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32 19 June 1886 Cultivate. Brown here to see about finishing the job.
23 June Take away stone steps in front of the D house & dig away the ground
to make room to put 3 windows in front to lighten up the new dining
room, also to make room for foundation of front piazza.
25 June Paved cellar bottom with cobblestones, (break) walls for windows
in front of house.
29 June Commence mowing. Make a cesspool to collect all the water. Mary Ann
Matthews the second time leaves us - goes to the world. Tilla Quinta
back back - her mother took her away against her wish.
33 3 July Cutting hay. Stairs moved. House all upside down. Carpenters
ceiling second floor. Sarah Drum goes to the world, takes Neile her
daughter with her. Stephen Fross and family here, also Tucker.
5 July Put Paris green on potatoes. Get in hay. Sisters have a picnic in
the afternoon. Very warm.
14 July Finish mowing. Abial Hathaway of the SF died 4 a.m.
34 15 July Rains. Attend Abial Hathaway's funeral at 2:30 pm
20 July Men all go to Albany Bicentennial.
21 July Commence to reap 16 lot. I take a load of sisters into see the Bi-
centennial parade. Carpenters go home. Eldress Alvira stays overnight.
22 July Reap rye. I take the balance of the sisters in to see the last
parade of the Bicentennial. All pleased.
35 29 July Carpenters & roofers return, clear up around house. Showers. We
have have this night a terrible thunderstorm - the sharpest lightning
of the season. Two barns were struck & burnt to the ground - D.
Miller's and Gerrit Van Franken's - about a mile apart. D. Miller
lost 2 mules and the contents of both barns with a great loss to them.
36 12 Aug ^Rebecca Jackson, Wm. James & 2 friends here from Phila.
Lay drains and water?* pipes to house.
37 15 Aug Meeting at the meeting house. Nancy Weeks taken very sick.
21 Aug Lay walks. James, Frank,. Alice & Lily McDonald here to see Rachel
from Chicago.
22 Aug Meeting at Meeting House. Rachel & friends take a short ride. Time
limited.
24 Aug Can bfeans & plums. Rachel's friends go home. She drove to Albany
with them to show them around.
25 Aug Painters finish the house, bjtarn & machine shop roof. Give the dwelling
house besides the penciling barn, two coats, roof one. Glad they
are done.
38 9 Sep Finish planting corn. Sister Rebecca Jackson returns to Phila.
39 14 Sep Sow rye. Two sisters,Lucy & Lotty Werner, to world second time.