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1834

• 3/31/1834 Joseph went to town from Paoli on a carr to count as witness between Lee & Conard.
• 12/17/1834 Joseph went to Paoli to go in the carr to Phila. to attend the court case between Cornelius Conard and William Lee.
• 12/20/1834 About 2 o’clock in the morning Joseph come home, had come from Philadelphia to Paoli in a carr and walked from there home [in the dark, of course].

1835

• 6/12/1835 Lewis, Joseph and Isaac Roberts went to Paoli to go to Merion on the rail road.
• 9/17/1835 William started on the rail road to go to the western country.

1836

• 3/22/1836 William went to the rail road to help J. Williams.
• 4/11/1836 Daniel took Joseph to the Paoli to go to Phila. on the carr to attend the yearly meeting.
• 10/13/1836 Joseph took William to the Paoli to go to Columbia.

1837

• 2/20/1837 This morning Lewis took his father to the Paoli to go to town to attend court.
• 4/25/1837 Joseph took William to the Paoli to go in the Carr to Columbia. Elijah F. Pennypacker and wife, and Henriette Wersler and her two little brothers went in the same Carr - the children went to Cincinatta to their father Jacob Wersler, he has the second wife.
• 6/10/1837 We left town about 11 o’clock and went home with James Paste about six miles from Philadelphia where we arrived about 1 o’clock. After we got some refreshment Rebecca and her daughter accompanied us to the planes on the railroad, which was something new to me.
• 8/15/1837 Joseph took William to the Paoli to go to Columbia.

1838

• 1/7/1838 After meeting Samuel went with Joseph to the Paoli to go to town in the carr to attend court between Cornelius Conard and Lee.
• 2/4/1838 Lewis took Priscilla, Maria & I to the Paoli to go to Philadelphia. We waited about an hour for the carr, and was just seated and helpd to an excellent dinner, when just as we took one mouthful the locomotive came and we had to leave it and go as fast we could to go aboard. The first time I rode on one we had a very pleasant ride having a stove in the middle of the carr which made it very comfortable. In two hours we were in Philadelphia at Coates stt., Fairmount.
• 5/9/1838 George Bloomhart was run over by a carr on crossing the turnpike, his horse killed, his leg broken and amputated above the knee.
• 5/13/1838 Stephen took his father to the Paoli to go to town in the carr to attend court between Conard vs Lee.
• 7/16/1838 William gone to Columbia. Ann M. Conard and Alletta Pugh went to John Williams. Lewis and Stephen went to Reading on the new railroad.
• 7/19/1838 I went from Meeting to Moore Hall to see James Wood’s children. I seen the Locomotive for the first time.
• 7/27/1838 Daniel took Alletta to the Depot at Phoenix to go to Norristown in the carr.
• 8/24/1838 Lewis started this morning took the Carr and went by way of Norristown to the falls for Isaac Walker to go to Baltimore.
• 8/26/1838 Joseph Roberts and I met at the Depot at Phoenix - took the carr at half past 8 o’clock and arrived at Reading at a quarter of ten.
• 8/27/1838 After dinner we hurryed off to the Carr office, where we arrived in good time, and had a pleasant ride to Phoenixville about 4 oclock.
• 9/23/1838 The boys took Cornelius to the rail road to take afternoon Carr to Norristown.
• 10/2/1838 Joseph and Benjamin Funk walked over to the rail road to go to town to attend court between Cornelius Conard and Lee.
• 10/11/1838 Joseph went to town on the Carr, to hear the decision of the court between Cornelius and Lee.
• 12/2/1838 Daniel took Jane Thomas to the Paoli to go on the carr to Haverford.

1839

• 6/13/1839 Accident happened on their way up from town. A cow run across the track and the car run over her and killed her, and wounded several men. [Could this have been Prissy Robinson's cow?]
• 8/18/1839 John & Sarah Williams calld here this morning on their way to their work on the railroad near Manyunk.
• 8/31/1839 Stephen and Mary W. Conard, Mary M. Funk, Mary R. Matlack, and Osborne Conard went to Phoenixville to take the carr to Norristown on their way to Jersey.
• 10/1/1839 Joseph and Ann Hays come here, I went with them to see the Tunnel. [Black Rock tunnel?]
• 10/30/1839 They went to see the lead mines and tunnel.
• 11/21/1839 Joseph took the children to the Tunnel.

1840

• 2/26/1840 The barn and outbuildings of Joshua Evans Paoli was burnt today. Caught from sparks of the locomotive.
• 11/2/1840 William, Mary W. Roberts and I, called for Mary W. Matlack, and crossed by Pawlings Bridge. Proceeded down the turnpike to Laurel Hill and them took our leave of William who is engaged in overseeing the rail road in that section of country.
• 12/3/1840 When we come home found William. He is done railroading for the season. [actually, forever. In March, 1841 he married Susannah Havard and settled in Tredyffrin township].

1841

• 4/25/1841 Isaac W. Conard come to see us and Lewis took him to the rail road this afternoon.
• 12/2/1841 Elijah J. Pennypacker’s wife, Sarah died. Mary W. Roberts come up on the carr in company with James and Thomas Woods family to attend the funeral of their deceased cousin.

1842

• 2/23/1842 Mary W. Conard went to town in the carr. Mary W. Roberts took her to the forge.
• 10/8/1842 Mary W. and Martha went with some young folks to the tunnel.

1843

• 4/10/1843 The Valley Forge Mill was burnt today from sparks of the locomotive.

1844

• 5/8/1844 Came home on the Reading Carrs to Valley Forge.
• 5/18/1844 Came home on the Reading Carrs to Valley Forge.
• 9/2/1844 A steam engine above Reading on the rail road was struck with lightning and killed four men.

1845

• No mention of railroads

1846

• 5/16/1846 Cousin William procured us a cab to convey us to the Reading depot where we took the carr to Phoenixville, where Joseph met us and brought us home.

1847

• 2/25/1847 Deborah, Hannah Ann, & Franklin Wood went to town on the carrs.
• 8/9/1847 Mary W. and I took our cousins to William Roberts, where we dined, afternoon William took them to the Railroad to go home on the carrs.

1848

• No mention of railroads

1849

• 5/12/1849 I started from Phoenixville in the stage about sunrise, to Norristown. Took the carr and arrived in Phila. about 8 oclock.
• 5/19/1849 I took the carrs this morning and come up to Phoenixville.

1850

• No mention of railroads

1851

• 5/6/1851 Cousin Jane Pennypacker got badly hurt this evening with the Carrs, was taken in at Nicholas Beans. She was badly bruised but no bones broken.

1854

• 8/28/1854 I went to town in Carr to attend the funeral of our dear aged uncle Lewis Walker in the 88 year of his age..