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Diary for 1862

January 8th Wednesday.  Went to Richmond


in my buggy to see my aunt RBN


who hurt herself badly by a fall from


her chair a few days ago.  My mother's


niece and Miss Betsy and brother


Thomas came down on 9th.


Saturday 11th Jany. I came home-reach


ing there at dark.


Sunday 12. Called [?] Mann Fleming


who had returned home from Yankee


land-found he had gone to T.B.,


where I went and dined with Stanard,


M. Fleming, Logan & R. Harrison.


Monday. Stanard (W.B.) T.B. and family


dined with me.  Stanard spent the night


with me.


Tuesday 13. [3 in 13 struck through and replaced with 4] Snowed last night. Commenced


digging ice house on hill 16 x 16 at Top.


10 x 10 bottom.  16 feet deep. Drove


Stanard to P. Allan‘s. I came home to din=


ner.


Wednesday 14. [4 in 14 struck through and replaced with 5]Hailed and rained last night


drisling all day. wrote to night enclosing


draft on Deane, Hohan & James  to John N Gor


don & Son $29.91 in full to date.




[page #2]


Received this evening (14th) by “Mt. Vernon”?


2 kegs sugar, 1 mulch (5 galls) mo


lasses 3 barrels Farm flour (1 Winchester/2 [Belmend?]), 1 sack salt, iron


6 bars & other parcel-& sett of harness.


January 16 Thursday. Bright day snow melted


fast all day hardly freezing at bed time.


4 hands digging ice house to day. Henry


Eustace called this morning on his way from


Richmond-went to Rand. & Harrison’s. I drove


down to Dogtown this evening.


Jany. 17 Friday. Logan & Mann Fleming came and


took dinner with me. Dr. & Mrs Harris came


up to night in our carriage.


Jany. 18 Saturday. Rainy day. Dr & Mrs Harris here


to dinner. I went by invitation to Mann F‘s & din


ner. Logan, P. Allan & T.B. there-weather


quite warm all day.


Jany 20 Monday went to C.H. dined and staid all


night with Dr Harris as a heavy storm of thunder


lightning and rain came up in evening and


lasted all night.


“ 21. Came home to dinner Dr. H. came with


me to see Mrs Belling- Mr. W.P. Eliason


and [strikethrough] came and spent the night with


me-tried to get me to insure in James


[page #3]


1862


River insurance Company of Hounds


ville. I declined not being altogether


well satisfied about the company


and their modus operandi.


22 Jany. Wednesday. Eliason & son left


(Eliason is the word) this morning


I have been at home all day.


23 Henry up first killing of hogs-and smoked


Drove to Pat. Allan’s got his gun.


Dr. Harris came to night to see Mrs Bolling


Bad night


24 Snowed this morning-and hailed &


snowed all day. Cold and sleety &


dark & windy tonight. Hope Yankee Doo-


dledom may be roughly used about


Hateras and Cape Fear to night.


wrote to Cousin R.B Murray


25 Saturday went to Mann Fleming’s house to dinner


T.B. & children dined here. Dr & Mrs. Harris came


in evening spent night with us.


26 Sunday. Dr. & Mrs Harris left after breakfast.


I drove to La Vallee to see Robert Vaughan


Vaughan who is very sick with Pneumonia [?]


27 Monday. Killed my last hogs 25 in


number. after scalding and cleaning


there gradually came over the skin


[page #4]


1862


of a number of them a saffron colour. I


think the most probable cause is the rust


of the kettle in which they were scalded


as they appear to be perfectly healthy


liver &c all right. finished dig-


ging ice house in hill. I shall go


to Island to dinner today-weather dark


threatning rain.


28th Jany. Tuesday-Cut out the meat I


killed on yesterday & salted Total weight


of my hogs this winter 84 in number


is 17190 lbs , more than I ever


killed before—average of hogs 204 lbs.


                Drove after dinner to La Vallee


R. Vaughan’s situation still very


critical. Dr Julien Kean & Dr Wm


Morris there. W. Ferguson & Mrs. Grattan


there.


29th at home all day drying up lard


day clear, & warm as spring.


30th. Thursday-Rained most last night


today stark warm sometimes rainy.


[page #5]


1862


Feb. 2 Sunday-went to St. Paul’s. heard


sermon from Rev’d Wm Mortimer , about


25 persons there my wife too poorly


to go. Found T.B & children here when


I got home. day clear.


 


 


 


5th Wednesday- W. Ferguson dined with me.


6th Rainy-we have had very heavy rain


which with snow that fell on


has made the ground I think wetter than


I ever saw it.


7th. Drove to Lock [Lomund?]-paid postage


for Last year U. States & Confedt


wrote to T.B.S. to night.


8th Feb. Baled on yesterday and today 25


Bales of shucks & 2 do straw


Bales of shucks weigh as follows-


 Weight-shucks


310


240


300


290


270-


265


260


270


280


245 5


250


320


235


260


255-


330


335


355


330


295-


265


335


280


305


275-


_________


7155


 


Straw


175


175


____________


350 lbs


[page #6]


1862


Feb. 8th contin’d-ditching in garden-weather drisly & threatning


 


 


Feb. 11. Bales of straw in all 24 25


No. bales


straw______


175


175


160


160


155-


145


160


190


170


145-


165


150


155


150


140-


150


170


170


165


160-


170


155


155


175


175-


_______


4046 [check mark]


lbs of straw


 


 


N- bales


clover hay


240


280


225


255


240-


235


205


265


235


235-


265


245


235


260


245-


215


220


205


245


220-


240


235


250


230


230-


____________


5955 [check mark]


lbs clover


Hay [?]


[?]


 


Feb. 12- Wednesday- weather to day clear & somewhat


windy- cool in morning-little crust in ground


last night at 2 or 3 P.M. warmish and


threatning to cloud up- Therm. in passage about 55 [degree sign]


[page #7]


1862


Feb. 18th Tuesday-Dined at Island with


[Mabin?] Hahn & Mann Fleming—bad day


Mrs Bryce took Packet home for Rich


mond. I drove with her to landing


W. Webb & Dean H. in Packet-


Feb. 19th. Rained pretty much all day.


I think the drain ditching on southern


slope of Garden [delivered?] today 40


gallons to the minute-


I wrote tonight to F.R. Price & Co.—en


closing draft in D[?] Hahn & [?]


to their order for $300 & credits & very


[?] to Jany 1st 1862-


Feb. 20 Recd from Dean H & James act of sale,


[word scratched out] sent down [?]


712 [bush?] 132%                                             943.40


74 40/100  120                                                      8960


                                                                                $1033


Toll & commissions                                 $ 77.94


Net pounds                                           955.06  


Dean H & James wrote no they had reported


$272 in Bk for Dr. G. Fleming & pd him $4


making $276 interest to [?] 1862


[page #8]


1862


Feb. 21st Good  day. I drove up to Elk Hill & dinner with Rand. Harrison.


Feb. 22  The Birth Day of Washington. Hero.


Statesman-Patriot-Gentleman-Into


what a condition has the country which


he saved by his Wisdom, Patience and


Valor fallen-


This is the Day of the Inauguration of


our First President of the New


Nation “The Southern Confederacy”?- The day


is rainy cloudy and unpromising-not


unfitting the state of Public feeling produced


by the sad Defeats which have befallen


our arms at Roanoke Island and


Fort Donelson. The first the consequences


of gross imbecility—the Second


of I know not what—but I think


it will prove to be from the Folly and sin


of said Generals as Floyd the Robber and


Pillow the politician and


The signs of the times are every where


dark & cheerless-all the Power of a mighty


people is about to overwhelm us-If our


people are earnest  & If  [underlined twice for emphasis] God be with us


we will weather the storm. I have


[page #9]


1862


Feb. 22


without Despair sad misgivings about


the issue of such a contest. I can


say I had nothing to do I mean in intention


with producing this state of things-


for in my small circle and small


influence I shunned as bring us


Patriotism or Honor allowed the


Issue that has brought this awful


crisis in the Country- But this cloudy


day may be followed by a bright one


and the Star of our country now


obscured and threatened with extinc-


tion may yet Shine Bright and


clear in the Horizon—Belling


Weisiger got here tonight from Packet


at about 9 1/2 P.M. He got into ditch.


Feb. 23 Sunday-Rained smartly-during


day-


Feby 24 Monday-After breakfast drove to


see W.P. Holland who is sick-Just as


I got there a most violent sound


burst forth from the West- I drove


home by Selden’s passing falling trees


storm lasted till about 5 P.M


for many hours with great violence.


[page #10]


1862


Feb. 24 contd I think it likely that ma=


ny a southern wish was felt—that


Burnside-Sherman and Picayuns


Brother might be out in it.


I hope our time is come for luck


and that we may hear by tomorrow


of some important success gained


by our armies-


Feb. 25. Drove to Mann Fleming’s who had


just come from Richmond. no definite News


from there there are vague rumors


from which vague hopes we dream about


something good that is to happen-


W.B. Weisiger expects to go down


tonight- I handed him $8-


to pay Mrs Stinnet the wife of a


plow maker in Howardsville to which


I owe $7 or $8—pd his wife through W.B.W.


Feb. 27 Dined at Bollings Island. M. Fleming


there- Dr. H. staid here last night.


Feb. 28 Friday-Drove this morning to T.B’s


and [Malm?] Hobsen is back to dinner-


[circle with cross drawn in it]-wrote Deane, H & James to deposit $300-


to credit of Martin James in “Bk of Va”?


interest on bond to June 1st 1861.


[page #11]


1862


March 2 Sunday. Unpleasant drisly day. Mr. Kean (Napoleon)


came by to say that he was appointed to draft half


of men negroes between 16 years & 50 to work


for Confederacy at Mulberry Island below Williams


burg. I walked with him to Fontaine


3rd-I had company to dinner. Mann Fleming, [?]


H. T. Bolling, Wm Kean & I.W. Logan.


4th-Drove to Dogtown-when I came back found


John Colly very ill with I think congestive


chill. Juniors W. & Wilmer & Charly M. came this [morn?]


5th Wednesday John Colly Died this morning


Ash Wednesday. I at home all day-


till eveng. Drove Dr. H. to Selden’s gate went


by to see Selden.


6th Thursday-went to Cedar Point with my


hands who left there for Mulberry Island


Following Hands –sent-Wm Gray-Jim-Tyler


Royall, Daniel, Andrew, Van, Lyttleton Carter


Pleasant in all 10-


[page #12]


July 19th 62. Weight of 11 bales of shucks


handed me by Mr. Colly baled yesterday.


315


390


300


380


345


245


285


300


305


315


280


Aug 30-


255


255


270


260


200


180


225


240


250


240


220


215


225


230


220


240


215


230


30 bales  220


lbs  7850


                                My mother’s Recp for


                                Blackberry Wine—


Press the berries(Black or Dewberry, through


a sieve—To one gallon of the juice


put 1 quart of water & 4 lbs of


best brown sugar—let it stand


36 hours in an open vessel.


(I presume in a cellar or cool room.)


Stirring often and skimming off


scum—then put into DemiJohn


or cask cork loosely—on 1st


November draw off part in bottles


and cork tightly.


[page #13]


Col. J. L. Hubard


Carter’s Bridge


Albemarle Co. Va.


 


Sep. 6 1862-Miss Mary T. Meade handed


me her check (drawn by David


Callender on Farmer’s Bk Branch at Petersg)


for $100-to collect for Her  when


I go to Richd.


Sep. 7th Mr. Holland says sack of salt


weighs 220lbs.


Sep. 10. Philpots Boat Breeze


brought me        bushels of


coal sent by Deane, James & Co


Hibsen &


Sep. 12. Expect to leave House for Nelson


this evening. leave in Desk of mine


about $340. June 4 $50-take with me


about $68.


Sep. 15 Paid Holman Prior $100-amongst the


notes 1 $50-notes Confed. A-no. 9908 Richmond


Sep. 2nd 1861


Shipped  Boat “Breese”? Philpots master 13 bales of shucks


and 7 hogsheads  Tobacco consigned to Deane


Hahn & James—No. 5 good  between 1.2.3.4.6 7


[lu?]


[page #14]


1862


Sep. 20th  Gave Geo. W. Conchaft on Deane


[K?]ohen & James $77 63/100 for all due


him to date (see his book) being $75


difference between my Red wheeled buggy


made by Bosber, and a sliding [seat?]


gotten of him—also some other


items due him for repairs to this


date crediting him $5 50/100 for 2


pr buggy shafts sold him long ago


so that we are even today except


some trifles, to be due by him for


me—whip socket & rail 4 feet


 board of buggy.—


 


October 10th—I made a bargain


with Holman Prior about cleaning


out the first long ditch running


from Woodville line down to Creek


about 1500 yds long—being shortest


of the two long ditches. He is clean


out thoroughly leaving it in as good


order in regards to depth and other


things as when he cleaned & deep-


ened it about 3 years ago +--


He is to supply his hands with loose


tools &c—and I am to pay


[page #15]


him ($150) one hundred and fifty


dollars when he finishes the job and


delivers it to me—The above has


been read to Holman and agreed


to by him.


1862


Oct. 12-Sunday-Bought of


                                in Richmond 50 pr [pairs] shoes at $10-


and 7 pr at $3- some days ago-


opened them today found 3 pair missing of the $10-


shoes so gave out 47 pr as follows and


4 pair of $3 shoes.


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Pleasant



Jim



Henry



Joe



Geo. White



Robert



Hampton



Jimmy



Ham[pher?]ie



Primus jr.



L. Sarah



Ned



Washington



Royall



Emma



Angelina



Peyton



Jordan



Kisiah



47 Fanny



Andrew



Ritson



Lina



 



Caesar



L.t.(Danl F gave his lit. D)



Mary C.



($3   Shoes)



Wyndham



John



Peggy



Philip



Tyler



Van



Big Sarah



L. George



Moses



Zack



Elsey



Mary Tin



Aaron



Robin



L. Caroline



Manuel



Phill



Daniel O



Sukey



Jane



William



Frederic



Ellen



Mary Ann



14 Madison



28 Jacob x



42 Betsey Britton



 


 


[page #16]


Gave


back shoes)


x Jacob took) $10                                             Louisa $10


Sybl[titor?] $10 for  shoes                                 Lannin $10


Hannah shoes [illeg.]                           O. Primus $10


Hally                                                                      Isbell $10


Davy W. $10 shoes                                          Betsey Raw $10


Linda $10 "


Royall $7 blanket


Bella $10 shoes


Becca $10 "


Venus $10 "


G. Mines $10 "


Danl. Fleming $10


Diana $10 "


Arriana shoes


Tillie "


Davy White Hog. share full $25


Mary Bryce shoes home


L. Amy         "


L. Carter       "


Martha Cuthbert $5


Viny Shoes home


L. Tillie "


Judy Richd Shoes cost $6


Virginia.O. $12


O. Caroline Shoes home


[page #17]


1862


Oct. 31st Friday—Went with Patterson


Allan to Elk Hill to dine with


Randh Harrison, Robert Shield


there—Bought of Rand. Harrison


a Highlander filly year old


last Spring paid him for


her by check in Farmers’ Bk


of Virginia—next day


Nov


1st R.H. Shield & P. Alland over


Now with me.


[paid him $250 for filly written in the margin]


Nov.


 


 


Oct. 3 Monday-dined again with R.


Harrison-Shield and T.M. Flem


ing there discussed swelling on


the hock-[two words scratched out] Highland


er filly. R.H. did not know


how she got it but told me


if the leg did not get well


he would take the filly back.


Nov. 4 Sent John and Madison for


filly they brought her home—hock


still swollen.


25 pieces white oak 16”? [?] 18”? wide 4 ¼”? thick


as long as can be had say 10 to 14 feet long


10 pieces             18”? x 9 ½”?-           10 feet long-


10 " 15”? x 9 ½"    "


[page #18]


25 pieces 3 1/4 “ x 14”? or 16”? wide long as can


be had.


 


1862 Dec. 18th paid Holman in full


for long ditch-stable ditch hill side ditch


&c- in full to date –["in for" scratched through here] $216-


1              $50         no.         10169   Confed.               Rich.      Sep.       2nd               61


1              $50         no           10170   " "      "   " "   "


1              $50         no           18626    confed                  Set A "  "   61


1              $20         "   12772    "                   Set A     "   "   "


1              $20         "   35887    "                   " A"  "   "


1              $20         "   17934    "                   " A " " "


6              $ 1                         


                $216


Dec. 29 62 paid J. W. Philpots bill


up to Jany 1st 63-$49.75 note $50 no


365 A-Aw [?] [?] on head of


Lumber not ascertained and