Following is the set of footnotes associated with research of the transcription of the July 1856 diary entries by Lorette Shepard & John Hamilton. These footnotes are also interspersed and embedded within the transcription.
- Sally Putnam ♢ She was the oldest child of Isaac Quance and Mehitable Powers, and wife of Warren Putnam (1811-1901) and Prudence Johnson (1784-1844). Sally lived on East Road, Batavia.
- sheep ♢ The Shepard's raised feeder lambs, fattened them over the winter, and sold them in the spring, primarily in Buffalo, which was considered the best "fat" lamb city in the northeast.
- Billy Ware ♢ Billy born in England, owned 180-acre Cedardale Farm on Ellicott Street Road, Batavia, which had 80 acres of cedar swamp bordered on the west by Tonawanda Creek and on the east by Celery Brook.
- Doctor Northrup ♢ Dr. Northrup, born in Connecticut in 1818, he began his medical practice in Batavia in 1840. He built his house located at 315 East Main Street Batavia around 1850.
- George Shepard ♢ George 22 was the oldest child of the twelve children of Asahel Shepard. George's mother was Jane Newcomb Shepard, who died in 1843.
- Uncle Coville ♢ Richard married Lorette’s father’s sister, Phebe Shepard, in 1848; second marriage for both of them.
- commenced keeping house ♢ This possibly meant John and Lorette now had their own living space, like an apartment, in her parent’s home.
- Baptist Church ♢ The Bethany Center Baptist Church was built in 1826 on land donated by Abner Ashley. The church was also known as the church on the hill. Maple Lawn Cemetery is located next to the church.
- Joel Rogers little boy ♢ Joel Rogers 50 and wife Mary Elizabeth Sherman 43 lived in Centerville, Allegany County in the 1855 census with Mary A 23 and Byron 15. The child who died may have been their second son, who would have been born around 1854.
- Dan Shepard ♢ Daniel 21 and his brother Franklin Putnam Shepard 26, were sons of James and Amanda Putnam Shepard.
- Frank ♢ Frank suffered from inflammation of the joints and muscles.
- Mrs. Northrup ♢ Julia, Charles Northrups wife, was a daughter of Horace Gibbs (1787-1875) and Elaine Mack (1786-1864). Horace was a Mormon who had at one time lived in Batavia and operated a daily line of stage coaches between Buffalo and Canandaigua. Around 1845 he took his wife and several of his adult children and traveled across the plains with Brigham Young to Salt Lake City, Utah. There Horace had two more wives. Julia’s mother, Elaine, was a second cousin of LDS Prophet Joseph Smith’s mother. Julia's sister, Laura Ann Gibbs (1814-1893) had four husbands, and the story of her life appears on Findagrave.com/memorial/17933516/Laura-ann-gibbs
- Mr. Ludden ♢ Dexter 17 was the young man who had been at Lorette’s parents’ house working for the past few days. He born in Bennington, Wyoming County, NY and lived in Batavia during the 1860 census.
- Caroline Smith ♢ When Caroline was 9, her mother, Hannah Cory Bristol died. Her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth (Cory) Powers (1789-1842) took her in. She was the wife of Webster Powers (1788-1850).
- Aunt Sarah Shepard ♢ Sarah 38 was Asahel Shepard’s second wife. They married about 1844, after his first wife Jane Newcomb died in Wethersfield. The newly married couple and his six children then moved to the corner of Batavia-Bethany Townline and Francis Roads in Bethany. Sarah was a daughter of Stephen Badger Bartlett (1774-1830) and Anna Nurse (1782-1878) and born in Monroe County.
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