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1863 January 1st-


Fine bright weather-I returned this


evening from my mothers in Powha-


tan County. Poor Mollie Logan


oldest daughter of James W Logan


died this morning between 1 & 3 A.M.


after an illness of several weeks.


                Mr. Frank Irving of Cartersville


and Mrs Charles Morris & her sister


Rose came this evening and spent


the night.


January 2- Fine day-at home all


day feeling poorly from dispepsia


3rd- In morning Jane & I drove to J. W. Lo


gan’s.


Jany 4th Sunday Revd W Mortimer preached the


Funeral of Miss Molly Logan to a large assem


blage of neighbors at Dungeness


Text John ch. v. “our friend sleepeth”?


January 5th Respas dedi Johanni propter furtum obesis. I drove to call on Mr Shep


herd at Dr Shult[ier?] ‘s and brought him


home to dinner-he is brother of Mrs Jarvis


carried him home in my buggy-and


took my gun shot at hundred of ducks


but too dark.


[page 2]


1863 Jany 5th Tuesday-Got sales of my first Boat


load of lumber-22591 Feet B. M. at $70 per


M. Feet B.M. Gross sales $1581.37. Commission $158.13


Toll $16.20- deposited By Mc Carthy & Mitchell to my credit


in Farmers Bk of Va (Jany 5th 63) $1407.04-Jany 6- [this is added to line above word Rainy] Rainy


today from 10 A.M. to 3 P.M. after din=


ner drove with Miss A[ne?] Morris by Capt Phi=


pots to Mann Flemings who went to camp


today. I began to haul cord wood


to landing today expect to ship by Breese


tomorrow-..Holman P. began in house at


Dr. Flemings-himself and another hand


on yesterday at 12. M.


January 7 Shipped by Boat Breese Philpot's


master 12 cords wood consigned to


W.P. Mumford & 13 to Geo. N. W. first


1 basket celery bunches containing abt


3 plants each 3 ½ dozen  bundles of [word scratched through] leaks


containing 4 leaks each-                129 22/00 Bush.


els of wheat consigned to Deane Hobsen & [James?]


[page 3]


1863- January 15 Thursday-         on 13th Family


from Island dined here they took home in evening


Mr. Phil Cabell & Pink who came here Sun=


day evening-yesterday (14th) we dined at


Island. To day (15th) got letter from


G.N.S. he sold 10 cords of wood for me


at $150-Kept 1 and himself and the


“soldiers”? families got 12 cords-(24 cords


carried by Philpots holding out only 23.


George sold 3 dozen bunches (about 120 stalks


of celery at $18-  3 ½ dozen ^bunches leaks at


10 dollars (about (4 leaks to 1 bunch) depos


iting for me in F.Bk Va $178-


I drove today (15th) to W. Flemings land


ing settled with him freight in lumber


taken to Richmond in Dec.m 20 to 23 and


wood this month and wheat over run=


ly etc in F Bk $117 14/100  in full


with him to this 15th January 1863


sent down by him this evening 1 basket


4 dozen bunches celery-1 do 4 ½ dozen


bunches leaks-  Keg for gardners 26


bunches celery- and 6 bag contain


ing 9 ½ bush. fine Irish Potatoes.


[page 4]


1863


January 16-Drove this morning to Fontaine’s Mill


to see about when he would [saw?] for me. Mr


Kersey thinks they will begin on Monday but


will let me hear. Went over to new grounds


when I came back. Settled some police


matters with four disobedients. Killed


2 partridges & 1 lark.


Jany. 21st Recd few days ago letter from


Deane, H. & James with acts of sales of 131 41/100         


Bush. wheat.


Jany. 10th 131 41/100 bush. Red $3.40                              $447.67


canal Toll $4.15 [c?] $11.19=                                                   15.34                                                   


Nett. Proceeds                                                                                   $432.33


Deposited to my crd. F. Bk $300-


Left in hands of D, H. & James 132.33                                      $432.33


went to Court on Monday 19th- dined in


yesterday at [Maben?] Hobsen's, M. Fleming, Julien


H. & Tom Curd there.rained all night last


night (20th & 21st) Weather dark and drissly


 to day- (21st) sorting my Irish potatoes


Jany 21-Day lowering-walked to Fontaine


landing saw Capt. Philpots who sold 9 ½


bush. potatoes at $42- I paid him $5 for his trouble-getting from him $37—GNS


wrote me he sold my vegetables mentioned back


(15th) at $31.50 for celery and leeks and $2.50


[page 5]


1863


for celery sent by gardiners—Captain Phil


pots agrees to take down remainder of my


planks next trip.


 


1863 Feb. 18th.


 


[page 6]


1863 January 24th


                                                Servants’ Vaccination


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Drewry



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Sittleten



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Jane



L. Primus



Ann



Margann 5



Robert



Edward



Re[wisdr?]



Zack



 



Lucy Ann



Cara



 



Mary (Ellen's)



Jim



 



Manuel



Pleasant



 



Sally 10



L. David



 



Elizabeth



Andrew



 



Charlotte



Van



 



Diana



Moses



 



Mary Bryer



Frederic



 



L. Amy 15



Henry



 



Louisa



Joe



 



John Martin



Jim Br[uce?]



 



Lewis



Hannah



 



Peter



Ellen



 



Angelina 20



Emma



 



Flora



L. Sarah



 



Mary (Venus)



Fanny



 



Catherine



Aggy



 



Susan



Jordan



 



Maria 25



Washington 50



 



[page 7]


1863


Feb. 18th Paid J. Thompson jr by ck [ck is underscored twice] on Farmers Bk


$200. balance for Holman’s mother who


had been paid for by J.T. jr. He will give


me bill of sale for her when Holman


pays me the $200 due he will be owner


of his mother but legal title will be in me


as Holman not having been legally emancipated


cannot hold a slave.


Feb. 22 Snowed all night last night and


moderately all day to day very cold


Feb. 23 Clear and cold snow coverages I suppose


10 or 12 inches deep.


Feb. 24. clear Therm. in Passage 17 1/2 [degree mark] A [also an identical line is drawn above this for added emphasis] I think


one day this winter it has been as low as 16 [degree mark]


# Steamer Ship Baltic (American Packet)


See “Living Age”? No. 478 P. 168


Length 283 Feet Breadth 45 feet-depth 32


Tonnage 2723=


 


 


 


March 1st E. J. Perkins Kents’ store Fluvanna


Mr. Robt Hicks & E.J.P.came here to day


News. capt. Hanley English Royl Artillery said to be


Author of “Lady Lee's Widowhood”?


[page 8]


1863       *


March 21-Saturday evening. Commenced


snowing on Thursday evening 19th and snowed


all night and all day yesterday some little


last night. this morning snow about 1 foot


deep. gloomy and somewhat drisly all to-


day-I see that Lieut. Selden Harris


son of Madison Harris was killed in Bat.


tle on Tuesday 17th near Culpepper C.H.


at same time Major Pelham of Stew-


art’s Artillery was killed about this


date sent money to Miss B.M. Philpots to pay my


postage to Jany 1st 63.


March 26th River very high all over low grounds


April 3rd. Dr Harris gate opening 10 ‘6”? consigned


by gate should be about 11’2”?


Apl. 6th Monday-Bolling Weisiger paid me


$16- to buy 2 bush. p[?] blows ‘tatoes of


Rand. Harrison.


[page 9]


1863


May 10th-Events of a most startling


fearful and wonderful character have


taken place in our County of Goochd.


within the last 10 days of which I


here make a memorandum just according


to my memory and my impressions


on this day one week ago-May 3 4th [4 is scratched out and 3 added above].


Mr. Andrew Leaks called to see me


about 10 o’clock A.M. with a message


from his father that there was a large


body of Yankee Cavalry over about


Haydensville taking homes and doing other


mischief. I went down to Dogtown at once


where I found Mr. W.D. Leaks, Budwell,


Capt. Hill and others-The result of our


conference was that with the very small force


that we could collect-that the only thing we


could do was to get some young men


action & well mounted to reconoiter and


bring intelligence of the movements of the


Yankees which might decide our inhabi


tants as to what steps were to be taken to


protect our persons or property. I came


home to dinner, and learned from Mr.


Colly that the Yanks were about Columbia


                After dinner  I took Holman in the


[page 10]


buggy with me and drove up the road, determining


to learn all I could-on my way up I met


with several persons who endeavored to dissuade


me from going further that they had certain


information that the yanks were destroying


the property of the Allan’s (Bird Creek)


Harrisons of Elk Hill and others. I


continued my drive (resolved to learn


something certain before I came back) to


Elk Hill-there I learned that the Yanks


had just left the plantation abt 15 minutes


before I got there having burnt the long


Bridge connecting Elk Island with main


land-many canal bridges, doing a good


deal of destruction on [word scratched out] the Allan


estates-that they had failed in an


attempt to blow up Columbia aqueduct


and that they were gone to Thomp=


sons X Roads in Louisa County-


In the night Mr. Budwell came over


here about 12 11 or 12 o’clock-and


told Mr Andrew Leake and Mr. W. B. Kean


had gone up 3 chopped road and learn


ed that the enemy was massed in


large force about Thompson & Haydensville


about 10,000 in number-I afterwards


[page 11]


learned that the forces belonged to Stoneman’s


Division Yank. Cavalry 15.000 in number [about?]


was out on a raid imitating Stewarts


“raid”? into Maryland and Pennsylvania


with the purpose further of destroying rail


roads, canals, telegraphs &c-and


also of making a finish of Genl. Lee’s


Army when it should be defeated and


routed by “Fighting Joe”? Hooker.


On Monday morning about 5 o’clock I sent


Holman out towards Mike Parish’s on very


black mare to see what he could learn


About 12 M. I ascertained he had been


taken prisoner by the Yanks-and that


the Yanks had him at Goochd C.H.


                My wife insisted I should go to Powhatan


accordingly I at once went over to Belmead


where I found a good many of my neighbors


with servants and mules. That evening


Jane sent 2 servants with 6 best mules


having heard others reports. Tuesday morning


John came over and told me that


Holman had been released-had gotten home


at 10 P.M. Monday [word scratched out] that they had


kept my black mare but given him another


horse.


[page 12]


I immediately (Tuesday 11 A.M. 5 May) left


Belmead for my mothers. I got there to


dinner staid till Thursday mine & Bud=


will‘s teams were sent there (to S. E.) got


to Mr. Cockes to dinner staid there all


night got home Friday morning 8th- under-


stood the enemy were all gone-


Our troops under Genl. Lee engaged


Joe Hooker’s Yankee army on Friday, Saturday


Sunday and gained he says “a great


Victory”?


 


 


Monday-11th May-I this day got 4 bud


potatoes from John B. Cocke, Belmead


and gave him check on Farmers bank


$55-of which $15 was for Mr. J.B.


Bud[oc?]k (who paid me) and $40 for my


self I also returned him 3 bush corn


which he furnished my hands and teams


T. Bolling came with me home to dinner


[page 13]


1863


May 16 Sheared sheep today


39 ewes 4 wethers 8 Rams


in all 51 sheep-yield


196 lbs wool average 3 lbs 13 44/100 on


to sheep-last year average4 lbs 8 oz


and several years ago I think 6 lbs


to the sheep. have on hand today


39 grown ewes                 2 ewes missing


   4 " wethers           1 lamb killed


   8 " Rams                 1 Ram sold Edwd


14 Lamb-ewes


  6 " Rams


  9 " wethers


80 Head of sheep in all May 16, 1863


The Rams and wethers very fat-the


ewes thin-lambs good-many small


The reason of having so many rams in


hand is that I left them to be eaten as


lambs last year but we did not consume


them.-


 


that day are now dead J.C. Rutherford-


Mrs Lavinia Harrison-Judge Field’s son & Judge Field. [These notes enclosed on left side by one large parentheses mark]


[page 14]


[numeric calculation at top of page]


5280       23350 (442


                21120


                22300


                211200


                121000


                         1


 


 


 


 


June 8th 1863. This day driving from J.C.


Rutherfords home [illeg] [illeg] Red gate


party Confed. Engines-told me dist. from


Licking Hob Bridge to Red Gate is 1 mile-


2335 feet = 1.442 miles


June 9th 63 sold Edward 1 young ram


Butchered weighing 54 ½ lbs $54 50/100 paid


Mrs. McJ[?] and 4 children came


up this morning's packed-


I dined with Julien H. today J.C. Ruth


erford went with me


(July 22 1870 in looking over this I remem=


ber a talk I had with John Rutherford on the


day above June 9-63 I remarked to him I would


compromise with our lands and liberties. It seem to


strike him fearfully as possibly a good Com


promise but he did’nt like to give up. I rem


ember 4 of parties who dined at Harrison                            


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