DABuckingham - 1864 page 14

1 Aug. Temperature 108
2 August Temperature 104
4 August 2 inches of rain


8Aug. C. Miller bought 9 pigs which are to be fed on "offals and slops of family.1
Theyare not to be butchered on this place, but driven, away, when sufficiently fattened,
to market or some other place."


12 Aug. Nehemiah White, Philip Smith and Mathew Raddlker went to Troy to get an exemptfion
from draft. "Allthat have applied to the property authority have been excused in
consequence of inability to a c t or on account of their religiousfaith. "

25 Aug. "Load after load of the world's people ride up to the Office and rove about the Village
One company (rowdies) of 12 or 14 innumber, I supposed from the factories at Cohoes,
stole some melons and hid themselves behind the drying house while eating them. "

7 Sept. Flume from pond broke, draining much of pond. Aqueduct system then didn't work, had
to get force pump to get water into house.


17 Dec. "The ministry introduced the gift, or spoke in meeting about the family's eating their
Sabbath dinners in the same form or manner we do on other days, i.e. for the brethren and
sisters to allgo down, to kneel and sit, and when done eating, kneel again, and return.
Also, a gift for allwho have daguerreotypes to commit them to the flames,"

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1865

4 JAN Some of our sisters to 2d Order to watch with Sarah Van Dyke and Louisa
Fairchild, who has had a paralytic shock.

16 Jan "Alraira Treadway is so crazy she has to be confined in the 'Kite,' so called."

9 Mar Sarah Van Dyke is made 1st eldress at 2d Order.

April News of surrender of Gen. Lee and then of assassinationbf Lincoln and
attempt on life of Wm. Seward.

6 May Almira Treadway has to be confined again. "She has another crazy turn."

16 May "Sarah Ann Wood, youngerly sister, died this afternoon. She has been seve-
ral years failing under the-consumption which caused her death."
12 June Phebe Taylor at 2d Family died of consumption.
24 June Green worm has eaten.. -nearly all the currant bushes bare.^ "We have destroyed
\-:, millions of them and tens of millions are yet remaining."
30 June DAB went to 2d Order "to assist some about cutting the new style coats."
24 July Daniel Sherman finished haying at River Farm. 112 loads "nearly all done by
hired hands."

1 Aug Iheir wool taken to Burnt Hills to be "worked into cloth." Previous years
had gone to French's Mill.