VB-311

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1865
24 Jan Galen & Sylvester to Prince town to look at a farm.
15 Mar We have a freshet.
16 Mar We are flooded with water and the mill broke down. We have so much water we cannot
saw.
13 Apr We have 200 trees in the new orchard.
19 Apr "We attend the presidentfs funeral in our own meeting house at 12:20."
JOURNAL #9, VB-312 Begins 10 July 1868
15 July IB to the other families to get some subscribers for Richard Pelham.
George Hazard from Prince Edward Island.
19 (Sun) Galen'^to Troy to see his son Lorenzo.
22 July A young man Charles Odell comes for a home.
August Canning tomatoes, picking and drying corn in kiln, making cider.
4 Sept Brother Richardy-released from eldership by ministry; Brother Albert Loomis
in his place. $w
12 Sep Tremendous rain last night and the flood carried away part of our sawmill dam
and undermined the north end of the mill and filled up the raceway for whole
length to the First Order pond. We estimatejthe damage at $500.
An Englishman here from Ostrelia for information.
24 Sep "Our beautiful drying kiln caught fire between 5 and 6 p.m. and was completely
consumed with the woodhouse attached to it. Brethren from the other families
came to help us save our other buildings."
30 Sep NF gave them 12 barrels of apples.
6 Oct CF gave them 12 barrels of applies.
7 Oct WF gave them 16 barrels of apples and the use of their kiln to dry apples.
9 Oct Abiel is making cider.
11 Oct Elders and deacons of all the families meet to discuss raising the price of
brooms and other matters.
12 Oct NF gave them 20 more barrels of applies and Bro. Albert and sisters go and
gather them;.
13 Oct A brother goes to Troy after a load of scorched wheat from the elevator which
was burned and they got 250 bushels at 30< bu.
14 Oct Go for more wteat and get 150 bu.
13 Nov "A young man here from Philadelphia for information by name of Walker and
another from Springfield by name of Williams."
14 Nov Our new candidates work in the orchard trimming trees.
22 Nov "This is the day of the yearly sacrifice." ,
29 Nov The NF sent watchers two nights last week for Bro. Richard and the WF watched
two nights also.
4-;5 Dec All the families turn out to help us repair our sawmill dam.
8 Dec Seven hands work on the ditch below the sawmill.
9 Dec We work on the raceway.
11 Dec We finish the raceway and dig the sand out from under the mill.
"An old man here from Ohio to see if we would take him in. A boy by the name
of Theodore Van Liew from the Helleberg."
12 Dec We work around the waterwheel to get it loose.
16 Dec Abiel and IB work on the sawmill.
17 Dec "The elders go to see the nuns down below Albany."
23 Dec "Abiel and IB finish the platform to the boardway."
25 Dec We have a good Christmas. Conrad Smith here.
27 Dec "Conrad is received into union again but lives with Helmus."
30 Dec Joseph Lafunie's funeral at NF.