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1865 Sold 15 acres ofwest farm for$777 0 50.
Bought 3 acres addition to Rotterdam farm for $535.
Bought 1/2 of a house in Troy for $1 300.
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Feb Bought 20 acres in West Albany with house & barn - $2200.
Bought house & lot in Rotterdam for $1000.
}867 Rented 70 acres from Mr. Prime joining north farm for$140 0
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1 Sept Drying kiln burned down.
12 Sept, Tremendous flood took out part of dam, undermined north end of mill and filled raceway
almost down to 1stOrder pond.

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1870
Feb. Bought Clute island & small house*& land in Niskayuna. Island has 9 3/4 acres, upland
3 1/4 acres, totalcost $2508 0 55.
Dec Traded Sand Creek farm with Pittock for house & lot in Troy. Lot No 0 422, 2d St.

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1872
July Galen Richmond sells his house & lot in Troy.
Nov. Barn burned (arson), loss$15,000,

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1873
Jan. Begin quarrying stone for new barn.
July Barn completed.

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1874
April Built store atNiskayuna. Put slate roof on dwelling. Bought an ortjan ,
Rebuilt sawmill in orchard.

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1876
April Sold north farm, 138 acres, for $11,500.
)881 Built frame 32' x 50' addition to north side of brick machine shop for canning & washing
purposes. Put brick between wall timbers. Put in steam boiler and retort.

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1882
March Partition offroom in north washhouse and put in steam pipes for drying clothes.

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1883
Oct. Drain lower pond, draw in sand & set out cranberry plants there.
Dec Barn and drying shed burned at Rotterdam.

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1884
Jan. Built new barn at Rotterdam. (Farms there were on both sides of river.)

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1886
March ChF grist and sawmill burned.

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1887
May ChF raise new mill.
1 Aug Galen Richmond died. Business agent for SF over 30 years.