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                <b>1850</b>                                      -34-
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                November
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                28th            Spiltt.ing wood.  Very rainy  & windy.
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                29th            Very warm.    Finished banking up the   Deacon Shop.    Drew 2 loads tanbark.
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                30th            Considerable  rain last night.  Choring  round at small jobs.  Stillkeeps warm.
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                December
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                1st              SABBATH    DAY.   Public & home meetings.     Fine day.
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                2nd             Warm.    In theshop.   Drew some manure on the    young sage   bed.
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                3rd             Very  rainy & windy.    In the shop.
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                4th              Thermo at  12 o'c 42  ,  Beautiful day.  Shop  work.
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                5th              Rained last night.  It has not freezed for several nights.  Levi took  Frank  &
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                                 started for Watervliet,  Clawson returned   from Harvard route  being gone   just
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                                 two weeks.    Seeds sold quite as well as usual.  He has not  been well  all time.
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                                 Brought back  the old seeds.   Yesterday H.  went to Edward depot    & brought
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                                 home six  cases of seed boxes, eleven deer skins & some maple sugar--all     from
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                                 the Southern route.   E. Richard  & Henry E. went to   Square  Straits inStephen-
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                                 town.   Rainy.
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                6th              Sorting & tearing open seed bags.    Henry took  Charley, the single  horse, fro
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                                 Edward's depot to send to  Hudson to  Joseph Bennet or M.L.    Carther.
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                7th              High wind, few   inches snow.   Levi returned at five PM.   All  inshop but  John R
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                                 & Charles Gr.   who are working in broom shop.
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                8th              SABBATH DAY.      Meeting at  home both AM PM.      Cool  & cloudy.
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                9th              All are working  in seed shop.   High wind.   The farmers are threshing  grain.
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                 10th            Finished tearing open seed bags, put   up some seeds to  send to Watervliefr to
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                                 exchange for  some  Levi got of them.   Levi went to  Hancock.   A  Warner from
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                                 N.Y.   Leeds man got some seeds.    H.  went to grist mill & post office.
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                                 Wm.   Offord not well,  is writing.  Finished tearing open bags.   Commenced
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                                 filling again.
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                 llth            Snowed all  forenoon.   E. Richard started for Albany.   Picking over peas &
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                                 putting up seeds.
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                 12th            Thanksgiving  in this state. We kept   it as Sabbath.  Meeting at   nine m morning,
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                                 after dinner, four brethren went to shops.   E.R.  came from Albany    to Canaan
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                                 where Br.  F. & the  E. Sisters met him.  Yesterday   Dunbar  was convicted   in
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                                 Albany  for the murder of the boys.
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