VB-343 Reel 48, Western REserve Shaker collection, NYS Library
JOURNAL OF ELDER AUGUSTUS BLASE, Watervliet West Family,
1855 - March 7, 1884

Begins with accounts of hay, grain, cider, sowing, etc. for 1830-1883.

Has very brief, one line entries for each day, viz. :

27 April Fanny Waterman died.
28 Apr Fanny '^ funeral. "I pitched all the songs and drive the hearse."

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1856
1 May Sow guano shanty lot.
2 May Sow guano south meadow, make fork. Rain
3 May Made hitch to oldsmall cart; sort potatoes. Rain 2"
4 May At home. Bought 2 colts nearly a year old Fair
5 May Load manure. Rain
6 May Plough and spread manure desert. Fine
7 May Got Simon Bauer and plant potatoes. Fine
8 May Plant pot. and smithing
Brethren raise barn church island. Rain
9 May Draw sand and begin fence dooryard. Rain
10 May Made fence in 3 days. Calvin Albany. Rain
11 May To meeting House 1st time since 25 Nov. Fair
12 May Finish plant pot. shanty lot
Sow little oats and millet and plough. Fair
13 May Plough desert
14 May Plough orchard
etc. etc.
1857 ,
10 July Ann'Xowe died.
11 July Funeral. "Pitch one hymn, drive the corpse,"
July Sarah Delvin "sick and struck blind, deaf and dumb and lockjaw - to the
table again, first since October."
Oct. "Mary Train taken back after an absence of about 27 years."
Elen Ward goes to Waterford every day except Sunday to have her eyes treated
since August24, thru Sept., Oct., Nov. & Dec., less frequently in Jan.,
until 3 Feb*
1858 ,
10 Jan Sally Bigelow became insan^e.
15 Mar "Thomas ^Burnet turn again to his vomit."
19 Mar "John1/Kissel, who again has turned back, will have to pay dear for the
whistle before he gets back on the track."
16 May Ihoinas/Burnet back for another privilege, not granted.
12 June Delia Landers died of scarlet fever. Sick 2^ days.
30 June Melissa^Landers died, buried today, no funeral until night.
19 bgpfyjL Winfield Scott Smith, a boy, came andffames Delvin back the 3d time.
4 iter^W Henry "tlay Smith left. '
9 Ma^i^W MartyyDelvin bacl^tfith her sister, Prudence, taken in at SF.
8 Oct Miller's wife, Mary Radell, had clothes caught in mill, torn off, both
legs broken.

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1859
March "Waterbury factory turned into afgrist mill by Henry Radell."
Ogden Watkins became their miller.

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1860
Jan. "We lent Hiram Bomas (Baumes) $3000 on the Vedder place, thus secured the
mill seat and flats."