6/1/1857 Monday. A large wash, John washed sheep to day his brother James helped him. Sarah & Eunice called at night.
JCH: Washed sheep with Mr. Showerman at Canada. James Hamilton helped me. Had quite a time with the sheep.
6/2/1857 Tuesday. Tuesday. Malvina took another lesson. I commenced binding my Compass bed quilt. I made a green currant pie for the first.
JCH: Drew stone for the bridge for the old barn.
6/3/1857 Wednesday. Pleasant with a fine shower at night. I sent off a firkin of butter. This is John's birthday. Malvina & I called to aunt Julia Brainerd.
JCH: Drew stone all day. Quite a heavy shower just at night. Sold a pig to Mr. Benedict for one dollar.
6/4/1857 Thursday. I scalded over the lard., Ma’s & mine. Elizebeth visited here. She & I called to Mr. Lyman’s at night. John at work on the road.
JCH: Worked on the road all day. Worked out three days worth. Fixed the road between here & Osgood Putnams. Cool & cloudy.
6/5/1857 Friday. Pleasant but cool. Hellen, Malvina & I visited to aunt Sally Hawley’s. Good visit. Mr Lyman is putting up a new home.
JCH: Drew stone in the afternoon. Lorette went up to Mr. Hawleys & drove the horse. I pulled tair in the afternoon.
6/6/12857 Saturday. Doing housework most all day. We called to Israels in the evening. Our folks do not get home yet.
JCH: Drew stone all day. Cool with a prospect of rain. Went over to J. Quance in the evening.
6/7/1857 Sunday. A fine shower this morning. We attended the 5 oclock meeting. Ben Moore preached. (uneasy).
JCH: Rain last night & this morning, a fine shower. Went down to hear Mr Moore preach at five o clock. The little grunter dug up some corn to day, I’ll fix them.
6/8/1857 Monday. I washed two bed quilts. Willard Quance helped John a little while afternoon.
JCH: Drawing stone. Willard Quance helped me in the afternoon. It rained some to day.
6/9/1857 Tuesday. Malvina & I & Hellen visited to uncle Asahel Shepard afternoon. Uncle Nelson brought us home. Henry Smith called again. The foolish fellow.
JCH: Planted over my corn this morning where the old barn stood. The hens & pigs got in all day over. Finished the ground in the meadow.
6/10/1857 Wednesday. Elizebeth here we had a baked pig for dinner. Josiah Putnam came after me to go to his house. He has got a melodeon double reeded. His girl is coming to take lessons.
JCH: Drew stone in the forenoon in the back lot. Afternoon finished pulling tair out of my wheat. It looks very well.
6/11/1857 Thursday. Rained hard all day. John helped Henry shear sheep. Mr. Shepard here afternoon. He says that Mr. Marsh & uncle Asahel had bought melodeons. He let me have a book.
JCH: Mr. Shepard melodeon man here. Sheared sheep for Henry Showerman. It rained hard all day. We turned the sheep out into clover lot. They filled themselves so full & the rain coming on to them, 3 of them died.
6/12/1857 Friday. John went to the village, got him a hat & a pair of pants. I am fixing my green Berage dress for Malvina.
JCH: Went down to Batavia with James Quance. After noon drew stone until it rained. Wet & showery.
6/13/1857 Saturday. John went to Peter Putnams auction. Considerable housework. I heard that Jerome Putnam was married last Tuesday.
JCH: Went through part of my corn to day to out the cut worm & plant over. Went up to the Putnam sale. Had a good ball play in the afternoon. Over fifty played. Showery.
6/14/1857 Sunday. At home all day. Frank Shepard here to dinner. John, Malvina & I called to Warren Putnams. They have got a melodeon, they think of having their girl or girls take lessons.
JCH: Did not attend meeting to day. Went down to Warren Putnams to see his new melodeon. Seventy five dollars a very good one. Cool & cloudy.
6/15/1857 Monday. Malvina & I called to Peters. They have been to Somerset. Our folks do not get home yet. It is strange.
JCH: Drew stone in the forenoon on the back lot. Very stormy. After noon cultivating, our corn rather small. The cut worm destroyed considerable & pigeons.
6/16/1857 Tuesday. I worked on Vina’s dress. Amelia Putnam took another lesson. Delora Marsh came down & took a lesson.
JCH: It rained most all day, getting very wet. Delora Marsh & Amelia Putnam came here to take music lessons of Lorette. James Shepard got a bushel & a half of buck wheat.
6/17/1857 Wednesday. Olive Powers & Helen Showerman visited here this forenoon. Wm Hamilton & Laura & Jannett Shepard visited here afternoon. Jannett took her first lesson.
JCH: 6/17/1857 Drew stone most all day. Wm Hamilton here in the afternoon. The ground very wet.
6/18/1857 Thursday. A rainy day. Lydia Ann Loomis & Helen Showerman, aunt Sarah Shepard visited here. That crazy Smith called here.
JCH: Drew stone all day when it did not rain. Broke my stone boat. Mr Loomis called here.
6/19/1857 Friday. Delora Marsh here again. Aunt Sally Hawley here all day. Amelia took a lesson. Our folks came home to night. Charlie has grown a great deal.
JCH: Drew stone in the forenoon. After noon pulled tair in the lot north of the barn. It rained some to day. Father & mother Shepard came home tonight.
6/20/1857 Saturday. John helped his father shear sheep. I finished fixing Malvina’s green dress. Olive called here with a letter from Lorinda. She is no better.
JCH: Sheared sheep for father. Went over to Mr. Cummings to a raising. A very large shed 100 feet long.
6/21/1857 Sunday. John & I started to go to meeting up south there was not any. We went in the swamp at night.
JCH: Started to go up south to meeting, met Calvin Loomis who heard there was none to day. Went around on the Creek Road home.
6/22/1857 Monday. We washed together. Heard that Philinda Putnam is worse.
JCH: Commenced plowing the summer fallow this morning. Scattered some manure that was piled in heaps, not much rotten. A heavy shower very wet.
6/23/1857 Tuesday. Emaline & I took a lesson. Delora & her mother came here this morning. They paid me for the instruction books. Amelia, Jannett came. Sarah & Miss Boylan the school teacher called.
JCH: Plowing & drawing manure all day. It did not rain to day.
6/24/1857 Wednesday. Mother Hamilton came back from Hamilton. John carried her home. Ma & I went to the village. I got me a lawn dress pattern paid 4$. I got some books for the girls.
JCH: Plowing this forenoon. Mother came back from Hamilton & I carried her up home. Wm Benedict came down to work for me. We drew out manure. Some appearance of rain.
6/25/1857 Thursday. Grandmother Showerman here all day. Wm Benedict & James Hamilton worked here hoeing corn. I commenced making a waist for Malvina. Sarah West is married to day.
JCH: Wm Benedict & James Hamilton worked for me to day in the corn. I was plowing Father Shepard helped me in the afternoon.
6/26/1857 Friday. Pleasant quite warm. Gave the girls all a lesson, but Amelia Putnam, she did not come on account of Philinda. She is very miserable. I had workman to day.
JCH: I was plowing, Wm & James at work & father Shepard. Quite warm & pleasant.
6/27/1857 Saturday. Martha Green & Maria Gardner called. Very warm, had workmen till afternoon. Vina & I went over to Peter’s. I fixed my cape some. Ma went to see aunt Sally Hawley, she is sick. Emily Bryan called.
JCH: I plowed in the forenoon. Wm & James , father Shepard & Mr. Osborn at work for me they finished about two oclock. Father Shepard went to mill in the afternoon up south.
6/28/1857 Sunday. Very warm. We attended the 5 oclock meeting at stone schoolhouse.
JCH: Quite warm & pleasant which will make the corn grow which is needed.
6/29/1857 Monday. A heavy shower this afternoon. Sewing on Malvina’s waist.
JCH: Finished plowing east of the barn & ganged over the place where the old barn stood. Worked some in the garden. Very wet & a heavy shower in the afternoon.
6/30/1857 Tuesday. Philinda Putnam died last night of consumption. The girls all came & took their lesson but Amelia Putnam.
JCH: Philinda Putnam died last night of consumption. Commenced plowing in the back lot rather too wet but it is getting so late that I had to commence. Cool & cloudy.
Read the Next or Previous diary transcription.
See the June 1857 footnotes.
