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1831

• 6/10/1831 Began to mow.
• 6/29/1831 Funks reaped this day.
• 6/30/1831 We began to cut over our grain.
• 7/10/1831 The men gone to turn the grain; got some grain in.
• 7/11/1831 The people all very busy drying their grain.
• 7/12/1831 Our people finished their grain. After a long and tedious harvest we have at last finished and have gone to help B. Funk’s harvest home. A weary time, all groaning and stretching their weary nerves, which has been closely applied, some at the cradle, others to the rake and fork which lifts the well-filled ear to the house, there to lay, until the winter’s pinching cold may help the threshing; which is more disagreable than cutting.
• 7/13/1831 The boys helped Benjamin Funk in with the last of his grain.

1832

• 6/15/1832 Today we began to mow.
• 6/29/1832 Finished our hay.
• 7/7/1832 Today we began to cut our rye.
• 7/12/1832 Finished cutting our grain.
• 7/13/1832 Our men went to help Joseph Roberts cut his grain.
• 7/14/1832 Got our barley in today, our men gone to Benjamin Funks to cut grain.
• 7/20/1832 Our boys helped Samuel McClenting with his grain.

1833

• 5/2/1833 We began to plant corn today.
• 5/4/1833 finished planting corn.
• 7/2/1833 Finished our hay.
• 7/6/1833 Cut our barley this forenoon, helping John this afternoon.
• 7/11/1833 Our men busy hawling grain.
• 7/12/1833 James & Deborah Wood here. Our men finished their harvesting this evening.
• 9/6/1833 Made apple sauce.
• 9/27/1833 We made our apple sauce.

1834

• 5/27/1834 We had a great time this evening hiveing a swarm of bees.
• 6/21/1834 Men got two loads of hay in.
• 7/3/1834 Dull weather for hay.
• 7/7/1834 We cut our barley today and began the rye.
• 7/11/1834 Our boys busy hauling grain.
• 7/12/1834 finished hawling in.
• 7/18/1834 The boys cutting oats today
• 9/6/1834 We were busy today boiling apple sauce.
• 9/27/1834 Daniel Conard and A. Matlack come here with sweet potatoes.
• 12/4/1834 Arrive home about 8 o’clock in the evening. As we come by the lime kiln we see it afire, we stopd and called, and William, Lewis, and Parry Davis all come to the road to speak to us. William jumped on his horse and rode to the house but did not tell the family, when we come in they were all in an uproar for a while. We come home before they expected us.
• 12/6/1834 Our men busy at the kiln.
• 12/8/1834 Our men very busy hawling out the lime.
• 12/22/1834 Butchered our hogs today.

1835

• 7/8/1835 Our folks began to cut the grain.
• 7/17/1835 Our men busy hawling the grain.
• 7/18/1835 Our folks done hawling the grain.
• 7/30/1835 Our men busy at the oats.
• 10/13/1835 Today we made our apple sauce.
• 10/26/1835 Lewis began to haul limestone.
• 11/5/1835 Our men filling the kiln.
• 11/11/1835 Our men just done burning a kiln of lime.
• 12/8/1835 our men husking corn.
• 12/17/1835 Our folks finished husking corn.

1836

• 6/9/1836 John Umsted and his men here fixing the horse power churn. Our men planting the corn over.
• 6/10/1836 We planted our late potatoes today.
• 6/27/1836 Men began to mow.
• 7/11/1836 We cut our rye.
• 7/12/1836 Finished hawling our hay.
• 7/18/1836 Stephen at home helping cut our grain, a very late harvest, and poor crops in many places.
• 7/19/1836 Our men finished cutting grain before breakfast.
• 7/23/1836 We had six mowers mowing the field.
• 7/27/1836 We were busy all day picking our wool.
• 7/28/1836 Our folks finished their hay.
• 8/4/1836 Our men busy at their oats.
• 10/22/1836 Nathan come thro Norristown with sweet potatoes.
• 11/12/1836 our men making cider.
• 11/16/1836 We killed a beef and hog.
• 12/2/1836 We butchered our hogs.

1837

• 2/24/1837 Joseph gone to market with two veals.
• 2/25/1837 Joseph come home tonight, he made between 17 and 18 dollars out of the calves.
• 5/9/1837 Men began to burn lime. This evening our girls went to see the kiln.
• 5/30/1837 Men harrowing corn.
• 6/28/1837 John Perch here mowing.
• 7/9/1837 Our men hawling hay.
• 7/18/1837 Our men finished the hay.
• 7/19/1837 Began to cut our grain.
• 7/21/1837 Several helping at the grain.
• 7/24/1837 Our men helping Benjamin Funk.
• 7/25/1837 finished our grain.
• 8/1/1837 Men at the Oats, girls helping.
• 9/6/1837 Our men busy at the second crop [hay?].
• 10/23/1837 Men began to husk corn.
• 11/3/1837 Men finished husking corn.
• 11/22/1837 Lewis is ploughing up the meadow.
• 12/7/1837 Butchered a beef and two hogs.
• 12/16/1837 We butchered some of our hogs.

1838

• 1/2/1838 Butchered a beef.
• 2/2/1838 We had several of our neighbors helping fill the ice house.
• 2/13/1838 Lewis went to hawl wheat for John Kinwalt from the Paoli.
• 5/2/1838 Planting corn and beans.
• 5/21/1838 Betsy and Harriot Rapp and Cyrus Radcliff was here to tea. We planted our potatoes.
• 6/4/1838 We picked over our wool.
• 6/13/1838 Joseph began to go twice a week to market.
• 6/18/1838 Our men began to mow, Stephen staid to help today.
• 6/27/1838 Lewis gone to help Moses Robinson cut his grass.
• 6/30/1838 Our men mowing at home.
• 7/2/1838 Our men mowing.
• 7/11/1838 Our men busy cutting grain.
• 7/14/1838 Our men finished hauling all our grain.
• 7/28/1838 Our men finished all their harvesting.
• 8/11/1838 John Young’s barn was struck with lightning and burnt down. A great deal of damage done in several places and several lives lost.
• 9/17/1838 We made sauce today.
• 10/16/1838 Boiled apple sauce today.
• 11/1/1838 We took in our cabbage and beets.
• 12/3/1838 Betsy Barefoot went away this morning. We butchered two hogs.
• 12/15/1838 Lewis got home from town, he took a load of oats - brought forty five cents per bushel - got himself a Bangup.
• 12/18/1838 We butchered a beef and 7 hogs.
• 12/28/1838 Had a man party today filling the ice house - we had 18 men kind to dinner.

1839

• 2/12/1839 Our men began to haul logs for the barn.
• 4/9/1839 Our men started to tear down the old barn.
• 4/16/1839 The carpenters come this morning to commence the new barn.
• 4/17/1839 Had several of the neighbors help dig the foundations for the barn.
• 4/23/1839 The masons commenced the barn.
• 5/21/1839 We had several men helping raise the barn.
• 5/29/1839 The masons finished building the barn.
• 6/10/1839 The masons come back to plaster the barn; the carpenters here also.
• 6/19/1839 The masons finished the barn.
• 7/4/1839 Our men began to cut the rye.
• 7/8/1839 the men busy harvesting.
• 7/11/1839 Our men finished cutting their grain.
• 7/14/1839 Our men finished hawling their grain.
• 7/20/1839 Our men finished their hay today.
• 7/24/1839 Our men cutting their oats.
• 7/29/1839 Our men finished their oats.
• 8/26/1839 Our men began to mow second crop.
• 9/9/1839 The carpenters came back to work at the barn.
• 9/23/1839 We stuft our peppers.
• 9/28/1839 I sold my butter for 31 and 35 cents per pound.
• 12/18/1839 We butchered a beef and ten hogs.
• 12/30/1839 Reuben Taylor here making a partition in the barn.

1840

• 1/3/1840 Had several of the neighbors here filling the ice house.
• 4/27/1840 Our folks planting corn.
• 6/23/1840 Men began to cut the rye.
• 6/29/1840 2 Germans here helping mow.
• 7/2/1840 The men busy harvesting.
• 7/10/1840 Daniel Johnson come to help harvest.
• 7/11/1840 Finished cutting.
• 7/13/1840 Hauled some grain.
• 7/14/1840 Lewis and the boys gone to Weidners to haul in our crop we bought of John Saylor. It turns out to be a very poor crop, both in wheat and rye.
• 7/15/1840 Men busy hauling grain.
• 7/17/1840 Our flocks done hauling the grain.
• 7/20/1840 Our men cutting oats.
• 7/28/1840 Michael Merry helping at the oats.
• 8/28/1840 John Umsted and John Rossiter here fixing our threshing machine.
• 9/5/1840 John’s cleaning the race.
• 9/10/1840 The boys making cider, and the girls at the butter.
• 9/11/1840 The girls busy making sauce, aunt Martha here helping them.
• 9/12/1840 Lewises made their sauce.
• 10/8/1840 The masons began to work here.
• 10/14/1840 Our men were hauling logs and in loading one, old Jonathan Devow got badly hurt.
• 10/17/1840 The carpenters and masons are moving the wheelwright shop we are about converting into a dwelling.
• 11/17/1840 Our men finished husking corn.
• 12/21/1840 Our men commenced threshing out their crop of grain they bought of John Saylor.
  
  Joseph met with a sad accident. He was attending to the horse power and slipped with his right foot into the wheel and mashed his toes all off. Dr. Coffman examined the wound the skin and sinews of the big toe had to be cut off and two bones of the smaller ones had to be taken out. He bore the operation with great fortitude.
• 12/26/1840 We butchered a beef and ten hogs.
• 12/29/1840 Filled the ice house.
• 12/30/1840 Finished butchering and picked turkeys for marketing.

1841

• 2/18/1841 Lewis W. Roberts and Jonathan Reader went to town with a load of oats, which brought 27 cents per bushel.
• 4/3/1841 Our men began to plough. The carpenters finished the house.
• 4/19/1841 Sowed oats.
• 5/4/1841 Sowed oats.
• 5/14/1841 Our men finished planting corn.
• 6/24/1841 Bad hay weather.
• 6/28/1841 Our men began to mow.
• 7/17/1841 Finished hawling the grain.
• 7/28/1841 Our men cutting oats.
• 8/16/1841 Our men hawling out manure.
• 9/2/1841 Began to mow second crop.
• 10/29/1841 Our men husking corn.
• 11/5/1841 We butchered a beef. Our men finished the corn.
• 11/6/1841 Lewis finished his corn today.
• 12/21/1841 We butchered 8 hogs.

1842

• 1/26/1842 Our men and some of the neighbors filled the ice house.
• 6/29/1842 Mary went to Lewis’s. The men there making hay.
• 7/5/1842 Lewis began to cut his grain.
• 7/7/1842 We got our hay in.
• 7/9/1842 John Saylor here cutting his grain. our men folks helping the boys.
• 7/11/1842 Lewis at Williams. Joseph went to help them.
• 7/13/1842 Our men folk helping the boys.
• 7/14/1842 Our folks finished hawling their grain.
• 7/16/1842 Very heavy rain all day. Two men drowned, one in Perkiomen, one in Schuylkill.
• 7/18/1842 John Saylor here fixing his grain to get it dry.
• 8/1/1842 Lewis W. Roberts and Billy Murphy here cutting our oats.
• 8/24/1842 I went to Lewis to help Sarah with her butter.
• 11/17/1842 We butchered a hog.
• 12/7/1842 We butchered three hogs.

1843

• 5/6/1843 Our friends planting corn.
• 6/26/1843 We commenced our haying.
• 7/1/1843 finished our hay.
• 7/14/1843 William, Susan, Benny and their black man come up to cut the grain.
• 7/19/1843 William come up to hawl his grain.
• 8/17/1843 Had boiled corn for dinner.
• 9/13/1843 Sowed the Mediterranean wheat today.
• 9/20/1843 Our folks busy at second crop.
• 9/21/1843 We boiled apple sauce.
• 9/25/1843 Joseph sowd wheat.
• 11/21/1843 Butchered a hog.
• 11/23/1843 William come to thresh his crop.
• 12/8/1843 Joseph went to Phoenixville with butter.

1844

• 4/22/1844 Men began to plough for corn.
• 5/1/1844 Our men finished planting corn, James Johnson helping them yesterday.
• 5/26/1844 We had new potatoes for dinner.
• 6/10/1844 Joseph and Jonathan began to mow.
• 6/12/1844 Our men got in some hay.
• 6/18/1844 Lydia here helping at the hay this afternoon.
• 6/21/1844 Our men got 3 loads good hay in out of the field, Edinboro Coggins helping them. James Wood here picking cherries.
• 6/24/1844 Lydia helping at the hay.
• 6/26/1844 Finished the hay and began to cut the grain.
• 6/28/1844 I took my butter to Amos Rapps, for Lewis to take to market.
• 6/30/1844 We had cucumbers for tea.
• 7/1/1844 We hawled all the grain in that was cut.
• 7/3/1844 Finished the grain.
• 7/8/1844 Our men cutting oats.
• 7/18/1844 Jonathan went to help Lewis with his oats.
• 8/19/1844 William Roberts and his man come here to assist threshing out some wheat.
• 9/3/1844 Boiled apple sauce today.
• 9/7/1844 Began to cut off the corn.
• 9/20/1844 Finished cutting corn.
• 9/26/1844 Finished sowing the rye.
• 11/11/1844 Hawled to corn fodder today.
• 11/13/1844 Lewis W. Roberts and Edinboro here helping butcher a hog.
• 11/22/1844 Started to town early. Market dull, I did not sell much.

1845

• 1/25/1845 James Johnson had been here threshing oats these last 3 days.
• 3/21/1845 L. W. Roberts got home with his drove of sheep.
• 3/24/1845 Began to plough for corn.
• 3/26/1845 Joseph finished ploughing.
• 3/28/1845 Joseph and I went to L. W. Roberts vendue, sold his stock and farming tools.
• 4/10/1845 Joseph sowed the oats.
• 4/21/1845 Jonathan Devo come to help plant corn and other work.
• 4/23/1845 Our men planting corn.
• 5/3/1845 We planted potatoes and beans.
• 6/21/1845 John Weller and Lewis Griffith was here cutting our grass.
• 6/25/1845 Many came after cherries. We began to cut our wheat.
• 6/28/1845 Finished hawling the hay and cutting the wheat.
• 6/30/1845 Rainy, difficult harvest so far.
• 7/3/1845 Lewis and John Griffith began to mow the orchard.
• 7/3/1845 Edinboro here helping in with the grain, finished.
• 7/10/1845 Busy at the grain.
• 7/23/1845 John Weller cutting the oats.
• 7/24/1845 John Weller and Henry Kyley helping taking in the oats.
• 9/7/1845 Joseph and I spent the day over Schuylkill at cousin Isaac Walker, where we had plenty of peaches and watermelons.
• 9/10/1845 Sowed wheat today.
• 10/30/1845 Martha Johnson here helping dress poultry for market.
• 11/20/1845 Butchered a pig.
• 12/8/1845 Sarah Johnson here helping butcher a beef and three hogs.

1846

• 10/7/1846 Our men cut the corn off. John Shuman and William Steele helping.
• 10/15/1846 Joseph went to see Michael Daley at J. Williams, had cut his shin below the knee a few days previous cutting corn, which resulted in a mortification taking place which was stopt in time to save the limb.
• 10/22/1846 Joseph and Billy went to Williams to get winter apples.
• 10/30/1846 Husking corn today.
• 12/4/1846 William and John Goldy brought 3 steers to winter here.
• 12/5/1846 Our men hawling in corn fodder.
• 12/7/1846 We were picking turkeys and ducks for market.
• 12/12/1846 We butchered a beef and 4 hogs, L. W. Roberts, William Steele, and Charles Irons helping us.
• 12/14/1846 Very busy the whole day about our butchering.
• 12/15/1846 Joseph went to assist Lewis about his butchering.

1847

• 4/9/1847 Joseph began to clear his oats ground.
• 4/14/1847 Joseph finished sowing oats.
• 6/21/1847 John Shuman dressing the corn.
• 6/22/1847 James got here dressing corn.
• 6/28/1847 Tom and John Davis began to mow.
• 6/29/1847 L. R. Matlack here helping to make hay.
• 7/2/1847 James Johnson and L. R. Matlack finished hawling the hay.
• 7/7/1847 Charles Irons cutting wheat.
• 7/10/1847 John Williams call to see us, brought a letter from my dear husband [Joseph must have been in jail].
• 7/13/1847 EJP [E. J. Pennypacker]sent his waggon and boys to help in some of the grain. Charles Irons finished cutting the grain.
• 7/15/1847 Tom and John Davis come today and finished hawling the grain.
• 7/16/1847 William and John Golder come afternoon and got in several loads of hay.
• 7/17/1847 William come this morning and got in all the hay.
• 7/19/1847 Jonathan threshed the rakings. William and J. Smith cut the oats for hay.
• 7/20/1847 Sent a grist of wheat to mill.
• 7/29/1847 John Shuman cutting oats.
• 8/31/1847 Tom here today hawling manure.
• 9/3/1847 Patience went to Eli Kings for peaches.
• 9/17/1847 Joseph ploughing for wheat.
• 9/30/1847 Joseph done sowing wheat.
• 10/19/1847 John Fox here threshing oats.
• 10/27/1847 Finished husking corn.
• 10/30/1847 Billy helping Lewis at the corn.
• 11/5/1847 John Fox threshing the wheat.
• 12/18/1847 Lewis W. Roberts here helping butcher 4 hogs.
• 12/27/1847 Joseph and Billy brought 3 pigs from Elijah Stuarts.

1848

• 1/29/1848 Billy went to Majors with some butter.
• 3/28/1848 Tom come here to plough his oats ground.
• 3/30/1848 Tom finished ploughing.
• 4/7/1848 Jonathan Pawling come here toward noon and commenced digging the garden.
• 4/8/1848 Samuel began to plant the oats ground.
• 4/10/1848 I was planting in the garden.
• 4/19/1848 Rain, hail and snow all day. Blew up cold and freezing. The peach trees in full bloom.
• 4/20/1848 I believe the peach trees not much hurt.
• 4/21/1848 Mary went to Phoenixville to exchange flour for bread.
• 5/2/1848 Planted corn.
• 5/5/1848 Finished planting corn. The men picking stones.
• 5/6/1848 L and B hawling stones off the mowing ground.
• 5/12/1848 The bull gored a fine horse so that it died in a few hours after.
• 5/13/1848 Several men here this morning to help away the horse and tie the bull in the stable.
• 5/25/1848 A young man here selling apple trees.
• 5/27/1848 Several men sawing the bulls horns off.
• 6/12/1848 Cool enough for a frost. We began to mow the meadow.
• 6/19/1848 Finished our hay. Samuel Robb and William Leckbee went to help Lewis with his hay.
• 6/27/1848 John Kane began to cut his wheat. Sold 3 quarts, 1 pint of cream.
• 7/1/1848 John Kane hawling in the Mediterranean wheat. Samuel Robb come home from Lewis’s, they had not done the grain harvest.
• 7/3/1848 Samuel Robb went agian to Lewis’s.
• 7/6/1848 John Kane finished his grain.
• 7/8/1848 poor hay weather.
• 7/18/1848 Several men here at the hay.
• 8/7/1848 Commenced hawling manure.
• 9/4/1848 The boys getting in the potatoes, a light crop.
• 9/6/1848 I went to Lewis’s to help them make apple sauce.
• 9/20/1848 Orin Beerbrower and J. Roberts Williams here hawling logs. Samuel and Mary W. went to Moses Robinson to help them about apple sauce.
• 9/22/1848 Samuel Richards began to plough for wheat.
• 9/30/1848 I went to Lewis’s to help make sauce for ourselves. Our men finished the wheat today.
• 10/3/1848 Misty Lewis and Morris Miller come here to help butcher a beef.
• 10/6/1848 Samuel and Orin here making a pig pen.
• 10/13/1848 The dogs among the sheep last night. Killed 2 and wounded one. Joseph and the boys at J. Youngs making cider.
• 10/14/1848 Tom Little and John S. Davis here appraising the sheep.
• 10/26/1848 Our men husking corn.
• 11/4/1848 Our men finished hawling the corn fodder.
• 11/8/1848 Samuel went to Moses Robinson to help hawl corn fodder.
• 11/23/1848 We butchered a hog.
• 12/9/1848 Lewis W. Roberts here helping butcher 7 hogs.
• 12/11/1848 Very busy doing up our butchering.

1849

• 1/29/1849 Lewis W. Robetts here helping butcher a beef. Samuel Robb went home with him to thresh.
• 2/1/1849 John Cain here threshing with a machine, with 3 other men.
• 2/3/1849 John Cain finished his threshing.
• 5/2/1849 Our men planting corn.
• 5/5/1849 John Miller come here and took to his mill thirty bushel of John Kains wheat, which he had sold to him for $1 3c.
• 6/5/1849 Men dressing the corn.
• 6/19/1849 Men commenced mowing.
• 6/21/1849 Our men finished hawling in the meadow hay.
• 6/25/1849 Our men busy at the hay.
• 6/27/1849 The men busy hawling hay.
• 6/30/1849 The men finished the hay.
• 7/6/1849 Got several loads of hay in the barn.
• 7/7/1849 Several cutting their grain.
• 7/12/1849 Busy at the grain.<.
• 9/13/1849 Our men busy with the horses.
• 10/5/1849 Our men sowed the side field, and harrowed it.
• 10/8/1849 Our men cutting of corn.
• 12/11/1849 Lewis W. Roberts and Morris Miller helping butcher a beef.
• 12/22/1849 Lewis W. Roberts brought 8 steers here.
• 12/25/1849 Lewis and Andrew Kirkpatrick here helping butcher.

1850

• 4/26/1850 Planted peas and onions.
• 5/6/1850 Davis and I engaged in dressing chickens to send to market by J. Reese.
• 6/19/1850 Our men began to mow.
• 6/26/1850 The men began to mow the clover field.
• 6/28/1850 The men busy turning the hay about, got some hay in.
• 7/5/1850 The men began to mow the clover field.
• 8/21/1850 Afternoon I went to see Daniel Kearneys and got peaches and pruins.
• 9/10/1850 Mary Ann and I went to J. Chrismans for peaches to make sauce.
• 9/17/1850 Our men busy preparing to seed.
• 9/25/1850 John Creager and son here cutting corn.
• 10/1/1850 John Williams and L. W. Roberts drove 8 steers to market.
• 10/11/1850 Our folks at Susan Llewellyns making cider.

1851

• 1/6/1851 We butchered 5 hogs, sold one to Creager, L. W. Roberts, Benjamin Rhoads and Andrew and Mary Kirkpatrick here helping.
• 1/17/1851 David Wells bought the fat oxen, and gave $122.50.
• 1/20/1851 Davis went with his father to drive the cattle to the Bull tavern.
• 2/11/1851 Patrick went to John Williams to help thresh.
• 3/14/1851 Lewis W. Roberts and Jonathan Major here to dinner, brought hay here.
• 6/16/1851 Our men began to mow.
• 6/21/1851 The childrens school out today. They very pleased with their oranges.
• 7/1/1851 Our men got all their hay in last evening.
• 7/3/1851 The men busy harvesting.
• 7/12/1851 Our men got all their grain in about 5 oclock.
• 7/13/1851 Uncommon fine day, harvest both hay and grain.
• 7/24/1851 Debby and the little girls went to J. Williams a Blackberrying.
• 7/25/1851 Engaged in doing up the blackberries.
• 10/22/1851 The men husking corn.