DABuckingham - 1876 . . . . . . . page 2 8


1 Aug. -Ministry started on trip.
Leave Watervliet for Groveland, August 1, Tuesday
Leave Groveland for North Union, August 9, Wed.
Leave No. Union for Watervliet, Ohio, August 15, Tues.
Leave Watervliet, Ohio for Union Village, Ohio, Aug. 19, Sat.
Leave Union Village for White Water, Ohio, Aug. 30, Wed.
Leave White Water for Pleasant Hill, Ky., Sept. 5, Tues.
Leave Pleasant Hill for So. Union, Ky., Sept. 20, Wed.
Leave So. Union for Philadelphia, Oct. 4, Wed.
Leave Philadelphia for Watervliet, Oct. 9, Monday

1 17 Aug. A couple of teams of gypsies camped at pond.
DAB repaired his bed, taking out rope and putting in metal slats.

21 Aug. Big arson fire at Pleasant Hill - cow & horse barns (no animals), corn house, tool house,
100 bu. corn, 700 bu. rye meal, 130 bu. oats, 10 bu. grass seed, 32 sets of harness, wagons,
farm machinery.

9 Sept. Took Bartlett and Flemish Beauty pears and No. Muscadine grapes to market,

13 Sept. Office sisters take booth at county fair to sellfancy baskets, etc.
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13 Oct John Carson left. Deacons gave him $60.

4 Nov Frederick & Elmer Clayton taken to their relatives in Albany, "bad boys. "

15 Dec North Family obtained an organ. Each family now has one,

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1877

4 Jan Water aqueduct failed. Found leak in Brick Shop cellar.


9 Jan. Mary Nelson, Mary Call from ChF and teacher Lewis Funk of SF went to Teachers'
Instituteat Knowersville-(Alrarnont-).

17 Jan DAB is "booking and drafting forseed garden business."

24 Jan "A young woman determined to be a Shaker wanted to come out with them (P. Smith &
(\l. White)as they returned home (from Waterford & Lansingburg on seed business}."

27 Jan "Isabel la-- has begun to open her mind and has a cap on immediately,, "

1 Feb. "I am engaged writing for the gardners, entering bills of the northern journey on book,
and then drafting them for the individual persons making purchase, or receiving on
commission. "
"Today Philip & Henry took the young woman, who called herself Mary Andrews, to
Niskayuna RR Depot on her way to L'Burgh again. "