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5 Aug Elder Giles busy arrcjjng our family affairs priorto appointing a successor to Elder Galen
8 Aug Henry George is appointed to manage our financial concerns and Ozias Bogart is
family deacon.
10 Aug We are overborne with boarders.
27 Aug Edward Mullein missing.
30 Sept Edward M. leaves mysteriously.
19 Oct Brother Abranr/EI I is unwell.
25 Oct Brother Abram dies.
12 Nov Sisters making shirts"running the engine. "
13 Dec Fixing the upper loft of washhouse for a sewing room to carry on the shirt making,
25 Dec (Sun) Christmas. We attend meeting at CF.
26 Dec Hired hands mostly gone to keep /Christmas.
28 Dec A young man comes to take care of the stock.

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1888
3 Jan Henry George and hired men threshing at the farm by Morrisville.
10 Jan Ozias and a mason are lathing and plastering the intended sewing room at the washhouse.
We hear of a fire in the chairfactory at Lebanon. One brother, George Smart, died.
23 Feb Henry George to Schenectady to see about renting the Rotterdam farm.
29 Feb Man here to put in a new water wheel motor in the wheel pit at the machine shop -
Elder Galen's pattern. Use this topower sewing machines.
3 Mar Henry George sfrids 50 doz. brooms to NYC.
8 Apr Ministry here. Ozias appointed as elder.
1 May Paper walls in dwelling house.
10 May Waiting for summer. No blossoms on fruit trees.
15 May Tearing down old hovels - bleach house, etc.
23 May Apple trees begin to blossom.
4 June Charles Quintal (boy) here to work,
7 June Thunder storm lastevening. John Burk who works at CF struck and killed by lightning,
26 July A sister from Philadelphia at WF.
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29 July John Dahm's children come.
Elder Galen's son, Lorenzo Richmond, visits.
31 Aug "Chauncy Dibble goes to NF fora while."
( End of account written by C. Dibble since!879)
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8 Sept John Randolph died, (Author now is probably Ozias Bogart.)
21 Sept John Nolan, 18 years old, joined.
8 Oct Four sisters tookthe boat for NYC and Philadelphia. Back on 20th,
21 Oct (Sun) Attended meeting with CF in the a.m.; singing meeting at WF in p.m.
(The author has been detailing the work "Ozias" did during Sept, and Oct. In
Nbvember he begins to say "William Johnson and I..." etc.
24 Nov Sylvester Pre^ntiss's funeral
at CF.
25 Nov Charles Pretcff's funeralat WF .
29 Nov Sister Rachel (Webb; fell in dining room and had to be carried over to the nurses'
building and a doctor called,
30 Nov Rachel no better. Dodor came again, (Author speaks of Henry (George) & Cicero.)
6 Dec Rachel Webb died. ,
18 Dec "Went to Ballston and paid taxes on Milton farm." (Ozias did this every year.)