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               <b>1851</b>                                        -40-
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               March
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               10th             A  little snow4 in. fell yesterday.  H put the shop in better  order*  Reading
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                                meeting as usual.
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                llth            Cutting bags.  Br  commenced sawing with buzz     saw*
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                12th            Cutting bags,   James the workman   sawed his fingers with the buzz.    Barney
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                                from the church  done this up.  Lev! took some pickels to   Edward's  Depot,  &
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                                cleaned  ours.
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                13th            Cutting & tying up bags.    Lev! started with his team for Albany with some
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                                corn, beans & garden seed.     Snowed till 2 P.M.   The sisters have been   pasting
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                                bags for seeds, average  3,000 an evening,
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                14th            Finished cutting bags.   Warmer,   thaws.
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                15th            Levi returned this evening.   E.R.  & John Brown went to Pittsfield.
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                16th            SABBATH DAY. Meeting at ten at home, Canaan Br.          & Sisters here.
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                                Singing meet  12 6,  union between 7 & 8.    Strong S wind with a little rain
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                                turned to snow  before more.
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                17th            S.E. wind blows violently accompanied     with snow.   Most  of the Br are in
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                                shop.  H is picking over carrots.   Reading meeting as usual  in seed shop.
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                18th             H is emptying the red onions out of  the barrels which  came from  N.Y.    in the
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   *
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  v_                             Upper  House cellar,   Levi is making  shoes.  Snow  3.4 in. deep.
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                19th             No  one  inSeed  Shop.
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                22nd             Edward & Henry   making   bags.  No  one in the shop from 19th till today.
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                                 Clawson & George went     to Pittsfield today.
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                23rd             SABBATH   DAY. About     doz,  spectators atpublic  meeting.   E. Richard  &Wm.
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                                 O.  started forNY   last Thursday.
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                24th             E & H are making   seed bags.   Levi went to the depot with 2 bis. potatoes etc.
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                                 Clawson went   to Canaan tonight on his way to Albany,     Reading meeting as usual,
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                25th             Most of the Br are sawing,   splitting& piling wood.   E. Richard returned about
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                                 noon.   Justice Harwood from Watervliet    & Willard Johnson from   Tyrtngham
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                                 were here today,    E. making bags.   Square  Spencer of this town was accidentally
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                                 shot by his son today,  in attempting to kill a rat.
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                 31st            Levi returned from N.Y.     Henry Canrrell started Deerfield.
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