South Family page 2

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1848
7Oct Put bell on their dwelling. Weighs 227 Ibs., cost $76.10.
16 Dec Abandon use of pork and sell offtheir hogs.
19 Dec Put tin roofon dwelling for $222.53.
1849 Built brick machine shop 60' x 32' 2-story, south of & in range of Office barns and put
large water wheel and engine m it.
1850 Built wagon house 561 x 241 2-story, at NW corner of large cow barn
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2 Apr Bought farm, called Powel farm, from Samuel Baker, 3 miles SE of Schdy for $4300.
Built ice house of brick & stone east og 2d house.
1852 Built brick drying house 12' x 26'
1853 Built woodhouse east of 2d house 55" x 2V
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&>ct. Bought farm of Vroman & White, 102 acres, for $2300 on Troy-Schdy Railroad, 3 miles
above Niskayuna depot.
Brethren shop is yellow; built little 2-srory house, N of brothers brick shop, for use of
world's people & painted itcream; another house had been red, repainted cream.

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1855
8 Feb Martha Bates & Harriet Ingham move to 2d Order.
Dec Bought 32 acres from Van Vrankens adjoining our north farm inNiskayuna for $1102.
"Purchased with money of rhe sisters' earnings, much to their credit."

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1856
March Bought 9 acres in Rotterdam adjoining other farm for $175 per acre or $1,575* This was
also moneys of sisters' earning.

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1857
Jan. Trustees paid $100 toward an addition to schoolhouse at ChF so it would accommodate all
families.
During year "we have dug more than 1 3/4 miles of ditch, mostly on the\sest part of our
farm, bogged several acres and scraped down several sand knolls and cleared several
acres of lowland."

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1858
11 July Much damage from hailstorm (as large as hens eggs) including breaking 1200 panes glass.
17 July Damage from hurricane.
14 Dec Put up several coal stoves, bought 20 tons of coal.

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1860
23 Apr Galen Richmond leaves his wife, gives her house & lot in Troy and Shakes take possession
of his farm and he comes to SF to live*
1861 Butlt bleaching house, brick, east of Office barn; woodhouse 54' x 261 east of dwelling;
and timber shed 541 x 221 north of sawmill.
1861-
1862 Rented west farm on halves to David Ogsbury and north farm on halves to James & David Pier
1862 Bu8lt drying house on Rotterdam farm 771 long. Their broom corn raised there.
Received $1100 from Canal Commissioners for damage to Rotterdam farm.
1863 "Finish Sand Creek Road through our land this season and receive $440 from the Road
Commissioners for it."
Begin canning sweet corn.

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1864
March Sold 100 acres of west farm with all buildings for$6000.
IrBuilt cider mill east of machine shop, "which does firstrate business."
Bought 31 acres woodland 4 miles from Rotterdam place for $1100.