VB-311 - SF Journal page 26

1864 cont.
24 June Brother Richard to CF and WF with two spiritualists - Elijah Swackhammer and Elizabeth
Marquand.
26 Sun. Spiritualists attendpublic meeting.
27 Spiritualists leave.
8 July Helmus Pier and Jeremiah Sicker come to help us cradle our rye.
21 July "We go down on the plains to fight fire. Some of the other families turn out."
24 Sun. "We had a crowd of spectatorsin our meeting. We had a pure and holy prophet here from
Canada (doubtful)."
3 Aug Abiel and IB go to NF to look at theircider mill.
11 Aug Galen bought 31 acres of woodland in Rotterdam for $1100.
17 Aug IB has continued to work on the cider mill* kkxk Today he begins the frame of the press.
24 Aug Sets up cider press.
26 Aug Eldress Lovina "and littleDeborah Knight" start for Lebanon with two Lebanon sisters.
Return on Sept. 2.
31 Aug Begin canning corn. Jacob and a boy from Albany do the soldering.
30 Sept Samuel Cregier here to "get some wine plants ground and pressed in our cider mill."
8 Oct A man here from the Oneida Community for information.
31 Oct Abiel's nephew, named Buckbee, visiting from Vermont.
18 Nov Abiel makes a compost hea/p.
23 Dec Elder Chauncy brought us two barrels of apples for a Christmas present, l^t^o^