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                <b>1849</b>  Church  Fami !y                                                                      -2-
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<b>1 Feb</b>       15  miles  to  Utica.   Good  waggoning.
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                2           15  miles  to  Rome  "and  do the  principal   part  of  our  business   there."
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                            Channing   arrives.
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               3  (Sat)     Channing   leaves  tor  home.   Visit  Weston.,  Dulta  & Tayburg.
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               4  (Sun)     Tayburg to   Rome  -  11 mi les.   Stanwix   Ha I I .
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               5            Sle-igh  arrives  from  home  and  send  wagon  back   by railroad.    Go  to
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                            Camden   via Viena  -  18  miles.
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               6            27  miles  to  Pulaski  "and  do  OUT  business   on the  way."   "One  continual
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                            snowstorm."
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               7            Via  Sandry  Creek,   Eisburg.,  Annsville   and  Bellville   doing  business   all
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                            the  way  to Adams   in evening -   24  miles.
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               8            Finish   business   in Adams  about   noon  and go  20  miles  to Sacketts    Harbor
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                            via  Henderson   and  Smithville.     "Very  cold  and windy."
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               9            C.  Copley  traded   horses  and  they  went  18  miles  thru  Dresden   and  Broun-
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                            ville  to  Limerick.    "Very  cold  and  I  am sick  with  dysentery."
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               10         "Our  new  horse  lame  and  I am  quite  unwell."
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                           Go  thru  Chemony  and  Three  Mile  Bay  18  miles  to  Cape  Vincent.
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               11  (Sun)   Very  cold.    Doctor   horse.
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               12           "I  am very  sick  with  "severe   and  continued   pain."   Have  doctor.
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                            Horse  no  better.     C. Copley   starts  on  but  has  to return   because  of
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                            storm  and  snowdrifts.
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               13           C.  Copley  starts  fof  French   Creek  - drifts   11 feet.   Have  doctor   again
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                            in evening.
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               14          Only  able  to  sit up  a  short  while.   "General   appearance   of  myudisease
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                           indicates   an  improvement;   altho   the golden   wings of   hope  often  rest  on
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                           the  shoulders   of disappointment."
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               15           Day  of great   pain  and suffering   for  me.   Someone   comes  from  Watertown
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                            and  takes  lame  horse.
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               16          -24   for  3 days.
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               17  (Sat)   Receive   letter  from  C.  Copley  who  is  in Watertown    and going   to Ogdens-
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                           burg.    He wants  me  to  meet  him  in Philadelphia    next  Wednesday.(20th)
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               19          ~30.     Sti II sick.
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               20          Condition   betters   during  day.
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               22           Improved   and able  to  walk  about.
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               23          Settle  account   at  hotel  and  with  doctor  and  go  25 miles  to  Waterfown.
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               24          Leave  Watertown   7:30  and  go  70 mi'I-es by stage  to  Rome,  arrive   6 pm
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                           very  much  exhausted.    Stanwix   Hall.
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