at Friends. Sarah and I called on Emma Abbott. Husked tonight
Cloudy. Mr. Hall had meeting at schoolhouse. Ella B Charlie Tripp Edie Gray here.
Clouds and sunshine. Carried Sarah Ann down to Matilda’s. Husked today and night. Finished husking field corn. Straw here for paint brush.
Rained. Isaac sorted traced up corn went out to Straws. Obed here.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac got calf up in Wesley’s pasture. Picked apples in three cornered field gathered snapping corn and sweet corn finished tracing corn.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac picked cider apples cut up snapping and sweet corn. Plowed a little etc. Thrashed few colored beans.
Cool and windy. Isaac went to Plains. Afternoon loaded apples for cider. Obed had cattle hauled apples down.
Cold windy. Isaac made cider. David finished plowing potato piece. Straw here for milk.
Clouds and sunshine. Obed here tonight. We went over to John T’s.
Cloudy. Isaac carried apples and potatoes down cellar. Hauled out manure etc. Filled my husk bed. Isaac carried corn to mill.
Rained. Isaac sorted up apples in bedroom. Got horse shod etc. Cut out patchwork. Ella B. here.
Clouds and sunshine cold windy. Isaac went to Plains got malt. Ella B here. Isaac got in beets. Straw here. Martin Ricker died.
Fair. Forenoon Isaac worked on road getting out stones. Afternoon got cabbage. Swept front chamber. George and Lavina went to Kingston.
Fair warm. Isaac went to City. Afternoon shingled on ice house. School finished. Zenas Garfield 10 years old.
Fair warm Indian summer. Isaac plowed. Finished shingling ice house. Harry and Ella went beech nutting. Straw here.

November

Sunday, November 1, 1891 Clouds and sunshine cold wind. Went to Capt. Cane’s meeting at schoolhouse. Charlie Tripp here.
Fair cool and windy. Isaac hauled out manure and harrowed. Fred Whitehouse came to go gunning. Mrs. Sargent here.
Fair. Forenoon Isaac shingled for Straw. Afternoon harrowed. Harry went beech nutting. Washed kitchen windows. Obed here.
Fair. Isaac picked rocks plowed etc. Fred went down to Matilda’s. Cleaned kitchen doors.
Cold north east wind. Isaac and Harry plowed over next to Straws. Lugged in chips. Walter and Ella here tonight. Play Tiddlely Winks.
Fair. Isaac and Henry went to the Plains. Isaac bought jacket Harry’s shoes and rubbers. Finished plowing over next to Straws. Got a load of spills.
Fair. Isaac hauled brush. Shingled on end of barn etc. Obed here. Burnt brush tonight. Mrs. Bickford and Ella here. Cat Racket.
Fair. Went over ten rod road to meeting. Mr. Willand preached. Got a yoke over to John T. Straw and Obed here.
Fair came in foggy tonight. Obed worked here shingling on end of barn. Mr. Huckins and Josie Howard called. We went out to Mrs. Varney’s tonight. Matilda’s hired man came.
Cloudy. Isaac shingled on end of barn. Justin Hobbs here. George and Lavina come home from Kingston.
Foggy rains tonight. Isaac dug and blowed rocks. Katz Foss baby No. two born.
Fair warm. Isaac blowed and hauled off rocks. Tonight we went down to Matilda’s.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Afternoon hauled water hauled out little wood. Tonight went over to the Grange Hall Temperance Band met. Obed here. Ella here.
Fair. Walter helped Isaac break up with one yoke of cattle next to Straws.
Fair. We went over to Strafford to meeting. Straw and Obed here.
Cloudy. Walter helped Isaac plow with one yoke cattle. Mr. Downing here with meat.
Rained. Isaac made Mr. Tripp’s drag. Walter came over plowed little. Cleaned kitchen cupboards.
Fair cold and windy. Isaac went to Plains got malt. Carried Mr. Trips drag home. Stopped up cellar way. Ella B here. Donation at Elder Hall’s.
Fair. Isaac got horse shod went to mill. Didn’t grind. Got a load of spills banked up end of house. Obed here. Harry sick.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Got barrel flour 6.50. Got lime down to Matilda’s. Fixed mortar. Isaac went to Sargent’s got trowel. Walter here. Finished cleaning kitchen.
Clouds and sunshine mild for the season. Isaac bricked up fireplace. Banked up end of house. We went out to Jordan’s tonight.
Cloudy went over ten rod road to Capt. Cane’s meeting. Called to John Chesley’s and John T’s. Straw here and Obed.
Rained. Picked six chickens. Isaac harrowed little. Chopped meat and apples for pies.
Fair. Walter broke up here with one yoke cattle. Fixed mincemeat.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to Plains got malt. Carried four chickens 15¢ per pound. Obed here. Got crowes.
Fair mild for the season. Thanksgiving. Charlie Annie and Cora came up. Straw here to dinner. Emma Abbott here for milk. Ella Charlie Tripp and Walter here tonight. John T helped Isaac finished breaking up. Isaac got load spills and brush for Strawberries. Snow and rained tonight.
Cleared off. Snow melted off. Isaac helped John T break up. Sarah Jane and Obed here. Charlie Gray’s wife died.
Cloudy. Isaac broke up for John T. Walter got jaw broke. Isaac went out to get mail. Ella here. Straw here to supper. Mrs. Bickford here for alcohol. Froze hard tonight. Fixed citron sauce.
Cold. Went over to see Walter. Out to schoolhouse to Capt. Cane’s meeting. Clara Varney 21 years old.
Fair. Isaac helped John T butcher four pigs. Ella Emma Abbott Jordan and Obed here. Charlie Gray’s wife buried.

December

Tuesday, December 1, 1891 fair. Isaac went to mill. Got brush to put on Strawberries. Emma Abbott here for milk. Eva Nutter 10 years old. City election at Rochester. Man staid to Jim Abbott’s.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Obed here. Isaac went over to John T.’s tonight. Emma here for milk. Mrs. Hersom buried.
Fair warm. Isaac helped Mr. Tripp and Obed butcher. Mr. Ham and Willie Foss boy here. Straw and Emma here for milk. Isaac got pitch. Got Henry Nutter’s tub. Almy Kangs Dec 3 92. Levi Hayes married.
Cloudy rain and wind. Tonight John T and Obed helped butcher our pig number one.
Fair and windy. Isaac and Harry went to City. Carried Annie’s meat. Carried Henry Nutter’s scalding tub home. Ella here. Emma here for milk. Tried out Annie’s lard. Bought Harry’s pants. Abby Varney married.
Fair. Emma Abbott Straw and Obed here.
Rained. Isaac got shoe put on ox. Went to mill. Got hay cutter down to Mr. Wilson. Plastered on fireplace. Emma Abbott and Straw here. Tried out lard. Cleaned pigs’ feet and ears. Salted pork. Bertie Gray commenced going to school.
Fair. Isaac plowed for John T. Ella and Emma Abbott here. Sharington Kenney here.
Fair. Isaac went to Plains. Mrs. John T here. Straw here. Oyster supper. Emma Abbott here for milk. Isaac hauled up some brush to put round house.
Fair warm. Isaac broke up for John T. Ella here. Papered fireplace in sitting room.
Fair. Isaac broke up for John T with one yoke cattle.
Fair. Isaac went to mill twice. Shingled some on end of barn. George Bickford Gene Prescott and Arthur Bickford here.
Fair and warm for the season. Charlie Tripp and Obed here.
Fair. Isaac cut bushes on road. Straw here.
Snowed and hailed nearly all day. Isaac got load of spills put round house. Went to corner.
Cleared off cold. Thick crust. Icy. Isaac went to City.
Fair cool very windy. Forenoon Isaac and John T cut bushes on road. Afternoon worked in barn.
Fair. Isaac got horse shod. Obed here.
Clouds and sunshine. Obed here ground axes. Ella here. Isaac went to Dock to pay tax. Hauled home barrel flour for Obed. Tonight we rode up to Walt’s. Went in sleigh first time.
Cloudy. Harry went down to Wesley’s got hair cut. Afternoon we rode down. Tonight Isaac went out to Straw’s.
Fair thawy. Isaac got the steers shod. Mrs. Sargent here. Mr. Sargent butchered pig.
Cloudy. Sleighing gone. Isaac hauled some wood from woods. Obed here. Ben Foss here.
Rains. Isaac and I went to the City. Bought calico dress. Rained all day. Tonight we went out to Straws.
Rained. Ground all bare. Isaac went to mill. Cut and piled up wood in woods. Got apron and twine bag from California.
Cloudy. Ground bare. Very muddy. Christmas tree at Strafford. Obed and Ella here. Isaac went down to mill.
Rained. Isaac got an upset to Obed’s. School meeting at schoolhouse.
Fair to night. Went over to John T. Straw here to dinner. Ella and Charlie Tripp here.
Fair. Carried dress and sleeves to Ida’s. Isaac went down to mill. Isaac Mr. Tripp and David went to see Mr. Chesley. Mrs. Tripp and Carrin Tufts here. Called on Mrs. Sargent. Ephraim Garland buried.
Rain rained all night. Isaac cut little wood. Churned twice. Went to corner etc. Mrs. Jordan Charlie Straw and Ella here. Mr. Chesley closed school- Josie Howard teacher.
Rained snow. Cleared off cold and windy. Tonight Mr. Bickford and Obed here.
Clear cold and windy. Isaac went to Plains got malt. Goodbye to 91.

The next diary is written in 1901. It appears that Julia did not keep diaries in the missing years as in 1901 she notes dates of deaths and marriages, etc. that occurred in the missing years.

1901

January

Tuesday, January 1, 1901 – fair and cold. Tonight Isaac Harry and Charlie Tripp sawed and packed ice. Tonight Harry went to Grange meeting.
Fair and cold. Am finished getting ice- 338 cakes. Charlie Tripp helped. Pm Isaac cut junipers. Harry worked in woods.
Fair cold 4 below zero. Isaac went to City got Harry overshoes. Ella Rowe here. Harry cut birches for Justin Hobbs.
Cold cloudy. Isaac and Harry finished cutting Justin’s wood. Harry went to meeting tonight.
Fair cold and windy. Isaac and Harry cut alders in swamp. Hauled home two loads wood. Harry got mail. Went down to Nathan’s Installation at Rochester Grange. Joe Seavey’s baby born 1897.
Fair cold. Isaac went to see Alonzo. Harry went down to George Bickford’s tonight to meeting – Friends Quarterly Meeting at Gonic.
Snowed a little today cleared off tonight. Harry carried clothes down to Emma Abbott’s. Isaac and Mr. Sargent cut alders up in swamp and hauled home same. Fixed cow pen. Edith Gray here. Harry carried Edith to Farmington to Grange Installation. Mrs. Walker Woodes buried 1897.
Fair. Isaac and Harry cut and hauled alders loaded load of bark. Harry got mail. Mr. Syze here to supper. Mellie Abbott born 1888.
Cloudy thawy. Isaac and Harry went to City. Harry hauled bark. Bought overalls frock and over shoes. Cora Hurd married 1892. Mark [Gaoall] killed 1897.
Wind northeast snowed little. Isaac and Harry got load of sawdust. Richard and Sarah Ann came up. Woodbury Springfield buried 1900.
Cloudy sleet. Richard and Sarah went down to George’s. Harry laid floor in Alonzo’s barn. Isaac worked some- worked some in woods.
Snowed last night and today still. First snow to make sleighing-not very much of that. Isaac and Harry picked over apples. Harry got mail. Cleared off tonight. Bert Gray and Dany Meader here tonight.
Fair. Harry went to meeting. Pm Isaac went out to see Alonzo. Horace Bickford 47 years old. Tonight Harry went down to Emma Abbott’s.
Fair. Isaac helped haul Jack Canney’s building. Emma Abbott washed for me. Harry went out to Mrs. Jordan’s tonight. Nathan Jenness buried 1897. Henry Wyatt commenced getting ice.
Snowed a little all day. Harry and Charlie Jordan hauled sawdust. Harry and Harry Smith went over to Grange Hall.
Damp -snow thawing. Harry helped Walter saw ice. Edith Hurd married 1897. Waldron Ham buried 1891.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to City. Harry hauled logs to City first load. Isaac went with a sleigh first time. Sadie Varney here. Fixed apples and meat for mince pies. Louise Tripp born 1899. Annie Jenkins buried 1881. 8 eggs today.
Snowed a little last night cleared off today cold and windy. Henry hauled load of logs to City. Pm loaded a load of logs. Isaac got horse shod. Jersey cow calved. Fixed mincemeat etc. George Jenness buried in 1897. School finished Mary Canney teacher.
Fair Cold. Harry hauled logs to City. Pm sawed up and loaded logs. Very cold tonight.
Fair 15 below zero. Isaac went out to see Alonzo. Charlie Tripp Harry Sargent and Bert Gray here. Harry went to meeting tonight.
Fair. Harry sawed ice for Charlie Tripp. Isaac fixed horse stall for calf. Churned etc. Mr. Wentworth and Benny here.
Fair. Isaac went to City with logs. Harry sawed ice for Charlie Tripp. Miss Berry here. Tonight we went over to Installation. Queen Victoria died.
Cloudy. Isaac went to City. Mrs. Sargent Ella Tripp and children here. John Huckins here for ice. Pm Harry Smith here for tongs. John Scruton’s wife died 1899.
Last night sleet and ice. AM cleared off. Isaac and Harry hauled logs from woods. Tonight Harry went to post Office. Olney Meader’s mother buried 1900. Ephraim Hammett buried 1899.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and Harry cut down trees and sawed logs. Charlie Jordan here. Harry helped him get dead pig out of his pen.
Fair. Isaac and Harry cut down trees and sawed logs. Frank Jordan here tonight on a racket. Willie Smith died. Mrs. James Scruton buried. Ada Tanner’s baby no. two born 1899.
Fair cold windy. Harry went to meeting. Isaac went out to see Alonzo. Richard J. Varney buried 1899.
Clouds and sunshine cold and windy. Isaac and Harry worked in woods. Tonight Charlie Jordan and Harry Sargent here. Mrs. Huckins buried 1898. Ida Bishop 30 years old.
Fair cold and windy. Willie Smith buried. Isaac and Harry went to funeral. Hauled wood out of woods etc. Tonight Harry went to Grange meeting. Carried Mr. Huckins. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Harry churned made butter. Harry hauled potatoes and things out to Alonzo’s.
Snowed. Harry went down to Willie Foss’s got hair cut got mail etc.

February

Friday, February 1, 1901- Fair. Harry went to City with logs. Pm loaded up a load. Isaac cut up tops in woods. Isaac and I rode out to Alonzo’s.
Fair cold. Harry went to the City with logs. Pm loaded up a load. Isaac cut tops in woods. Candlemas Day. George Wyatt’s wife died 1899.
Fair cold and windy snow flew. Harry went to meeting. Bert Gray here to dinner. He and Harry went over to see Linnie Stevens. Justin Hobbs here paid for cutting wood.
Snowed. Harry went to City with a load of logs pm loaded another load. Isaac churned. Chopped in woods etc. Willie Yeaton buried.
Snow flew all day cold tonight. Harry went to Office got mail. Made Howard and Wesley mittens.
Terribly cold and windy snow flew all day. Isaac and Harry picked up some potatoes and apples. Isaac had faint spell. George Wyatt’s wife buried 1899. James Varney died 1880.
Cold with a terrible wind. Harry went after mail. It didn’t get up. 8 eggs.
Cold and windy. Harry shoveled on road. Pm took cattle out. Am Isaac shoveled on road. Pm Isaac went to Office. Mail didn’t come. Tonight Harry went to meeting. Daniel Huckins buried 1899. ]Mamie] Hall Waldron died 1899.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to market. Bought coat. Harry went with logs bought his coat and rubbers. Laura Huckins here. Tonight Harry went down to Mr. Huckins. Hazel Robinson born 1893. County House burnt 1893.
Fair very cold a terrible wind. Harry went to meeting today and night. Pm out to Alonzo’s. Rossie Stevens had finger taken off 1896.
Clear cold very windy. Harry hauled Walt Ricker load of wood. Pm loaded up with another load. Isaac went up in woods and to see Alonzo. Harry fixed rubber side of Alonzo’s door. Mrs. John Hall of Strafford buried in 1897.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and I went down to see Cora. She’s sick. Henry hauled load of wood to Walt Ricker. Tonight over to Grange meeting. Furber Young buried 1900.
Very cold and windy. Henry hauled load of wood to Arthur. Isaac got mail. Pm went to Alonzo’s. Frank Calef buried 1900. Uncle John Bickford buried.
Fair and cold and windy. Harry hauled Arthur a load of wood. Isaac got mail. Chopped in woods etc.
Fair cold and windy. AM Isaac and Harry shoveled on road hauled up a load of firewood loaded up a load of logs. Cora Belle Canney born 1891. George Sanborn married 1892.
Fair mild. Isaac went to Berwick. Harry hauled logs to Hall’s mill. Got mail etc. Ida Gray married 1892. Cynthia Varney’s mother buried 1897.
Fair more mild. Isaac came from Berwick. Howard came up. Bert Gray here to supper. George Downing’s mother died 1896. Everett Calef died 1898.
Fair mild. Isaac cut wood at door. Hauled water to wash. Harry chopped wood for Frank Jordan. Miss Berry here.
Fair. Isaac and Harry chopped in woods. Tonight Harry went to Grange meeting. Miss Berry here. Alden Huckins born 1891.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Harry chopped in woods. Harry Sargent here. Sarah Jane brought yarn. Frank Chesley’s wife died in 1900. Mr. Jones died 1900. Ira Bickford died 1900.
Fair cold. Isaac fixed shoe on sled. Pm Harry chopped in woods. Cora Bickford died 1900. Dr. Michael’s buried 1899.
Fair. AM Isaac hauled water. Cut wood at door. Pm Isaac chopped in woods. Harry chopped all day.
Fair. Isaac carried corn down to Willis Meader’s. Harry went to Berwick.
Snowed little this morning cleared off. Isaac went to meeting. George Bickford here. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Cora Bickford and Frank Chesley’s wife buried 1900. Charlie Day buried 1896.
Fair. Isaac went to City got phosphate. Henry came from Berwick. Went down to Willis Meader’s after meal.
Fair. Isaac hauled water. Cut wood at door etc. Harry chopped in woods. Went to Grange meeting tonight. Inspection night. Mr. Watson here. Eliza Gray 71 years old.
Clear cold and windy. Isaac went to City. Carried Howard home. Miss Berry Harry Sargent and Mr. Burroughs here. Pm Harry chopped in woods.
Fair cold windy. Isaac and Harry chopped in woods. Tonight Harry got mail.

March

Friday, March 1, 1901- Fair. Isaac and Harry chopped in woods.
AM sprinkle of rain. Cleared off tonight. Isaac and Harry cut wood at door. Isaac got mail. Tonight Harry went to Corner.
AM fair cloudy tonight. We went to meeting. Pm Isaac and I went out to Alonzo’s. Bert Gray and Harry Smith here. Bert here to supper. Tonight he and Harry went to meeting.
Cloudy and snowed little last night melted all off today. Snow nearly gone. Isaac and Harry chopped in woods and hauled out. AM Sadie Varney here. Charles Whitehouse died 1899. Tonight Harry went down to Wesley’s.
Snowed last night. Melted nearly off today. Isaac and Harry hauled logs to the Corner. Harry got mail. Tonight he went out to Jordan’s. Laura and Esther Huckins here. Charles Folsom died 1892.
Clear cold and windy. Isaac went to City. Harry hauled logs out to Corner. Dr. Daniels died 1896. George Bishop born 1894. William T Smith buried 1895. Sharrington Canney died 1897. Arthur Trask enlisted 1899.
Fair. Isaac and Harry worked in woods. Harry got mail. Etta and Belle Varney here with soap order tonight. Harry went to box party at the Grange Hall. Belle Varney born 1891. Ralph Tanner married 1896.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and I went to City. Bought two wrappers etc. Harry fixed shingles on Alonzo’s carriage house. Went out to Jordan’s tonight.
Cloudy snowed little last night. Harry split wood in pasture. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Got mail etc. Tonight Harry rehearsed at Grange Hall.
Clouds and sunshine. We went to meeting. Pm rode down to see Mr. Leighton. Harry had hair cut.
Rain and sleet all day. Trees all ice. Harry worked on road 1 hour and 20 minutes. Washed and churned.
Clouds and sunshine. Town meeting. Isaac didn’t go. Harry started for Hall’s Mill with logs had to unload tonight. He went over to Grange. Chopped in pasture. Isaac cut wood at door. Frank Bean died.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to City. Harry split wood for Alonzo.
Snowed. Isaac went to Farmington. Got wagon shafts fixed. Harry got mail. Harry Sargent here. Mrs. Freeman Varney buried. Ann Leighton died.
Clouds and sunshine. Harry hauled Mr. Randall wood. Pm split wood out to Alonzo’s. Isaac cut wood at door. William Jones buried in an 1898. Mr. Clow here drunk.
Fair. Isaac Harry and Charlie Jordan cut wood at door. Isaac got mail. May Whitehouse died 1899. James Foss buried 1900.
Fair. Isaac and Harry went to meeting. Went to Ann Leighton’s funeral. Bert Gray here to supper. To meeting tonight. Eugene Foss’s baby died 1899.
Fair. Isaac worked at the woodpile. Harry chopped for Willie Gray. Jacob Bickford died 1890.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac cut wood at door. Harry split wood for Alonzo. Isaac got mail.
Cloudy rains and freezes tonight. Isaac went to City. Split wood out to Alonzo’s. George Bickford sold his cows.
Rained nearly all day. AM Harry went down to Jack Canney’s. Pm got mail. Isaac shelled corn. Made butter paddle. Reception over to Albion Scruton’s.
Fair. AM Isaac went to Berry’s mill. AM Harry split wood for Alonzo. Pm Isaac and Harry cut wood at door. Went out to Mrs. Sargent’s. Jacob Clark died 1897. Ella Tripp 32 years old.
Fair. Isaac cut wood at door. Harry piled up wood in shed for Alonzo. School meeting. Charlie Tripp elected. First robin in elms.
Cloudy. We went to meeting. Mr. Syze went to Lynn. Pm went down to Wesley’s. Isaac got hair cut. Harry Smith here.
Fair. Isaac finished cutting up wood pile. Harry piled up wood out to Alonzo’s. Pm I went out to Sadie’s and Mrs. Tripp’s. Ed Tripp’s wife buried 1899.
Rained all day. Harry got mail. Isaac and Harry picked over apples.
Cleared off. Harry chopped in woods. Isaac went to City. Mr. Straw 79 years old. Set first hen. Charlie Gray married 1880.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and Harry chopped in woods. Isaac got mail. Went down to John T tonight. Harry went over to Grange Hall. Mrs. Richard Rogers died. Mr. Huckins here. John Huckins here for kettle.
Quiet and sunshine. Isaac and Harry split wood in pasture. Tonight Harry went to Friends meeting.
Clouds and sunshine cold and windy. AM split wood in pasture. Pm Isaac went to City carried potatoes. Harry got mail. Clara Pinkham’s baby no. one born 1897. Mrs. Othaniel Varney died 1895. Howard got chicken pox.
Snow squalls. We went to meeting. Bert Gray here to supper. Mark Canney here. Mary Bickford sick confined. Hosea 43 years old. Aunt Ruth died 1897.

April

Monday, April 1, 1901- Snow squalls. Harry went down to Hall’s mill with logs. Loaded up a load tonight. Isaac lugged sap etc. Mrs. Sargent here.
Cloudy. Harry hauled load of logs to Hall’s mill. To Grange tonight. Bert Gray went with him. Selectmen book agent and Miss Berry here. Isaac got mail. Commenced on barrel flour.
A cold northeast storm rain and wind blows terribly drives in at every crack. Harry went down to Henry Wilson’s. Isaac picked hen had her legs broke. Mrs. Glass died in 1900.
Rained part of the day wet and foggy. Harry got mail. Bert Gray here. Cleaned cupboard behind stove and by the sink. Frank Chesley’s baby no. two born 1893.
Cloudy rained a little. Isaac went to City. Harry chopped in woods. Tonight went to meeting.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac got cattle shod down to Mr. Morrill’s. AM Harry chopped in woods.
Rained all last night and today. Isaac sick with a cold. Bert Gray here. Cora 38 years old.
Rains. Harry went down to Willie Foss. Got hair cut. Pm worked around filling up holes terrible muddy. Made Cora apron. Lee Pease buried 1899. Stephen Bickford’s wife died 1895.
Cloudy. Pm rained. Harry washed and oiled harness. Got mail etc. Isaac got cold.
Cloudy light showers. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s down to John T.’s. Harry blacked harness put it together. Helped Walter get load of hay out to the Corner. Tonight Harry Sargent here tonight. Pm I went down to Mrs. Sargent’s. Maude Wentworth 12 years old.
Cloudy. Isaac went to Berwick on cars. Harry went to City. Henry Wilson here. Joe Worcester died 1900.
A lovely day. Isaac came home from Berwick eat dinner down to George Bickford’s. Harry helped Walter saw logs. Pm Led a cow down to Mr. Shaw’s for Henry Wilson. Tonight he went to meeting. Commenced cleaning pantry. Mrs. George Hurd died May 1898.
Fair. AM Isaac and Harry split wood in woods. Took brush away from house off from strawberries picked up round side of road etc. Plowed piece for strawberries. Isaac got mail. Got two pigs down to John T $6.00.
Fair. We went to meeting. Pm out to Straws. Easter concert tonight. Bert Gray here to supper. Joe Worcester buried 1900.
Clouds and sunshine. AM Isaac went to City. Pm he and Harry picked up brush plowed a piece for peas. Harry went to Alonzo’s on wheels. Wesley and Esther got chicken pox. Washed and ironed. Mary Berry buried in 1900. Mr. Glass buried 1897.
Cold. North east wind. Rained little. Mr. Sargent’s auction. We went. Tonight Harry went to Grange. Mr. Stickney had throat cut 1897. Ralph’s girl no. two 5 years old.
Fair. Isaac helped George Bickford plow with one yoke of cattle. Harry cut limbs at the door. Picked up brush trimmed up trees piled up wood etc. Finished cleaning pantry. First chickens hatched. 5
Cloudy. Fast day Isaac plowed for George Bickford with one yoke of cattle. Harry fixed chicken coop. Cleaned up cellar. Got mail etc. Burnt brush tonight. Cleaned under sink. Cleaned cupboard over sink. Washed the bottles etc.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac split rocks harrowed etc. Harry helped John Huckins dig rocks built fence etc. Tonight went to necktie party at Grange Hall. Picked up husks swept the attic. Henry Nutter here for windows. Set two hens.
Foggy and wet. Rained. Harry went to Strafford to rehearse. AM hauled off rocks. Isaac got mail.
Rained. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Harry went up to Sadie’s. Walter Bickford here. Friends’ quarterly meeting.
Cloudy. Pm rained foggy tonight. Isaac went to City got grain. Harry plowed for Walter with one yoke cattle. Isaac fixed up fence etc. Churned. Swept up bedroom. Ella Tripp married 1896. School commenced Mary Canney teacher.
Cloudy showers. Harry plowed for walls are with one yoke of cattle. Tonight he and Mr. Huckins went to Strafford to Grange supper. Isaac got mail. Went down to Walter’s.
Rains. Harry went to City bought pair of shoes hat etc. am Isaac plowed for Walter with one yoke cattle new. Cleaned out back room. Asa Tibbetts wife married 1896. Sent George Day butter. Sarah Jane Jordan’s horse died.
Rains. Isaac went down to Walter’s. Got mail etc. Harry fixed post for Alonzo. Swept up meal chamber. Cleaned out Harry’s drawers. Ashton Day was born 1895. Fair cold and windy. Isaac and I went to the City bought me shoes. Harry hauled Mr. Morrill load of wood. Pm built fence. Tonight Grange Hall. Isaac harrowed piece for peas and strawberries. Eddie Higgins killed himself.
Fair. Isaac and Mr. Bickford’s cattle broke up at by Elms. Justin Hobbs here.
Fair. We went to meeting. Tonight went out to Alonzo’s. Harry went to Christian Endeavor. Sadie Varney here.
Fair warm. Isaac harrowed and furrowed out potato piece. Sowed first peas. Dug around rhubarb sowed onions. John T here for plow. Swept up Charlie’s bedroom and back chamber. Walter shot goose. Silas Richard buried 1900. Commenced on ice.
Showery. Rains tonight. Harry sowed onions plowed for Walter with cattle. Isaac planted potatoes by elms. Set out strawberries. Got mail etc. Emma Abbott helped me clean chambers. Set hen. Mrs. Furber Young buried.

May

Wednesday, May 1, 1901 -Cleared off this morning. Isaac went to City. Annie Charlie and Alice came up. Mr. Syze Mrs. Sargent Lucy Mary Sarah Seavey here. Harry planted potatoes. Tonight went to Rochester at Grange Hall with Mr. Huckins.
Showery. Isaac and Harry finished planting potatoes by elms. Pm Harry went to Strafford to Pomona Grange. Joseph Hanson married 1896. Mrs. Rodney Cross died 1896. Grated horseradish. Ed Tripp married.
Fair windy. Isaac fixed up fence. Worked on rocks. Helped Henry load logs. Harry hauled logs to Hall’s mill hauled home lumber etc. Pm Harry helped Johnny Huckins. Tonight Harry went over to Strafford to rehearse.
Fair. Harry hauled logs to Hall’s mill hauled lumber home. Pm put sleds under cover out to Mrs. Sargent’s. Annie and Charlie went back to Berwick. Miss Berry here am. Isaac worked on rocks.
Clouds and sunshine. Went to meeting. Bert Gray here to dinner. Tonight we went out to Alonzo’s. Carried old Jersey down to John T.
Fair. Isaac and Harry worked on rocks picked rocks blowed and hauled off. Washed cleaned out sitting room cupboard. Obed Varney died in 1900. Mary Foss 58. Joe Demmeritt’s mother died 1881. Mrs. Boroughs here to breakfast.
Fair warm. Isaac harrowed on potato piece. Got mail etc. Harry helped Walter plant potatoes. Cleaned the sitting room. Mrs. Prescott born 1836.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Howard got mumps. Harry helped Walter plant potatoes. Charlie here tonight brought Sarah Ann up to Matilda’s. Washed kitchen windows. Put on screens. Obed buried 1900. Isaac harrowed potato piece. First dandelions
Fair. AM Isaac and Harry plowed garden. Pm Isaac plowed for Frank Jordan with cattle. Pm Harry planted potatoes. Tonight went down to Eli Meader’s. Got wheel tire. Charlie went to Berwick. Cleaned kitchen.
Rained. Fixed wall side of cow lane. Harry took off double windows for Alonzo. Isaac picked over apples. Cleaned hallway. Walt’s cattle run away.
AM rained. Harry went fishing one trout. Pm Isaac and Harry planted in orchard. Tonight Harry went out to Alonzo’s.
AM showers cleared off. We went to meeting. Mr. Jones preached. Sadie Varney Bert Gray Willey Patterson and Harry Smith here. Tonight Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Charlie Boston 46 years old. Harold Vickery born 1893.
AM rained pm cleared off. Isaac and Harry plowed garden side of road. Washed churned dug greens ground horseradish. Tonight Harry went down to Matilda’s. Mrs. McKeen died 1894. Mrs. Smith Clarke buried 1891. Mrs. Dame Mrs. Wentworth’s sister buried.
Windy. Isaac plowed with cattle for Frank Jordan. AM Harry built fence by Sadie’s pasture. Tonight to Grange meeting. Sarah Ann come up. Washed blankets.
Fair. AM Isaac went to City. Pm hauled off rocks. Harry helped Walter plowing. Bought Harry collars buttons. Emma Abbott Nellie and Mrs. [Demmick] here.
Fair. AM Isaac hauled out manure for Jim Abbott pm planted potatoes. Harry helped Walter plow. Tonight Harry went down to Matilda’s. Isaac went down to Sam’s. I got mail went down to Emma Abbott’s.
Fair. Isaac planted potatoes. Harry hauled out manure tonight went out to Grange to rehearse. Carried calves up in Sadie’s pasture. Ethel Huckins 32. Willie [Paltt] buried 1881. Lizzie died 1880.
AM cloudy. Pm rained. AM Isaac planted potatoes. Harry hauled manure. Pm Harry went to Strafford to rehearse. Bertha Boston 43 years old. Red cow calved.
Rained all day.
Rained. Harry went down to Willie Foss’s. Got hair cut.
Fair. Isaac had Mary Foss’s horse carried Sarah Ann to Berwick. Harry killed woodchuck. Put turfs at back door. Tonight went to Grange meeting.
Fair hot. Isaac went to City. AM Harry fixed Mary Foss’s [drean]. Pm helped Walter plow. Tonight over to Grange Hall. Isaac killed calf. Put on back screen door. Last chickens hatched.
Fair. Harry worked down to Walter’s nearly all day. Isaac hunted for calves found them in pasture. Got load of chips. Fixed chicken coop. I went after mail went in Mrs. Sargent’s. Sarah A. Day born May 23 1882.
Harry gone over to Grange Hall. Showery all day. I went down to Jim Abbott’s carried Wesley’s cake. Isaac harrowed orchard.
AM showers. Isaac and Harry fixed wire fence. Shoveled over hen manure. Isaac got load chips. Harry fixed Miss Berry’s screen door on. Pm Harry spread manure Isaac picked up brush got mail etc. Tonight Harry went over to Grange Hall. Mary Canney and Harry Smith here. Wesley Hurd five years old.
Fair. We went to meeting. Harry didn’t go. He went over with Walter to the pasture. Bert Gray here to supper. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Went to Christian Endeavor. White Sunday.
Rains. Harry went to Mr. Hall’s with logs. Mrs. Sargent went to the beach. Freddie Gray born 1894. Ground horseradish.
Showers am. Isaac and Harry built fence in Justin’s pasture. Pm Harry got mail. Fixed his wheel. Went to Grange meeting tonight. Isaac picked over apples. Miss Berry and Harry Smith here. Clara Durgin married 1896. Cally Canney joined Grange.
Cold east wind rained a little. Isaac and I went to City. Bought Isaac under flannels bought me hat. Mrs. Syze and Laura here. Isaac and Harry fixed horse stall. Baby down to John Abbott’s buried. Othaniel Varney 79 years old. Phebe Carnell died 1880. Harry dug up flower garden. Cora got her teeth. Belle Nutter 50 years old. Alice 51. Her mother 92.
Cloudy. am Harry helped Henry Wyatt on silo. Pm he and Isaac built fence. Tonight Harry had Henry Wyatt’s horse to go to Strafford. Isaac went down to Sam’s. Carried wreath down to cemetery. Got mail etc.
Cloudy. Isaac and John Gray went to Berwick. Harry hoed onions. Pm harrowed in orchard. David and Frank Bickford here to supper. Papered water closet.

June

Saturday, June 1, 1901 – cloudy rained pm. AM Harry went trouting got nine. Sprouted potatoes. Isaac went down to Mr. Morrill’s down to John T. got things from Gray’s. Steers got out of pasture. Papered privy. True Berry buried 1900.
Cloudy. Foggy tonight. We went to meeting. Bert Sam Helen Gray here. Harry gone to Christian Endeavor meeting.
Cleared off today. Showers this pm. Isaac and Harry plowed corn piece cultivated potatoes and peas. Harry went down to Henry Wyatt’s. Harry Sargent 18 years old. Washed bedroom floor [pring] churned swept chambers etc.
Fair. Isaac and Harry plowed harrowed furrowed out set out salad onions etc. Harry went to Grange tonight supper. David and Frank Bickford here to supper. Jim Garland married 1895.
Fair warm. Isaac went to City. Harry planted potatoes. Pm had Walter’s horses. Harrowed corn piece. Isaac hoed potatoes. Stephen came up to day. Hannah Canney died 1897.
Fair hot. Isaac and Harry planted corn planted few Quaker beans sweet corn. Sadie Varney here. Henry Foss born 1895.
Cloudy. Rains tonight. Isaac and Harry planted corn cucumber squashes watermelon musk melon etc. Isaac went up to Sadie’s. Louis Varney here to dinner. Mr. Peterson here. Lewis Varney 83 years old.
Fair cold and windy. Isaac went to City. Got my hat. Stephen went down to Matilda’s. Cemetery meeting tonight. I rode down to Matilda’s. Harry helped Walter plow. Isaac hoed on potatoes.
Clouds and sunshine. Cold and windy. Isaac and I went to meeting. Harry stayed with Stephen. Children’s exercises at the meeting house tonight. Harry went. Pm Harry went up to Charlie Tripp’s. James Bickford died 1880.
Fair windy. Isaac and Harry hauled out manure. Pm plowed Sadie’s garden. Stephen and I went out to Alonzo’s. Danny Meader Harry Sargent and Ellis boy
Fair warm. Isaac had Walter’s horses fitted corn piece. Walter had the cattle to haul out manure. Isaac cultivated and hoed potatoes. Stephen went after mail. Mr. [Bandous] here. Arthur Hurd 42 years old. Free Babtist yearly meeting at Rochester. Buildings insured 1900.
Fair hot. Harry went to City. Bought shoes cap necktie collars etc. Isaac planted corn. Stephen went down to George’s. George and Lavina brought him up tonight. Laura Huckins married. Sprouted potatoes.
Fair warm. Isaac finished planting corn. Harry sowed garden. Pm Isaac and Harry planted Sadie’s garden. Tonight Harry went down to meeting house to meeting. Friends’ yearly meeting at Portland.
Fair warm. Isaac got horse shod tires set and hoed potatoes. Harry helped Walter plant corn. Mr. Clough whitewashed. Lucy and Lizzie Varney went to Portland to yearly meeting. Willie Gray’s boy born 1900. Belknap Roberts buried 1896.
Fair cool and windy. Stephen went to Gilmanton. Isaac sowed corn planted shell beans cultivated potatoes cultivated in garden. David Bickford born 1834.
Fair cool. Went to meeting. Tonight rode down two Matilda’s. Willie Foss cut Isaac’s hair. Bert Gray here. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s.
A lovely day. Isaac and Harry hauled potatoes wed onions etc. Washed churned sowed flower garden etc. Cry Huckins 14 years old. [Wash Olit] died 1897. Mrs.[ Alonzo Rose] buried 1896. First strawberry.
Fair. Isaac cultivated potatoes. Planted pole beans. Harry mowed front yard. Tonight went to Grange meeting. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Killed rooster and hen.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Got Harry sneaks. Pm hoed potatoes. Harry helped Wesley on roof of house. Cleaned up milk cellar.
Fair. Isaac hoed potatoes. Harry worked down to Wesley’s on house. Mrs. Tripp here spent day.
AM light showers. Isaac and Harry hauled potatoes. Pm Isaac went to Farmington got wheel fixed. Loaded a load of wood for Cora. Fixed scarecrow etc. Tonight Harry went to high school reception. Mary Foss here for milk.
Am thundered foggy. Pm cleared off. Isaac hauled Arthur’s load of wood. Got barrel flour 5.00. AM Harry worked on Wesley’s house. Pm went to City got his wheel at express office. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Isaac planted over corn. Children’s Day at Strafford and Rochester.
Cloudy. Went to meeting. Edgar Prescott wife and Leon here. Lucy Mary Canney and Ralph here.
Showers warm muggy. Edgar Prescott and Carrie went home. AM Harry hauled out manure for Henry Wilson with cattle. Pm hauled Mr. Morrill load of wood set out tomatoes. Isaac limed corn sprouted potatoes etc.
Fair. Isaac and Harry worked on road. Tonight went to Grange meeting. Picked 15 quarts strawberries. I went after mail.
Fair and very hot. Isaac went to City. Arthur Howard and Wesley came up. Isaac worked on road. Harry hauled potatoes for Walter. Sold 12 baskets strawberries 10 at 12¢. Heifer calved. Chester Page married.
Fair. Isaac and Harry cultivated and hoed potatoes cultivated corn.
Fair hot. Isaac went to City. Brought up Cora and Esther. Hoed potatoes put on Paris green first time. Frank Yeaton died. George Bickford here got Paris green. School finished. Mary Canney teacher. Planted shell beans cucumbers for pickles.
Hot PM thunder showers. Lightning struck Mr. Huckins’ house. Isaac and Harry hoed corn. Harry got mail. Tonight went down to Willie Foss’s. Walter here tonight for Paris green. Willie Abbott here for Paris green. Planted cranberry beans cucumbers for pickles.
Fair. Cora and Howard went up to pasture with Sam. Harry went to Strafford to meeting tonight to Friends’ meeting. Sam here for Paris green. Mr. Taylor and Lizzie Prescott called. Bert Gray here to dinner.

July

Monday, July 1, 1901- Fair. Isaac and Harry cultivated and hoed corn. Patience Edith Ralph Ellen Fred Arthur and Alice Gray here. Harry Sargent here tonight. Harry went down to fix Henry’s wheel.
Fair hot. Isaac finished hoeing corn hoed potatoes etc. Sadie and Bell Varney here tonight. Cora went out to Alonzo’s.
Fair hot. Isaac and Arthur went to City. Hoed potatoes. Harry worked for Walter. Miss Berry Sarah Jane and Silas here. Picked basin blueberries.
Fair. Isaac sowed Hungarian seed. Went out to Sadie’s cultivated and hoed her garden. Pm mowed up there. Mrs. Sargent here. Rained tonight.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac Harry and Arthur made hay rack. Cora went down to Wesley’s. Spent the day. Fred Straw here. Mr. Sargent buried 1898. Laura Huckins 13 years old.
Rained. Isaac finished hay rack. Lizzie and Mr. Taylor came.
AM cloudy. Pm showers. Cora Arthur and children Harry Lizzie Mr. Taylor went to meeting. Pm went out to Alonzo’s. Mary Canney and Ralph here. Mrs. Varney and Mary rode over to Fred Straw’s. Carried Alonzo’s horse to Gilmanton. Charlie Jordan put calves in Sadie’s pasture. Walt Nutter’s boy Walter Nutter buried 1896.
Fair clouded up tonight. Harry carried Mr. Taylor and Lizzie Prescott to Farmington. Isaac spread of hay out to Sadie’s. Hauled potatoes mowed little with machine. Tonight Cora Harry and I went down to Walter’s. Mrs. Isaac Merrill buried 1896.
Cloudy. Isaac went down to City. Cora and family went down to George Bickford’s and Matilda’s. Miss Berry here. Isaac and Harry hoed Justin’s potatoes. Harry went to Grange meeting tonight.
Fair. Isaac mowed stubble. Hauled home a load of hay from Sadie. Mr. Syze Laura and Edith Gray here. Miss Berry here. Walt Nutter buried 1900.
AM Fair. Pm thunder showers. Isaac mowed down by hop house and orchard. Harry got hair cut. First peas. Lightning struck elm tree.
Fair hauled in four load of hay. Miss Berry here.
Fair. Isaac went to City carried butter to George Day. Hauled in three loads of hay. Mr. Sargent here. Arthur got lame side.
Fair. Annie and Charlie and Alice here. Matilda Mary George Pinkham and family here. Got berries in Tripp’s. Edith Gray and Ralph here. Ephraim Meader buried 1900. Richmond Clark died.
Fair hot. Isaac and Harry cut hay down to Mr. Hurd’s. Cora and Arthur went home. Arthur hoed in garden. Sadie Varney 44 years old.
Fair very hot. Mr. Huckins overcome with heat. AM Isaac and Harry mowed up to Sadie’s. Pm Isaac went to City. Hauled hay for Mr. Hurd. Arthur and boys went home. Annie 43 years old.
AM shows. Isaac and Harry got load of hay out to Sadie’s. Drove into Henry Nutter’s barn. Pm Harry mowed Sadie’s orchard. Isaac mowed big field. Put up cherries and rhubarb. I went out to Alonzo’s.
AM Fair and hot. Pm thunder showers. Isaac and Harry finished mowing Sadie’s orchard. Hauled in load at home. Put on Paris green. Harry went out to Alonzo’s over the road with Henry Wyatt. Isaac got mail. Thornton Tripp four years old. Richard Nutter buried 1881.
Fair. Am mowed for Justin Hobbs. Pm hauled home hay from Sadie’s orchard. I went down in little field burying. Miss Berry here.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Pm hauled Justin load of hay. Harry mowed by elms. Mrs. Sargent and Miss Berry here. Harry carried Paris green out to Miss Jordan’s. [Grist] Hayes died. Electric cars commenced running to Rochester.
Clouds and sunshine. Harry went to meeting tonight. Isaac and I went out to Alonzo’s. Bert Gray here to dinner.
Good hay day. 94 bunches out.[Gus] Hayes buried. Isaac went to funeral. Picked first raspberries picked currants peas etc. Luna Gray born 1885. Edmond Day born 1892.
Fair finished mowing over next to Justin’s. Hauled in 94 bunches. Bert here tonight. Harry went to office.
Fair cool wind tonight. Isaac mowed side of road hauled in pm. Mr. Syze helped. Bert Gray here tonight. Canned raspberries made currant jelly. Lucy Wilson here for peas. Harry carried them down. Walt Nutter’s wife died 1896.
Fair. Isaac and Harry mowed up to Sadie Varney’s.
Isaac went to City. Hauled home two loads of hay from Sadie’s. Walter Bickford 41 years old. Miss Berry here.
Fair. Isaac mowed and hauled in hay over by hop house. Miss Berry here. Tonight Harry and Bert went to City. Bert staid here tonight. Alice Day born 1898. Ralph Hall’s baby no. 1 born 1895.
Rained. Annie Charlie George Day and family here. Arthur McKinley Gray born 1897.
Cloudy. AM Isaac and Harry wed out onions garden etc. Set out beets. PM mowed over on Justin’s. Harry carried butter and potatoes out to Alonzo’s. Picked berries up by hop house.
Cloudy. Harry went to Farmington and Rochester with Charlie Tripp. Tonight Grange meeting. Isaac shook up hay over in Justin’s. Got mail etc. Isaac 72 years old. Daniel Meader buried 1899.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and Harry mowed in Justin’s tonight. Harry went to Corner to paste up a bill.

August

Thursday, August 1, 1901 – Fair. Isaac finished cutting big field. Finished hauling Justin’s. Pm Mr. Syze helped. Tonight Harry went to City to hear band play. Mr. Chamberlain Mr. Gilman and Miss Berry here. Preston Young buried 1900.
Fair. Isaac finished hauling hay from the big field. Mowed in three cornered field. Tonight Harry went out to meeting.
Cloudy. Isaac went to City. Harry got mail. Cut his hair cut down to Willie Foss’s. Charlie Tripp here. Cora went in shop to work.
Clouds and sunshine. We went to meeting. Bert Gray here to supper. Guy Varney here.
Fair. Isaac and Harry finished getting hay in three cornered field. Miss Berry here. Carried dark heifer down to John T. Tonight Harry went down to Jim Abbott’s.
Clouds and sunshine light showers this pm. Isaac and Harry finished haying up to Sadie’s.
Rained all day. AM Harry carried butter out to Miss Berry’s. Tonight went down to Chester Page’s reception. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Bert Gray here. Ralph Canney born 1896. Marjorie Varney born 1897. Louis Varney’s wife buried 1898.
AM fair pm thunder showers. Isaac went to City. Harry mowed in little field. Isaac went to Mr. Hodgdon’s funeral. Miss Berry here.
Fair. Isaac and I went berrying up in Mr. Tripp’s. Harry went to the Grange picnic at the park.
Thundershowers. Harry went fishing. Isaac picked pail of blackberries in John Huckin’s pasture. Drowned out wood chuck. Etta Belle Varney and Charlie Jordan here. Cleaned up cellar. Canned up blueberries low ones. Eliza came from Lawrence.
Fair. We went to meeting. Harry went to Christian Endeavor. Pm we rode down to Sam’s. Bert Gray here.
Cloudy foggy. Isaac cut bushes. Harry went up to pond.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and Harry mowed in little field. Hauled in one load. Painted kitchen floor.
Cloudy. Isaac went to City. Potatoes 125 bushel. Harry raked up hay in little field. Painted floor. Mr. Gilman here.
AM Isaac and Harry finished mowing in little field. Pm rained.
Fair. Hauled in last hay. Pm we went up to Mr. Tripp’s berrying.
Fair. Isaac hauled wood to Mr. Morrill. Went down to Hall’s mill got shingles. Pm got pail of blackberries. AM Harry got blueberries. Pm went down to Eli Meader’s. Joe Seavey staid here tonight. Mrs. Lyman Wyatt no. two died 1898.
Fair. We went to meeting. Joe Seavey went home. Harry and Dany Meader went to Alton camp meeting. Lillia Varney brought soap. Mrs. John Yeaton buried 1899.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and Harry mowed front yard. Isaac went up in Tripp’s got pail berries. Harry made sink spout for Alonzo. Tonight Harry carried potatoes out to Miss Berry’s. Miss Berry here.
Cloudy foggy. AM Harry went down to George Bickford’s to Farmington to see about carriage. Pm he and Isaac went berrying up in Tripp’s. Tonight Harry went to Grange.
AM foggy cleared off. Isaac went to City and Berwick with butter. Howard came up. Harry picked pail berries and tonight went down to Chester Page’s. Dany Meader here.
Cloudy foggy. AM Isaac and Harry laid foundation in barnyard for shed. Pm hacked weeds in corn. First sweet corn. Kathie Vickery 11 years old.
Cloudy AM. Harry went to Hall’s mill for lumber. Pm he and Isaac hacked weeds in corn. Eliza Gray and Ida Bishop here to dinner. Bert Gray Freddie and George Bishop and Miss Berry here. Beet greens for dinner. Harry 20 years old. Fannie York 11 years old.
AM fair pm thunder showers rained nearly all night. Harry went to Farmington. Got buggy. Isaac cut weeds in potatoes. Bert Gray here. Eddie Pease baby no. one born 1900.
Cleared off. George Bickford and the girls here. George Albert and George Day here. We rode down to Matilda’s eat supper down there.
Fair. George Bickford worked here framing shed in barnyard. Lillia Gray married 1884.
Fair. George Bickford worked here on shed. Miss Berry here. First shell beans and beets. Harry gone to Grange meeting. Dennis Gray commenced taking milk.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Howard went home. Harry mowed weeds. Pm Isaac and Harry shingled on shed. Tonight Harry went to Frank Scruton’s reception. Joel Berry’s wife died 1897. Aunt Sarah Burnham died 1894. Lester Hurd buried 1896. Isaac picked few pears.
Fair. We went to Berwick on electric cars ate dinner to Enoch’s. Annie Sarah and children went to the park. Ice cream. Harry shingled. Willie Meader’s daughter buried 1897.
Fair. Isaac and Harry shingled on shed.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to City. Got lime. Harry went to Gilmanton. Dennis here for milk. Miss Berry here for vinegar. Man here for pictures to copy. Mother Hatch 85 years old.

September

Sunday, September 1, 1901 am cloudy pm rained. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Bert Gray and Harry Sargent here. Jenny Day died 1899.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac limed shingles and shingled on shed. Harry came from Gilmanton. Dennis here for milk. Picked pears. Cleveland’s baby no. two born 1893. Thorn Dodge died tonight.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and Harry shingled. Picked pears dug potatoes. Isaac had a lame back. Picked and shelled 11 qt beans. Canned up apples two cans. Arthur went to work in shoe shop. Sadie and Edna Ham here.
Fair. Isaac had lame back. Harry went to market carried pears potatoes and onions and shell beans. Harry mowed Hungarian. Dennis here for milk. Alice Gray born 1889.
Fair. Isaac and Harry mowed stubble. Bought bronze of peddler. David’s Annie 59 years old.
Fair. Hauled in stubble. Pm Jim Abbott helped. Picked cranberries.
Fair hot. AM Isaac and Harry dug potatoes. Pm hauled in hay. Tonight Harry carried potatoes out to Alonzo’s. I went down to Mr. Huckins. Ethel’s baby born no. five.
Cooler a lovely day. Harry took a bath at the river. Went to the City meeting tonight. Isaac went out to see Alonzo.
Fair. Isaac dug potatoes hauled in hay picked up stubble out to Sadie’s. Harry helped Henry Nutter get his mash. Dennis here for milk. Picked and shelled 11 quarts beans.
Fair. Isaac and myself went to City. Fair commenced at the City. Hauled home later crops from Sadie’s. Got cucumbers to Mr. Tripp’s. Fixed pears tonight. Harry went to Grange. Fannie Pray died 1896.
AM foggy. Tonight thunder showers. AM Isaac dug few potatoes. Then he and Harry shingled on shed roof. Canned up pears. Downing Ham died 1897.
AM clouds and sunshine pm rained. Harry went to the fair. Isaac shingled. Dug potatoes etc. Miss Berry here.
Light showers. Isaac hauled dirt put in hen house. Dug potatoes shingled etc. Mrs. Syze and the Huckins girls here. John Chesley died in 1900. Cut out Isaac’s shirts. Etta and Belle Varney here.
Fair. Isaac and Harry dug potatoes. I got mail. AM Harry went down to Wesley’s and Sam’s. Tonight Harry went to the City with Bert Gray. Mr. Mckinley died.
Rained. Harry went out to Alonzo’s to meeting tonight. John Babb’s baby no. two born 1897.
Fair windy. Isaac pulled kidney beans dug potatoes etc. Harry worked down to Wesley’s on house. Edith Gray Mr. Huckins Mrs. Wentworth Cally Canney a man with stove polish here. Rodney Cross committed suicide.
AM cloudy pm rained. AM Harry worked down to Wesley’s on house. Isaac stacked red beans dug potatoes. Charlie Tripp here. Put up two cans grapes. Mr. Danforth buried 1896.
Cloudy. Isaac went to City. Harry helped Wesley on house. Isaac picked up potatoes stacked beans etc. Rodney Cross buried.
AM cloudy pm cleared off cold and windy. Isaac pulled and stacked white beans. Harry helped Wesley on house. Matilda Mary and Miss Berry here. Mr. Mckinley buried.
Cloudy a cold east wind. Isaac and Harry pulled beans cut up corn etc. Sarah Mace 47.
Fair. Isaac went to Berwick with butter and potatoes. Bought peaches- canned up. Harry worked down to Wesley’s shingling. Otis Meader’s baby no. two born in 1900.
Fair. Isaac not well. We did not go to meeting. Harry went down to Cora’s to meeting tonight. Mrs. Ham and Cally left tax bills. Dennis Gray here for milk.
23. Fair. Isaac pulled beans. Harry worked down to Wesley’s Whitehouse. Isaac carried little heifer down to John T.
Pm. Isaac and Harry pulled beans and cut up corn. Picked four chickens. Harry went to Grange meeting carried the heifer down to John T.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Carried four chickens 15¢. Harry cut up fodder corn dug potatoes etc. Heifer calved. Sliced the tomatoes for pickle Lily.
Fair. Harry Isaac and Bert Gray dug potatoes bound up sowed corn etc. Isaac pulled onions. Miss Berry and Laura Syze here. Made pickle Lily. Howard eight years old. Miles Scruton buried.
Fair. Harry helped Bert Gray dig potatoes. Isaac cut off onion tops bound up corn picked up potatoes. Put potatoes in cellar hauled in kidney beans. Miss Berry here for beans and milk. William Rand died 1896.
Fair. Bert Gray worked here. Cut up corn. Bound up sowed corn. Dug potatoes hauled in beans etc. Agent here. Thrashed kidney beans. Joseph Hayes on the Neck buried.
Rains. Harry Smith here to dinner. Harry got hair cut. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Festus and Frank Jordan here.
Fair. Isaac killed calf. Thrashed winnowed beans dug potatoes etc. Harry helped Bert Gray dig potatoes. Picked bushel and half of green beans to day. Silas Abbott 12 years old.

October

Tuesday, October 1, 1901 -Fair Isaac worked with cattle on road for Festus. Pm dug potatoes. Isaac and Harry finished digging potatoes by elms finished cutting up corn. Tonight Harry went to Grange. Mr. Gilman here. He is 81 today. Matilda 80. George Estes buried 1896.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to City. Fixed cattle floor etc. Harry mowed for Willie Foss in mash (marsh?). Wilbur Foss 13 years old. Mary Wilson married 1895. Thunder showers tonight.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac and Harry dug potatoes. Mr. Drew here with letter boxes. Dennis Gray paid for milk. Ruth Cleveland born 1891.
Fair. Isaac hauled potatoes down to Joseph Seavey’s. Dug and picked potatoes etc. Harry helped Willie Gray on silo. Tonight went to Barrington to a husking. Miss Berry here. Enoch Whitehouse 75.
Fair Isaac dug potatoes picked and hauled in. Harry worked for Willie Foss in mash. Got mail. Miss Berry here. Myra Prescott 13 years old.
Rained last night cloudy today. Cold raw wind. We went to meeting. Pm Isaac got calf home from Sadie’s. Harry went down to George Bickford’s to meeting tonight .
Fair. Isaac and Harry dug potatoes hauled in first load of corn. Washed and churned. Tonight Eugene Sarah Prescott and children came. J[a]ne Garland’s baby born 1896. Tonight Harry went to Grange Hall.
Fair. Isaac Harry and Eugene shingled for Alonzo. Myra went in to school. Dennis Gray’s wife died 1896. Hannah Cator 66 years old. Washington Foss found dead this morning.
Fair. AM Isaac went to City. Pm shingled on Alonzo’s house. Harry shingled all day. Eugene Prescott and family went to Gilmanton. Mr. Gilman here. Isaac and Harry husked tonight. Frank Gray 46 years old.
Fair. Isaac and Harry shingled for Alonzo today. Tonight Harry went to Grange Hall. Isaac husked tonight. Wash Foss buried.
Fair warm. Isaac and Harry shingled for Alonzo. Eugene Prescott and family came tonight half past nine. Stephen 79 years old. Edgar Pease married 1899. Harry went to Grange Hall tonight.
AM foggy pm cleared off. Isaac and Harry took down staging and put up saddle boards up to Alonzo’s. Gene and family went away this pm. I am 63 years old today. Hauled in load of corn. Isaac and Harry husked tonight.
Foggy rain tonight. Harry went to meeting. Frank Jordan here tonight. Alvah Otis married 1880.
Rained all day. Isaac got onions in cellar. Husked a little etc. Harry went up to Sadie’s and Mr. Tripp’s. Ella sent cranberries. Harry went down to Chester Page’s.
Fair. Isaac and Harry picked Sadie’s apples hauled in corn. Isaac winnowed beans and husked tonight. Grange inspection tonight – supper. Harry went. Commenced running daily mail. [Isrea] Howard died 1894. Mother Ricker died 1897.
Fair. Isaac and I went to City. Bought felt boots and under vests. Hauled in and husked corn. Syrian peddler staid here tonight. David Tufts baby no. six born 1894.
AM foggy pm rained. Isaac and Harry hauled in and husked corn. Ed Stanley died 1896. Joe Seavey’s baby no. two died 1894. Mr. Gilman here.
Fair cold. AM Isaac and Harry worked on road. Pm hauled in corn and husked. Tonight I went out to Alonzo’s. Got mail. Charlie Day’s baby no. four born 1894.
Squally terrible wind. Isaac and Harry hauled in sowed corn husked and pulled the colored beans etc. Harry carried potatoes and butter out to Miss Berry. Tonight Harry went to Grange meeting at the City with Edith Gray. Isaac got mail. Inez Seavey died and buried 1894. Mrs. Ephraim Kimball died 1898. Got pigs in barn.
Fair cool. Went to quarterly meeting at Friends. Mr. Jones and Straw preached. John Huckins and Alden here. Mrs. Ham 82 years old.
Fair cool. Isaac and Harry hoed and husked corn. Tonight Harry went to Farmington to Grange. Miss Berry and Sadie Varney here.
Fair. Isaac and Harry hauled in and husked corn. Sadie Varney Henry Wilson and Festus Hayes here. Fixed stone posts out to Mrs. Sargent’s for mail boxes.
Terrible wind. Isaac went to City. Stephen came up. Isaac and Harry hauled in corn and husked. Bert Gray here.
Fair cold windy. Isaac and Harry hauled in corn and husked. Hauled in corn fodder. Tonight Harry over to Strafford to rehearse. Miss Berry here for milk. Stephen got mail.
Fair cool windy. AM Isaac and Harry plowed for Mary Foss. Pm pulled beets colored beans etc. Tonight Isaac went out to Alonzo’s.
Fair warmer. AM Isaac put window in the end of barn. Pm Isaac got horse shod. Stephen rode down to Matilda’s. Tonight Harry went down to Willie Gray’s. Miss Berry here. Boxes come.
Fair. Harry went to Berwick. Isaac and Stephen went to Corner. Frank Jordan here tonight. Harry went to meeting tonight.
Fair. AM Isaac and Harry fixed up mailboxes. AM Isaac hauled load of wood to Arthur’s. Harry and Stephen fixed window frame for barn. Got barrel flour $5.25. Ai Otis and wife got hurt at the City. Miss Berry here tonight. Matilda and Mary Foss went up to David’s. Frank Jordan 47 years old. John Hall died 1899. Bert Gray here tonight.
Fair. Warm. Isaac and Harry plowed corn piece next to Straw’s. Tonight Harry went to Grange. Stephen went down to George Bickford’s spent today. Filled Cora’s featherbed.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Stephen went home. Harry went down to Mr. Morrill’s. Got cattle shod. Picked beans in garden. Husked tonight Emma Abbott here. I got mail. Zenas Garfield 20 years old.
Fair. Indian summer. Isaac and Harry plowed over next to Straw’s. Finished husking. Harry rehearsed at Grange Hall tonight. Cleaned up sitting room swept front chamber. Emma Abbott Mr. Huckins Mrs. Sargent and peddler woman here.

November

Friday, November 1, 1901 – fair light shower. Pm Isaac and Harry hauled rocks off from corn piece. Edwin Wallace buried 1894.
Pm. Isaac and I went to Berwick. Harry harrowed corn piece next to Alonzo’s. George Fernald died 1890.
Fair. Went to meeting. Bert Gray here to dinner. Willie Gray’s baby no. four born. Bert Gray here to dinner. Dany Meader here. Tonight Isaac went out to Alonzo’s.
Fair. Washed. Washed chamber windows. AM Isaac and Harry hauled corn stocks in barnyard. Pm took up Joe Seavey’s wife and children and buried them.
Fair warm. Isaac and Harry spread ashes. Picked rocks harrowed. Picked three chickens. Miss Berry here tonight. Harry went to Grange supper.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Harry picked and hauled off rocks. Signed for Courier. Mr. Gilman here. Rossie Stevens mill burnt.
Pm. Isaac and Harry lugged little wood in shed picked rocks etc. Mr. Marston William Wentworth Lucy Wilson Sadie Varney Ella Tripp and children here. Jacob Clarke buried 1896. Harry went to Grange to rehearse. Isaac went down to Henry Wyatt’s.
Snow squalls clouds and sunshine. Isaac got Henry Wyatt’s roller- rolled his corn piece. Harry and Isaac lugged in wood. Ephraim Whitehouse’s son buried 1897.
Fair. Isaac and Harry went to City got Hosea’s tool chest. Harry bought shoes rubbers suit clothes overalls jacket etc. Miss Furber died tonight. Isaac and I went down to John Huckins’. Miss Berry here. Harry put window in barn for Alonzo.
Fair cold and terrible windy. Isaac and Harry went to meeting. Hosea and Mr. Amazeen here to supper. Mary Gallagher buried 1898. Harry had hair cut.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac hauled water to wash and put in Creamer. Isaac and Harry finished shingling shed. Miss Berry here for milk.
Cold rain and sleet. Isaac went to Mrs. Furber’s funeral. Harry made window frame for barn. Harry got mail.
Snow squalls all day. Isaac and Harry went to City. Pm banked up end of house. Windy and cold. Mr. Gilman here.
Cold snow squalls today. Isaac barreled two barrels potatoes for Mr. Bickford. Got mail. Cut brush etc. Harry put window and barn. Tonight went down to see Mr. Syze. Miss Berry here.
Clouds and sunshine cold windy. Isaac hauled load of brush. Hauled two barrels potatoes to Mr. Bickford. Harry shingled round window in barn. Cut brush. Cleaned out closet etc. Emma Abbott helped me clean the kitchen. Cleaned up pantry.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to Berwick. Carried potatoes beans onions butter etc. Tonight Harry went to Grange Hall to rehearse. Harry worked out to Alonzo’s put on double windows etc.
Clouds and sunshine. We went to meeting. Harry went tonight. Harry Sargent here. Billy Downs buried 1896.
Clouds and sunshine. AM Isaac cut birches for Sadie 4 hours. Pm lugged wood in back room. Harry putted (puttied?) up windows fixed clothesline lugged in wood etc. Washed and churned. George Bickford here for potatoes and onions. Annie Clayton died 1896.
Snowed nearly all day. Isaac and Harry hauled up birches for Sadie. Harry got mail. Went down to Alonzo’s. Carried saw down to Henry Wilson’s. Isaac went down to John T. to see about butchering.
Clear cold. Mr. Bickford killed one of our pigs. Bert Gray here tonight. Harry went down to Willie Foss’s.
Fair. Isaac went to City. Pm loaded a load of wood. Tonight cut up half of the pig. Harry and Bert went to Farmington to Pomona Grange. Henry Sanborn here. Cut up grease. Mr. Syze here.
Fair. Isaac carried scalding tub home. Harry hauled load of wood to Cora. Isaac lugged wood in shed. Cut up pig and salted it tried out grease. John Yeaton’s house burnt 1896.
Cloudy. Isaac and Harry finished lugging in wood. Tonight Harry went to Grange to rehearse.
Cold northeast storm rain and sleet and snow. Harry went to meeting. Harry Sargent here.
Cloudy rained some. Harry put window in barn. Isaac got mail. Churned. Horse sick tonight. Isaac went out to Mr. Jordan’s and Sargent’s. Picked chicken for Cora.
Cold and windy. Clouds & sunshine. Isaac went to City with Harry Sargent. Went out to Alonzo’s with meat. Miss Berry here. Harry worked on window frames for barn.
Very cold windy. Harry went to City. Got Eddie Pease’s horse tonight drama at Grange. Isaac got mail out to Alonzo’s. Cut up pigs head etc. Steamer Portland lost 1898.
Clouds and sunshine. Cold windy Thanksgiving. We went down to Cora’s. Charlie and Annie there.
Cold. Isaac got horse shod. Harry churned. PM cut junipers. Henry Wilson killed the horse.
Fair cold. Pm put brush around house. Pm Isaac went to Farmington paid tax. Harry cut junipers. Harry got toothache. Charlie Gray’s wife buried 1891. Ezra Stanley died 1899.

December

Sunday, December 1, 1901 – Fair. We went to meeting. Bert Gray here to dinner. George and Lavina here this pm. Tonight Isaac and I went out to Alonzo’s. Harry to Christian Endeavor. Eva Robinson 27 years old.
Fair warm. AM Harry cut up wood for Sadie Varney. Pm fixed the barn window. Isaac carried corn down to Willis Meader’s mill. Didn’t get it ground. Got cabbage down to Jack’s. Mr. Syze here. Cally and Mrs. Wentworth called for Courier.
Snowed all day blows and drifting up. Tonight Harry got mail. Got hair cut. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Ground meat fixed apples for mince meat. Sarah Emma Gray and baby went to Boston.
Fair cold windy roads drifting up. Mail couldn’t get through. Isaac went to Corner. Eva Nutter married 1892. Alice Gray 12 years old.
Fair cold. Isaac and Harry broke roads all day with cattle. Mr. Syze here
Fair cold. Isaac went to City. Bought Harry rubbers water dipper etc. AM Harry broke road with cattle up to the mountain. 6 hours. Went with a sleigh the first time.
Fair. Isaac went to Berwick. Carried 30 pounds butter. Harry got mail. Hauled sleds home from Mr. Sargent’s etc. Mrs. J. Bickford died 1895. Mrs. Belknap Roberts buried 1895.
Fair. Isaac got back from Berwick. Harry went to meeting tonight. Jerry Tebbets died 1896.
Clouds and sunshine warm thawy. Harry got mail. Put window in over barn door. Hauled water to wash etc.
AM rained pm cleared off. Harry washed harness. Tonight to Grange meeting chose officers. Isaac went out to Alonzo’s. Shoveled out gutters. Mrs. Syze here. Carried light heifer down to John T’s. Tanner’s boy no. one born 1896.
Fair mild. Harry cut apple trees for Sadie. Isaac fixed window behind horse. Carried rock out to Mrs. Sargent’s. Hauled out little wood. Got cultivator and plow in etc.
Fair thawy. Harry sawed wood for Sadie. Isaac went to City. Miss Berry here.
Wet foggy. Isaac got mail. Went down to Alonzo’s. Harry worked on harnesses.
Foggy wet. AM Isaac went down to Willis Meader’s. Got corn ground. Harry washed harness. Pm Isaac and Harry sawed up apple tree wood for Sadie. Tonight Harry went out to Alonzo’s. Mr. Huckins and Charlie Jordan here.
AM rained tonight cleared off cold and windy. Harry went two Christian Endeavor. Well full of water. A. S. Parshley buried.
Fair cold windy. Harry chopped in woods. Isaac got mail. Helped about washing. Henry Wyatt here. Harry Smith commenced working in mill.
Cold. AM cloudy pm snowed little. Harry gone to Grange meeting today. Harry chopped for Henry Wyatt. Jonathan Young buried 1895.
Fair cold. Isaac went to the City. Harry helped Henry Wyatt chop in the Furber woods. Tonight Isaac went down to John T’s. Eli Meader here. Otis Scruton died 1896. Dr. Hubbard buried 1894. Clara Varney married 1894. Willie Nason’s baby no. six born 1896. Annie Gray 19 years old.
Snow squalls. Isaac cut junipers. Harry chopped for Henry Wyatt. Miss Berry here. Mr. Boston died 1894. Nellie Gray born 1895.
Fair. Harry Miss Berry and myself went to City. Isaac got mail.
Fair. Isaac got cattle shod. Harry chopped for Henry Wyatt. Tonight went down to Henry Wilson’s.
Cold fair. Went to meeting. Charlie commenced work at Somersworth 1900.
Clouds and sunshine. AM Harry went to mill with corn. Pm cut up wood for Sadie. Picked six hens. Ida Colomy married 1895. Charles Greenfield buried 1898.
Rained last night and this morning. Pm cleared off cold and windy. Harry went to City carried hens butter etc. Got horse shod. Tonight went to Grange meeting. Isaac helped John T butcher. Marcia Varney married 1895.
AM snowed pm cleared off. Isaac butchered our pig. AM Harry worked to church. Tonight went down to Christmas tree. Ella Foss grandchild born 1898. Laura Jewell married 1900.
Fair. AM Harry fixed Alonzo’s barn window. Pm he and Isaac sawed logs for Sadie. Isaac cut up Alonzo’s meat carried it out tonight. Got pictures from Kingston.
AM snowed cleared of. Tonight Harry and Charlie Tripp cleaned up meeting house. Pm went up to Frog pond scraped off snow from ice. Isaac cut up and salted Alonzo’s meat. Salted our meat cut up and tried out lard. John Clough had a shock.
Clouds and sunshine. Isaac went to City up to Mr. Tripp’s. Pm went to City after Harry Smith. Silas and Jim Abbott here. Esther Hurd four years old.
Rained. Pm Harry got hair cut. Charlie Tripp here. Stella Bickford born 1896. Charlie Tripp 35. Bert Gray 21 years old.
Rained. Harry oiled harness cleaned our pig pen made boards. Willie and Johnny Gray here. Snow nearly all gone. Isaac went out to Mr. Straw’s. Harry got mail. Edgar Prescott’s baby no. four born 1898.
Cold windy and squally. Isaac picked up wood in woods. AM Harry cut wood for Charlie Brock. Pm chopped for John Gray. Tonight to Grange meeting. Mrs. Sargent here. Emma Gray and the baby got home from Boston. No sleighing.

At the end of this diary some of the memoranda pages are torn out. The following remains:

One page shows butter for January 30 to April 9. January 30 -11 ½ pounds; February- 77 ½ pounds March- 73 ½ pounds; to April 9 -29 pounds.

Another page shows dozens of eggs from January 3 to March 20.

One page shows 21 quarts of milk to Dennis Gray August 27 through September 24. Next page says skim milk September 12 to 24- 12 quarts.

Addresses: Mrs. H.L. Garfield 49 Merritt Street San Francisco California

Henry Mace Concord New Hampshire

The end flaps show road work:

Breaking 1901

Henry Wyatt road agent

Harry Bickford February 8 eight hours;February 15 2 hours 15 minutes;March 11 1 hour 20 minutes

Henry Wyatt road agent

Isaac Bickford February 8 3hours 30 minutes; February 15 1 hour 30 minutes; March 12 30 minutes

Cattle February eight hours

Festus Hayes road agent

Harry Bickford February 8 3 hours

Festus Hayes road agent

cattle February 8 1hour 15 minutes

Henry Wyatt road agent: 21 hours

Festus Hayes road agent: 4 hours 15 minutes

Lexington, NC: Samuel Gray charges add Felony Death by Motor Vehicle for bicyclist killed. digtriad.com

DUI Blotter — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:24:50 +0000

A man charged with Driving While Impaired (DWI) after he hit a cyclist on March 13 has been indicted on a more serious charge.

Samuel Thomas Gray was indicted last Monday in the cyclist death. Troopers with the NC Highway Patrol said 30 year-old Joshua Daniel Perry was riding his bike in Lexington when Gray drove into him.

via Samuel Gray Charges Upgraded After Indictment | digtriad.com.

SEG Distinguished Lecturer 2012: A Brief History of Depth … and Time Seismic Imaging

The Short Notes — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:42:37 +0000

1921 – Karcher, possibly the origin of seismic migration. The envelop of all ray paths form the relfection.

1930 – Frank Rieber, the first beam migration to image the San Andreas fault. By mapping the dip segment, we can clarify the fault zone.

1950 – Musgrave’s migration machine.

195x – Gaebe plotter to measure the distance.

1954 – “THE” computer.

1954 – Hage Doorn, imaging principles shows the diagram fo migration arc and maximum convexity.

Migration collapses a Fresnel zone to a point –> ray path has influence over a finite range (beam migration).

1967- Sherwood, beam migration using computer to image multiple dip panels.

1974 – Claerbout, Acoustic Wave Equation, a partial differential equation that describe the behavior of seismic wave. In this time it is very slow to compute and it’s two-way equation (no downgoing and upgoing wave). In reality the reconstructed return is nothing like the downgoing wave.

d2/dx2 + d2/dz2 – (1/v2)d2/dt2

“Reflectors exist in the earth at places where the onset of the downgoing wave is time coincident with an upgoing wave”

(In layman’s terms – where upgoing wave and downgoing wave meet, you got a reflector)

Migration and Stacking: How do we migrate a whole section?
1) what is section? NMO/stack/composite.
2) Exploding reflectors (Loewnthal et al. 1976)
Migrated image = snapshot of explosion at time zero
Using half-velocity, image at time zero.

1977 – VAX, early wave-equation migration engine.

1978 – Stolt, steep dip migration (90 degree migration). Yet, it assumes constant velocity (faster algorithm since he used FFT – Fast Fourier Transform).

1978 – Gazdag, Phase Shift Migration (similar to Stolt but also concern variation in vertical velocity).

1978 – French and Schneider, Kirchhoff migration and wave equation version of Hagedoorn’s imaging principle.

1983 – Whitmore, Reverse Time Migration (RTM) reveal the reflector under the salt dome (Yes, it’s too slow to compute in 1983, nowadays it’s the routine).

1991 – Li, correction for the low dip (15 to 45 degree).

Despite all the migration process, the stack is still not good on dipping reflector as it can be any point within the migration arc.

1999 – Liner, DEVILISH (Dipping Event Inequailiies Licked by Sherwood)

1978 to 1995 – The age of DMO (Dip Moveout, prestack migration) cottage industry

So, which one is the best migration?
Time, depth, DMO, full stack migration, FD, Kirchhoff, RTM, Shot record, Double square root?
We need to concern the Increase in velocity vs. increase in structural complexity.

1980 – Shell, 3D migration (French 1974) made 2D migration obsolete. Though the process take 100x times more.

1985 - Bishop, raised concerns for the tomographic determination of velocity and depth in laterally varying media

1990 – WEM (Wave Equation Migration)!

In 1990, Chevron moved to beam migration where the rest of the world stuck with Kirchhoff migration.

2000 – migration people discovered the effect of anisotropy (Leon Thompsen tried to make this point long time ago). The wavefront for the anisotropic material has ellipse shape.

Then now it’s RTM, TTI (Tilted Transverse Isotropy) that uses huge computer clusters like in CWP.

After 90 years of seismic imaging, we can

Do structural imaging pretty well.
Estimate imaging velocity.

Why are we still so limited?

We use the wrong wave equation.
We don’t have acquire enough data (violate sampling rule).
Don’t combine heterogeneity and anisotropy well enough.

Way Forward

Move to the right wave equation.
We will never acquire enough data.
Combine heterogeneity and anisotropy, don’t separate them.

2012 Trend

Large-scale imagine: the two way wave equation – better imaging amplitude velocities.
Sub-wavelength imaging – cracks fractures, micro-earthquake caused by production.

Discussion

Seismic migration is approximation process – even with TTI nowsaday.
We also need to move to complex elastic wave equation.
From the expert, we are not able, yet, to illustrate fractures.
The acoustic wave equation does not include shear wave velocity. So we don’t really know why it works well in velocity approximation.

Reference:
SEG Distinguished Lecturer 2012: A Brief History of Depth … and Time Seismic Imaging by Samuel Gray (CGG Veritas, Calgary, Canada)

6 February 2012, Sofitel Centara, Bangkok, Thailand