1891 MEMORANDA

MEMORANDA

January 26th 1891

Fred Blackden got our team to commence work this morning hauling bark for Will Wilson.

March 26th 1891

B.F. Pierce, Esq. Came here today to acknowledge a deed I gave to Harden’s wife, Anna M.
Fulton and a lease gave to me and wife for life by Anna M. and Harden Fulton of the said lot
of land.               R.M. Fulton

Apr. 21st 1891

Red Heifer calved this afternoon.

14th

Fred Blackden moved here this morning.

December 1891

1   Tue   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Hauled one load of wood in forenoon. Harden went to help Jim

thrash in the P.M.

2   Wed Cloudy and warm with a West wind. Quite warm and soft. I was home all day. Harden was helping Jim to thrash.

3   Thu   Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. The snow melting off all day. I was home all day. Harden was helping Jim thrash. I had a lame side.

4 Fri    Clear and warm with a SE wind. Very foggy in the morning. Harden went to Knoxford.

5 Sat    Cloudy and cool with a West wind. I was home all day. Harden went to Blaine to get horses

shawed. Mr. Dollif here.

6   Sun   Some clouds with a cool NW wind. We was home all day. Evelyn Fulton and Nell Mahan called

in today. Mrs. Hutchinson called in the evening.

7   Mon Warm with a NE snow. Commenced in the night. Snowed a little all day. About three inches of

snow fell. We housed our bees today.

8 Tue   Clear and warm with a West wind. We was hauling manure all day. Manured my garden today.

9 Wed Some clouds with a warm SE wind. Me and Harden hauled wood all day on bobsled. Two inches

of snow on the ground.

10 Thu   Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Me and Harden killed our hogs today. So ends the day.

11 Fri     Cloudy and warm with a West wind. W.W. Larrabee here to tea. I cut up my hog. Harden went to

Knoxford.

12 Sat   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden came from Knoxford this morning.

Fred here tonight.

13 Sun   Some clouds with a cool West wind. I was home all day today. Fred Blackden here all night.

Left P.M.

14 Mon Some clouds with a cold NW wind. I was home all day choring. Harden worked for John Aharon.

15 Tue   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. A.M. and P.M. NE wind. Commenced to snow in the evening.

16 Wed Cold blustering snow storm in the night and all day today. Me and Harden went to Blaine and

too my cow out to butchers and sold it.

17 Thu   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was choring all day. We moved our water barrel! in the

house.

18 Fri    Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. I called to Jim’s and Harden’s. R. Bell and

wife here.

19 Sat   Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. Old Mrs. Bartley was here to tea. Me and Harden and

R. Bell got sled benches.

20 Sun  Some clouds with a warm NW wind. We was home all day. J.W. Fulton and wife here to tea.

21 Mon Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. I was killing fowls for sale and went to

factory. Harden and wife here.

22 Tue   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I went to Blaine with Mod and pung. Bought overcoat and

overshoes at Brown and Bubars. G.W. Fulton here.

23 Wed Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. Me and Harden hauled up six loads of spalts.

G.W. Fulton and wife here. Commenced to rain and snow tonight.

24 Thu   cloudy and warm with a West wind. Harden worked this afternoon at sled benches. G.W. Fulton here tonight. Perry O. Cox here tonight.

25 Fri    Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Myself and wife to dinner at Arthur Hutchinson’s.

26 Sat   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind and very foggy all day. Snow most all off and raining some in

the afternoon. No sledding.

27 Sun   Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Perry Cox here to dinner. So ends

the day.

28 Mon Monday cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Some signs of a storm. I was making a sled bench.

29 Tue   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of a storm soon. John Bartley here to tea. So ends the

day.

30 Wed Cold with a SE rain all day till six o’clock this evening. Wind shifted to the NW and snowed and

blowed heavy.

31 Thu   Cold with a NW snow storm all night and all day today and very heavy wind. It came 3 or 4 inches of snow. So endss the present year of our Lord 1891. If we are spared through another year, may God grant us grace to live more to his honor and glory.

November 1891

1    Sun   Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. I was home all day. It rained in the night and showery today.

Perry O. Cox here tonight.

2 Mon Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was thrashing today. High winds and very cold.

3 Tue   Clear and cold with a NW wind. We finished our thrashing today., 370 bushels in all. I called to

see James Giberson.

4    Wed Clear and cold with a West wind. Finished putting our straw in today. Harden took turnips over

for Fred in the afternoon.

5    Thu   Some clouds and cold with a SW wind. I put my turnips out of the shed into the cellar today.

McNinch, the peddler, was here today.

6    Fri    Clear and cool with a West wind. Harden went to the Mill today and took some for himself and

some for me.

7    Sat   Clear and warm with a SE wind. Fred A. Blackden moved today. Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Larrabee is

here. Dolly, Alice and Stella here.

8    Sun  Clear and warm with a South wind. Stella left here today for West Ridge. Her future home or

supposed to be.

9 Mon Clear and warm with a SE wind. I banked part of the house today and got my dry wood in.

10 Tue   Clear and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden went away to Bridgewater this

morning.

11 Wed Moderate rain during the night and all day today and still raining at bedtime. So ends the day.

12 Thu   Some clouds with a warm SW wind. We commenced to plow for the first this Fall up at Harden’s. H. Lindsey here.

13 Fri     Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden was plowing Green Sword. G. W.

Fulton and wife here.

14 Sat   Cool with a SE wind and heavy squalls of snow. We was hauling manure. NW wind and cold.

15 Sun  Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. G.W. Fulton and wife left here today.

16 Mon Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Me and Harden went out to the factory this morning with

horse and wagon.

17 Tue   Warm SE rain most all day and is still raining at bedtime. All appearance of a heavy rain storm.

18 Wed Cloudy and cold with a NW wind and some squalls of snow. We was plowing sod all day by

Harden’s.

19 Thu   Clear and cold with a SE wind. Very hard freeze. We was hauling manure all day today. Democrate Wood, paper ajent here.

20 Fri    Some clouds with a cold SE wind. Me and Harden was hauling manure all day today.

21 Sat   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day choring. Harden went to store with fowls.

22 Sun  Very cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Wife was home all day. I called to Jim’s and Harden’s.

23 Mon Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was plowing Green Sword all day. Signs of rain soon.

24 Tue   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was choring all day. Harden plowed Green Sword all day. No

frost.

25 Wed Cool with a NW wind. I was choring all day. Harden was plowing Green Sword all day.

26 Thu   Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Myself and wife took Thanksgiving Dinner at Harden’s.

We plowed all day at my place.

27 Fri    Commenced snowing in the night and kept on snowing till noon from the SE. Five inches fell.

The most this Fall.

28 Sat   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I brought my two lambs from Harden’s. We hauled two loads of wood this afternoon. Wild Geese today.

29 Sun   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Four or five inches of snow on the ground. Pretty fair sledding.

30 Mon Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was hauling wood today on the long sled.PM

So Ends the Month of November

October 1891

1   Thu   Clear and cool with a West wind. Heavy frost. I finished digging my potatoes tonight. Twenty

two bushels of Early Rose, my own.

2 Fri     Some clouds with a SW wind. Some signs of rain. Jim Cox’s wife called in tonight.

3 Sat    Clear and warm with a SW wind. I drove down to Gill Blanchard’s this morning for to settle. Took dinner at R. Bell’s. Sold the Dyer note to John York.

4   Sun  Some clouds with a warm North wind. I was home all day. Harden and wife went to Knoxford.

Fred and wife to Hawksley’s.

5   Mon Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Rained some in the afternoon. Harden took 14 bbls of potatoes

to the factory today. So ends the day.

6   Tue   Some clouds with a cold NW wind. We was digging potatoes all day and hauling in. Quite cold

tonight.

7 Wed Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. We was digging potatoes all day and hauling in.

8 Thu   Cold with a SE rain commencing in the night and raining all day and still raining at bedtime.

Frank Blackden here today. Fred went to his father’s.

9   Fri    Cool and cloudy all day with a NW wind. I carried 10 bbls of potatoes from the barn. Fred came

tonight. Left the colt.

10 Sat   Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was digging potatoes today. A.J. Fulton, M.D. and G.W.

Fulton called.

11 Sun   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. There was a little sprinkle of snow this morning. Aaron and

George called today.

12 Mon Clear and cold with a NW wind. Ground froze hard. We was digging and hauling in potatoes.

13 Tue   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We finished digging and hauling in our potatoes this afternoon. Signs of rain.

14 Wed Cold with a NE rain most all day. Fred went to Bridgewater today for Dr. Fulton. His mother is

sick. Brought Alice with him. Took tea and went home.

15 Thu   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Fred had Mod to take over a load of

potatoes today. Mrs. Rideout and Mrs. Hallett here. I pulled beets.

16 Fri    Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I went to Blaine to Jed Nichols for Harden. Called to York and

Luce. Sold a box of eggs $1.50. Stopped at Larrabee’s and the Post Office. Got my mail. Wife was sick.

17 Sat   Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was getting dry wood today for winter. Fred went to Centreville to get his mare shawed. Harden got his house plastered.

18 Sun   Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. Dr. A.J. Fulton and son and R. Bell and wife, L.H. Fulton

and wife here today.

19 Mon Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. We commenced to pull our turnips today. Mrs. McDonald

here today on a visit.

20 Tue   Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was pulling turnips. There was a little rain. Harden brought his colt home tonight.

21 Wed Cloudy and cool with a SE rain in the night. Cloudy all day today and some rain. We finished

pulling and hauling in our turnips.

22 Thu   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I turned down my plum trees this afternoon. We finished topping our turnips today.

23 Fri     Cloudy and cold with a NE wind in the forenoon. Commenced snowing in the afternoon. Quite

cold. Still snowing at bedtime. I was pulling off beans.

24 Sat    Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Snowed and blowed all the previous night. John Lindsey and

boy took dinner here. I banked the house today.

25 Sun  Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Froze hard. Will Cox called here today. So ends the day.

26 Mon Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Froze quite hard. Me and Harden went to Blaine and took out

eight bbls of turnips and sold them.

27 Tue   Cold with a NW snow and rain all day but melted as fast as it fell. I pulled my cabbage.

28 Wed Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Froze hard. We moved the stove in today. Harden went to the

Mill.

29 Thu   Clear and cold with a NW wind. Harden went to the Mill and got our grist, ten bushels of

buckwheat. I went to Blaine and got flour.

30 Fri     Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Win and Frank Shaw commenced thrashing this afternoon,

seventy six bushels.

31 Sat   Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. The men went home tonight, 132 bushels of buckwheat. Will

be back Monday to thrash.

So Ends the Month of October

September 1891

1   Tue   Cloudy and warm with an East wind. It commenced to rain about two o’clock. Samuel Boone

and son left this morning.

2 Wed Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. We finished mowing buckwheat over the brook today.

3 Thu   Clear and warm with a SE wind. We finished mowing peas and oats below the barn today.

4 Fri    Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Harden and Fred was mowing grain today. EH Fletcher was

here. We payed him all up.

5 Sat   Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We finished cutting all our oats and buckwheat today.

6 Sun   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It rained most of the afternoon. G.W. Fulton and W.W. Larrabee

called.

7   Mon Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Commenced raining in the evening. Dorothy Bell and two

children here.

8   Tue   Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I took a tub of butter and ten and 1/2 dozen eggs to B.F. Pierce

today. Mrs. Bell went home.

9   Wed Clear and cold with a NW wind. Heavy frost and done some damage. Rained before night. We

smoked out a bee hive. So ends the day.

10 Thu   Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We was raking up grain and hauling in today.

11 Fri    Clear and cool with a NW wind. We finished hauling in our oats today. I dug some potatoes.

12 Sat    Clear and warm with a SE wind. We finished hauling in peas and oats. Fred and Stella went over

on West Ridge tonight.

13 Sun   Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. Some signs of rain. Fred came home

tonight. Left Stella to father’s.

14 Mon Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was digging potatoes and Harden and Fred was pulling beans.

15 Tue   Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Appearance of frost. Harden and Fred was pulling beans.

16 Wed Some clouds and cool with a SW wind. Heavy frost. We finished putting in the last of our grain.

17 Thu   Clear and warm with a SW wind. Harden drove out to B.F. Pierce’s. Fred went over on West

Ridge.

18 Fri    Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Commenced to thunder in the morning quite early but no rain till about noon. Thundered and rained till 9 o’clock.

19 Sat   Clear and cool with a West wind. I drove out to B.F. Pierce and took dinner at Larrabee’s. Took

plums and apples and got sugar at York’s. Called at Bell’s.

20 Sun  Some clouds and warm with a West wind. I was home all day. Ephraim Lawrence and Perry O. Cox here to tea. L.H. Fulton and wife and Fred and Wife to Straight’s.

21 Mon Rained most all day. Wind from the NW. I sent the lamb to Luce & York by H. Everitt. John Boyd  here today. Still rainy looking.

22 Tue   Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. Sam Fulton here to dinner. Harden and Fred went to Knoxford tonight. (Samuel D. Fulton, age 43, is the 6th born of Thomas and Margaret Fulton

of Knoxford, N.B. Samuel, named after his grandfather, Samuel Fulton. Sam and his wife, Elevia, had children: Mack, Harvey, Ella, Elizabeth and Blanche Fulton)

23 Wed Clear and cool with a NW wind. I was digging my potatoes in the garden today. Harden and Fred

got in five bbis in the cellar.

24 Thu   Cloudy and some rain till noon. Cleared off about noon. Fred went over to his father’s and back again.

25 Fri    Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. We was digging potatoes all day. Viola Hill and Sada

Gray and Nell Mahan all here. Mrs. G. Hallett here and Mrs. J.W. Fulton.

26 Sat    Clear and warm with a SW wind. We was digging and hauling in Potatoes all day. Sam Fulton

called.

27 Sun   Some clouds and cool with a SW wind. Len Bartley and wife and two children and Hanes and

wife called.

28 Mon Clear and warm with a SW wind. I went to Blaine and got Mod shawed. Mr. Watten is here tonight.

29 Tue   Clear and warm with a SW wind. J. Watten left here this morning. Harden took 12 bbis of potatoes to the factory at 35 cents per bbl.

30 Wed Clear and cold with a NW wind. Mr. James Fulton from Nova Scotia, my cousin, and Will Squires called here. (Nothing more mentioned about grandfather’s cousin from Nova Scotia)

August 1891

1 Sat   Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Quite showery all afternoon but we hauled in three loads of hay.

2 Sun   Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Jim Rundlet and wife and Mr. Blackden and wife here on a visit.

3 Mon Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I took a tub of butter to Fred Lowell today. 50 lbs @ 16 Cents

per pound.

4   Tue   Clear and warm with a NW wind. Sewing Circle here today. Twelve females and one male. (The

earliest church in Mars Hill is the East Ridge Union Church. It came about as a result of the East Ridge Sewing Circle, which had started in 1877. These ladies wanted to have a meeting house, and by ice cream sales, quilting bees, and various other fundraising techniques, they raised enough money to get started.)

5 Wed Clear and warm with a NW wind. We was using the mowing machine today. Hauled in one big load.

6 Thu   Some clouds with a warm NW wind. A good hay day. Mowed some, raked and hauled in 5 loads.

7 Fri    Some clouds with a warm SE wind. Commenced to rain about noon and rained till bedtime.

8 Sat    Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden went up to John Bartley’s

this afternoon.

9   Sun   Clear and warm with a NW wind. Ed Cain here today on a visit. Myself and wife went up to

Straight’s on a visit.

10 Mon Rained heavy this morning. Cleared off about noon. Harden and Fred raked hay in the afternoon.

11 Tue   Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We finished mowing today. George W. Fulton and wife

called here.

12 Wed Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Rained most all day with heavy thunder shower. The weather looks unsettled yet.

13 Thu   Clear and cool with a NW wind. We finished haying today. Perry Cox and a Wiggin’s boy called.

(The Wiggins boy was likely Thomas Wiggins, age 14, son of Benjamin and Melisie Wiggins who lived just across the lines)

14 Fri    Dull and rainy morning. I went to the Post Office today and took dinner at Larrabee’s. Sent one

dollar to the Star Herald.

15 Sat   Cloudy and warm with a North wind. I was home all day. Commenced raining about noon. Old man Blackden and wife here today. (Napoleon B. Blackden, born March 5,1823, was seven years younger than Robert M Fulton, but still earned the title ‘old man.’)

16 Sun   Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Rain the previous night. Perry Cox here all night. Went today. Fred came home tonight.

17 Mon Clear and warm with a NW wind. We mowed four bushels of oats today for the first. Clear and

cool tonight.

18 Tue   Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. It rained from 8 o’clock AM to 2 PM heavy. Fred started

blueberrying.

19 Wed Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I gathered 1/2 bushel of cucumbers today. Viola Gray

called here this morning.

20 Thu   Some clouds and cold with a SE wind. Fred is away after blueberries. John Lindsey and wife

here tonight. Some frost.

21 Fri    Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Commenced to rain about one o’clock. It rained heavy till

bedtime. John Lindsey and wife left this morning.

22 Sat   Warm rain all the previous night and all day today. W.W. Larrabee and wife and family here. Fred and Stella came home.

23 Sun   Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. W.W. Larrabee and family, John Lindsey and wife, R. Bell and

wife, Fred and wife here.

24 Mon Warm and cloudy with a SE wind. Signs of rain this evening.

25 Tue   Cloudy and very warm with some showers today. The wind from the SE.

26 Wed Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. Myself and wife went out to the store. Called to R.Bell’s.

27 Thu   Clouds and warm with a SE wind. Elder Barker here to dinner today. Myself and went to Len

Bartley’s today. Got Roles.

28 Fri    Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Drizzling rain all day and still raining heavy at bedtime. Rusty and dull weather for grain. Potatoes all rusty.

29 Sat    Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We commenced to cut our buckwheat this morning over the

brook.

30 Sun   Cool and cloudy all day with a NE wind. Dr. A.J. Fulton’s wife and son here. Came here last

night.

31 Mon Some clouds with a NE wind. We mowed some buckwheat and hauled in two loads of oats.

July 1891

1 Wed Clear and warm with a NW wind. A stranger by the name of Swim took dinner here.

2 Thu   Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. R. Bell and Robert Ford and B. Hawksley to supper.

3 Fri     Dull and foggy this morning with a SE wind. I took a firkin of butter to Jones, 54 lbs gross wgt.

4 Sat   Cloudy and warm with a SE wind in the forenoon. Fred and Stella and Harden and wife went to

Blaine and spent the day. It rained heavy.

5   Sun   Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. It thundered and rained heavy in the afternoon. Perry O. Cox

here tonight. So ends the day.

6 Mon Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Quite rainy today. I sold my young cattle today to York.

7 Tue   Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. D. Irven and wife, David Lawrence and wife from Knoxford,

Carleton County, N.B. here.       (David and Jane Irvine, ages 59 & 55, children David, Jr., Horace, and Addie: David and Elizabeth Lawrence, ages 55 & 46, children John, Eliphalet, Jessie and Ida Dyer: These two families lived next to Samuel Fulton and Thomas Fulton, Jr. on the Knoxford Road)

8 Wed Cold with a NE wind. Old man Fletcher here today. John Hawksley called here today.

9 Thu   Come clouds with a NW wind. Frank Blackden here tonight. The Gray girls called.

10 Fri     Clear and cool with a NW wind. We was hoeing potatoes most all day today with the horse hoe

and hilling up.

11 Sat    Clear and warm with a SW wind. Dot and Frank Larrabee here tonight. I finished hoeing potatoes.

12 Sun   Some clouds with a warm West wind. We was home all day. W.W. Larrabee and wife here to tea.

13 Mon Some clouds with a warm West wind. Some rain through the day. Signs of more rain.

14 Tue   Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Heavy thunder and rain this evening. Moved Larrabee today.

15 Wed Cloudy and very foggy and warm with a SE wind. It thundered and rained heavy in the afternoon.

16 Thu   Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. Finished hay rack today.

17 Fri    Clear and warm with a West wind. Fred went over to his father’s tonight. So ends the day.

18 Sat   Clear and cool with a SW wind. Myself and wife started to Bridgewater and took dinner at Charles Fulton’s, supper at A.J. Fulton’s. Stayed all night at Joshua B. Fulton’s. So ends the day. (Joshua B. Fulton, born Dec. 11,1813, in Nova Scotia, was Robert’s older brother and had moved to Bridgewater in 1835. Charles K. Fulton, born Nov. 19,1838, was Joshua’s first born)

19 Sun   Heavy SE rain this morning. Took breakfast at Joshua B. Fulton’s, dinner at A.J. Fulton, tea at W.W. Larrabee’s and came home.

20 Mon Some clouds with a warm NW wind. We Blocked up the barn. Me and Fred went out to the store. I got a bbl of meal. Bees swarmed today.

21 Tue   Mostly clear with a NW wind. I was home all day. The boys was using Paris Green on the potatoes. John Hawksley called. ( Boys? This is a rare moment when RM Fulton refers to his sons as ‘boys.’)

22 Wed Clear and warm with a SE wind. Me and Harden and Fred took the team and worked on the road in the afternoon.

23 Thu   Clear and warm with a SE wind. We paid our Road Tax today and hauled in our first load of hay.

24 Fri     Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Commenced to rain about noon and rained all the afternoon. So ends the day.

25 Sat    Quite rainy the most of the day. Heavy thunder. Wind from the SE. Harden and Fred took the two cows to Jameson’s.

26 Sun   Some clouds with a warm SW wind. Wilcox and wife and niece called. Ephraim Lawrence here today.

27 Mon Cloudy with a SE wind. I have my second swarm of bees today. Mowed some and chored.

28 Tue   Cloudy and warm with a West wind. It rained most all the afternoon.

29 Wed Some clouds with a warm SW wind. I went out to Blaine and wife went to R. Bell’s.

30 Thu   Some clouds with a cool SE wind. We mowed in the forenoon and hauled in four loads in the afternoon.

31 Fri     Some clouds with a cold NW wind. Some signs of frost. Harden and Fred was mowing all day

over the brook.

So Ends the Month of July

Photo: Robert M Fulton

Robert M. Fulton (date unknown)
Picture taken by C W Carter, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Photo: Dorothy Bell

Dorothy Bell, daughter of LeRoy Bell and Eliza Lunn- married to Chesley Husson.

Photo: Owen Erastis Blackden

Owen E Blackden, brother to Fred A .  Blackden

b. 12 Aug 1858 Dexter, Maine or Etna Maine

d. 03 Jul 1940 Caribou, Aroostook, Maine

Photo: Dr. James Houlton Syphers

Civil War Solider and physician from Mars Hill Maine- James H Syhpers.

James Houlton Syphers married Lucy York on 13 Jul 1861 in Houlton, Maine.  They had 5 children – Inez Izora, Albion Lionel, Harry James, Lydia Ann, and LeRoi Scott Syphers. (BCMiller)

James was listed as a farmer in the 1870 Census for Mars Hill, Aroostook, Maine, where he lived with his wife and children.  In 1880 Census he is listed as a physician living in Mars Hill, Aroostook, Maine.  Then in the 1900 and 1910 Census, he is listed as a physician in Portland, Cumberland, Maine.  He is also listed in the city directory of Portland for 1906 as lists him as a City Officer on the Board of Health.  The city directory lists him from years of 1890 to 1907 as a physician.

His Civil War history shows he fought for the Union with his brothers, Ansel and Albion.  He began his military career as a Private or a Corporal-  in the 7th Maine Infantry, 7th Regiment, Company A.  He enlisted on 24 Feb 1864 in Houlton Maine.  He later was transferred to Company H, 1st Vet Infantry Regiment Maine on 21 Aug 1864.  He was Discharged from the Infantry on 22 may 1865 Ranking out of the military as a Corporal.

Note from Blackden/Fulton photo album: (Aunt Edith- – (I think) wrote on this next to the picture above:  “the doctor who brought your mother (Edith- born 1888) into this world which was a mean trick and she doesn’t like him just for that.”

James H Syphers died October 25th, 1915 in Portland Maine. Age: 77 years

December 1896

1 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind in the morning. Myself and wife went up to J.W. Fulton’s to dinner in the afternoon. The wind came round to the NW very cold.

2
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred had a full party helping him to thrash today. Harden was thrashing his oats in the afternoon. Fred had 63 bushels of wheat.

3
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Harden was getting his oats thrashed today. Two hundred bushels of oats but not done yet. Will finish tomorrow.

4
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Harden finished his oats this forenoon, three hundred bushels. Fred commenced and thrashed out seventy bushels of his oats in the afternoon.

5
Clear and cold with a NW wind. The weather was very changeable all through the day. Sometimes snowing and sometimes fair. Fred finished today.

6
Cloudy and cold with a SE snowstorm all day. W.W. Larrabee and wife went home today after being with us most of the week while Harden and Fred was thrashing.

7
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. R.L. Bell was here to dinner. Fred and Richard and Robert McKelvery was all working at the wood today but all for themselves.

8
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Harden got Fred to help to dress a hog this morning and then sold it to him in the afternoon.

9
Cold with a SE snowstorm. Commenced In the night and snowed heavy all day. My wife was to a quilting to Harden’s today and then drove out to Blaine.

10
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Cloudy and foggy all day but did not storm much. Harden got his straw all hauled up this afternoon. R.L. Bell helped him.

11
Some clouds and cold with a SW wind. It fell about a foot of snow this last storm. Fred had three men helping him today to thrash Aheran’s grain.

12
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. It looked quite stormy all day but did not storm. Fred had Harden with him all day cutting and hauling up wood for Mrs. Lorency.

13
Cloudy and foggy with a warm SW wind. We had lots of visitors today. Floyd Glidden and wife, Edward Lockhard and son, Mr. Hersom from Easton and Charles Chandler of Blaine.

14
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred finished John A. Aheran’s grain this forenoon. Sawed wood for R.L. Bell till night then went over to Floyd Glidden’s and got a sheep.

15
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred got hurt pretty bad today sawing with Horse Power for R.L. Bell. Richard and Harden came in tonight to see how he was.

16
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Signs of a storm soon. R.L. Bell, Robert McKelvery, L.H. Fulton and F.A. Blackden was sawing and hauling wood today. Cold weather.

17
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred went up to Hersom’s in Easton today. Harden went out to Mars Hill Village with Sam Fulton to sell apples.

(Note: Sam Fulton was Harden’s brother-in-law from Knoxford, N.S. The rolling hills of Knoxford was ideal for growing good apple orchards and many of the residents there depended on the apple crop as added income. Sam would depend on Harden to introduce him to the Mars Hill merchants for his sales.)

18
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred was shoeing a horse for Shep Hallett today. Harden went out to haul wood for Elder Foster.

(Note: Shep Hallett lived North of the Fulton homestead. Around the turn of the century, Mr. Hallett gave or sold the citizens of Mars Hill the land and house to be used for a school. The Fulton School, which was a log cabin building, was no longer safe to use for educational purpose. The Hallett building is still standing and is presently owned by Hilda Bridges. My grandfather, Fay Fulton, went to this school. It was used temporarily until the town was able to build a suitable structure on the Fulton property, located at the corner of the old Hawksley Road. This building is still standing today and was the educational center of my father’s learning. It is presently owned by Richard Mahan.)

19
A heavy SE snowstorm. It commenced about midnight and snowed heavy till about noon from the SE then the wind came round to the NW and blew a gale.

20
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Very cold all day. Merty Cox called in this afternoon. Fred went up to Easton to Hersom’s this afternoon.

21
Clear and cold with a NW wind. R.L. Bell came up and got one load of wood. Fred went over to Adams Mill and got his grist and came back and then went to Easton.

22
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day, only Fred, he was up to Easton at Hersom’s sawing wood. Harden was out hauling grain for Orin Wing.

23 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was preparing to go out to W.W. Larrabee’s this afternoon but got disappointed. Fred is still away up to Hersom’s sawing wood.

24
Clear and cold with a NW wind. The temperature registering from 6 degrees below zero to 38 degrees above in the sun at noon. Fred is still away up to Edward Hersom’s sawing wood for him. Harden is to work for Orin Wing. Crismas Eve. (Note: Spelled according to grandfather’s writing.)

25
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. The temperature registering from six degrees below zero to 38 degrees above in the sun. Fred came home today. R.L. Bell and wife here today. Harden and wife and family went to Knoxford today.

26
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. It snowed and blowed very heavy from the NW. Fred moved the wood saw down to John Aheran’s.

27
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home the most of the day. Fred was away the most of the evening. The weather is still very cold.

28
F.A. Blackden brought us down to W.W. Larrabee’s and stayed there day and night and had a good time of it visiting to different places and tracking round.

29
Quite cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We stayed at W.W. Larrabee’s. I traveled up to York & Luce’s and done some trading. In the afternoon I went up to Dr. A.J. Fulton’s and got a tooth pulled.

30
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I tracked round in the forenoon. In the afternoon I called in to Arthur Hutchinson’s and got introduction to John Hutchinson and wife. Had a pleasant time there.

31
Clear and cold with a NW wind. The temperature running very low. I was round the most of the day choring round the house. This closes December. Still at W.W. Larrabee’s. The old year is past and gone.

November 1896

1 Sun
Cold with a SE rain all day. We was at Robert McKelvery’s all day. Jim Fossy and wife called in.

2
Came up to R.L. Bell’s. Cold with a NE rain all day. Had a pleasant time.

3
Cold with a NW wind. Harden and Fred came down. Each of them with a load of potatoes. Stopped here to dinner. Harden came back and stopped at R.L. Bell’s and brought us home.

4
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Heavy frost this morning. Fred was sawing wood all day for Harden today.

5
Cool with a SW wind. It commenced to rain early in the morning and it rained all day. Fred thrashing 20 bushels of wheat.

6
Cold with a NW wind. It rained heavy all the previous night but held up at daylight. Fred and wife and family went over on West Ridge this afternoon.

7
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Myself and wife stayed alone last night. Fred and wife and children came tonight.

8
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. Signs of rain about noon and all the afternoon.

9
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was mending boots all day, nearly all day. Harden went out to Blaine and brought my mall.

10
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Very foggy this morning. Fred was sawing Stephen Giberson’s wood pile up today. He sawed up a nice pile of wood. He commenced early.

11
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of a storm of snow. It commenced about 10 o’clock and snowed heavy all the afternoon. John Aheran was here this evening. He is going to New Hampshire in the morning.

12
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred went over to Adam’s Mill to get his grist. Came back and done some chores and thrashed out 20 bushels of oats for Stephen Giberson.

13
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred was looking for lumber at Chandler’s today but failed. He moved up John Aheran’s blacksmith tools this evening to do blacksmith work.

14
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred and Harden hauled manure this fore¬noon. Fred leveled the barnyard in the afternoon and banked the house.

15
Cloudy and cold with a North wind. About two inches of snow on the ground. It froze quite hard.

16
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Harden killed his hog today. Sprinkled snow or rain most all day. I took my dinner at Stephen Giberson’s today. Signs of rain.

17
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of rain in the forenoon but the wind came round to the North in the afternoon and cleared off nice. Fred and Harden was thrashing at Jim’s.

18
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Very cold with a SE wind. Signs of snow. Fred was away thrashing at J.W. Fulton’s. He had 58 bushels of wheat.

19
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. The wind came round to the NW about noon and blew very heavy and cold with some snow. Fred was thrashing all day again for J.W. Fulton.

20
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Cleared off quite nice and then it snowed a regular snow squall. Fred was away thrashing again all day at J.W. Fulton’s.

21
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. F.A. Blackden and L.H. Fulton finished thrashing grain today, 800 bushels of wheat, oats and buckwheat.

22
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. About 4 or 5 inches of snow this morning. Made fair sledding. Sleds and sleighs was out today for the first.

23
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred went out to Mars Hill Village with a load of grain. Wife went up to Harden’s. Signs of snow.

24
Cold with a SE rain the most of the night and more than half of the day. Then the wind came round to the NW and slacked up raining. Harden went out to Blaine today and called to Dr. A.J. Fulton’s.

25
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Colby and Urban Bell here this afternoon. F.A. Blackden and L.H.
Fulton was to John Jamison’s today sawing up his wood.

26
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and snowing. Commenced early in the morning and snowed steady all day. Still snowing at bedtime. Fred went out to J. Jamison’s to saw wood and had to come home.

27
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Thick fog and clouds all day but did not storm any. Fred and Harden went to Jamison’s and finished sawing up his wood. Fred took R. Bell’s saw home in the afternoon.

28
Warm with a SE rain in the night and rained till about noon. Then the wind came round to the NW quite cool. I was cobling all day.

29
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Froze very hard all day. Harden and Fred went down to R.L. Bell’s today and was gone till after sundown. Signs of a storm.

30 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred went down to R.L. Bell’s this morning to saw some wood for R. Bell. LeRoy Bell came home with him.

Almeda Dorothy Fulton and Richard Levarah Bell

Dolly (Fulton) Bell was the 10th born child of Robert and Martha (Jones) Fulton, being born on July 23, 1859, in Wicklow, N.B. Dolly married Richard L. Bell November 14,1878 at Mars Hill with Justice of the Peace, Henry Wilson officiating.

R.L. Bell was a potato farmer and homesteaded the area above Kings Grove called Bell Hill. He lost his left arm below the elbow in a thrashing machine accident and used a hook for a hand. Most of the family did not know what his middle name was since he always went by Richard L. and claimed the ‘L’ stood for Leanpig.
Richard & Dolly would have 10 children: Thomas Colby, LeRoy, James Urban, Aida, Rosella, Phoebe Ann, Una Esther, Eugene Hale, William Henry, Clarence Dewey and Raymond Leslie.

Richard died April 20, 1930 and Dolly died July 20, 1938. Both are buried at Kings Grove Cemetery in Mars Hill.

October 1896

1 Thu
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain and it commenced to rain about noon and rained most of the afternoon. Fred got home from the Mill.

2
Warm and cloudy this morning with a SE wind. Myself made a visit to Stephen Giberson’s. F.A. Blackden took a load of wood out to Mars Hill. It rained this afternoon.

(Note: Stephen and Georgie (Bishop) Giberson lived across the road of the Fulton Homestead. The Giberson’s came from Bath, N.B. and was responsible for clearing much of the virgin land that lies North of Mars Hill Mountain. The Giberson’s daughter, Minnie, who was born Feb. 6, 1872, married John Broad. John and Minnie had six children, Roy, Frank, Lee, Ada, Elvina and Laura. Lee Broad was living on the old homestead when I was young and use to visit him quite often. Stephen Giberson died at the home of his other daughter, Esther Wiggins of Clearview, N.B., in 1915. He is buried in the Fossey Cemetery. Minnie L. Broad Is the mother of Mrs. Harley York of Mars Hill.)

3
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Signs of rain all day and did rain some. Harden was laid up with a lame back. I went up and done some chores for him.

4
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. L.H. Fulton is very lame and Fred was chorlng for him. R. Bell and wife and Robert McKelvery and wife was here.

5
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred had Ephraim Lawrence and Len Bartley digging potatoes the most of the day. Harden was very lame. Fred went to Blaine this afternoon. Harden got his beans stacked.

6
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of rain all day. I was up to Harden’s twice today. Fred took 14 bbls to John York and 15 to the factory today.

7
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It commenced to rain in the night and rained about all day. Myself and wife went up to Harden’s in the afternoon. He was lame.

8
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was shoe mending and boot mending the most of the day. Fred hauled a load tonight to start to the village.

9
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. A cold wind all day. There was three peddlers here today. I bought a nice shirt. Fred hauled one load for himself and one for Harden to the station.

10
Some clouds with a cold NW wind. I was up to Harden’s part of the day. Henry and wife here tonight. Fred was haUling in potatoes in the cellar today.

11
Clear and cold with a SE wind. Henry Boone and wife of Tobique left here this afternoon for home. Fred and wife went as far as John Bartley’s with them.

12
Clear and cold with SE wind. Heavy frost. Fred finished digging his potatoes today and hauled in three loads of mowed oats. Harden got in two loads of mowed oats.

13
Clear and cold with a SE wind. I helped Harden this morning for a chance to get his cows in the stable and get his hog in the yard.

14
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Fred took out one load to the Station today and Harden sent Sam Fulton with two loads to York & Luce at 35 cents per bbl for the Dakotas.

15
Some clouds and cool with a SW wind. Fred took out one load to the Station and picked another to take out in the morning. It came on rain tonight.

16
Cold with a NE rain the most of the night and till noon today then cleared. Fred took one load for himself and one for Harden to the Station today.

17
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. We was home all day. John Bartley and wife and Mrs. Cole and son from Tobique here today. Fred took one load for Harden to the Station and got another load ready for to take Monday.

18
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. It commenced to rain about noon and rained all the afternoon. John and wife, Mrs. Cole and boy here.

19
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Mrs. Cole and boy left here today after dinner. Fred took one load of small ones to the factory today for Harden.

20
Cloudy and cold with a South wind. A very heavy frost and the ground froze hard. Harden finished digging his potatoes today and hauled them up to the house. Signs of rain today.

21
Cold with a SE rain and heavy wind. Harden took a load to the Factory and Fred took a load to the Station. Brother Hanes and Bro. Longley called and had prayers.

22
Fred brought myself and wife down to R.L. Bell’s. Very cold with a SW wind. We had a good time.

23 Fri
Very cold with a SE wind. Signs of rain all day. R.L. Bell got a nice heifer choked and had to kill her but she made good beef.

24
Cold with a SW wind or rather SE rain all day. Commenced in the night and kept it up about steady.

25
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind all day. We was at R.L. Bell’s all day. Very pleasant time all day.

26
Cold with a NE wind and a little snow squall. Richard Bell took out one load of potatoes and got
50 cents and 60 cents per bbl.

27
Cloudy but quite cold. Came down to Robert McKelvery’s and sold a nice shirt for $1.10. Had a good time.

28
Clear and cold with a NW wind but very pleasant. I went out to Mars Hill Village. I went out with young McKelvery. Stopped at W.W. Larrabee’s till he came from Blaine.

29
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of rain and it began about 10 o’clock, very cold and heavy.

30
Cloudy and quite warm with a NE wind. I was choring for Adaline and then walked up to R.L. Bell’s.

31
Cold with a SE rain most all day. We was at Robert McKelvery’s.

September 1896

1 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Harden and Fred cut down a good piece of buckwheat in the forenoon. Fred put our stove up in our room in the afternoon.

2
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred was to work at his Thrashing Machine the most of the day. L.H. Fulton drove to Knoxford and back.

3
Cold with a SE rain that commenced about sunrise and rained most all day. Stella was confined
this morning.

(Note: Robert M. Fulton uses the word ‘confined’ to define Stella’s bringing her fourth child into the world. Amber Myrtle Blackden is born.)

4
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Mr. Bartley called in this afternoon. Fred commenced at wheat at Eleven-thirty. Cut it down in about two and one half hours, bound and all stacked up.

5
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Heavy frost. I went to Blaine this morning. Harden and Fred hauled his wheat today and two loads of oats. W.W. Larrabee and Wife and son Frank here.

(Note: William and Alice (Fulton) Larrabee was visiting to see the newborn Amber. Young Frank Larrabee was with them to see his new cousin. Frank would have been 13 years old, being born August 29,1883. He died in October, 1956 and is buried in the Kings Grove Cemetery with his wife, Francis (Boyd) Larrabee.)

6
Cloudy and cold with a SE rain. Commenced early in the morning and rained heavy all day and still raining at bedtime.

7
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. Fred went to Bridgewater early this morning. He was gone till 7 o’clock In the evening. Some callers In today.

8
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred and Harden was raking buck¬wheat the most of the forenoon. Rigging up the Thrashing Machine in the afternoon.

9
Clear and cool with a SE wind. Harden and Fred raked Buckwheat till the dew got off. They hauled grain the rest of the day for themselves and Jim.

10
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Myself and wife took dinner at Harden’s. Fred set up the Thrashing Machine and thrashed out 7 bushels of wheat and 51 1/2 of oats and hauled three loads for Jim.

11
Some clouds and very warm with a SE wind. L.H. Fulton and F.A. Blackden set up machine out of doors. Late when they begun and thrashed 107 bushels today.

12
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Harden and Fred took the Thrashing Machine over this morning to Fletcher’s and thrashed 50 bushels of buckwheat and 12 bushels of oats.

13
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We had plenty of company all day. A.J. Fulton and wife, Mrs. R.L. Bell and son and daughter, R. McKelvery and wife and daughter. Many more, too numerous to tell.

14
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Harden and Fred went away to election early this morning and did not get home till dark nearly.

15
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It rained some quite heavy showers today. Harden and Fred went over to Fletcher’s about 10 o’clock and thrashed till night.

16
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Me and Fred went to Blaine this forenoon and back by 10 o’clock. Fred bought a horse and went back this evening for it.

17
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It commenced to rain about noon. Fred and Harden went over to the river and got a load of lumber from old Adams Mill.

18
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I went up and took dinner at J.W. Fulton’s today. L.H. Fulton had F .A. Blackden to put up a piece of fence between himself and Hallett’s.

19
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and very rainy looking. W.W. Larrabee and wife came out to get some apples. It commenced to rain about noon and heavy till night.

20
It rained very heavy in the night but cleared off in the morning and the wind came round to the NW very cold. Mrs. Straight and Mrs. James Craig and her daughter called and a number of others.

21
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. It cleared up and Fred thrashed from about 9 o’clock and thrashed 14 bushels of buckwheat and wheat.

22
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Signs of rain. It commenced to rain about noon a cold NE rain. Rained very heavy till night.

23
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred had Jim and Birt Tapley and Harden had Sam Fulton and they cut down all their green oats today.

(Note: Samuel David Fulton was the son of Thomas and Margaret (Nichols) Fulton. Samuel, born in 1843, married Elevia Emma Bartley, the older sister of my great grandmother, Annie (Bartley) Fulton. Elevia was born June 15, 1850, in Digby, N.S. They were married on Christmas Eve, December 24,1867. George Thomas and Mary Fulton being witnesses. Samuel D. Fulton was a farmer and Baptist Lay Preacher, living in Knoxford, N.B.)

24 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. A very heavy frost. Ice froze in a tub at the door. Near a quarter of an inch thick. Quite a snow in the forenoon. Quite stormy looking all day.

25
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Quite heavy ice froze in a tub at the door. Fred and Harden got their buckwheat all thrashed and in today. Harden 116 and Fred 117 bushels. Mrs. Stephen Giberson here this afternoon.

26
Cloudy and quite warm with a SE wind. Fred and Harden moved the Thrashing Machine up to J.W. Fulton’s and thrashed all they could but did not get done.

27
Cloudy and foggy and warm with a SE wind. Fred and Alvin Giberson went over on West Ridge today. Adaline McKelvery with two girls today. Company to tedious to mention.

28
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind but a very cold wind. It cleared up a little in the afternoon. Dr. J.H. Syphers was here to settle up with F.A. Blackden for the sheep.

29
Cold with a South wind. There was a very heavy frost this morning and looked very stormy all the forenoon but cleared off in the afternoon. Fred hauled in a lot of green oats.

30 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of rain early in the morning but Fred and Sam Fulton hauled one load of mowed oats for Harden but rained before they got it in. Fred went to Centreville Mill in the afternoon.

Free Baptist Church of Mars Hill, 1896-

With Mars Hill Mountain looming in the background, the first Baptist Church to be built in liars Hill Village, had her cornerstone laid on a Wednesday morning, August 19, 1896. Rev. G.G. Haynes was pastor for three years. He was followed by: G.M Park, B.C. Cox, Mrs. M. Park and Mrs. C.C. Clark. In 1907, Rev. F.W. Sabean was the pastor. In the 40’s and 50’s, the Rev. Earl Beal pastored the church.

August 1896

1 Sat
Some clouds and very cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Mrs. F.A. Blackden was taking sick today and Fred went after Dr. Kincaid. Quite a number of women to a man to know purpose.

2
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Rained the most of the afternoon. The doctor and the most of the women went home in the forenoon till called for again.
(Note: Stella was in her eighth month of pregnancy and experiencing difficulties with premature labor. Amber Myrtle Blackden would not be born until September 3,1896.)

3
Some clouds and cool with a SW wind. We was home all day. Fred got Merty Cox to stop here a few days. Alden Sylvester and wife here to tea. Adaline McKelvery came today with about twenty pounds of raspberries.

4
Quite cloudy and cold with a West wind. I walked up to J.W. Fulton’s today. F.A. Blackden was
helping him to block up his barn today. Old William Easty from Hartley Settlement called this
morning.

5
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I took my supper at Stephen Giberson’s. Fred was helping J.W. Fulton to put new sills under his barn and partly block it up today.

6
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. It kept getting cloudy all day till 3 o’clock and It began to rain and rained heavy. Fred went out to Mars Hill Village to trade some.

7
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. We was home all day. Only Fred went early In the morning and did not get home till 3 o’clock with thrashing machine.

8
Quite cloudy and foggy this morning till 7 or 8 and then came out clear and warm. Fred had Harden to split up his wood and Fred helped Harden haul in two loads of hay.

9
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We was home all day. R.L Bell and wife was here today. Mrs. Hallett and John McPherson was in awhile. Harden and wife went to Knoxford today.

10
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred commenced to plow Green Sword
this afternoon. I was mending Harden’s horse harness.

(Note: It is my belief that ‘Green Sword’ is the piece of cleared land that lies directly across the brook from the Fulton Homestead. Because of it’s funneling slope, the spring grass gets greener along the water run-off. Even today, one can imagine the shape of a sword. It is common for each piece of land to be named by a particular landmark. Rodney Fulton)

11
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Myself and wife went up to J.W. Fulton’s for an all day visit. There was quite a heavy shower of rain. Fred moved his road fence.

12
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Fred went up into Easton to see about his Thrashing Machine. Orin Wing and Mary Ann Fulton, wife of J.W. Fulton, went to Limestone to see sick girl.

13
Clear and warm with a NE wind. Fred went out to the stores this afternoon. The rest of us was home all day making ready for harvesting.

14
Clear and quite warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. L.H. Fulton’s wife and family here and Sarah Fulton. Some thunder this afternoon.

(Note: Sarah Fulton was the older sister of my great grandmother, Annie (Bartley) Fulton. Sarah was the 3rd born of Thomas and Jane (Spittle) Bartley, being born May 15, 1852, in Digby, Nova Scotia. Sarah married Thomas Fulton, son of Thomas and Margaret (Nichols) Fulton of Royalton, N.B. Thomas Fulton, Sr. was the older brother of Robert M. Fulton.)

15
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We had the 1st cucumbers today and Harden cut two or three acres of oats today. Fred went out to the stores this evening.

16
Very cloudy and warm with a SW wind. We was home all day. Some called in. It looked very rainy all day. It commenced to rain about 6 o’clock.

17
Clear and quite cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred had L.H. Fulton helping him to mow oats. He got down three acres.

18
Clear and cool with a SW wind. We was home all day. My wife was quite poorly. L.H. Fulton got in two large loads of oats today, one before the shower and one after.

19
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. W.F. Wright, from Caribou, selling nursery beds here today. Isaac Morehouse and wife here today from Keswick. Fred brought part of his Thrashing Machine home today. The corner stone of the church was laid today.

20 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Isaac Morehouse and wife left here this morning. John D. Lindsey and George Buckingham here today. Lindsey took the stove we gave him. Mrs. R. Bell here.

21 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Myself and wife went up to Stephen Giberson’s this afternoon and had a splendid visit. L.H. Fulton and F.A. Blackden hauled in nine large loads of oats today.

22
Cloudy and rainy looking the most of the day. The wind from the SE and quite cold. Myself and wife went to Blaine and called to W.W. Larrabee’s. I got my watch fixed.

23
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. Signs of rain. It commenced about 3 o’clock and rained right on till we went to bed.

24
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Isaac Morehouse and wife, W.W. Larrabee and wife, J.W. Fulton and L.H. Fulton and a number of others. Fred brought the remainder of his Thrashing Machine home.

25
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Isaac Morehouse and wife and myself and wife took dinner at L.H. Fulton’s today. The Morehouse left for home on the Keswick. Harden and Fred hauling in oats.

(Note: Isaac Morehouse was the son of Daniel and Hannah (Hanson) Morehouse. On Jan. 19, 1854, he married Elizabeth Skelton Jones, the younger sister of Martha (Jones) Fulton. Elizabeth, was born
in 1832 and would have been 64 years old at the time of visit. She died Jan. 16, 1909, and is buried
in the Zealand, N.B. cemetery.)

26
Clear and cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. Harden and Fred mowed buckwheat in the morning and hauled in oats the rest of the day.

27
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of rain all day but only rained a few drops. Harden and Fred hauled in grain for Jim most all day or till 3 o’clock.

28
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. Harden and Fred was cutting buckwheat and oats the most of the day. Fred went and hauled a load for Mrs. Cox.

29
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Harden and Fred mowed buckwheat in the forenoon and hauled in oats in the afternoon. G. Smith and J. Worth left.

30
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. R.L. Bell and wife and Robert McKelvery and wife was here to tea this afternoon. Signs of rain this afternoon.

31
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. It looked like rain all the forenoon but did not commence till about 3 o’clock. Harden and Fred hauled in four loads of oats.

Ellwyn Mortimer Fulton

Ellwyn M. Fulton, born June 10, 1885, was the son of Dr. Aaron Jones and Emma (Turner) Fulton of Blaine, Maine. Ellwyn was a graduate of Ricker College and the University of Maine where he excelled in sports and graduated with honors. On June 15, 1913, he married Mattie Juanita Green of New Brunswick, the daughter of Sewell H. and Annie (Gilman) Green. She was born Nov. 15, 1895 and died Oct. 20,1984. Ellywn died in 1961. Both are buried in the Tapley Cemetery in Blaine.

July 1896

1 Wed
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. It cleared off quite warm in the afternoon. We was home all day. Fred was working among his potatoes the most of the day.

2
Some clouds with a warm kind of a morning. The wind from the NW. Fred worked at his potatoes today. Mrs. Jamison and Mrs. Elms and three children here.

3
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Fred went out to Mars Hill Village this morning to get his wagon tires set over. Got to again tomorrow.

4
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day alone with Stella and children. Fred took his little wagon out to Wilcox’s and tires. It commenced to rain about 4 o’clock.

5
Cool with a SE rain all night and all day till about 5 o’clock It slacked up. We was home all day all but Fred. He went up to J.W. Fulton’s two or three hours.

6
Cloudy and cool with a SE Wind. We was home all day. Signs of more rain. W.W. Larrabee and wife here to tea. Sam Delong and Bill Dillon called here.

7
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind and heavy rain In the forenoon and a heavy shower In the night. Stephen Giberson and wife, J.W. Fulton and L.H. Fulton called in.

8
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. Fred started out to Blaine early yesterday morning. Two trips to Blaine, then up on West Ridge.

9
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Fred was working helping to underbrush for Harden today across the brook. Young Clark called.

10
Some clouds with a warm SW wind. It looked sometimes as if there be a thunder shower. Fred was away to a barn raising for George Hallett this afternoon. Got it up nice.

11
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. Fred brought their bed downstair today. Mrs. Hallett was here awhile. Fred went up to lem William’s.

12
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. We was home all day. Adeline McKelvery and her little girl here to tea.

13
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. We went visiting today. I went up to Jim’s in the forenoon till 2 o’clock. Met my wife at Harden’s in the afternoon. Stayed till night.

14
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. My wife was quite sick. Stephen Giberson’s wife and daughter called in to see us.

15
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. It was very rainy looking in the morning. It began to rain about 3 o’clock.

16
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred went up to Mcpherson’s Mill. Dr. A.J. Fulton called in this afternoon to see us and see how we was doing.

17
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Me and Harden started about 7 o’clock and drove to Cardina Machine to Centreville, to James Johnston’s and took dinner, to Len Bartley’s and took tea and home.

18
Some clouds and very warm with a SE wind. W.W. larrabee and wife and family here in the afternoon. Went home in the evening.

19
Some clouds and cold with a heavy SE wind. We was home all day excepting Fred and Stella went up to Harden’s in the evening a little while.

20
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. There came three wagon loads of strangers here this morning. Two men and four women. Boone and Brewers from Tobique and St. Mary’s.

21
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Fred and Harden went to Blaine in the morning. Quite early when they got back. Brother Foster and Dewitt here to tea and had prayers.

22
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was mending shoes today. Fred was down to Mahan’s part of the day. The rest of the day mowing with the mowing machine.

23
Cold with a SE rainstorm in the forenoon but cleared off in the afternoon. Wind came round to the NW very cold. Mrs. Mahan and Mrs. McDonald here. Fred to Mahan’s.

24
Clear and cool with a SW wind. We was home all day. Fred hauled in two loads of hay this afternoon for the first this season.

25
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. Harden and Fred went to Blaine this afternoon on business. The rest of us was home all day.

26 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. We was home all day. Fred and wife and their children was away a few hours to Jim’s.

27 Mon
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We was home the most of the day. A.J. Fulton’s wife and son, Ellwyn, and Dot Larrabee picking berries. Myself and wife went to R. Bell’s.

28
Clear and cool with a NW wind. We was at R.L. Bell’s till after dinner. LeRoy Bell and me went out to York & Luce’s in the afternoon, went down to R. McKelvery’s and took supper, made a short visit and drove home.

29
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. We was home all day. Harden burnt his foller today and hauled a load or two of hay in the afternoon. Fred hauled in a load or two.

30
Warm with clouds and foggy this morning. Signs of rain. We was home all day. It began to rain about 3 o’clock. Heavy thunder and lightning and heavy rain. Fred went down to R. Bell’s and back.

31
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Heavy rain in the night and some cold showers today. We had two visitors today, Edward Lockhart and Mr. Thomas Bartley here to dinner. Harden’s to tea. (Note: Mr. Thomas Bartley, age 73, was the father of Annie (Bartley) Fulton)

John Wellington Bartley

Welly was born June 11, 1887. On November 20th, 1907, Welly, at the age of 20, would marry Alice Minnie Flewelling, age 15, of Easton. Alice, born July 1,1892, was the
daughter of Charles Henry and Susan Hepzibah (Valley) Flewelling. Welley died

December 26, 1956 and Alice died March 4, 1985. They are buried in the Larlee Creek Cemetery, Perth, N.B.

June 1896

1 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. We was home all day. Very stormy all day but the wind came round to the NW in the afternoon and looked like clearing off.

2
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Harden and Fred planted their beans today and put in some garden stuff today.

3
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. Fred finished planting potatoes today. Harden finished planting yesterday and they finished planting their beans yesterday.

4
Cloudy and cool with a NW Wind. We was home all day. We had some thunder showers in the afternoon. Fred was making some garden in the afternoon and moved the stoves.

5
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Some little showers through the day. We was home all day. Wife finished Mrs. McKelvery’s mat today. Fred was harrowing buckwheat.

6
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. Harden went out to Mars Hili Village this afternoon. Fred was putting in grain and garden stuff. Len Bartley youngsters called. Mrs. George York here this afternoon. Quite cool tonight. (Note: Children of Len and Matilda (Lawrence) Bartley were aged at this time: Austin Henry, 16 yrs, Lewis Allison, 13 yrs, Eddie H., 11 yrs, Edgar Thomas, at 10 yrs. And Olive Bartley at 9 years of age.)

7
Cloudy and cold with a South wind. We was home all day today. Harden and wife, Len Bartley youngsters called. Mrs. George York here this afternoon. QUite cool tonight.

8
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. Fred went out to Mars Hill Village this afternoon on some business of his.

9
Heavy cold SE rain commenced in the night and rained very heavy till noon and then it kind of slacked up a little but still looks very rainy. We was home all day.

10
Cold with a SE wind. Fred brought us down to Robert McKelvery’s this morning. The wind came round to the West in the afternoon. Some rain and hail. I went to Blaine with Robert McKelvery.

11
Cold with a NW wind and rain. We came up to R.L. Bell’s and had a good time of it but very cold. Backward season. Very little grass.

12
Cold with a NW wind. Cold enough to wear a big coat and mittens all day. Heavy showers of rain.

13
Quite a pleasant day but heavy frost this morning. Cloudy and cold in the afternoon. Very dull looking for hay crop.

14
Clear and nice in the morning but in the afternoon it clouded up as we went down to Robert McKelvery’s. We went out to Meeting and to Baptism, to W.W. Larrabee’s to dinner and back up to Mckelvery’s.

15
We came up to Bell’s in the afternoon. Fine and warm today. Stayed to Richard Bell’s. Stayed all night.

16
Stayed at R.L. Bell’s today. Clear and warm all day. I went down to Robert McKelvery’s and took my supper then went up to R. Bell’s and stayed all night.

17
We went to Blaine today. Clear and warm. Made Dr. A.J. Fulton a good visit today. I settled with him. Warm West wind. We called to see Jane Canady. Stayed to McKelvery’s tonight.

18
Clear and warm with a NW wind. We went up to R.L. Bell’s this morning and stayed all day and all night. Had a good and pleasant time.

19
A nice, pleasant morning. Clear and warm. I took one of Richard’s horses and drove out to York and Luce’s.1 traded some. R.L. Bell brought us up home in the afternoon. Ten days visit.

20
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Found things all right. I went up and took dinner with L.H. Fulton and wife and H. Bartley and wife. (Note: Havelock and Ethel (Kennedy) Bartley.)

21
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. Very rainy looking all day. It commenced to rain about , o’clock. H. Bartley and wife here to supper.

22
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. We had a very heavy thunder shower mixed with hail.

23
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Frank Blackden and wife here today md three children. Harden and Fred plowing new land.

(Note: George Frank Blackden, who went )y his middle name Frank, was married to Emily F. Smith. At the time of this visit, Frank was thirty¬ four years old and Emily was twenty-nine. They were accompanied by their children, Oliver, Clydelia and Edna F. Blackden. Frank and Emily were still recovering from the loss of their infant laughter who had died the previous Spring.)

24
CIoudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Harden and Fred was working on the road today. Mrs. Glidden was here to dinner.

25 Thu
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind in the forenoon. Harden and Fred was getting their new land ready for sowing some oats for fodder.

26
Cloudy and quite cool with a SE wind. Signs of rain and it began to rain at noon and rained heavy for two or three hours.

27
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. Harden and wife and children went up to John Bartley’s today.

28
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. We went up to Jim’s and took dinner. We went to Meeting in the afternoon. Took our tea at Stephen Giberson’s and came home.

29
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Some heavy showers of rain. John Bartley and wife came here today with their little son in the afternoon to Harden’s.

30 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. John Bartley and wife and son left for home this evening. J.W. Fulton and wife was here to tea with them before they left.

(Note: John and Abigail (Fulton) Bartley, of Beaconsfield, N.B., would have been visiting the Fulton homestead with their youngest son, 9 year old John Wellington Bartley. John, called Welly, was named after his father.)

July 1897

1 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Len Bartley and wife and daughter and two of the Morehouse
family, John Tracy and others here today.

2 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a NE wind. Fred and Birt Tapley and John Tracy went away.

3 Sat
Some clouds and warm with a NE wind. Alvin Giberson and Fred went over to Munquat fishing
today. (Note: Munquat is actually an early Indian name for the little town of Bath, New Brunswick,
Canada. Munquat Stream is a tributary of the St. John River and runs through the town of Bath,
holding some of the best salmon fishing in the New Brunswick area.)

4 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Fred and Alvin Giberson away fishing. Robert McKelvery and wife here.

5 Mon
Clear and very warm with a NE wind. Fred went down to George Matheses.

6 Tue
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Fred was hauling boards for wilcox from the river. Heavy
thunder and lightning done great damage.

7 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Fred hauled two loads of boards for Wilcox, one from the
river and one from his old place.

8 Thu
Thomas Trafford called to see us. John Tracy and Fred commenced at York barn today. Edward
Lockhart and wife here today to see us.

9 Fri
Cloudy and quite cool. Fred hauled two loads of boards for Wilcox from the river and one from his
old place. John Tracy working at York’s frame.

10 Sat
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred and John Tracy was to work hewing George York’s
barn frame.
11 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Young Sylvester, Alvin Giberson, Wilson and wife and other’s here.

12 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. The temperature registering from 70 to 80 degrees above zero.
Very heavy shower in the afternoon. They had to quit work.

13 Tue
It rained most all night and all day. Pretty much uncommon heavy all day. Still looks rain

(Note: This is the last word that Robert M. Fulton would pen and it was not completed. The complete
sentence would have read, “Still looks rainy at bedtime.” It is most likely that Robert suffered a
severe stroke while sitting on the bed with Martha at his side.)

14 Wed
No Entry
15 Thu No Entry
16 Fri No Entry
17 Sat No Entry

May 1896

1 Fri
Mostly clear and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. Fred drove out to the bridge and back. Frank Larrabee came home with him. Adaline McKelvery here.

2
Clear and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. C.N. Delate was here settling up his phosphate bill with Harden and Fred. He waits till Fall.

3
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred and wife and daughter went over today to see his Father and Mother.

4
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Very cold and cloudy all day and rained some in the night and some today and still looks like rain tonight or snow. It’s cold like snow.

5
Cloudy and very cold with an East wind. We was home all day. It was very cloudy and cold enough for snow but it came on a very cold rain the most of the afternoon.

6
Some clouds and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. Fred finished his foller In the forenoon and Harden got Fred to help him plow in the afternoon to plow his new land stubble.

7
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Wife was to a quilting to Mahan’s this afternoon. Harden finished plowing his new land stubble this afternoon and plowed for Fred.

8
Some clouds and cool with a NE wind. Quite cloudy in the afternoon. Signs of a storm. John D. Lindsey here tonight. Harden was plowing for Fred all day. (Note: John Lindsey was married to Robert’s 3rd born child, Mary Ann Fulton, born November 9,1844. John and mary was united in marriage May 23,1864.)

9
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. Harden was plowing down by the brook this forenoon. Then Fred helped Harden in the afternoon. John Lindsey left here for home this morning.

10
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. The day was very warm. Harden and Annie drove down to R.L. Bell’s today on a visit. It was quite stormy looking today.

11
Quite cloudy and cool with a NE wind. We had Evelyn Tapley here today helping clean up the house. Quite dull and rainy looking tonight.

12
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred sowed 4 bushels of wheat yesterday for the first. We was all home today. Fred was picking rocks all day off his wheat ground.

13
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred finished hauling the rocks off his wheat ground today and harrowed some over the brook.

14
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Mrs. John Mahan was up here today. Fred was harrowing today over the brook. It was a nice fire day. (Note: ‘fire day’ meaning a good time to burn last years tops and stubble)

15
Clear cool with a NW wind. We went up to Harden’s and took dinner today. Harden and Fred set their foller this afternoon and got a nice burn. Fred went down to R. Bell’s tonight with some hay.

16
Clear and warm with a West wind. Very warm day. John Bartley called here today. Fred got Harden to help to kill his hog today. Harden and Fred drove out to Blaine tonight.
(Note: John E. Bartley was the firstborn of Thomas & Jane (Spittle) Bartley of Wicklow,N.B. John married Abigail E. Fulton, 4th born of Robert & Martha Fulton, September 24, 1868. John and Abigail (Abba) resided and farmed in Beaconsfield, N.B.)

17
Mostly clear and warm in the forenoon. Edward McKelvery was here to dinner. Dr. A.J. Fulton and wife here to tea. Signs of another storm.

18
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. Fred harrowed over his wheat after it was seeded down and got Wiggins’ roller and rolled it down.

19
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. A very cold day. Fred was sowing and harrowing and shearing sheep and choring all day.

20
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred was cutting seed potatoes. John Lindsey here to tea. Len Bartley and wife called. (Note: Len Bartley, given name of Lorenzo, and his wife Matilda. Len was the younger brother of John Bartley and the elder brothers of Harden’s wife, Annie (Bartley) Fulton, my great grandmother.)

21 Thu
Quite cool with a South wind but clear. A great fire day. We was home all day. Harden drove out to get the doctor today. She was quite poorly. Very smokey.

22 Fri
Cloudy and quite cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. Fred and Harden was planting potatoes today the most of the day. Signs of rain.

23
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Harden and Fred was planting potatoes the most of the day. After supper they took the double team and took out the yearling heifer to pay taxes.

24
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. W.W. Larrabee and wife here to dinner. R. Bell and wife here to tea with two children. Fred was away.
(Note: Although not mentioned in diary, William and Alice (Fulton) Larrabee and Richard and Dolly (Fulton) Bell was no doubt visiting the Fulton homestead to celebrate their brothers 38th birthday. Harden was born May 23,1858, in Wicklow, N.B.)

25
Clear and cold with SE wind. We was home all day. Fred planting potatoes. Signs of rain soon and much needed. I mended George Hallett’s boots today.

26
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I went up to Harden’s and helped set up his stoves. It began to rain at noon. I helped to cut potatoes till noon and took dinner. Fred went to Presque Isle today.

27
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was cleaning up the house and moving the cupboard out of the kitchen. Fred paid Mahan some on oats and took out a load of moveables for Hutchinson.

28
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred helped Harden to finish planting his potatoes today. Fred went up to Craig’s for potatoes.

29
Cold with a SE wind and rain all day. We was home all day. Still looks like more rain about bedtime. Wind still out of NE about bedtime. Fred was to work in the cellar.

30
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Some showers through the day. Fred had L.H. Fulton and Birt Tapley and Jim Rundlett helping to put a sill under the house.

31 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Thundered and lightening in the night. Looked very rainy in the forenoon. It began to rain heavy in the afternoon. Young Sylvester and LeRoy Bell and Urban Bell and young Boynton and another boy here today.
(Note: Urbie was 12 and LeRoy was 15 years old. They were most likely fishing the deep holes that run through the Fulton homestead. Guizaquit Brook.)

And so Ends the Month of May

April 1896

1 Wed
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Fred went away this morning quite early to help Burns to get his logs in. Stella was up to Jim’s this afternoon.

2
Cloudy & cold with a SE wind all day. Signs of a storm. Fred brought us down to Richard L. Bell’s this morning. It was very poor sledding.

3
It commenced to snow in the night and snowed all day and all night till Saturday noon. In the afternoon we drove out to Blaine and took our supper at Dr. A. J. Fulton’s.

4 Sat
Saturday, we drove in the afternoon out to Blaine and took our supper at A.J. Fulton’s and come home.

5
It was a nice, pretty morning In the forenoon. We went down to Robert McKelvery’s. We had a nice visit. We stayed for two or three days.

6
It was quite cold and cloudy this morning. We stayed at Robert McKelvery’s all that day and had a nice pleasant time. It looks like snow.

7
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. It froze quite hard. Good sap days now. We was at Robert McKelvery’s today. Dr. A.J. and wife called to see us while there.

8
Clear and quite cold. We took our breakfast at Robert McKelvery’s and then we came up to Richard Bell’s and stopped there.

9
Clear and cold but good sap days. Richard Bell commenced to haul his potatoes to the factory this morning at 20 cents per bbl no pay down.

10
Clear and cold In the morning when we was at R.L. Bell’s but the snow running right off fast as you could expect to see it.

11
Cloudy and quite cold this morning. We was expecting to come home early this day but did not get away till late after dinner. Fred went out to the bridge and came up and brought us home.

12
Clear and quite cold this morning but the snow run off very fast. Fred and wife went up in the afternoon to see Mrs. Roger Hawksley. She was sick.

13
Warm and cloudy this morning. It rained a little and snowed some but very little of either. F.A. Blackden is helping Harden Fulton today hauling wood.

14
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind in the morning but snow run off in the afternoon. Me and L.H. Fulton went out with 20 bushels of oats and buckwheat for Dr. A.J. Fulton.

15
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. The snow running off fast today. Fred was making syrup today.

16
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. It commenced to rain quite early in the morning and rained most all day.

17
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. It was very rainy looking all day and foggy but did not rain. In the night there was a heavy thunder shower for the first. Fred went over to see his father.

18
Very cloudy and foggy this morning with the wind from the SW. We had a very heavy thunder shower in the night. It cleared off from the NW in the afternoon.

19 Sun
Some clouds and quite cool and windy. We went up to L.H. Fulton’s and took dinner. Then with J.W. Fulton & wife. We had a pleasant time of it and in the afternoon we came home.

20
Clear and warm with a SW wind. We was home all day. In the evening Arthur and John Hutchinson was here. He was a minister. We had prayer.

21
Clear and quite cold with a West wind. Myself and wife went up to make Mrs. Stephen Giberson a visit. We stayed till most night. Had a good time.

22
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home in the forenoon but in the afternoon myself and wife went down to Arthur Hutchinson’s and made a good visit.

23
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day but L.H. Fulton and F.A. Blackden took two span of horses on a double wagon and drove to Blaine this morning. I sent Aaron 20 bushels of grain.

24
Clear and cold with a North wind. We was home all day. F.A. Blackden was chopping down a piece of trees all day today.

25 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. F.A. Blackden had L.H. Fulton helping him to fall trees today. I was cobling a little.

26 Sun
Clear and cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. George Lindsey was here last night. He went home today. Fred and wife went up to Isaac Straight’s this afternoon.

27
Clear and Cool with a SE wind. F .A. Blackden and L.H. Fulton took 20 bbls of potatoes of mine to the the factory today and picked up 10 bbls to take tomorrow.

28
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. Harden and Fred went out with potatoes and grain today. Fred took 10 bbls to the factory for me. Signs of rain all day.

29
Clear and cold with a North wind. We was home all day. F.A. Blackden went away early this morning and was gone all day. Stella trying to do his taxes.

30 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred went away early this morning down to Knoxford. It was near sunset when he got back. The rest was home all day.

March 1896

1 Sun
Warm with a SE rain all night and all day and is still storming at bedtime and the ground is getting bare very fast. The fields will soon be bare.

2
Cool with a SE rain all night and all day till about 4 o’clock this afternoon. It held up but still looked very rainy.
3
Cool with a SE wind all night and all the forenoon with some pretty smart showers of rain but in the afternoon the wind came round to the NW quite cold.

4
Cold and very severe heavy wind and snow all night and all day. Freezing very hard and very disagreeable. F.A. Blackden bought a horse.

5
A cold NW wind and snow all day and all the previous night. Very heavy wind and snow all the time. George Hallett and John McPherson called this afternoon.

6
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. It cleared quite pleasant about noon. Fred hauled over two loads today of logs to the river. L.H. Fulton and J.W. Fulton called in today. (Leonard Harden and James Wellington Fulton, sons of Robert M. Fulton)

7
Cloudy and cold with an East wind this morning and very stormy looking. It began a heavy East snowstorm at two o’clock. Fred took his last load of logs today.

8
Cold with a SE snowstorm in the previous night. Snowed about six inches and snowed and drifted the most of the day. J.W. Fulton called in tonight.

9
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. L.H. Fulton took over a load of logs to the river today.
Fred went over with him. (River de Chute)

10
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. A very cold blustering day. Fred was choring round all day. Harden took one load of logs to the Mill.

11
Clear and cold with a North Wind. At noon it began to cloud up like more snow. Fred worked for Harden today.

12
Cold with a NE snowstorm. Began about nine tonight. It snowed the rest of the night and all day today and drifted very heavy in the afternoon from the NW. Frank Blackden and young Palmer called.

(Note: George Frank Blackden was the older brother of Fred A. Blackden, both being the sons of Napoleon and Lydia (Cookson) Blackden)

13
I am eighty (80) years old today. Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Harden drove down after me and his mother and took us up there to take my birthday dinner and had a nice time.
14
Some clouds and cold with a North wind. F.A. Blackden took one load of logs to the river to the Mill in the forenoon and went out to Blaine in the afternoon.

15
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Myself and wife was home alone all today. Richard Bell and wife was here to tea. Fred and wife and family was over to West Ridge today to his Father’s.

16
Some clouds and cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. Adaline McKelvery was here this afternoon. Signs of a storm soon.

17
Cold with a NE snowstorm. Commenced about midnight the previous night. Snowed and drifted heavy in the night and snowed and drifted heavy all day till near sundown.

18
Some clouds and cold with a SE wind. Fred went away over on West Ridge early this morning and did not get back till after dark tonight.

19
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It commenced to snow quite early in the day. Slowly in the afternoon it came on a dreadful snow. Fred went with two loads.

20
Warm with a SE rain in the night and very foggy this morning and plenty of water running this morning. It did not rain but very little today but the snow ran off very fast.

21
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Edward Tarr, Fred’s uncle, came here before dinner. He went over to the St. John River in the afternoon with Fred and Harden.

22
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. Perry Cox here about half the day. Mrs. Hutchinson took tea with us this evening. Stopped with us till near dark.

23 Mon
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. Harden and Fred took out a load of wood and went out to Town Meeting today and got a few things.

24
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred took a load of logs to the Mill in the forenoon and
Harden a load in the afternoon. Fred went over to Knoxford in the afternoon with Edward Tarr.

25
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of another storm. Harden took one load of logs to the Mill and Fred one load to the Mill and came back and took a load of wood to Blaine.

26
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. J.W. Fulton and L.H. Fulton took a big load of logs to the mill this morning. Bacholder and wife here.

27
Cold and rainy this morning with the wind from the SE. The appearance of a heavy rain but quite early in the day the wind came round to the NW and blowed very heavy.

28
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Richard L. Bell and Frank Blackden was here to dinner. Fred went over to the Province in the afternoon.

29
Some clouds and cold with a SE wind. Signs of a storm soon. F.A. Blackden and wife went down to R.L. Bell’s today on a little visit. L.H. Fulton here today.

30
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Fred went away quite early this morning over on the Fort Road to Pierce’s. He did not get back till dark. Harden took me out four bbls of buckwheat to Aaron’s.

31
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Fred went away quite early this morning to help Philander Burns to haul logs off the Alf Gillen place.

And so ends the month of March

February 1896

1 Sat
Cloudy & Cold with a SE wind. Very stormy looking. Me and Jim and Fred drove out to Mars Hill Village but hard for a sled. Part of the way bare ground.

2
Cold with a SE snow all the previous night and all day. The wind got round to the NE in the afternoon. R.L. Bell and family made us a visit today. Stephen Giberson was here a little while.

3
Cloudy and quite cool with a NW wind. About six inches of snow fell yesterday. Fair sledding now. Fred had Harden all day hauling wood with two teams. An old Englishman here to dinner.

4
A dull cloudy day all day. Drizzling snow. Signs of more snow. L.H. Fulton went out to Mars Hili Village today on business.

5
Cloudy & Cold with a SE wind. Signs of more snow. We was home all day. Fred had Roger Hawksley here. Commenced to saw up his wood. It will take him tomorrow to finish and have good luck.

6 Thu
It snowed a little in the nite and very stormy looking all day and began to snow at dark. F .A. Blackden finished sawing up his wood tonight at dark. There is about six inches of snow in the fields at present.

7
Cloudy and driZZling snow all the previous night and all day. Roger Hawksley’s sawing machine broke and he went to Blaine to get it mended this morning.

8
Cold and snowing and drifting all night and part of today and drifting bad today. Me and Harden drove to Blaine this morning. Called to Mrs. Valley’s, to Dr. A.J. Fulton’s, to William’s, Young’s, to York & luce’s and home to dinner. The temperature 32 above zero.

9
Cloudy & stormy looking this morning and snowed some in the night. l.H. Fulton’s wife was taking sick this morning and had to go to Blaine for the doctor. How it may prove, we can’t tell.

10
Cloudy & Cool with a NW wind. It snowed about six inches in the night and blowed and drifted all day very heavy and making bad traveling. Harden’s wife is sick.

11
Cloudy and Cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. The roads was very bad this morning. They had to turn out and break it out this morning. Harden drove to Blaine today.

12
Cloudy & Cool with a NW wind. Very cold and blustering day all day. F.A. Blackden was to work making sled. Mrs. Everitt called in and Adaline McKelvery and daughter.

13
Cloudy & Cool with a NW wind. Dr. A.J. Fulton and Kincade called here today. They was out to L.H. Fulton’s wife. She was sick. Fred was out to Blaine today on business.

14
A cold snow storm all night and day. It commenced in from the evening from the SE and snowed and blowed all night and all day till about noon, then shifted to the NW and is blowing and drifting at bedtime.

15
A cold NW snowstorm all night till noon today. Blowing and drifting. Roger Hawksley took his horse power away this afternoon.

16
Clear and Cold with a NW wind. Thirty-four above at noon. A heavy cold wind all day. We was home all day. Mrs. R.l. Bell and son was here to tea in the afternoon.

17
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. This morning was 26 below zero. The coldest I think we have had here this winter. Fred was away up to Roger Hawksley’s helping him to thrash today.

18
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. Note: branaratner’s nanawmma very weaK. recorama no events
19
Clear & Cold with a SE wind. Signs of a storm this morning but the storm held off. Twenty deg. above at noon.

20
Cloudy & Cold with a SE snowstorm this morning. It snowed most of the day. Fred took me out seven bbls of potatoes today to Dr. A.J. Fulton’s.

21
Clear and Cold with a NW wind. A very very heavy cold wind all day. Harden and Fred went over to the river this morning.

22
Cloudy & Cold with a SW wind. Very stormy looking all day. Fred went over to his Father’s this morning quite early.

23 Sun
Cloudy & Cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. W.W. Larrabee and wife and daughter here. The Rev. Mr. Foster took dinner here today. Signs of more snow soon.

24 Mon
Cloudy & Cold with a SW wind. It snowed some and rained some but cloudy all day. Myself and wife took dinner at Harden’s. Havelock Bartley and wife here. (Leafy Fulton written to the side)

25
Cloudy & Cold with a NW wind. Very stormy looking all day. Fred took a load of logs over to the river today to Adams Mill to sell for the money.

26
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. Sixty degrees above at noon. It was very beautiful. Fred took two loads of hardwood logs to the river today. Harden went up to John Bartley’s.

27
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. W.W. Larrabee and wife and daughter went home this morning.
He drove to George’s. (Note: His son, George W. Fulton, living in Blaine)

28
Cloudy & Cold with a SE wind. Very Stormy looking all day but did not storm any. Fred took out one load of logs to the river today. Peter Gee here tonight.
29
Cloudy & Warm with a SE wind and very rainy looking all the forenoon. It commenced raining at noon and rained all the afternoon and still raining at bedtime.

January 1896

1 Wed
Cloudy & Cold with a NW wind. Stella and family was up to Harden’s all day. Mrs. George Hallett was here to dinner. Perry Cox called. Fred was helping Charles McPherson making sleepers. (Sleepers was an early word for RR ties. With the new Railroad coming in, it was a new opportunity of labor in hewing them by hand)

2
Clear & Cold with a SW wind. We was home all day. The fields are all about bare. Signs of a storm. The cattle, sheep, hogs and horses all grubbing through the fields.

3
Cloudy and Cool with a SE wind. Snowed a little in the night. Signs of a storm all day. Snowed just enough to say that it snowed. Sherman and wife and two children came before dinner and stayed all night and left the next morning.

4
Cloudy and Cold with NW wind. The wind blew heavy and cold all day. Sherman and wife and family left here this morning. The fields stili bare. Cattle grubbing.

5
Some clouds and Cold with a NW wind. A heavy cold wind. Stephen Giberson gave us a call this afternoon an hour or two. Signs of a storm. Ground stili bare.

6
Cold with NW wind and mostly clear. Temperature run down to four below zero by sundown. It was very cold. The ground stili bare.

7
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred was helping Charles McPherson today making sleepers. The ground stili bare but signs of snow.

8
Clear and Cold with a NW wind. It got cold in the afternoon very fast. The ground bare. The cattle, sheep and horses was grUbbing in fields. The dry dirt blowing on the roads like in the summertime.

9
Clear & Cold with NW wind. Fred was away all day for C. McPherson making sleepers. The ground still bare. Cattle and sheep still running the fields. Not common for the 9th of Jan. Clear &

10
Cold with a NW wind. LeRoy Bell, that was stopping here and choring, complained of being sick, went home today. Fred was helping McPherson. The fields still bare.

11
Cloudy & Cold with a NE wind. We was home all day. Fred had Harden here this forenoon helping him to saw up wood at the door. Harden hauled a load of straw. The ground is still bare.

12
Clear & Cold with NW wind. A very beautiful day. The ground bare and froze. Very, very little, but the cattle and sheep still grubbing through the fields. We was home all day. Fred and family went up to James W. Fulton’s.

13
Cloudy with a NE wind. It began to snow in the night and kept on snowing a little all day and it snowed about two inches in all. Fred was in the woods for C. McPherson.

14
Cloudy & Cold with a NW wind. It snowed some all day but not enough to amount to anything. Poor traveling. There is only about two inches of snow. Winter is passing away.

15
Some clouds & cold with a NW wind. Fred was away today helping Charles McPherson making sleepers. LeRoy Bell was here tending the cattle. The rest of us was home all day.

16
Some Clouds & Cold with a NE wind. Signs of snow. In the afternoon it clou~ed up and began to snow. For the past week the cattle and sheep was through the fiel~s. They are using wagons.

17
Clear & Cold with a West or NW wind. Fred was hauling wood this afternoon. He had Jim and Harden helping him yarding in the wood. They could not haul to the door.

18
Cloudy & Cold with NW wind. Fred and Harden drove out today to Mars Hill Village with the double wagon there was so little snow.

19
Some clouds & cold with a North wind. We was home all day. Fred and wife went over to James Rundlett’s to see his Father and Mother. They was sick. Sylvester boy and Oran Wing was here.

20
Cloudy & Cold with a NW wind. A sprinkle of snow all day but not amount to much. They are stili traveling with wagons the 20th day of January.

21
Cloudy & Cool with NW wind. It snowed two inches last night and today. Fred put a roller in the bobsled today and yarded wood in the afternoon.

22
Some clouds in the forenoon but by noon it cleared off fine. Quite cold in the afternoon. Fred had Jim yarding wood. Fred went over to his Father’s tonight after dark on horseback.

23 Thu
Clear & Cold with a West wind. Fred got home at noon. Harden got home tonight from Knoxford. Still going with wagons. Fred got some sled timber today.

24
Cloudy & Cool with a SW wind. Myself and wife made Mrs. Stephen Giberson a good all day visit today. Had a nice time. Fred came after us at night. Mrs. Len Bartley here to tea. Signs of rain.

25
Cloudy & Cold with a NE wind. It is very stormy looking today but did not storm till about
six o’clock. Just enough to say it stormed. Fred drove out to Mars Hill with horse and wagon.

26 Sun
Quite moderate snow storm all the night and all day today. Snowed 1 1/2 inches. The sleighs and sleds and wagons. We are in hopes it will stay on. We was home all day. Adaline McKelvery was here awhile.

27
Quite stormy looking this morning. Fred took a load of hay to Chandler today. About three inches of snow on the ground now.

28
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. Very Cold. Fred went to move W.W. Larabee and family to Bridgewater. To be gone two days. John McPherson got a little jag of hay today.

29
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. I called up to Harden’s and Stephen Giberson’s. Fred got home tonight from Bridgewater. Dolly Bell and young McKelvery called in tonight.

30
Mostly clear and cold with a West wind. We was home all day. Fred made Harden a sled pole for his long sled. Urban Bell and Esther Boynton was here to dinner and supper.

31 Fri
Clear & Cold with a NW wind. Three inches of snow on the ground now. Very poor sledding the last day of January. Fred went over to the river with Jim.

June 1897

1897 june

1 Tue
Mostly clear and cold with a West wind and very heavy. At R.L. Bell’s.
(Note: After visiting Forra’s grave, Robert and Martha would walk up the hill to spend some time at Richard and Dolly
Bell’s home.)

2 Wed
Cold with a NW wind. At R.L. Bell’s at the Sewing Circle. Signs of a storm.

3 Thu
Cold with a NW wind. Signs of a storm soon. Quite warm today. At R.L. Bell’s. Down to R. McKelvery’s. Will and Alice there.

4 Fri
Quite warm today. Signs of rain. Down to R. McKelvery’s this afternoon.

(Note: Robert and Adaline (Fulton) McKelvery lived just across the road from King’s Grove Cemetery and at the foot of R.L. Bell hill.)

5 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. At R. McKelvery’s. Cass Frost was here.

6 Sun
Raining this morning. Dull all day. Robert McKelvery brought us up to R.L. Bell’s in the afternoon.

7 Mon
At R.L. Bell’s choring and helping to work.

8 Tue
At R.L. Bell’s still to work helping Mrs. Bell.

9 Wed
At R.L. Bell’s visiting and helping Mrs. Bell. (Note: It is unique as to the way Robert refers to his own
daughter, Dolly, as Mrs. Bell. I assume that it indicates his tremendous respect for her.)

10 Thu
At R.L. Bell’s helping Mrs. Bell with her wood.

11 Fri
Still at R.L. Bell helping Mrs. Bell with her wood.

12 Sat
We went down to Robert McKelvery’s and back. At night to R.L. Bell’s and kept house for them to go to Bridgewater.

13 Sun
Kept house on Sunday for R.L. Bell and wife while they went to Bridgewater Meeting.

14 Mon
A.J. Fulton came and brought us to his place to Blaine.

15 Tue
Dr. A.J. Fulton went down to Alfred King’s and back to A.J. Fulton’s. (Note: Alfred King married Mary
Fulton, daughter of Thomas Fulton of Royalton, N.B. Thomas was brother to Robert M. Fulton. Alfred
and Mary lived in Blaine for a period of time before moving back to Knoxford, N.B.)

16 Wed
A.J. Fulton’s in the forenoon. Worked some for Aaron shoveling dirt. To McKelvery’s.

17 Thu
Robert McKelvery brought us up to R.L. Bell’s.

18 Fri
To R.L. Bell’s and chored and helped her.

19 Sat
I went down to R. McKelvery’s and got him to bring us home.
(Note: Grandfather is getting very homesick to be back at the farm. It is quite evident that he is feeling weaker by the day. He wants
to be home.)

20 Sun
We was home all day and found things quite pleasant.

21 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Very heavy all day. More like October than June.

22 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SW very heavy and cold wind. More like the Fall than the warm June.

23 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Fred and Harden went over to Bristol to the Wilcox trial.

24 Thu
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Very warm. John Bartley and son here today. (Note: John
Bartley, who married Robert’s daughter, Abigail, would bring his 10 year old son, John Wellington
Bartley, to see his grandfather. Welly was born June 11, 1887 and died Dec. 26, 1956.)

25 Fri
Heavy thunder and lightnings in the night but no rain. It began to rain in the morning and rained till three o’clock very heavy.

26 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred went to the Fort to get his grist.

27 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Two of John Bartley’s boys here today and Perry Cox. Signs of
more rain. (Note: Thomas O. Bartley, age 20, and his brother, Garon Coleman Bartley, age 17, would
hear of their grandfather’s diminishing health and travel over from Beaconsfield, N.B., to visit him.
Perry Oliver Cox, age 25, would be there also.)

28 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind and very cold. There was two Morehouse’s and two
Lawrence’s here. Brother and sister each. Heavy showers all day. (Note: Phoebe and Elizabeth
Jones was the sisters of Martha (Jones) Fulton. Phoebe married Philemon Lawrence and Elizabeth
married Isaac Morehouse. Their children would visit their Uncle Robert M. Fulton.)

29 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. They commenced road work today for the first.

30 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of rain in the forenoon. It begun to rain in the afternoon.

And so Ends the Month of June

May 1897

1897 May

1 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Very stormy looking. Fred got home today from the Mill.

2 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Jim Mahan, Alvin Giberson, Sylvester and a number of others called in.

3 Mon
Cloudy with a SE wind. Rained heavy in the night and in the morning.

4 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Fred was to Blaine today. The weather is vey rainy looking.

5 Wed
Some clouds and cold with a NE wind. Fred was making cogs this forenoon. Him and Harden went
piling but for Shaw.

6 Thu
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Very cold. Fred worked in the orchard.

7 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred was harrowing over the orchard today to tear the grass roots up.

8 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Harden and Fred was yarding up wood today to saw up.

9 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Fred and wife and family up to J.W. Fulton’s.

10 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Fred was at the blacksmith’s. It snowed some and rained some.

11 Tue
Some clouds with a NW wind but very warm. Fred was plowing today for the first.

12 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Commenced to rain at 4 o’clock. Fred over on West Ridge.
(Note: When Fred A. Blackden makes his trips to West Ridge, he is checking on his family. Parents, Napoleon Bonapart Blackden, age 74, and Lydia Whitney (Cookson) Blackden, age 62, are now living in Dexter, Maine, with their son Owen Blackden. Owen was an owner of the Exchange Hotel located in that town. Napoleon and Lydia was given a suite of rooms in this Hotel.)

13 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Fred went to West Ridge and got a load of oats today. It commenced to rain at 5 o’clock.

14 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Fred was hauling rocks most of the afternoon. John McPherson here.

15 Sat
Some clouds and cool with a SW wind. Harden and Fred went to Williamstown.

16 Sun
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Fred and Harden was down to R.L. Bell’s.

17 Mon
A cold NW wind. Harden and Fred and Alf Gillen went to the River today to Adam’s Mill.

18 Tue
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. Fred and Harden sowed their wheat today.

19 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred plowing and making preparations to sow.

20 Thu
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. It began to rain about one o’clock. J.Worth of Cloverdale here.

21 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. In the afternoon a heavy cold wind and rain from the NW.

22 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Dot Larrabee and Sycha Hutchinson was here today. Fred was plowing.

23 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Harden’s family, two Sylvesters, H. Lindsey, two from Bartley’s and one of the Lockharts here today.

24 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Fred was plowing. Dr. A.J. Fulton was here today.

25 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. It rained the most of the day. Mrs. Everitt here. Fred worked for Mr. Lorenca.

26 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. All appearance of rain. Harden went to Blaine.

27 Thu
Cloudy with a NE wind and rain about all day steady. Fred plowing in the rain part of the day. Signs of rain.

28 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. Fred and Harden plowed some in the rain some.

29 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It rained some today. Harden and Fred plowed some.

30 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. R.L. Bell and wife here today. Signs of rain.

31 Mon
Very cold with a SE wind. Signs of rain. Myself and wife and Harden and wife went to decorate
Forra’s grave. Fred decorated Forra’s grave and put a railing around it.

And so Ends the Month of May

April 1897

1897 April

1 Thu
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. Fred had John Aheran helping. Fred took one load to the river.

2 Fri
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Very heavy and cold wind all day. Harden and Fred went with two loads.

3 Sat
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Peddler here tonight. Fred went to the Fort today.

4 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. Harden and wife and family and Siberian peddler here.

5 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Very foggy and rainy through the day. Fred took one load out.

6 Tue
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Fred moved his horse power in today to repair.

7 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Frank Blackden here to tea. Then took the wood saw over to his place.

8 Thu
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Fred went to the Mill and got a load of lumber. Signs of a storm.

9 Fri
Cloudy with a SE wind. Fred went to the River today with a load of logs.

10 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. Fred was working at his horse power today and choring.

11 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. Fred and Harden went to Knoxford today and Dorothy Bell and son and daughter.

12 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. George Lindsey came back today. Fred was choring. He was sick.

13 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Lorenca and wife here. Fred and wife and daughter. Signs of a storm.

14 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Fred was choring the most of the day as it rained the most of the time.

15 Thu
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind and rain the most of the day. Harden came and took us up to his place. Had a good visit. Brought us home.

16 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It rained part of the day very heavy. Fred was choring.

17 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Clouded up in the afternoon and rained all the rest of the day.

18 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. L.H. Fulton and wife went to Jim Craig’s, to Straight’s, his mother.

19 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Fred took myself and wife up to J.W. Fulton’s on bare ground for a visit.

20 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred and Harden was helping R.L. Bell to yard up wood.

21 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred and Harden went to the Fort today. R.L. Bell was up.

22 Thu
Mostly clear and warm with a SE wind. Snow mostly in the fields. Fred helping Lorenca.

23 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Fred worked for Lorenca. Alice went home.

24 Sat
Some clouds with a SE wind. Fred took his team to help R.L. Bell.

25 Sun
Some clouds with a warm SE wind. Fred and wife took dinner and tea at Harden’s today.

26 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Fred moved the wood saw up to J.W. Fulton’s today.

27 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Fred was sawing up J.W. Fulton’s wood today.

28 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Fred finished sawing Jim’s wood and took the saw home.

29 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred moved Lorenca’s stuff to Caribou today or started to.

30 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Fred has been two days with his load in Caribou for Lorenca.

And so Ends the Month of April

June 1891

Robert M. Fulton Diary

1891

June

1
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I worked in my garden. Harden and Fred was rolling logs

and burning them. Good Friday.

2
Some clouds and warm with NW wind. I set out cabbage plants, tomato plants and strawberry

plants.

3
Some clouds with a cold NE wind. I was home all day. Harden and Fred went to River de Chute.
4
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We planted cucumbers today on new land. Pumpkins and

squash.

5
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Hard Frost. Broke ice at the door in tub. I went out to B.F.

Pierce and sold 18 dozen eggs for $2.70.

6
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We finished planting our potatoes today on the new land.

Richard Bell’s house burnt today.

7
Clear and cool with a NW wind. Richard Bell here today. James Forsythe called in. The fires

are raging bad at the present time.

8
Clear and cool with a NW wind. Sowed the first of our buckwheat today. Planted corn and

beans in the new land.

9
Clear and cool with a SE wind. Dreadful smoky. Fires raging. We was plowing and planting

beans today.

10
Clear and cool with an East wind. Enoch Lovely called here this afternoon. We was planting

beans.

11
Clear and warm with an East wind. We harrowed in the buckwheat at the other side of the

brook today. Some thunder, no rain.

12
Cloudy and warm with a West wind. I was home all day. Fred worked at a wagon body. Harden

drove out to the factory.

13
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We finished planting our beans on new land today. I

fixed my buckboard fills. (Possibly the lacing that binds the cushion together on the seat)

14
Warm with a drizzling rain most all day. Wind from the SE. I was home all day. Fred and

Stella went out to see Mrs. W. Shaw. She was dead. Perry O. Cox called.

15
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Sowed the last of our buckwheat today. Myself and wife went

to Mrs. W. Shaw’s funeral.

16
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. I set out cabbage plants and tomatoes

today and hoed some potatoes.

17
Some clouds and warm with a NE wind. I went to B.F. Pierce and got Mod shawed. Wife went to

R Bell’s. Got butter tub.

`8
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We put up-’ our pasture fence today. Turned our cows in.

19
Clear and warm with a SE wind. Harden and Fred went down and helped RBell raise his house.
20
Clear and warm with a SE wind. Fred and Stella went over on West Ridge today. Harden went to

factory with Len Bartley. (Leonard Bartley, age 37, of Knoxford, N.B. Wife’s name, Matilda

age 37, with four children, Austin, Lewis, Edgar and Olive. Annie’s parents, Thomas and Jane

living with them. Len Bartley, Harden’s brother-in-law)

21 Sun
Clear and warm with a SE wind. Thomas Bartley and Ephraim Lawrence here today. Fred and

Stella came home tonight.

22 Mon Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. All signs of rain. I worked at the wagon body today.

Fred helped Harden to fix his drain.

23 Tue Warm with a SE rain all day. The rain was much needed as crops was suffering for

rain.

24 Wed Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. Some rain through the day. We sowed our turnip seed

today.

W.W. Larrabee here.

25 Thu Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. Me and Fred went up to Brown’s for Larrabee. Drove

out to Brown’s and up to Blackden’s. Mrs. Lindsey here.

26 Fri Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. Harden took a load of boards to Robinson’s Mill for

W.W.Larrabee today with the double team.

27 Sat Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Rained quite heavy in the night and showered today.

Harden and Fred stoned up the well today.

28 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. We was home all day. Richard Bell and wife here to tea this

afternoon.

29 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. We cultivated our potatoes, the first today for the season.
30 Tue
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We finished cUltivating our potatoes. J. Lindsey and wife

went home. (John D. Lindsey and Mary Ann (Fulton) Lindsey, Robert’s third born)

May 1891

1 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden and Fred finished chopping some trees today.

2 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Fred went over on West Ridge to bring Fred’s cow over.

3 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. I was home all day. Signs of rain. G.W. Fulton and wife here to dinner.

4 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Some snow and some rain. Israel Tracy here today to dinner. Cow with him. (Israel Tracy, age 74, was born July 6,1817. Israel married Jemima Jones, October 25th, 1843. Jemima was born Feb. 7th, 1819. They had 6 boys and 2 girls, all of Knoxford)

5 Tues
Cold with a SW snow storm this forenoon. We finished hauling our wood this afternoon and commenced hauling manure.

6 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Mrs. James Rundlett came after Fred to saw wood. (Arvilla F. (Blackden) Rundlett, age 35, Fred’s older sister. James and Arvilla had a son, Amos, age 14, who would later study law under John W. Kelley and was admitted to the bar in 1909. Amos would live with his aunt and uncle, Mr. And Mrs. Owen E. Blackden, in Dexter for several years)

7 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. I was home all day. T. Bartley went home. (Thomas Bartley, age 70, of Knoxford. Annie (Bartley) Fulton’s father.)

8 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. Froze quite hard. Commenced to plow for the first below the barn. Fred came home.

9 Sat
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Harden and Fred was plowing all day for peas and oats.

10 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a South wind. Harden and Fred up to Straight’s. R. Bell and wife, Levi Cookson, Irene Blackden, Amos Rundlett on a visit today. (Levi Cookson was probably a brother to Fred A. Blackden’s mother, who was Lydia Whiting (Cookson) Blackden, born in Greenfield, Maine Mar. 18, 1835. Irene was Fred’s younger sister, all living on the West Ridge)

11 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind and some rain. Harden and Fred plowed an acre of land over where we sawed our wood.

12 Tues
Clear and warm with a NE wind. I was home all day. Harden and Fred went down and worked for R. Bell today with horses. Fred’s cow calved.

13 Wed
Some clouds and cool with a NE wind. We sowed and harrowed in six bushels of peas and oats and bushels of clear oats for the first.

14 Thur
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I trimmed my apple and plum trees today. Old man Fletcher here. Got the checkerberry paid up.

15 Fri
Clear and cold with a SE wind. W.W. Larrabee here to tea this evening. I went to McDonald’s today for a turkey.

16 Sat
A cold SE rain storm all day. Mr. Blackden and wife here to dinner. Fred and Stella went with them to F. Glidden’s little girl’s funeral. (Mr. Napoleon Bonapart Blackden, born in Madison, Maine on March 5th, 1823. Wife, Lydia (Cookson) Blackden)

17 Sun
Cold with a NW wind and rain about all day. Steady rain now about 36 hours. Rain. Rain. Fred and Stella got home from the funeral.

18 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I went to Rey’s and sold him 397 eggs for $3.97. One cent per egg.

19 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. Harden and Fred was hauling rocks and plowing. I moved my garden fence.

20 Wed
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I put up my garden fence today. Fred and Harden plowing and hauling rocks.

21 Thur
Warm with a NE wind. Some clouds and foggy in the forenoon. We was cutting seed.

22 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a North wind. We plowed our garden in the forenoon. In the afternoon we planted half an acre of potatoes for the first this Spring.

23 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was planting potatoes all day. Mr. Blackden and wife, Eli Fletcher and wife here to dinner.

24 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Dr. Syphers and G.W. Fulton called today.

25 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. We finished planting two acres of potatoes today and sheared our sheep.

26Cloudy and warm with a SE wind in the forenoon. In the afternoon the wind from the NW brought rain.

27
Clear and cool with a NW wind. I had manure hauled on potato ground below the barn today.
28
Cloudy and warm with a West wind. I put my piece of potatoes in today below the barn. Sowed 9 1/2 bushels of oats this afternoon.

29
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We planted my potatoes in front of the house. Burnt the foller today. Eli Fletcher here.

30
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. We finished sowing oats and planting potatoes this afternoon on old land. Four acres of potatoes.

31
Clear and warm with a West wind. Myself and wife went out this morning and called to W. Shaw’s and took dinner at W.W. Larrabee’s and tea at G.W. Fulton’s. Called to R. Bell’s and came home.

April 1891

1 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine today and got six bbls of phosphate of J. Bubar.

2 Thur
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. The selectmen here today. Harry Frost and Alden Sylvester. I was home all day.

3 Fri
Cold with a NE snow storm very heavy all day and heavy wind. I was home all day.

4 Sat
Snowed all night and all day. Wind from the NE. Robert F. Jones and one of the Hunter boys here.

5 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Perry was away to the funeral of George York’s child.

6 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. I was home all day. Fred Blackden here today.

7 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Perry left here last night. We was hauling wood.

8 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. The colt died today. Harden went to Knoxford today.

9 Thur
Clear and cool with a West wind. I went out to Frank Pierce. Brought Alice in home with me.

10 Fri
Clear and cool with a North wind. I was home all day. Me and Harden was sawing wood today.

11 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. I took Alice home today. Called at R. Bell’s on my way.

12 Sun
A SE rain all day and quite cool. I was home all day. Orris Cox here to supper.

13 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Fred Blackden here today and brought a trunk. R. Bell came here this morning to finish our wood sawing. Mod lost her cold today.

14 Tues
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We was sawing wood all day with R. Bell’s machine. Fred Blackden moved here today.

15 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. R. Bell finished sawing our wood today. Took the machine home tonight.

16 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. Me and Harden was hauling wood. Seven loads. Fred sold his mare. Fred went home today.

17 Fri
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Fred went to Knoxford.

18 Sat
Warm with a SE wind. Clouded up and rained in the afternoon. We hauled seven loads of wood today. Harden went to Knoxford.

19 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Henry Wing here after butter. Evelyn Fulton called here.

20 Mon
Cold with a NE snow all the forenoon. Ephraim Lawrence here to dinner. Railroad meeting today.

21 Tues
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Sam Cormey and John Close here. (Samuel Cormey, age 33, a farmer from Knoxford. His wife Anna, age 30 and two boys, Charles and George, ages 6 and 3. All Free Christian Baptists)

22 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Rain in the afternoon. Fred went to his father’s with the buckboard.

23 Thur
Cold with a NE snow storm most all day. Very heavy snow. Fred and Harden wooding the horse hoe today. Cold.

24 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. Froze hard this morning. Harden and Fred finished sawing wood today across the brook.

25 Sat
Cold with a NW wind and snow squalls all day. Fred split up the wood at the door today.

26 Sun
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. It was froze very hard this morning. Cold tonight.

27 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Fred and Harden finished splitting wood today. Harden went to Knoxford.

28 Tues
Cloudy and cold with an East wind. I drove out to B.F. Pierce with the mare and buckboard. Settled with Frank and got Mod shawed. Set my bees out.

29 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Fred and Harden helped Jim Hutchinson.

30 Thur
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Fred was helping Jim Hutchinson frame his barn today.

March 1891

1 Sun
Very cold and blustery. Snow storm this morning. Wind from the West. I was home all day. Cleared off in the afternoon.

2 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden went out to F. Hewitt’s today. Howard Lindsey here tonight.

3 Tues
Clear and pleasant today with a SW wind. I was home all day. Harden Fulton went to Houlton.

4 Wed
Cloudy and cold with an East wind. I was home all day. Signs of another big storm. So ends the day.

5 Thur

Cold NW snow storm commencing in the night. It snowed and blowed and drifted all day and still snowing and drifting and bedtime. Harden came home from Houlton.

6 Fri
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Twelve inches of snow fell. It blowed and drifted very heavy all night and all day. Roads impassable for teams.

7 Sat
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. The wind blew and drifted heavy all day. The roads almost impassable.

8 Sun
Clear and pleasant and quite warm. We was home all day. Harden and wife and Jim here to tea this afternoon.

9 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. R. Bell here to breakfast. Old man Fletcher here.

10 Tues
Heavy SE rain commenced in the night. It rained all the forenoon. I was home all day. We picked over potatoes.

11 Wed
Mostly clear and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden went down to Robinson’s Mill today.

12 Thur
Cloudy with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. Me and Harden went to Blaine. I gave Harden his deed and came home. Mary A. Lindsey here.

13 Fri
Cloudy with a SE wind. I was home all day. Lindsey girls left here this morning. Mr. T. Bartley here. Heavy rain today.

14 Sat
Cold with a SW wind. I was home all day. I was mending the snow plow for Mahan. It was very squally this afternoon and snow.

15 Sun
Clear and cold with a West wind. I was home all day. Mr. Bartley left here this morning for home.

16 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind in the forenoon. It the afternoon come round to the NW and snowed heavy.

17 Tues
St. Patrick’s Day. Snowed and drifted very heavy all night and all the forenoon. Almost a blizzard.

18
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Me and Harden measured up our grain today. Ready to go to the Mill.

19
Some clouds and cold with a West wind. Me and Harden went to the Mill today with grain. I got one bbl of flour.

20
Clear and cold with a SW wind. Harden and Perry hauled some wood today on the crust. Judson Straight got the pot.

21
Clear and warm with a SE wind. It clouded up in the afternoon and looked like rain. Len Bartley and wife and two children and T. Fulton here today.

22
Warm with a SE rain today. Len Bartley and wife went home this morning. Fred Blackden and wife came here tonight.

23
Warm with a SE rain most of the day. Fred Blackden and Harden went to Town Meeting today. John McPherson bought his wood.

24
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Will Wilson and John Clough here today after snow plow.

25
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred Blackden here to tea. R. Bell and wife here today. He left Dolly and took Stella home.

26 Thur
Clear and cold with a North wind. Dolly Bell here. B.F. Pierce here today on business. Harden and Perry went after oats.

27 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden took Dorothy Bell home this morning. Emery Hawksley here.

28 Sat

Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. Me and Harden hauled up six loads of wood today. 29 Sun Clear and quite warm and pleasant with a North wind. I was home all day. Got a letter from Louisa.

30 Mon
Some clouds with a North wind. I was home all day. Harden was down to Bell’s. Harvey Fulton here tonight.

31 Tue
Clear and warm with a North wind. I was home all day. Jim went to Blaine today and got his phosphate for potatoes.

1891 February

1 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. I was home all day. Fred and Stella came here tonight.

Snowed most of the previous night.

2 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Perry stayed home this afternoon to

shovel the snow off the kitchen.

3 Tues
Cold storm all the previous night and all day and still snowing at bedtime. I was home all

day. Stella and children here.

4 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Hav Delong had a fit and fell in the

snow between here and Harden’s this morning early.

5 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of more snow. I was home all day. Fred came home

tonight from Will Wilson’s to get his mitts fixed.

6 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Signs of a storm. Harden got his sheep from here today. Arthur Hutchinson hauled them up.

7 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a North wind. I was home all day. Stella and children here yet. Perry went to Knoxford today.

8 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. I was home all day. Fred came with team today from Will Wilson’s and took Stella home.

9 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Perry cut his hand this afternoon. Mod is lame. Signs of a big storm soon.

10 Tues
Cold with a SE snow storm all the previous night and half the day. Fell 7 or 8 inches. Wind changed to the NW and began to drift bad.

11 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Cold and blustery day. We did turn our stock out of the stable, the weather was so bad.

12 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Mod was lame. Stormed a little in the afternoon.

13 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Home all day. Got the heifer off the Spring Road. Like never got to the barn. About five feet of snow.

14 Sat
Clear and cold with NW wind. Ten below zero. Mod still lame. Arthur Hutchinson here this morning and helped dress Perry’s hand.

15 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Signs of more snow. Supposed to be five feet here now. Seven feet up country.

16 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind in the forenoon. In the afternoon the wind came round to the NW and rained some.

17 Tues
Some clouds and cold with a NE wind. I went out to Frank Pierce’s today with Arthur Hutchinson. Traded some and then went to Larrabee’s. Fred came here today and got bark rack.

18 Wed
Cold with a SE snow storm and heavy wind. Wind came round to NW very heavy in the afternoon.
19 Thur
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Very blustery. I was home all day. Harden quit work for Will Wilson. Weather very cold.

20 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Very stormy looking. I was home all day. Nothing special to note. So ends the day.

21 Sat
Cold with a SE snow storm most all the previous night and day. Fell 5 or 6 inches. I was home all day. Roads almost impassable.

22 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Some very heavy squalls through the day. Very heavy wind. I

was home all day.

23 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Signs of another storm.

24 TuesCloudy and cool with a SE wind. Looks like rain. I was home all day. Harden’s mare came home

tonight.

25 Wed
Cloudy and rainy this morning. Wind from the SE. We was picking over potatoes today. Still raining at bedtime. I was home all day.

26 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Signs of another storm. J.W. Fulton called in today.

27 Fri
Cold with a NW snow storm and drifting all day. I was home all day. It blowed and difted very heavy. We was in the house all day.

28 Sat
Clear and cold in the forenoon. The wind came round to the SE and looks very much like a storm.

So ends the month of February

January 1891

1 Thu Clear and cold with a West wind. Finished hauling up our wood today that Richard Bell sawed for us. Arthur

Hutchinson and wife here to tea.

2 Fri Cold SE snow storm in the forenoon. In the afternoon it turned to rain. Harden went to Knoxford with

Hutchinson.

3 Sat Some clouds with a cold West wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine with the double team and done our trading. I

took dinner at W.W. Larrabee’s.

4 Sun Some clouds with a cold West wind. I was home all day. G. W. Fulton and wife here to tea this evening. Some

signs of more snow. I went up to see Jim today. He did have a toothache.

5 Mon Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. We put our wagons in today and hauled some wood. Richard Bell’s wife, W.W. Larrabee’s wife and son, Fred Blackden and wife and their two children here this afternoon.

6 Tues
A SE wind and some snow the previous night. Some snow through the day. We was yarding up up today. Some signs of more snow. Nothing special to note.

7 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. It snowed some all day. I was home all day. Harden and Perry was hauling wood.

8 Thur
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Perry hauling wood. J. Hallett helped this afternoon.

9 Fri
Clear and cold with a West wind. I was home all day. Harden and Perry was hauling wood. Signs of a storm again.

10 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine. Settled with J. Chandler. I took dinner at Larrabee’s. Dr. A.J. Fulton called.

11 Sun
Some clouds and warm with an East wind. I was home all day. Fred Blackden was here to dinner today. Harden and wife went to Knoxford.

12 Mon
Cold with a SE rain and snow all the previous night and rain all day. I was home all day. Perry went to school today for the first.

13 Tues
Some clouds with a NW wind. I was home all day. Fred Blackden is here tonight. Nothing of any consequence passed today.

14 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Fred Blackden went home tonight and Howard Lindsey come.

15 Thur
Clear and cold with a West wind. I was home all day. Harden went down to Jerry Tracy’s. Howard Lindsey left here this morning.

16 Fri
Clear and cold with a North wind. I was home all day and Perry went to school and went from school down to Richard Bell’s to help Fred.

17 Sat
Some clouds and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden drove out to Blaine. It commenced to snow tonight.

18 Sun
A SE snow storm all the previous night and all day and still snowing at bedtime. It snowed near two feet. Few storms to equal it.

19 Mon
Cold with a NW wind. It snowed all night and all day and still snowing at bedtime. We had to break roads. Two feet of snow fell.

20 Tues
Cold and snowing and drifting all day and all the previous night. Still snowing at bedtime. I was home all day. Fred Blackden here tonight. So ends the day.

21 Wed
Clear and cold with a SW wind in the forenoon. In the afternoon it clouded up and looked like snow. Fred Blackden came here with sleds to fix tonight.

22 Thur
Cold with a SE snow storm all day till night. Then it commenced to rain. Fred Blackden, me and Harden working at bobsled today.

23 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Me and Harden and Fred Blackden was working at barak rack. Harden broke through the district.

24 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. Me and Harden and Fred Blackden went out to Frank Pierce’s today. Called at Bell’s and to Larrabee’s. Had two shoes set on Mod.

25 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. George W. Fulton and wife and Mary Ann Fulton to dinner. Went home tonight.

26 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Old Man Straight here this morning. Harden took the team to Fred this morning.

27 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Perry went up to Lister’s after a turkey tonight. Signs of a storm.

28 Wed Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Signs of more snow. I mended a boot for Mathias McDonald this afternoon.

29 Thu
Some clouds with a SE wind. I was home all day choring and Harden went to Bridgewater. He called to Robinson’s to get the Dyer note.

30 Fri
Cloudy. It stormed all the previous night and nearly most all day. Snowed 7 or 8 inches. Wind from the NE. Snowing and blowing.

31 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. It blowed and drifted bad all night. Signs of more snow. Fred Blackden came here to get the sleigh.

December 1889

1 Sun
Some clouds and cool with a West Wind. I was home all day. Harden and wife and Mrs.Bartley went up to Rideout’s.

2 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I started to go to brother Thomas’ funeral. Got part way and found he was buried. Came home and went to Blaine.

3 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Perry went to Bell’s to help thrash. Nehemiah Stairs here with apples.

4 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Perry came from Bell’s this afternoon. Very cold this evening.

5 Thur
Clear and cold with a SE wind. Me and Harden killed our hogs today. Signs of a storm this evening.

6 Fri
Cold with a SE snow storm all the previous night and all day. The snow fell about six inches. Me and Harden went to Blaine with a load of grain.

7 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. It snowed the most of the afternoon. Harden and Perry went down to help Richard Bell saw wood.

8 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Wife went down to Knoxford with Harden and wife to Mr. Bartley’s. Signs of a storm.

9 Mon
Heavy SE rain all the fournoon. We killed our beef today. The snow sunning off very fast. John Hawksely got sheep from Harden.

10 Tues
Some clouds with a cold NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Perry hauled me two loads of wood on the long sled. Hauled some manure.

11 Wed
Cloudy with a SE wind this morning. Commenced to snow between seven and eight o’clock and still snowing at bedtime.

12 Thurs
Cloudy and cold and very blustery. About six or seven inches of snow on now. Harden and Perry was hauling manure today. A minister and book peddler here today.

13 Fri
Cold with a NW snow most all day. I was laid up with a lame side. J.W. Fulton here this evening.

14 Sat
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day with a lame side. Harden went to Robinson Mill for me.

15 Sun
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden took Sarah Fulton to Knoxford. Mathias McDonald and Hub Brown here.

16 Mon
Clear and cold with a West wind. I was home all day. Cut up our beef and sold Jim one quarter. Jim took dinner here. So ends the day. (Beef was hung in the barn for exactly one week before being cut up.)

17 Tues
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine. L.H. Fulton got a grist of Buckwheat, 21 bushels. Sold Beef and hide to Safford’s. I took dinner at Joneses.

18 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It snowed a little today. Harden cleaned up our wheat to go to the Mill. Fred
Redstone got the machine in the afternoon. Arthur Hutchinson here.

19 Thu
Cloudy and very foggy with a SE wind and heavy rain part of the day. Still foggy at bedtime.

20 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden took our grist of wheat to the lines and got it ground and brought it home. Perry went to Wade’s. We put up 14 bbls of potatoes for Stinson.

21 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Harden went to the Mill today and brought the bobsled from Turner’s. Leslie W. Herd here tonight, a clock fixer and peddler.

22 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. R. Bell and wife here to dinner. Herd W. Leslie here tonight. Snow heavy in afternoon. (Grandfather having difficulty getting this man’s name in order)

23 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Snowing and drifting all day. We done nothing but choring and seeing to the stock. Leslie fixed L.H. Fulton’s machine and then went to Jim’s to work on his clock.

24 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Herd Leslie left here this morning. Got six bushels of oats from Harden. Me and Harden went to Blaine today and took ten bushels of peas and oats and gave to Chandler.

25 Wed
Crosmas Day. Cold with a NE snow storm and drifting all day. Myself and wife started to go to Larrabee’s. Got out to the Hilt place and came back.

26 Thu
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. R. Bell and wife and Harden and wife came from J. Bartley’s today. Herd Leslie here tonight.

27 Fri
Cloudy and cold. Snowing and blowing all night and day with 20 degree temperature above zero. Could do nothing but keep the house warm and feed the stock. Herd Leslie here tonight.

28 Sat
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Cold and drifting all day.

29 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Commenced hailing about dark. Herd Leslie here tonight. So ends the day.

30 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a West wind. We was hauling wood today. Mr. Straight called. Herd Leslie left here today.

31 Tue
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Me and Perry sawing wood and caring for the stock. Harden was away with the team helping H. Delong haul fodder. This ends the year 1889. I thank the Lord for His mercys and favors the past year hoping and trusting for His mercys for 1890.

November 1889

1 Fri
Clear and cool with a West Wind. We was hauling manure all day up by Harden’s. Fred Blackden came here tonight. Some signs of a storm.

2 Sat
Clear and warm with a SW wind. G.W. Fulton and Fred Blackden and wife here tonight. Signs of a storm tonight.

3 Sun
Warm with a SE rain all the previous night and all day very heavy. Fred and Stella here. Dyer came to give his girl to us.

4 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. We commenced plowing our potato ground today. Fred and Stella here. Mike Dyer here.

5 Tues
Clear and cold with a West wind. I went to B.F. Pierce today. Called to Bell’s and took home his meal. Got of Pierce two gallons of Molasses, tea, soap and got a horse blanket at Safford’s.

6 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Me and Harden took the horses this morning and hauled our birch logs out to Blanchard’s Mill and came home.

7 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. I was plowing below the barn. Fred went home today. Signs of a storm.

8 Fri
Mostly clear and cool with a SW wind. Myself and wife and Stella went to Mr. Straight’s today on a visit. Took dinner and tea.

9 Sat
Mostly warm with a SW wind. I was putting in a hen house floor. Ed Cain was here to dinner and stayed all night. Fred and Stella went home.

10 Sun
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Ed Cain left here for home this morning. J.W. Fulton and L.H. Fulton here today.

11 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. We drove out to Blanchard’s Mill and hauled out birch lumber. 1,465 ft. Went to Safford’s. Took dinner at Bell’s. She sat on Mod.

12 Tues
Cloudy and warm with a West wind. We drove up to Fred Hawksley’s this morning and got some hay. We sold the oxen today to William Owens of N.B.CC, for $60.00. We plowed some.

13 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. I thrashed our beans today. Harden and Perry was helping Richard Bell thrash today. Looks like rain.

14 Thur
It rained all the previous night and all day from the SE. We plowed some and cleaned up 2 1/2 bushels of beans, 1 1/2 bushels of peas and done some mending of shoes.

15 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a North wind. We finished plowing today and I finished laying my hen house floor. Some flurries of snow. Freezing hard tonight.

16 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine with the double wagon this morning. Paid Joseph Chandler $60.00 on oxen.

17 Sun
Clear and cold with a West wind. Myself and wife and Dorothy Bell took dinner at Harden’s today. Mrs. R. Bell here last night. Went home today.

18 Mon
Clear and warm with a West wind. R. Bell moved his thrashing machine here today. P.Blanchard here. Joseph Chandler called.

19 Tues
Clear and warm with a SW wind. I drove to Blaine this morning with the buckboard and wagon wheel. Turner repaired it and I brought it home. Finished thrashing buckwheat. Bell went home.

20 Wed
Cold with a SE rain all day. We put buckwheat straw in today. James W. Collins here today. Harden brought his heifer home from Mahan’s.

21 Thur
Cold with a SE rain all the fournoon. Me and Harden went to Blaine and took 12 bushels of buckwheat to Robinson’s Mill for hog feed.

22 Fri
Cool with a NE rain most all day. Frost all out of the ground and people plowing. R. Bell machine here and we thrashed our wheat. Cassy Frost here to dinner.

23 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. We finished thrashing our peas and oats today, 60 bushels. Commenced our oats. Richard stayed all night at Harden’s.

24 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. Myself and wife took the horse and carriage and drove out see Mr. Silsby who was sick. Very muddy road.

25 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. We was thrashing oats all day. We thrashed 104 Bushels today. It snowed a little this evening. Arthur Hutchinson here this evening.

26 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was thrashing all day. We finished today 80 bushels, making 180 bushels of oats. Bell went home tonight. The York boy drowned today.

27 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was putting in our straw. Moved the stove, put in the bee hive in the cellar. Looks stormy.

28 Thu
Cold with a NE snow storm all the previous night and all day. We finished putting in our oats and straw today. We have six or seven inches of snow tonight.

29 Fri
Some clouds and cool with a SW wind. Myself and Harden drove to Knoxford this morning with horses and sled. Good sledding. To see brother Thomas that was very sick. Then came home.

30 Sat
Cloudy with a cold NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Perry went down to help Richard Bell thrash. Brother Thomas died today. Fletcher here.

October 1889

1 Tue
Cold with a SE rain most all night and all day. We cleaned up 17 1/2 bushels of buckwheat today. T. Fulton and Nehemiah Stairs, apple peddler, here.

2 Wed
A SE rain most all night and cold showers all day. We finished digging the acre below the barn today. About 100 bbls.

3 Thu
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. Me and Perry was digging today and Harden hauled his 7th load, making 76 bbls.

4 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and some rain. Me and Perry was digging potatoes most all day and Harden hauled his 8th load out to Frank for $1.00 per bbl.Making 86 bbls.

5 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was digging and hauling in potatoes all day today. Harden hauled his 9th load to Safford’s today. Making 97 bbls.

6 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind .. Myself and wife went to Richard Bell’s and took dinner and tea and came home. A lot of young folks came here to sing this evening.

7 Mon
Cold NE rain all the previous night and all day very heavy and still raining at bedtime. Richard Bell here to dinner. He got Harden’s colt. John Hallett got 35 Cents of honey.

8 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Me and Harden took the horses and went to Blaine, I paid Hewitt $5.00 on a note. Joshua Jones here tonight.

9 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Me and Perry was digging potatoes all day. Harden and wife went to Jane Bartley funeral.

10 Thu
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was digging potatoes this fournoon and we pulled turnips in the afternoon. Harden took 11 bbls to the factory today. Martin, the medicine man, here today.

11 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We finished pulling 10 bbls of turnips today and took them out to John Turner. Dug potatoes in the afternoon.

12 Sat
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We was digging potatoes all day. The Christies and Insas, 23 bbls. I put six bbls of eating potatoes in the cellar and Harden put six in cellar.

13 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a North wind. Frost this morning. Old Mrs. York, Mrs. J.W. Fulton, and Mrs. Robert Irvin to tea and a host of young folks here to sing.

14 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Harden took two loads of potatoes to factory today. Last this fall, 144 bbls hauled out. Richard Bell helped us dig today.

15 Tue
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was digging potatoes all day today. Eli Fletcher here. Clear and cold tonight.

16 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was digging potatoes all day today. Some signs of a storm tonight. So ends the day.

17 Thu
Mostly clear and warm with a SE wind. We was digging Early Rose all day on the Sod Ground down next to the brook. Hersom got sheep from Harden. Signs of a storm tonight.

18 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We was digging potatoes all day. Some signs of a storm tonight. So ends the day.

19 Sat
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. We finished digging our potatoes today and hauled them in the cellar. Hauled in our beans. Wife went to School Exhibition.

20 Sun
Cloudy and very foggy with a SE wind and some rain till the afternoon. The wind came round to the NW and cleared away quite cool. Temperature ranging from 48 to 52 above zero.

21 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. We was pulling and topping turnips all day today. Signs of a storm.

22 Tue
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Harden took a load of turnips out to Blaine to Turner.Me and Perry finished pulling our turnips. Sent a registered letter to Mrs. Hume, 23.

23 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind with quite a flurry of snow this morning on the ground. I went out to Blaine and got mare shod by Turner. Harden went to the Mill.

24 Thu
Clear and cold with a West wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine with a load of potatoes for Nutter. Took dinner at Nutter’s and came home and hauled in a load of turnips.

25 Fri
Clear and cool with a SE wind. Harden went to Watson’s Mill today and got our grist, 12 bushels of buckwheat. We finished our turnips and hauled them in today.

26 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Harden went up to Murray’s today with some provisions for them. P.T. Blanchard was here today. Raining some now.

27 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Drizzling rain a little at times. Harden came home from J. Bartley’s today. Perry went over to Fred’s.

28 Mon
Cool with a NE rain all day and all the evening. Harden and Perry went down to help Richard Bell to thrash today and I finished banking the house. Perry stopped to help tomorrow.

29 Tue
Cold with a North snow storm and rain all the previous night and all day. Still snowing. I was home all day. Harden and Perry helping Bell thrash.

30 Wed
Cloudy with a NE wind. Some little drizzling of rain and snow through the day. Me and Perry commenced hauling our manure.

31 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was hauling manure and hauling rocks all day. Wife visiting to Mahan’s this afternoon.

Wiggins Family

1891 Wicklow, Carleton Co, New Brunswick

189 Wiggins, Benjamzin M 49 M  NB NB NB FCB Farmer
189 Wiggins, Melisie F 38 M W ” ” ” ”
189 Cox, Sophia F 16 M D ” ” ” Meth
189 Cox, James M 30 M  ” ” ” FCB Labourer
189 Cox, Perry M 18   US ” ” ”
189 Wiggins, Thomas M 14  S NB ” ” ”
189 Wiggins, Ada F 13  D ” ” ” ”
189 Wiggins, Lambert M 11  S ” ” ” ”
189 Wiggins, Georgie F 9  D ” ” ” ”
189 Wiggins, John M 7  S ” ” ” ”
189 Wiggins, Benjamin M 4  S ” ” ” ”
189 Wiggins, Dorcas F 1  D ” ” ” ”

September 1889

1 Sun
Very Smoky and warm today. Wind from the NW. Thomas Bartley and wife and Jud Straight

called here

2 Mon
Clear and warm with a SW wind. We hauled in one load of oats and three of peas and oats today. Mrs. Hill called on the Lindsey girls.

3 Tues
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Sold four sheep to J.Herson for $12.50 cash. The Lindsey girls went home today.

4 Wed
Clear and warm with a SW wind. We finished mowing our peas and oats today. George Jollimore, Beef Peddler, here today.

5 Thur
Clear and warm with a South wind. We finished cutting our wheat today. Opened a bbl of flour today. Mrs. Hill called on the Lindsey girls.

6 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. We was mowing buckwheat and binding wheat.

7 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. It rained last night. We was cutting buckwheat and hauled two loads of peas and oats. Towle and daughter here. We drove to Safford’s.

8 Sun

Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. Howard Lindsey and Lister here to dinner today.

9 Mon
Mostly clear and warm with a West wind. We finished hauling in our grain today, except buckwheat. Nutter, Apple Tree Agent, here today from New Hampshire.

10 Tues
Mostly clear but very Smoky and warm. Ninety degrees in the shade. We finished cutting our buckwheat today. Mrs. James Aheran here.

11 Wed

Clear and warm with a West Wind. I went to Blaine and got $2.50 from Job Hersom. Got a hat from Hussey’s. Got a pig from Bell’s. Pulled our beans today.

12 Thur
Clear and warm with a West wind. We was raking and hauling in buckwheat. Cleaned up four

bushels of buckwheat. Richard Bell brought the pot home.

13 Fri
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We was raking and hauling in buckwheat. Nehemiah Stairs, Apple Peddler, here today.

14 Sat
Clear and warm with a South wind. We was raking and hauling in buckwheat. Harden went to Knoxford for wife. I was sick.

15 Sun
Some clouds and very Smoky. Cool with a South wind. I was home all day. Some signs of rain. Quite a number of young folks called in.

16 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. I went to Blaine this morning and got the wagon wheel. Got dinner at Larrabee’s. Got 1/2 bushel of salt and a box of butter salt.

17 Tues
Cool with a NW rain most all night and all day and still raining at bedtime. Howard Lindsey and two Brewers here today to dinner.

18 Wed
Rained all the previous night and all day with wind out of NW. I was wooding a wagon Ex

19 Thur
Cool with a SE wind. Dot Larrabee here. Me and Harden wooded a forward Ex in our wagon today and done other chores.

20 Fri

CIoudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of rain. We commenced to dig our potatoes today. We lug 13 1/2 bbls of Snowflakes. George Jollimore called in. (Snowflakes: A brand of potato)

21 Sat
Cool with a SE rain all day. Still looks like rain. Harden took our first load of potatoes to the factory, 10 bbls at 50 cents per bbl. John Aheran called in.

22 Sun
CIoudy and cold with a NW wind. A.J. Fulton and Alice Larrabee and Ralph Forsyth was here ) tea this evening. So ends the day.

23 Mon
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. We was digging potatoes all day today. John Mahan got the carriage to take his wife to the doctor.

24 Tues
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind and frost this morning. Harden took two loads of potatoes today, 11 bbls each time.

25 Wed

Clear and warm with a SE wind. WE was digging potatoes all day and hauling into the cellar. We put 12 bbls in cellar for our own use.

26 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Harden took his 4th load to the factory today. Eli Fletcher paid in eggs.

27 Fri

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Harden took his 5th load tot he factory today. We was digging potatoes today. It rained very heavy last night. The Paper Agent here today.

28 Sat

Cold with a NW wind. Rain showers all day and one heavy shower of hail. The first this Fall. Harden took the 6th load of potatoes today. 11 bbls and got $11.00 for his load.

29 Sun

Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Heavy frost this morning and ice froze in the tub at the door. William and Viola Gray called in.

30 Mon

Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Ice froze 1/2 inch thick at the door this morning. A dead freeze, George Jollimore, Beef Peddler, here today.

So Ends the Month of September

August 1889

1 Thur
Some clouds with a SW wind. We was mowing and hauling in hay. It rained a little after 4 o’clock.

2 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. It rained heavy last night and a little today. I went to Blaine today to get Harden’s mare shod.

3 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Thunder showers in the afternoon. We hauled in two loads of hay before the rain.

4 Sun
Clear and cool with a West wind. We was home all day. J.W. fulton here to dinner. I saw Jones here today.

5 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a West wind. I was home all day. John Mahan was here. Harden and Perry worked for Doyle.

6 Tues
Some clouds and cool with a West wind. Myself and Jim started in the morning and drove to the Fort and fed. From there to Caribou to Presque Isle and home. Frank Luce here.

7 Wed
Cloudy and some rain. Rance W. Shaw, Esq. Called here this morning. John Aheran here today. We finished mowing our grass today.

8 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. I took a tub of butter to Blaine this morning and brought a

bbl of flour home. Mrs. Mack went to Jim’s Mowing Bee.

9 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. We was mowing buckwheat this morning. Finished our hay today and helped Jim in the afternoon.

10 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. We finished cutting an acre of Buckwheat by the Hawksley Road today.

11 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Len Bartley and wife and children here today. We had the first green peas and cucumbers this season.

12 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I drove Mod to Blaine this morning and out to I.D. Kinney’s. I got one bunch of lathes from Blanchard’s Mill.

13 Tues
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. Perry and Harden commenced plowing this morning. I got out stuff for house.

14 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. John Boyd called here. We hauled in one load of Buckwheat tonight. ;Rain this evening.

15 Thur
Cold with a NE rain all day. Jim Mahan and Thomas Paddock was here today. Paddock got a jar of butter.

16 Fri
Warm with a SE wind all day and some rain. I was home all day. Harden and Perry was plowing and finished the sod ground today.

17 Sat
Cloudy with a SW wind. It rained all last night. Me and Harden went to Blaine this morning with a wagon wheel to be repaired.

18 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. I drove over to West Ridge this morning and brought over Stella. Richard Bell and wife, F. Delano and wife, Fred and wife, G.W. Fulton and wife here.

19 Mon

Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. We commenced mowing oats today over the brook. I begun to shingle the house today.

20 Tues
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. Finished shingling the front side of the roof today. Fred and Stella here. Fred helping to shingle.

21 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. Fred Blackden and Harden finished shingling house today. Fred and Stella here.

22 Thur
CIoudy and warm with a SW wind. Smoked out Bee Hive today. Fred went home today. Kinney here with his horse this afternoon.

23 Fri
CIear and warm with a NW wind. We raked up hauled in an acre of buckwheat by the Hawksley Road today. The meat peddler here.

24 Sat
CIear and warm with a NE wind. John McDonald had the buckboard to the lines.

25 Sun
CIear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Dell Nutter called in here. Stella went home today.

26 Mon
CIear and warm with a NE wind. We hauled in two loads of oats today. The first this season. Had Jim to help us. So Ends the Day.

27 Tues
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. We got in three loads of oats and mowed some oats.

28 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I went to Blaine this morning and called to B.F. Pierce. Paid 15 doz Eggs. Went to Kinney’s and took dinner. Smyth was here to buy the oxen.

29 Thu

Clear and warm with a SE wind. We finished mowing the peas and oats by the garden. Aaron and wife here tonight.

30 Fri
Mostly clear and warm with a SW wind. I was home all day. A.J. Fulton and wife went from here this afternoon.

31 Sat

Clear and warm with a North wind. We raked and hauled in four loads of oats today. David Frost called here. Mother and Perry to School Exhibition.

So Ends the Month of August

July 1889

1 Mon

Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Me and Perry was weeding potatoes today. James Craig got his meal from here today.

2 Tuesday

Clear and warm with a SE wind. I wrote a letter to Aaron tonight. John Close here this evening with a load of turnips.

3 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. I went to Blaine with a firken of Butter and sold it to Jones. Sold ten dozen eggs to B.F. Pierce. (Firkin: A small wooden vessell or tub for butter)

4 Thursday

Warm and rainy morning. The wind from SE and still raining at bedtime.

5 Fri
Cloudy and cool with NW wind. We was cultivating our potatoes on sod ground.

6 Sat
Clear and cool with a North wind. Richard Bell and wife called here going to meeting. Left Leroy here today. Harden went to the Mill.

7 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. Myself and wife was up to Straights. Richard Bell and wife stopped here and got tea coming from meeting. Jud Straight called in.

8 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a North wind. Me and Perry worked on the road today. G.W. Fulton and wife here tonight.

9 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. Me and Perry was working on the road today. I took George’s wife home this afternoon. Road tax for 1889 $11.66.

10 Wed
Some clouds and cool with a NE wind. We was weeding potatoes all day today. Our Bees swarmed today. The first this season. (Swarmed: A group or body of Honeybees that emigrate from a hive accompanied by a queen to start a new colony)

11 Thur
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. A man called today named Jordan. He had lost one arm. He was hurt on the Grand Trunk Railway.

12 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We was hoeing potatoes all day today. A Jinson woman and son here tonight from the Province.

13 Sat
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We was hoeing our potatoes today. Signs of rain. Got our roles. (Roles: Could have meant ‘Rolls’ for the list of students for Fall Semester at Fulton School) Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Cleared off clear in the evening. Signs of a frost.

14 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We commenced haying today. H. Delong and Old Mammy Tid here. Mod foaled today.

15 Mon
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I went to Blaine and called to Will and got dinner. Aaron here tonight.

17 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. It is 72 deg. In the shade. B.F. Jones called in.

Mrs. Hutchinson here. I took Aaron to B.F. Pierce.

18 Thur
Mostly clear and warm with a NW wind. We hauled in three loads of hay today for the first this season.

19 Fri

Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. We was mowing and hauling in hay today. Viola Gray and Mrs. Mahan here.

20 Sat
Wind and rain from the SE. I was home all day. R. Irvin brought a bbl of flour here for George Hallett.

21 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. J.W. Fulton called in tonight.

22 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. I went to Blaine this morning to 1.0. Kinney’s. \/Ir. Fendlesen was here.

23 Tues
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. John Close, Israel D. Kinney, Jim Giberson here today. We was mowing and hauling in hay. Got some rain. Brundage here.

24 Wed
CIoudy and cold with a NW wind. Some rain showers. We was mowing today. Finished cutting what

there was up at Harden’s.

25 Thur
CIoudy and cold with a West wind. We went to Blaine this morning and got a horse rake. Came home and raked and hauled in all by Harden’s.

26 Fri
CIear and cold with a NW wind. We commenced mowing on the other side of the brook today. Jim Mahan put up our picken fork today.

27 Sat
We was mowing and hauling hay today from across the brook. Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. Harden and wife went over to see Stella today. The Sabbath School folks came here to have a sing.

28 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was mowing today. John Leath took dinner here. Sold him two pigs. Mrs. Wing called in.

29 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. We mowed some. George Hatch was here to dinner. Rained some in the afternoon.

30 Tues
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. We was raking and hauling in hay in the afternoon. Martha Bell was here to dinner.

June 1889

1 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We finished planting potatoes today. Havelock Bartley here tonight. Frank Larrabee was here. Fendlesen called here.

2 Sun
A SE rain most all night and all the fournoon. G.W. Fulton here to dinner. Havelock Bartley and Anna Murray here today. Frank Larrabee here.

3 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Some rain. We built our Line Fence down by the brook today. Marked our sheep and put them in the pasture.

4 Tues

A warm SE rain most all the previous night and today. We was fencing and plowing and cleaned out my cellar.

5 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. It rained all the previous night and some throught the day. I went to Blaine.

6 Thur
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We planted our beans today. Mrs. F. Hawksley here.

7 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We was plowing buckwheat land today. Sings of more rain. Mrs. J.W. Fulton here today. (Mary Ann York (Shaw) Fulton)

8 Sat

A SE rain most all the previous night and a great deal of rain through the day. We was plowing and stumping today.

9 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Signs of more rain. So ends the day.

10 Mon
Cloudy and very foggy this morning. It rained all the previous night with a SE wind. I finished planting my garden today.

11 Tues
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We was plowing and sowing buckwheat today. Mr. Hatch, the Apple Tree agent, here to dinner today.

12 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We was sowing buckwheat, plowing and harrowing. Mrs. Helen Lister here to tea. So ends the day.

13 Thur
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We finished plowing today. T. Bartley, Harden and wife to dinner. Heavy thunder and lightening and rain tonight.

14 Fri
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. Me and Harden went to Bell’s this morning and swapped horses. We cultivated our potatoes today.

15 Sat
Warm and cloudy with a SE wind. Rained in the P.M. till eight. I went to Blaine and got Buck­wheat from Jones. Dorothy Bell here tonight.

16 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. I was home all day. Dorothy Bell went home this morn­ing. Fred and Stella came over on a visit. Fred went home.

17 Mon
Some clouds with a cold West wind. We was hoeing potatoes today. G.W. Fulton was here to dinner today.

18 Tues
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Heavy frost this morning. John Close here today. I planted Peppers and Cucumbers today on new land. We was weeding potatoes.

19 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Wife and Stella went out to Delong’s on a visit. We was weeding and hoeing potatoes.

20 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I went to Blaine this morning and got Mod shod. Brought Alice home. Mary and Jane Delong and Evelyn Fulton here.

21 Fri
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Me and Perry was hilling up potatoes. Harden took the wool to the Mill. So ends the day.

22 Sat

Warm SE rain most all day. I took Alice and children home today. Traded some with B.F.Pierce. George called here.

23 Sun

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. G.W. Fulton here to tea. Fred came and took Stella home today.

24 Mon

Clear and cool with a West wind. Me and Harden helped Jim fence today. Arthur Hutchinson and wife got buckboard today to go to Dr. Syphers.

25 Tues
Clear but very smokey and warm with a SE wind. We finished rolling our logs today for turnips. Mrs. Dave Irvin called.

26 Wed
Mostly clear and warm with a SE wind. The two Mrs. Listers here today. Me and Harden fenced for Jim. We set heaps afire.

27 Thu

Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. It rained heavy in the night and most all day. Me and Harden went out to Blaine and got a load of shingles from Jones.

28 Fri

Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Finished one firken of Butter today. Me and Harden fencing for Jim today.

29 Sat

Clear and warm with a NW wind. G.W. Fulton, John Elkins here to tea. Evelyn Fulton and Lizzy Fulton here this evening.

30 Sun

Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Emery and George Hawksley was here today. Herbert Fulton and Lizzy Fulton called.

May 1889

1 Wed

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I went to Blaine this morning and wore by overcoat and mittens. Took dinner at G.W. Fulton’s. J. Mahan brought me in a bbl of flour from Frank Pierce.

2 Thursday

Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Finished the buckwheat ground by the Hawksley Road. Fixed my West Line Fence. Harden and wife to tea. Mrs. Mahan called in.

3 Fri

Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We was plowing Green Sword for potatoes. B.F. Jones here today. It rained some today.

4 Sat

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine today and called to Safford’s, Pierce’s, Grahams, Hewitt’s, Jones’ and Hussey’s.

5 Sun

Some clouds and cool with a West wind. I took Hatfield Delong out to Dr. Syphers today. He was sick. I took him with Mod and the buckboard. So ends the day.

6 Mon

Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We was plowing all day. Abram Smith and John D. Lindsey and son was here today.

7 Tues
Some clouds with a SE wind. George Hatch here today delivering trees. We sheared our sheep this afternoon.

8 Wed
Mostly clear with a warm SE wind. We plowed sod in the fournoon. John close was here today with his horse. We went out to the store in the afternoon.

9 Thur
Mostly clear and warm with a SE wind. Mr. Oliver, a map peddler, called. We sowed 2 1/2 bushel of peas and oats. The first this Spring.

10 Fri
Some Clouds and warm with a NW wind. Quite a heavy thunder shower in the night. The first thunder we heard this year. John D. Lindsey took dinner here.

11 Sat
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. I went to Blaine today and got 4 bushels of oats from Safford’s. Got a letter from Aaron’s wife today. Brought bolts from Larrabee’s.

12 Sun
Some clouds with a warm SW wind. Myself and wife went over to West Ridge today to see Stella. G.W. Fulton was here today.

13 Mon
Some clouds with a warm West wind. We sowed our wheat today. Aaron Kinney, from Houlton, John Boyd and Cora Rogers here today.

14 Tues
Cloudy with a warm SE wind. I harrowed in one acre of Buckwheat today for the first this Spring. Fred Fenderson called here today. (Could be Fendlesen)

15 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and Perry went over to Giberson’s. Grear was here with his horse.

16 Thur
Cloudy with a SE wind. We planted 12 1/2 bushels of potatoes today for the first this Spring. It rained in the afternoon.

17 Fri

Some clouds and cold with a West wind. We was plowing and hauling manure.

18 Sat
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We planted our Christies Potatoes today. J.W. Fulton here today.

19 Sun
Clear and warm with a South wind. Harden and wife here today. I went up to see James Giberson this evening. He was sick. Paddock here and got 28 1/4 of flour. (Not sure what measure given) :

20 Mon
Some clouds with a warm SE wind. I was cutting potatoes all day. Mrs. Everitt and Mrs. Delong here today.

21 Tues

Warm with a SE wind and some rain. We Sowed 12 Bushels of oats today over on the oat ground across the brook. Got a letter from Aaron.

22 Wed

Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Very foggy with some rain in the fournoon. A young Kinney here today for onions.

23 Thur

Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We planted an acre of potatoes and finished our peas and oats today of 7 bushels.

24 Fri
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Me and Harden went down to Bell’s this morning to take down a hog. Mrs. Cox here tonight. Frank Brown here.

25 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind and some rain showers. We helped Jim today to plow with the oxen. Mrs. Cox left here tonight.

26 Sun

Some clouds with a NE wind. Heavy frost this morning done some damage. Mathias McDonald called.

27 Mon

Some clouds with a cold SE wind. We finished harrowing in our oats today and burnt the foller. I went to Paddock Ford and Paddock for butter.

28 Tue

Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine, I took 17 1/2 doz. Eggs to Safford’s. Got 4 bushels of oats. I got a bbl of Indian Meal from B.F. Pierce.

29 Wed

Cloudy and colcl with a NW wind. Me and Perry was picking rocks off the potatoe ground. Harden was helping Bachelder haul logs.

30 Thu

Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. We hauled rocks and harrowed some potato ground. Jim Craig called.

31 Fri

Cloudy and very foggy in the morning. We planted an acre of potatoes this afternoon.

April 1889

1 Mon
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. I was hauling wood all day. Fred and Stella here tonight. J.W. Fulton and Mathias McDonald called in here.

2 Tue
Cloudy with a NE wind. It snowed most of the fournoon. Fred and Stella moved today by Jim Rundlett. Mrs. J.W. Fulton here today.

3 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Signs of a storm. G.W. Fulton here today. Harden went to the Mill. I wrote a letter to A.J. Fulton.

4 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Perry helped Harden this afternoon. Eli Fletcher here and got some checkerberry for 15 cents.

5 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Myself and wife went down to Richard Bell’s with the Mare and Pungo There is a good deal of bare ground and water. Got some candy. Jones called in.

6 Sat
Clear and cool with a NW wind. Perry went to Knoxford this afternoon. School meeting this afternoon.

7 Sun
Clear and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Perry was to Knoxford. J.W. Fulton here to
tea. H.L. Fulton and wife up to Straight’s. (Grandfather got his son’s initials mixed up now and then but I thought it necessary to write them down as he put it)

8 Mon
Clear and warm with a SW wind. I was hauling and sawing wood all day. G.W. Fulton and boy was here. Mathias McDonald.

9 Tues
Some clouds with a warm SW wind. We was sawing wood and yarding out cedars. Mr. Earl here today. Anna Hutchinson.

10 Wed
Some clouds with a cold NW wind. Me and Harden finished hauling our cedars across the brook today.

11 Thur
Some clouds with a warm NW wind. I was sawing and splitting wood all day. The two Mrs. Listers here to day.

12 Fri
Some clouds with a warm NW wind. James Giberson here and got an ox yoke. We made our first churning today and got 2 1/2 Ibs. Of butter. Harden got two bushels of wheat from Bell’s.

13 Sat
Cloudy with a cold NW wind. I went to Blaine today with the buckboard and took dinner at George’s. I got Turner to shoe Mod. Our house caught fire.

14 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. Nothing occurred worth naming.

15 Mon
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. Temp. 26 to 52 deg. Above zero. I was home all day. We put out the workbench and moved our stoves. J. Herron and Fred Redstone here today.

16 Tues
Clear and warm with a West wind. I helped Harden hew scantling today. Mr. Thomas Bartlett
here this evening. So ends the day. (Scantling: A small piece of timber, as one used as an upright in a building frame)

17 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Wife was down to Mahan’s on a visit in the afternoon.

18 Thu
Some clouds with a warm SE wind. I was home all day. Put out my bees today and opened my cellar today.

19 Fri
Some clouds with a warm SE wind. Me and Perry was underbrush,”Y foller today. Jim and wife and Mrs. Mahan here today.

20 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was underbrushing part of the day. George and Jim went over to Frazer’s Mill. Perry went to Straight’s and got some sugar.

21 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a South wind. G.W. Fulton and wife and Miss Canady, J.W. Fulton and L.H. Fulton and wife and one of G. Canady’s boys was here this Easter Sunday.

22 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a North wind. I was home all day. Jim and Harden and John Hawksley called to get Spirits Turpentine for mumps.

23 Tue
Some clouds with a cold NW wind. We was chopping wood today. The temperature ranging from 18 to 62 degrees above zero. Signs of a storm soon.

24 Wed Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We commenced plowing today our oat ground and picking rocks. I made a cart. Signs of a storm.

25 Thu Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was plowing and hauling rocks all day. It rained a little the previous night.

26 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was plowing and burning off root piles today. I wrote a letter to A.J. Fulton tonight.

27 Sat
Cool with a SE wind. It rained most all day and the previous night. I was home all day. Harden went to Bell’s.

28 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Harden took George Canady out to the factory. Evelyn Fulton and Nell Mahan called in.

29 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. I helped to make soap. Harden and Perry went down to hep Richard Bell. It rained in the afternoon.

30 Tue Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. It rained all night and all the fournoon.
J.W. Fulton called in tonight.

So Ends the Month of April

March 1889

1 Fri

Clear and warm with a SE wind. Me and Harden was yarding logs from Knoxford. Sam Fulton and wife, Tom Fulton’s wife, Len Bartley and wife and four children called here this afternoon.

2 Sat

Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. A.J. Fulton and wife here to dinner. Me and Harden picked up ten bbls of potatoes and took them out to Blaine for Hewitt’s. Fred came home tonite.

3 Sun

Clear and warm with a SW wind. I was home all day. Fred and Stella went up to Jim’s. Arthur Hutchinson and wife was here. Jim Mahan got the pungo

4 Mon

Clear and warm with a SW wind. Richard Bell and wife here today. Wife stayed all night. Mack Fulton here tonight. Fred went to his Father’s today.

5 Tue

Cloudy with a SE wind. It commenced to rain at noon and still raining at bedtime. Dolly went home. R. Jones and wife and R. Irvin was here. T. Bartley and Mack Fulton and J. Kearney called here. Harden went to Waltson’s Mill today.

6 Wed

Cold with a SE rain all day and still raining at bedtime. Robert F. Jones and wife here tonight.

(Robert F. Jones is Martha’s younger brother. Robert’s wife, Henriette, is Thomas Fulton’s daughter)

7 Thur

A SE rain all night and most ofthe day. Robert F. Jones and wife went home this morning. Harden took up his bee hive today. Fred came home tonight.

8 Fri

Cloudy with a SE wind and quite cool. Signs of more rain. Harden and wife and Mrs. Bartley here to tea. Fred was helping me saw wood.

9 Sat

Snowed most all day. The wind from NW. I was home all day. I was picking over potatoes. Fred helped Harden in the afternoon.

10 Sun

Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Some signs of a storm. So ends the day.

11 Mon

Cloudy and cool with a North wind. J.W. Fulton got the pung today to go to Bridgewater. Fred went over to his father’s this morning. Me and Perry was sawing wood.

12 Tues

Clear and quite warm with a NW wind. Jim Cox here tonight. Me and Perry hauled wood all day with the oxen. Batchelder hauled his hay today.

13 Wed

Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Me and Harden went to Watson’s Mill. I took 12 bushels of buckwheat. J. Chandler here. Snowing now. We mended the pung in the afternoon.

14 Thur

Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden brought my grist home today from Watson’s Mill. Harden and wife took Mrs. Bartley home. A young Dane, Lars C.H. Christensen was here to dinner.

15 Fri

Clear and warm with a SE wind. I got a letter from A.J. Fulton. Richard Bell here to dinner with wood for George. I was sawing and hauling wood today.

16 Sat

Some clouds with warm SE wind. Jud Straight and Lister too tea here tonight. Fred came home tonight. I was sawing wood today.

17 Sun

Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. It commenced raining and snowing about noon. Harden and wife came home from Knoxford.

18 Mon

Cold and raining in the morning with a NE wind. It snowed hard in the afternoon. Myself and Harden went to Blaine and I took some eggs. Called to Bell’s going down.

19 Tues

A NE snow all the previous night until noon today. I drove Mod out Blaine this morning and got George Canady to set one shoe on the more.

20 Wed

Very cloudy with a cool NE wind. I was haUling wood this afternoon. Jim got the sleigh to the Province.

21 Thur

Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. Me and Perry was sawing and hauling wood today. Dotty Larrabee came here today.

22 Fri

Clear and warm with a NW wind. Fred and Stella moved today over on the West Ridge. Isaac and Ephraim Lawrence here tonight. Harden too two loads of logs to the Mill today.

23 Sat

Clear and warm with a SE wind. I lent Harden 50 cents and he returned 20 cents. Harden took a load of logs to the Mill today. The Lawrence’s left today. Jim stopped by on the way to the river. Evelyn is here this evening.

25 Mon

Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Perry went over to Watson’s Mill and got the cog. Harden took a load of logs down to Blanchard’s. Joe Woolverton here today.

26 Tue

Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden took a load of logs to the Mill. Jim took tea here. E. Hawksley here tonight.

27 Wed

Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. I took a load of logs down to Blanchard’s Mill with the oxen. Jim and Harden went to Bridgewater.

28 Thu

Cold with a SE snow, quite soft, all day. I drove out to Frank Pierce’s and Harden took a load of logs to the Mill.

29 Fri

Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. We got five birch logs hauled down to Blanchard’s Mill today. Myself, Jim and Harden had two teams.

30 Sat

Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. Quite cold and blustery all day. Me and Harden went two trips to the Mill today to finish hauling logs.

31 Sun

Clear and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden and wife went to Bell’s. Perry went up to Straight’s. E. Hawksley and Horace Cox here today.

February 1889

1 Sun

Cold, snowing, blowing and drifting all day and still drifting at bedtime. Harden hauled five cord of wood for Fred today.

2 Sat

Clear and cold with a West wind. I was home all day. Mrs. Mahan and Mrs. Crain made us a visit here this afternoon. Signs of a storm.

3 Sun

Some clouds and quite warm with a West wind. I was home all day. Some signs of a storm. No callers here today.

4 Mon

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. James W. Fulton called in today and George W. Fulton called here tonight.

5 Tuesday

Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. It begin to snow at noon and snowed and blowed heavy till bedtime. I drove to George’s this morning and took 11/2 bushels of potatoes and too dinner. E. Manser came and took her organ.

6 Wed

Snow all the previous night and all this fournoon. I broke into the woods and George and myself hauled two loads of wood.

7 Thursday

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. George took a load of wood home today. Fred came home last night from Pittsfield.

8 Fri

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day choring. J.W. Fulton called in. G.W. Fulton had Harden and Fred Blackden with him today cutting wood.

9 Sat

Cold East wind with a little snow. George and Fred helped to saw wood in the fournoon and then both went home.

10 Sun

Clear with a SW wind. Fred took Stella to his father’s this afternoon. John D. Lindsey and wife and three children here today. Will York and daughter called here.

11 Mon

Clear and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Jim got the pung to go to George’s for Mary Ann today. Signs of a storm. George came to cut wood.

12 Tuesday

Cold with a NE snow storm all day and still snowing at bedtime. George went home today. Harden took him out a load of wood.

13 Wed

Stormed all night and fournoon today with a NE wind. Harden went to Blaine today with colts. Tupper’s Dummy took dinner here today.

14 Thu

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind with some snow squalls through the day. Quite blustery and bad roads just now.

15 Fri

Clear and cold with NW wind and very blustery. Jim got the pung this morning to go to Watson’s Mill. Me and Perry was sawing wood in the fournoon. Me and Harden put of six bbls of Early Rose potatoes for Hewitt this afternoon.

16 Sat

Clear and cold with NW wind. I was home all day. Me and Perry was sawing wood. Isaac McPerson called here. I was talking with Mr. Towle about Dyer.

17 Sun

Cold and snowing from the SE in the fournoon. The fog was very thick and it commenced to rain about noon. The wind changed to the NW at bedtime.

18 Monday

Cloudy and cool with NE wind in the fournoon. Me and Harden took ten bbls of Early Rose to Hewitt’s today. It commenced snowing about four o’clock and Harden got a bbl of flour today.

19 Tuesday

Cloudy and cold with a West wind and very blustery. I was home all day choring. There was two Rag Peddlers here this morning. So ends the day.

20 Wed

Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Harden took Straight’s hay home. I mended G.W. Fulton’s shoes. I got a letter from J. Meagher to send Perry to school. Jim went to the Mill today.

21 Thurs

Mostly clear and cold with a SW wind. I was home all day. Harden went down to Isaac McPherson’s to get some bags. James brought some meal home.

22 Fri

Cloudy and cold with a SE Wind and very blustery. Looks very much like a storm. Snowing some bedtime. One of the buildings burnt today at the factory.

23 Sat

Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day choring. It is 18 below at bedtime.

24 Sun

Clear and cold with a SW wind. Signs of a storm. George Broad, J.W. Fulton and wife and

Cad Collins here today. Perry went to his father’s funeral.

25 Mon

Some clouds and with a SW wind. Harden went to Watson’s to see about some logs. Jane and Girt Lindsey here to supper.

26 Tue

Clear and quite pleasant with a SW wind. Fred and Stella came home today. Evelyn Fulton here today. Jane and Girt went home.

27 Wed

Clear and warm with SE wind. Fred went over to his father’s this morning. I hauled four loads of wood. Goodie Cox brought Perry home today from his father’s funeral.

28 Thu

Clear and warm with a West wind. We yarded up five logs this morning. I took Mod and went to Blaine and called to Irvin’s to pay taxes to Fred Hewitt. I got some fish.

1891- coming soon

December 1886

1 Wed
Cold with a SE rain storm. I drove out to Aaron’s and brought Stella home with me. I took dinner at Larrabee’s and called to Safford’s and got one gallon of oil. Hutchinson come here tonight with his machine to thrash our grain. The wind came round this afternoon to the NW and quite cold.

2 Thu
Clear and pleasant this morning with a SE wind. In the afternoon, about four o’clock, the wind    came round to the NE. Commenced snowing very heavy. Hutchinson was here thrashing all day.They thrashed 18 bushels of buckwheat, 40 bushels of wheat, and 70  bushels of oats. G. L.    Herrick, book agent, was here today from Easton. Warren Snow come and got his sheep away.

3 Fri
Some clouds and very cold and blustery with a NW wind. It came about six inches of snow in the    night and drifted very bad. Hutchinson went home today. Did not try to thrash. The night is very clear and cold. A good deal colder than any night this fall. Took a load of hay to Aaron.

4 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind blowing and drifting. Temp. is 4 above zero at bedtime. We put our bees in today. Arthur Hutchinson

and Jane came here today to thrash. It was so cold they    gave it up. J.W. Fulton and young Tucker and Allen Irven and Dell Nutter
was here today. Some signs of another storm.

5 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and wife went down to Bell’s. Some signs of a storm tonight.
6 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was thrashing all day. We finished today. Had 240 bushels of peas and oats and 70 bushels of buckwheat and 40 bushels of wheat. Hutchinson went home    tonight. J.W. Fulton, John Elkins, Mr. Straight and Howard Silsby all here today.

7 Tue
Clear and cold with a SW wind. Hutchinson moved his machine this morning and we got Judson Straight and put our straw all in today. Signs of an approaching storm tonight. William Hargrove  here today.

8 Wed
Some clouds and cool in the after part of the day. Snowed heavy in the forenoon from the NW.I was home all day. We moved our  stoves this forenoon. Harden went out to Silsby’s to help to saw wood today. John Boyd was here today.

9 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I harnessed up this morning and drove to Blaine. Took out four bags of oats. Got seven joints of  stove pipe at Jones. Called at Larrabee’s and got dinner. Got a letter from James E. Fulton. Got two gallons of molasses, five pounds of soda and one pair of overshoes at Jones. Paid in oats $2.83.

10 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Some signs of rain or snow. I harnessed up this morning to go to Bridgewater to get some money. Took Stella with me to Blaine. I drove down below Blaine and met G. Collins and I came back. We took dinner with Mrs. Frost. Called at Jones, to Way    Office and at Larrabee’s. Harden is away to John Elkins hauling wood today.

11 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. The snow was melting all day. I was home all day. Harden was away hauling wood for John Elkins today. B. Hume was here today and Mr. Straight. Stella went with Jim and wife up to John Bartley’s this afternoon. The weather is very clear and fine this evening. R. M. Fulton   (Signature)

12 Sun
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Myself and wife drove over to John Lindsey’s this morning and took our dinner there. Stopped till two o’clock and drove home. J. Syphers was there. Harden and Perry went down to Knoxford this evening after a cow. Stella came home this evening from John Bartlett’s with Jim and wife. Howard Silsby here today.

13 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I went to Blaine this morning and got a registered letter from    Bridgewater. Paid Hewitt $1.80 cts. Paid D. Smyth $4.15. Got a cup from Jones. Took my dinner    at Aaron’s and came home. Commenced to snow about noon and is still snowing at bedtime.Harden was helping Silsby saw wood today. Paid him up for ox work last Spring.

14 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE snow storm. It snowed about six inches with it clearing off in the afternoon from the NW. Quite clear and cold. I commenced to petition off a room in the chamber for a bedroom. Harden took the oxen and went over to Watson’s Mill with twenty bushels of wheat. He took 14 bushels of oats home this morning to Jonas Aheran that was borrowed in the Fall.

15 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Commenced to snow in the afternoon. I was to work all day petitioning off a bedroom up chamber. Harden went out to work for D. Nutter today. J.W. Fulton here today. I got a letter from Brainard today from Mabell.

16 Thu
Cold with a NW snow storm and blowing and drifting all day. The worst storm that has been this    season. The roads are drifted up very bad. Mr. Yetten, the sewing machine agent, got storm. Stayed here today and is here tonight. Harden came home from Nutter’s this morning on account of the storm.

17 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind and drifting badly. The wind shifted to the SE this evening. Signs of a storm. Yetten left here this morning. Jim and Harden was out today breaking roads.

18 Sat
Cold with a SE snow storm all day and still snowing at bedtime. Harden went over to Watson Mill today and got his grist of 20 bushels of wheat. The first we got ground this Winter of wheat    and six bushels of oats, mashed, and peas.

19 Sun
Cloudy and quite warm with a SE wind. Came about six inches of snow in the night. Very bad roads. Signs of more storm. We was home all day. James Kearney was here today. The wind is round to the NW at bedtime again.

20 Mon
Clear and quite pleasant this morning with the wind from the SW. I was breaking roads all day.Harden went out to work for  Watson’s. Stella wrote to Hildred Gray and G.S. Herrick, of Easton,tonight. Jud Straight was here today.

21 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and heavy white frost. Great signs of a storm. I harnessed up and went to Blaine this A.M. with the
mare and pung. Took some oats and paid Nutter for broom. Mailed letter to Herrick of Easton and one to Hill Gray and got one from
E.J. Fulton of Brainerd. Called to Joneses and got some rice and called to Aaron’s, called to Larrabee’s and got my dinner. To
H.W. Safford’s and paid him one dollar.

22 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden came home this evening from    Watson’s after helping them three days to
kill thirty five hogs. We heard this morning of the death of Douglas Shaw. James Kearney, Sr., Thomas H. More, the peddler, J.W.
Fultonk, John Elkins and Judson Straight was here today.

23 Thu
Clear and pleasant this morning with a West wind. I was home all day. Harden went away this morning to work for Dell Nutter. John
Elkins and Anna Hutchinson was here today. It clouded    up this evening and the wind came round to the SE and looks very much like
an approaching    storm.

24 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SE snow storm till about four o’clock P.M. and then turned to rain and is raining at bedtime. Harden came
home this evening from D. Nutter’s. J.W. Fulton and Jud    Straight was here today.  R.M. Fulton   (Signature)

25 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind this morning. It rained heavy from the SE all night. D. Nutter here to dinner. Jim and Mary and
Evelyn, Elisha Shaw and Nancy Shaw, Douglas widow, here to supper. Harden took Straight some flour today. Some in the forenoon and
a load of hay in the afternoon. Hub Brown and Howard Lindsey called here this evening.

26 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Signs of a storm. I was home all day. Harden went up to the School House to meeting. Stella went
over to see Joseph McKay. James Kearney, Sr. John Bartlett and Adaline Murray got here this evening. It has commenced snowing at
bedtime from the South East.

27 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of rain in the morning. It snowed some in the afternoon but cleared off in the evening from
the NW quite cold. John Bartley and Adaline Murray left    here for home this morning. Harden went out to work for Dell Nutter this
morning. We sent Perry after him in the evening. Anna was sick. Drove out and got Mrs. McDonald. J.W. Fulton here this evening.

28 Tue
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day choring. Harden was out working to Dell Nutter’s but came home tonight. A. J.
Fulton was here to dinner and Howard Lindsey today. Thomas H. More, the peddler, called here. David Smyth called here this
evening. Signs of another storm.

29 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day excepting I went down to John Aheran’s to see about Aaron’s hay. Harden come
home this evening from Nutter’s. Stella went over to Joseph McKay’s this afternoon. Temp. down to 18 deg. Below zero at bedtime or
nine o’clock.

30 Thu
Clear and cold with a West wind. Harden took a load of hay out to Aaron this morning. I was home all day. I sat and filed the
crosscut saw for Jim this morning. David Hartley, the peddler,    was here today to dinner. The temp. is 28 deg. Below zero now at
bedtime or at 9 o’clock in the evening. Sent out six bushels of oats to Smyth by Harden.

31 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Signs of a storm. I was home all day. Harden went out to work for D. Nutter today. Commenced
snowing this evening about 7 o’clock from the NE. J.W. Fulton was here today getting the saw filed. Temp. down to zero now at
bedtime.

And so ends the Month of December
and the Year of 1886

November 1886

1 Mon
Clear and warm with a North wind. Very pleasant. Harden was plowing all day and I was banking the house. James Craig, John Elkins and J.W. Fulton was here today. The weather is clear and warm this evening.

2 Tue
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Myself and wife went over on West Ridge this morning to Mr. Blackden’s on a visit. We had a splendid time. Came home tonight and heard that Dell Nutter’s child was dead. William Wing was here to notify for the funeral. James Craig was here today.
3 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Harden went to Aaron’s after Stella this morning to go to Dell Nutter’s to baby funeral. I was choring and plowing. Lincoln Shanes, James Collins and wife,James Kearney here today. Lincoln Shanes took Stella out to Aaron’s. Very foggy and rainy looking tonight.

4 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind in the forenoon. Some rain. We was plowing part of the day. Thrashed some buckwheat. Wind came round in the afternoon and cleared off from the NW quite cold. James Murray and J.W. Fulton here today.

5 Fri
Clear and cold with a SE wind. Froze quite hard. I was thrashing buckwheat all day. Harden was plowing till two o’clock and then he started to Houlton to get naturalized. Alice came here tonight with her children. Signs of a storm tonight.

6 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. Me and Perry was plowing. Harden was away to Houlton. Alice and children was here.They went to Mahan’s with her mother in the afternoon.
7 Sun
Cold with a SE rain storm and very heavy wind. I wrote a letter to Ephraim. Harden got home today from Houlton. Alice and children here tonight.

8 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind and a very hard freeze. Alice and children went home today on buckboard. Sent a letter to Ephraim.I saw Hume today. Aaron’s wife brought Stella home today.I called at Bell’s to see a yearling bull. I spoke to Blanchard about sawing our logs. I called to Safford’s and got some oil.

9 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was cleaning up buckwheat and hauling out manure. John Elkins was here today. I was mending his lantern and teapot.

10 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We plowed some and hauled up a load of hay for Mr. Straight. Nash McCormick, T.H. More, the peddler, Mr. Straight and B.B. Blanchard from Presque Isle, the steam cooker man and J.W. Fulton. Some signs of rain tonight.

11 Thu
Cloudy and cool with a SW wind. Harden was plowing all day. I went to the Mill with the mare and buckboard. I went Chandler’s Mill, called to J. Ramsay’s and paid him 35 cts that I owed him. Called to J. Hersom’s, to Aaron’s, to Larrabee’s and got dinner. Called to Collin’s store, to H.W. Safford’s. J.W. Dyer here today. Took Safford’s oil can home and paid him 25 cts today.

12 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Snow squalls all day. The ground was quite white which reminded us of the coming winter. Harden was plowing till 4 o’clock PM. Then he went down to Richard Bell’s to load up a bull, one year and half old. Stella got a letter today from Don McDonald in Dakota. Mathias McDonald was here this evening. So ends the day.

13 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Commenced snowing lightly in the morning and snowed all day and all night. Myself and wife drove out to Aaron’s to help butcher his hog. Killed the hog and took our dinners. Then I drove to the office and called to Larrabee’s. Came up to Bell’s and stopped all night. D.L. Nutter was here today. Harden finished plowing today, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1886.

14 Sun
Cold with a NW snow this morning. We drove home in our carriage this morning. Traveling very heavy in the two days and nights.Near twelve inches of snow fell and quite cold and blustery.J. Kearney and Jud Straight was here today.

15 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. Me and James drove down to Chandler’s Mill for my grist and Jim’s. I called in to Joneses and got Harden a pair of Larigens. Called to Larrabee’s and got our dinners. Called to Aaron’s and got 17 lbs of pork in a bag. Bought 9 1/4 lbs of beef from Nash McCormick. Got home by nine o’clock.

16 Tue
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was thrashing beans today and Harden was helping R. Bell to thrash. He came home tonight. Stella and Perry went to the Pie Sociable tonight. Some signs of a storm.

17 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. We broke out stack of hay this morning for to take a load out to Aaron. I was thrashing and cleaning up beans. Harden brought home some lumber from the Blanchard Mill. Signs of a storm tonight.

18 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and snow and rain all day and evening till bedtime. The wind changed to the NW. Harden went down to Bell’s to help him thrash today. Mathias McDonald here today.

19 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. I was thrashing buckwheat today. Harden is away working for R. Bell. J.W. Fulton, Thomas H. More, the peddler, and a young White from Knoxford, N.B. came to borrow an axe and Mathias McDonald was all here today. There was some heavy snow squalls here today.

20 Sat
Some clouds but quite pleasant and warm for the season. I was thrashing buckwheat today. Harden came home from Bell’s tonight. J.W. Fulton here this evening. I wrote a letter to James E. Fulton of Houlton tonight.

21 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Signs of a storm. Myself and wife went up to Mr. Straight’s today. We called to Hutchinson’s on our way back. Stella was out to Delong’s to see Mary. Seth Smith was here this evening.

22 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. There was a great many wild geese passed over for the South today. Harden was helping Jim this forenoon to haul wood. We killed a lot of fowls today and a sheep and dressed them ready for market.

23 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of an approaching snow storm. Me and Stella went to Blaine this morning with a load of fowls and mutten. Got the mare shawed and sold my load out to Jones and others. I mailed a letter to James E. Fulton. Commenced snowing about noon.Snowed heavy in the afternoon and evening. I paid Nash McCormick $1.50 for Stella and came home. J. Murray, Mr. Straight and Judson Straight was here today. We finished hauling out our manure today.

24 Wed
Some clouds with a West wind. Harden hauled a load of a hay today for Mr. Straight and hauled three loads of wood. Mr. Straight was here today. The wind tonight is from the NW and very heavy and cloudy looking. Very much like a storm.

25 Thu
Some clouds with a SW wind. I went to Robinson Mill this morning with a grist. Got it ground and went to Bridgewater and went to Humes. Put up and fed at Charles Fulton’s. Got my dinner and called to Joshua’s. Started for home and called to Joneses. Got three tie chains, one dollars worth of sugar and called at Hussey’s, to Aaron’s at Smyth’s, at Larrabee’s. Brought Alice out. James Kearney was here today. It commenced snowing very heavy about dark tonight.

26 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Snowing some and drifting bad through the day. It snowed about four inches the previous night. Harden went to Mahan’s with Alice and brought her sheep. One ewe lamb here today and then he took Alice home. John Aheran and Hargrove was here today. J. Aheran came after Tinker’s cow but did not take her. Stella went out with Harden and Alice to go to Valey’s.

27 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was thrashing buckwheat today. Harden went up to Straight’s and Hutchinson got some buckwheat.
John Elkins was here today. Signs of another storm.
28 Sun
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. Richard Bell and wife and J. Murray was here to dinner today. Richard took his bee hive home with him. Signs of an approaching storm tonight.

29 Mon
Very cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Myself and Jim harnessed up this morning and drove to Bridgewater to get some money for our potatoes. Jim settled with Hume. I could not get my money. We fed the team at Joshua’s and took our dinner and drove home. Called
to Aaron’s and Larrabee’s and came home. Rained some and all appearance of more. John Aheran got the old cow today.

30 Tue
Cloudy and foggy

October 1886

1 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind and some rain all the forenoon. In the afternoon, the sun came out till about four o’clock when it clouded up with the wind from the NW. Very cold and heavy the rest of the day and evening. We was digging potatoes. Harden hauled his Seventh load to the factory today. Mr. Watten left here this morning.
2 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind and some snow in the night. The ground froze quite hard and some snow through the day. Harden was helping Jim to haul in his grain in the forenoon and we hauled in our buckwheat in the afternoon. The night is clear and quite cold.

3 Sun
Clear and cold with a SW wind. Ground froze quite hard. Myself and wife drove over to Lindsey’s in the morning and stopped there till after dinner and came home. Harden and wife and Stella went to meeting. Mack and Blanche Fulton and young Brown and Hunter, all from Knoxford was here and R. Bell and wife and Samuel Richardson and wife. Signs of a storm tonight. (MacDonald Fulton, better known as ‘Mack’ is 17 years old. His sister, Blanche, is 16 years old. They are the children of Samuel D. and Elevia Fulton. Samuel is the son of Thomas Fulton, who is the older brother of Robert M. Fulton)

4 Mon
Mostly clear with a SW wind with frost in the forenoon. We was digging potatoes. Harden hauled his eighth load today to the factory. It commenced raining about three o’clock this afternoon and is still raining at ten P.M.

5 Tue
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was digging potatoes all day. Harden took his ninth load to the factory today. Mrs. Fred Hawksley was here today. The night is clear and cold.
6 Wed
Clear sky but quite smoky with a cool SW wind. I took the old mare and buckboard and went down to Robinson Mill with six bushels of buckwheat. Took my dinner at Elder Hallowell’s. I called at Jones and got Perry’s boots. Harden hauled his tenth load to the factory. The weather looks good tonight.
7 Thu
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. Signs of a storm. We was digging and hauling in potatoes all day. Blanche Fulton here.
8 Fri
Clear and warm with a South or SE wind. I was digging potatoes and pulling beans. Harden took his eleventh load of potatoes to the factory today. There was a newspaper agent here today for the Portland Transcript by the name of Surmer. A.J. Fulton took dinner here today and took Stella with him to got to Bridgewater to meeting.
9 Sat
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I was digging potatoes all day. Harden and Anna went to Knoxford in the afternoon and Evelyn and Blanche Fulton went down through the woods. Thomas H. More, the peddler, was here today. The weather is clear and fine. (Evelyn and Blanche, teenage cousins, no doubt fishing the Gizaquit. A Fulton tradition)
10 Sun
Mostly clear with a warm NW wind. I was home all day. J.D. Lindsey and wife came here today to dinner. Will Giberson here and James Kearney. Harden came home from Knoxford tonight.
11 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind all day. I was digging potatoes all day and Harden hauled his twelfth load to the factory. Richard Bell brought Stella home this evening. The weather looks very doubtful at nine P.M. tonight. Signs of rain.

12 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and some rain. I was digging potatoes all day. Samuel Brown was here. Going to Hawksley’s. George S. Herrick, a book agent, and Mrs. Seward and Mary Ann Lindsey was here to supper. Charles and Girty Lindsey and Jud Straight, J.W. Fulton, Mrs.Giberson and Mrs. J. Fulton. (Robert’s grandchildren, Charles is 16 and Gustis (Girty) is 11)

13 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind and frost. I was digging potatoes all day and Harden hauled his thirteenth and last load to the factory. Judson Straight came home with the mare and buckboard.I had the thermometer out in the weather all the time.

14 Thu
Mostly clear and cold with a SE wind. I harnessed up this morning and took my wife and Mary Ann Lindsey down to R. Bell’s. I found Alice and her children there. I took dinner and left wife there and came home. I called at J. Clough’s and James Collins. I dug potatoes in the afternoon and Harden was digging all day.

15 Fri
Warm with a SE wind and rain most all day and still raining at bedtime. We was choring all day. Mr. Straight and Judson was here and J.W. Fulton was here today. Temperature 56 above zero.

16 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was choring all day. Harden went to Knoxford this afternoon for his wife. James W. Collins was here today after some crab apples. Got 1/2 bushel. Harden Shaw stopped here this evening to get some clover for his sick boy. The weather is very cold
this evening and freezing very hard.
17 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. The ground froze very hard and ice froze over an inch thick. Richard Bell brought wife and Mary Ann Lindsey home today. Harden and Anna came home today from Knoxford. Judson Straight was here today. Signs of a storm.

18 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I harnessed up this morning and drove out to Blaine and got the mare shawed. Called to Aaron’s and fed. Called to Collins Store and settled up my potato bill. They come to $84.12. I had $40.60 coming to me after paying my bill. I got $15.00 dollars. I had to wait for the balance. I took Stella out to school and brought her home again at night, the first day she went W. Towle.

19 Tue
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Froze hard. Harden took 24 bushels of buckwheat to Watson’s Mill today with the oxen. Got it ground and was home at sunset. John Lindsey came after Mary Ann this morning and took her home. More, the peddler, was here this evening. We was digging potatoes today. J.W. Fulton was here this evening. Weather looks good tonight.

20 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind in the forenoon but cleared off in the afternoon. We was digging potatoes all day. Dug ten bbls. James Kearney here in the morning looking for his cow. Warm and pleasant this evening with the wind from the SE but some signs of rain.

21 Thu
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind and some rain. We finished digging potatoes today. There was two men here today peddling from Skowhegan, Somerset County, Me. By the names of James Dever and Thomas Dever, two brothers, and Yong Callbroth, a book agent here to dinner. Harden commenced our plowing this afternoon.
22 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. Froze quite hard. We was cutting our clover seed today and plowing some. Some rain showers this afternoon. Jim came here today and borrowed some wood. He got 13 blocks today and 17 the first time. 30 in all.

23 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was mowing clover seed this forenoon and was plowing    in the afternoon. I banked the north side of the house. Robert M. Fulton (Signature)

24 Sun
Clear and cold with a West wind. Home all day and Harden went out to Dell Nutter’s. Perry went over to John Lindsey’s today. Three of Perry’s brothers was here today. James Kearney called in. The weather clear and fine.

25 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a SE wind. Froze hard. I started to Houlton. I called at Aaron’s,called at Joneses, called at F. Nelson’s. Stopped to Howes and fed team. Got my dinner. It commenced to rain. Drove to V.B. Wilson’s office by one o’clock. To Clerk’s office and filed my intentions. Drove to James E. Fulton’s on the Foxcroft Road by 3 o’clock. Stopped there all night. Two Brown’s from Knoxford here. I filed my intentions today to become a citizen of the United States. (James E. Fulton is the son of Thomas Fulton, Robert’s brother. James fought in the Civil War in 1864 and is married to Comfort (Jones) Fulton.  James and Comfort is buried with their two small children, Laura and Jennie, beneath a big elm tree, in a small plot on the Foxcroft Road in Houlton, Me.)

26 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a North wind. I started from J.E. Fulton’s this morning and drove to Monticello. Fed the mare and then drove to Bridgewater to Joshua’s. Fed and got my dinner. Called to B.F. Jones, called to Hussey’s and paid him $8.00. Drove home. George W. Tinker here today. (Joshua Fulton, Robert’s brother, married Salome Ketchum and had lived in Bridgewater since 1835. One of the first settlers in the area. Joshua and Salome lost three boys in the Civil War. Their monument is situated in the Bridgewater Corner Cemetery)

27 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Froze hard with heavy white frost. We finished cutting our seed    hay today. Thomas Bartley and Gilbert Cory here today and old man Hawksley. George W. Tinker. I leased a cow from him  to be returned double the last of November 1890. I went to Jonas A. Herrins and borrowed six bushels of oats. Signs of rain.
28 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We hauled in our seed hay and stacked it. Plowed in the afternoon.George Hallett and Jud Straight and a medicine peddler was here by the name of Martin, from Dover, Maine. Got dinner and fed his horse today. Dr. Martin here today.

29 Fri    Clear and warm with a West wind. I harnessed up this morning and drove out to Blaine. Went to Aaron’s and I got two plough points fixed. Took dinner at A.J. Fulton’s and drove home. Weather looks fine tonight.

30 Sat
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was thrashing today at buckwheat. Harden went out with the team to help Aaron to bank his house. James Kearney called in. Thomas H. More, the peddler, was here today and J.W. Fulton. Harden took a load of hay to Aaron.

31 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind and some rain. Myself and wife went down to Dell Nutter’s to see their baby that was scalded. Roger Bell and wife and Almon Nutter and wife was there.    George York, J.W. Dyer, Jud Straight was here today and Dyer took his sheep home go got    from Harden. Signs of rain.

So Ends the Month of October

September 1886

1 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We commenced to mow our buckwheat and peas and oats today. Me and Jim went to Blaine today. Mary Ann went also. I paid $13.00 to J. Herson today    for A.C. Libby on carriage. Got a barrel  of flour and a sack of salt and a bag of meal from G.W. Collins and 47 yards print. Brought Stella home from Aaron’s.

2 Thu
Clear and cold with a SE wind and a heavy frost. The first seen here this season since Spring.    We was mowing buckwheat and peas and oats. Aaron was here this evening. The frost done but little damage. It was quite foggy. Harden took the steers over to Hawksley’s this evening for    Jones at $35.00. Charles Lindsey was here this afternoon. Signs of rain tonight with a SE wind.    (Charles F. Lindsey, age 16, Robert’s grandson. The son of John D. and Mary Ann (Fulton)  Lindsey)

3 Fri
Clear and warm with a NW wind. We finished mowing buckwheat today. Hauled in some hay and two loads of oats for the first this season. Dyer was here cutting hay on the shares today. Judson Straight helped us today. Mr. More, the peddler, was here today. Mr. Demerchant and Nelly Crain was here today.

4 Sat
Clear and cool with a SW wind but very smoky. So much so that you could look at the sun as you could at the moon. We was hauling in hay and oats today. Dyer was here today cutting hay on shares. Some signs of rain. R.M. Fulton (Grandfather signed his name)

5 Sun
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden and Anna was up to Mr. Straights. Sam Everitt, Sim Brown, Mathias McDonald, John Hallett, E. Hawksley and J.W. Fulton was here today.

6 Mon
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We was mowing oats and reaping wheat. We hauled in our peas and oats this afternoon. We had Dyer to help us get them in. J.W. Fulton here this evening. Mrs. Fred Hawksley here. Warm south wind tonight. Clear and fine.

7 Tue
Clear and warm with a SW wind. We was reaping wheat all day today. We had Dyer here helping us today. The weather looks clear and good tonight.

8 Wed
Clear and warm with a SW wind. We was mowing oats all day pretty much. Harden and wife and Stella and Perry went to Pie Sociable at our School House tonight. Clear and warm and very fine harvest weather.

9 Thu
Somewhat cloudy with a cold NW wind. Signs of rain. We was reaping and mowing oats all day. W.L. Boynton called here today. Wife was visiting at Everitt’s this afternoon. J.W. Fulton here tonight.

10 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and rainy all day. Mowing oats today. Harden helped Jim 1/2 day out back mowing buckwheat. B.F. Jones and son called here today.

11 Sat
Warm with a SE wind and rain all the forenoon. The wind came round to the NW about noon. Cleared off cold. Signs of frost. Judson Straight and J. and M. Hutchinson was here this evening.

12 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a South wind. Signs of rain. Home all day. A.J. Fulton and wife here this afternoon and J.W. Fulton. Commenced to rain this evening about eight o’clock.

13 Mon
Some clouds with a cold West wind. Myself and Jim and Harden went to Town Election today. Me and Jim drove to Blaine. Me and Harden took dinner at Aaron’s. Called at R.Bell’s. Me and Jim took supper at Cyrus Shaw’s. W. Snow was here to see about sheep. Dyer helped us to reap this afternoon. I sent a card to Lylam Houlton today.

14 Tue
Cold and cloudy and some rain with an East and SW wind. Me and Perry finished reaping our wheat today. Harden went up and worked for Straight today. George Hutchinson was here tonight    after the buckboard to take Orpha to Blaine in the morning on her way to Lowell.

15 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Commenced digging potatoes today and we was part of the day raking oats and buckwheat. Harden was helping Jim to reap back of the mountain. A.J. Fulton here to dinner. Jones called. More, the peddler, was here. Mrs. Fred Hawksley and James Kearney and Cora Rogers was all here today. Clear and cold tonight.

16 Thu
Some clouds with a cold SE wind and very heavy frost and some ice in water pails at the doors.    We had Dyer here helping us. We hauled in four loads of oats and 66 dz. Of wheat. Mr. Blackden and wife was here on a visit today from West Ridge. It came on rain about four o’clock P.M.(Sixty Three year old Napoleon Bonapart Blackden and his wife, Lydia Whiting (Cookson)Blackden, the future father and mother-in-laws of Stella Fulton, who would soon marry their son, Fred Allen Blackden, on December 24th, 1887)

17 Fri
Warm with a South wind and rain all day and evening. I was home all day. Harden went down to Bell’s and came home and went up to Straight’s. Got the big pot. Mr. Straight and J.W. Fulton was here today.

18 Sat
Clear and cool with a NW wind. Me and Stella went to Blaine this morning. Called to Aaron’s and went to Jones and took up one $34.00 note at Joneses. Called to Collins and got a keg of Molasses. Called to Bell’s and got my dinner.

19 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of rain. Myself and wife went up to Mr. Straight’s on a visit this morning. Called and left our team to Jim Craig’s. Went on to Straight’s. R. Currie and wife, young Haining and wife and sister was there. Commenced raining about one o’clock and still raining at bedtime.

20 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was to work digging potatoes and gathering our apples and Harden went to the factory with our first load of potatoes this fall. Judson Straight took supper here. Two Brown’s from Knoxford called in. Very heavy and cold NW wind tonight. A.J. Fulton and Cora Rogers called in. So ends the day.

21 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind.  In the forenoon we had considerable rain and quite a flurry of    snow. Charles Fulton’s wife and Robert Jones wife was here to dinner and supper. Mrs. Fred Hawksley and Warren Snow was here and got four lambs today. It is still very rainy. Second load of potatoes today.  (Mrs. Mary (Briggs) Fulton and Mrs. Henriette (Fulton) Jones)

22 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Harden went out to the factory with his third load today. Mrs. Delong and J.W. Fulton here today. Me and Perry was gathering apples today. About 9 bushels.

23 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was raking and hauling in oats and wheat all day. We had Dyer    helping us. We finished all today but our buckwheat. Fred Nelson was here today and Lyman Houlton got four lambs at $12.00. Weather looks good tonight.

24 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a North wind. We was to work raking buckwheat and digging potatoes. Some cold showers of rain today. A.J. Fulton here to dinner.

25 Sat
Clear and cold with a West wind. I went out to Blaine this morning. Saw B. Hume and paid him $9.00 of interest for his wife, the amount due on the $1.00 I hired from her. Harden took out his fourth load of potatoes to the factory this afternoon.

26 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. I was home all day with the toothache. It commenced to rain about 4 o’clock in the afternoon. James Kearney was here this evening. Wife went to see Mrs. Everitt today. Harden’s wife and Stella and Perry went to Sabbath School for the last this fall.

27 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. I took Dot home this morning sick. I then went to Dr. Syphers and got my tooth pulled. Called to H.W. Safford’s and saw John Banks there. Came home and took my dinner and went to digging potatoes. Harden took a load of potatoes to the factory for Jim. Signs of rain tonight.

28 Tue
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Commenced to rain about noon. We was digging potatoes till noon. Harden hauled his fifth load of potatoes to the factory today. Thomas H. More, the peddler, was here today. J.W. Fulton here this evening. The weather still looks very rainy at bedtime.

29 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind and rain all night and till noon today. It cleared off in the afternoon. We was gathering our crab apples and cranberrys. Dug some potatoes. Smoked out bee hives and several other chores. Mack Fulton and Mrs. Fred Hawksley was here today.

30 Thu
Clear but very foggy with a warm SE wind. I was digging potatoes all day and Harden hauled his sixth load to the factory. Watten, the peddler, here tonight.

So Ends the Month of September

August 1886

1 Sun
Clear and warm with a West wind. I drove myself and wife over to John Lindsey’s this morning.Stayed there till after dinner. R. Bell and wife was there. We got home about one o’clock. Harden and wife went to Sabboth School. Some thunder and a little rain in the afternoon. George Brown and wife and Mathias McDonald was here today. First new potatoes today. B.F. Jones called here today on his way home.

(Mathias McDonald, the son of Matthew & Ester McDonald, was twenty years old. They lived on the property that Fay Fulton, purchased October twenty-three, 1939.)

2 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind and rain most all day. Some thunder through the day. Home all day choring round. Mr. Straight called in today. J.W. Fulton was in. Cora Rogers, Evelyn Fulton and John McDonald was here in the evening. Had a number of tunes on the organ that closed the days operation.

3 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind and heavy showers through the day. Some thunder. We mowed most all day. We finished mowing up by Giberson’s and some down here on Aaron. The weather still looks very rainy. So ends the day and we go to rest.

4 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind and showery all day. Harden finished the chopping today. I was mowing all day on Aaron. Widow Stora Key called here today. J.W. Fulton here today. The weather still looks rainy. So ends the day and we go to rest.

5 Thu
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. We was mowing in the forenoon. Went to raking in the afternoon and it came on a very heavy shower and wet our hay before we got it raked up. Wife and Anna was out to Delong’s in the afternoon. The weather looks more favorable tonight.

6 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind in the morning but shifted round different times through the day with heavy thunder and rain. Quite a number of heavy showers in the afternoon. We was building a culvert in the barnyard. Jim’s wife took dinner here today. Harden drove out to Aaron’s after Stella this afternoon. Got his took pulled. So ends the day.

7 Sat
Very foggy and cloudy with a warm SE wind in the forenoon but the sun came out in the afternoon. We finished our culvert at the barn and raked and put up about 200 cocks of hay for ourselves and some for Jim. Some rain at the NW. Forest Delano and Etta Silsbey called here tonight. Mrs. J. Giberson called in. So ends the day and we go to rest.

(Etta M. Silsbey was the 21 year old daughter of Goodell and Amelia Silsbey. Close friends and neighbors of the Fulton family)

8 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind in the forenoon. In the afternoon it cleared off very warm. I went to the school to hear Elder Cogsell preach. R. Bell and wife and Samuel Lilly was here to supper. James Kearney was here. Richard took Stella down with him to go over to her school on West Ridge. The weather looks good tonight.

9 Mon
Warm and foggy with a SW wind. Quite cloudy and smoky through the day. Signs of rain. We mowed half the day and hauled in about a hundred cocks of hay. There was a peddler here today by the name of James More. It rained a little just after dinner.

10 Tue
Clear sky but warm and quite smoky with a West wind. We was mowing and raking and hauling in hay. We hauled 42 cocks down to Aheran’s barn for Aaron. The first we put in for this season and 5th for ourselves. We raked and put up in cock 111 besides mowing till ten o’clock, besides a grist, and many other chores. So ends the day.

11 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Some rain. Harden hauled a load of hay out to Aaron. Twitched some spruce logs to Blanchard’s Mill for Stora Key to saw. Brought home a load of slabs and spalts. After supper we hauled in 72 cocks of hay. I mowed some. Anna went to Hallett’s to quilting. Alice and family and Mrs. McPherson was here. Just called in. Heavy thunder showers at the NW. So ends the day.

12 Thu
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We mowed till eleven o’clock A.M. It came on a heavy thunder shower and cleared off about 4 o’clock P.M. We mowed till night. J.W. Fulton and Cora Rogers called in. Clear and cold tonight.

13 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I went out to Blaine this morning. Took a firkin of butter and ten dozen eggs. Sold them to Jones. Got a letter from Libby. Got two letters for Stella. B.F. Fulton,one from Hill Gray. Saw Aaron. Called to G.W. Collins and got 100 meal. Called to Safford’s, called to Bell’s and got something to eat. Saw Billy Downs there. Came home and raked and hauled in 125 cocks of hay. Signs of more rain. So ends the day.

(The letter that Stella received from B.F. Fulton, was probably from seventeen year old Benjamin Franklin Fulton, the son of Ephraim and Louisa Fulton of Cass Lake, Minnesota)

14 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Heavy thunder and rain most all night and 3/4 of the day till four o’clock in the afternoon. Choring all day. I drove out to Howard Safford’s after supper. Got three gallons of molasses. Elden Wing called here today. Jim was here to dinner.

15 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden and wife went out to Aaron’s. Thomas Bartley and wife came here tonight. Will Giberson here this morning. Perry was over to Lindsey’s today. Signs of a frost tonight. Some rain today about noon.

(Thomas and Jane Bartley, of Knoxford, the parents of Annie (Bartley) Fulton, coming to see their newly married daughter)

16 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Clear and nice till noon. Then the wind changed to the SE and commenced to rain about bedtime. Me and Harden was mowing and hauling in hay all day. John Russell was here to dinner. We sold him a yoke of steers. J.W. Fulton was here.  Mr. Bartley and wife here tonight. Raining on going to bed.

17 Tue
Cold with a NE rain all night and most all day. Mr. Bartley and wife started for home after dinner today. Harden was mowing all day. I was with a lame side laid up. Choring a little. It is still cloudy and rainy looking tonight.

18 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Some says there was frost. We finished mowing on Aaron’s today and we made a beginning across the brook. Mr. Houlton was here today. I sold him our lambs. J.W. Fulton was here tonight. It was quite rainy this afternoon and all appearance of more soon.

19 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden took a load of hay out to Aaron today. We finished haying on Aaron today. Oran Wing brought our roles home today from Adams. Some    showers today at the NW.

20 Fri
Clear and warm with a SW wind. Myself and wife went over on West Ridge this morning to Blackden’s to bring Stella home. Her school was done. Blackden brought her home. I sold him a pig. John Bartley and wife and son was here. Signs of rain tonight. J.W. Fulton here tonight.

21 Sat
Clear and warm with a SW wind. Me and Stella went to Blaine this morning. John Bartley and wife went with us to Larrabee’s. Called at Collin’s store and got Stella a pair of boots. Called at Safford’s, to Larrabee’s, to Aaron’s, to B.F. Jones and got mare shawed at Turner’s. Came back to Bell’s and got our dinners. Came home and hauled in three loads of hay. Heavy wind tonight.

22 Sun
Clear and warm with an East wind. I was home all day. Harden and wife went to meeting. John Bartlett and wife and son, R. Bell and wife, J.W. Fulton and wife, Mary, Orpha and George Hutchinson was here today. John and Abba here tonight.

23 Mon
Mostly clear and warm with a NW wind. I was mowing and putting up hay all day. Harden helped Jim to finish his hay today. James Kearney and a young Carmen was here today. We had now four days of dry weather. John Bartlett and wife left here for home this morning. Signs of rain tonight.

24 Tue
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain this morning. Harden and Perry went to Blaine this morning with the yearling steers for Russell. We had Jim today mowing and hauling in hay all day.John Hawksley here this evening. Still signs of rain tonight.
25 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We had Jim here helping us. We was mowing and putting up hay all day. John Clough and Lincoln Shanes was here today and Allen Gallop from Knoxford, N.B.

26 Thu
Foggy and warm with a SE wind. A.M. and changed P.M. to the NW and very smoky. Signs of    rain. We was mowing and cocking up hay all day. The weather still looks very dark at bedtime.

27 Fri
Clear and warm with a NW wind. We was mowing and hauling in hay today. We put two hundred cocks in a stack. Hauled sixty to the barn. Cora Rogers, J. Giberson, Mr. Workman was here today and J.W. Fulton. Weather looks fine tonight. So ends the day and we go to rest.

28 Sat
Very smoky and warm with a West wind. So smoky that when the sun is in sight you can look at it the same as you can at the moon and not hurt your eyes. We finished our stack today. We put 320 cocks in it. Jim went with Harden to Jim Craig’s barn raising this afternoon. Jim Craig, Jim Fulton and Dell Nutter was here today. Dell Nutter took dinner here. It is very smoky yet. Some great fires to the Northwest.

29 Sun
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Home all day. Harden and wife went over to John Lindsey’s. Stella and Perry went to Sabbath School. Some wind from the SE tonight and some appearance of rain.

30 Mon
Cloudy and smoky and warm with a SE wind. We commenced mowing our oats by the barn today. The first grain we cut this season. Judson Straight was here helping us today. Mowed some grass. Hauled in two loads. Limbed down our foller and burnt it today. J.W. Fulton was here.Signs of rain tonight. So ends the day.

31 Tue
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind and rain commencing in the night. Rained heavy most all day. Me and Stella started to Blaine. Came on rain. We called at Silsbey’s. Went on and called at Larrabee’s. Got our dinners and went on to Blaine. Sold 17 dz. Eggs to Jones. Came back and called to Aaron’s. Stella stopped there all night. Harden sold a heifer to Dr. Syphers for $14.00.

So Ends the Month of August

July 1886

1 Thurs
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We had Jim Helping us today cutting and weeding potatoes. Harden went down toCox’s in the morning to help him load his mill irons. Two of the Colbroth’s called here today. Some signs of rain.

2 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. I took Harden out this morning to the Red School House to go to Aaron’s to work on the road. I was weeding potatoes all day. Zeb Cox and A.J. Fulton and wife was here today. Weather very warm.

3 Sat
Some clouds with a SE wind. Some rain through the day and evening. Harden came home tonight from Aaron’s. Church’s Tannery in Bridgewater burnt this evening.

4 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Heavy thunder showers till late in the evening. Me and Perry drove over to John Lindsey’s and drove back. Put up at William Wilson’s out of heavy showers. Took dinner there. Zeb Cox here and Merty. I drove home about three o’clock. George Shaw and Joe Mullen and others stopped here to buy honey.

5 Mon
Warm and cloudy and very foggy with a SE wind. We was chopping in the forenoon. I was warning out the district in the afternoon to do the road work. John and Roger Hawksley was here this even ing. I paid over the balance of the School money I held in my hands $15.82 cts. I saw Larrabee, Murray and Lindsey at Jim’s.

6 Tues
Warm and foggy with a SE wind. We was weeding and hoeing potatoes all day. J.W. Fulton, CoraRogers, Zeb Cox and Roger Hawksley and Farnum was here today. Very heavy thunder and lightning in the night. More than the common. It was terrifying.

7 Wed
Quite clear and warm this forenoon with the wind from the West. We had Jim helping to hill up potatoes in the forenoon. After twelve o’clock we had a very heavy thunder and lightning and rain the most of the afternoon. Zeb Cox, Jud Straight and Cora Rogers here today. Old man Hawksleyand Mrs. Jim Craig. The storm this afternoon done great damage to buildings in East Blaine and others places. The rain and thunder and lightning was terrible.

8 Thur
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine this morning after the oxen. Took out 21 dozen of eggs. Called at Safford’s, called at Collin’s store, to Smyth’s, to Aaron’s, to Hussey’s, to Jones’, to Hewitt’s, and to Post Office. Got the oxen from Chandler and came home. Cora Rogers, J.W. Fulton and Mrs. Fred Hawksley here.

9 Fri
Mostly clear with a NW wind. We finished hoeing our potatoes with the horse hoe for the first time below the barn. I settled with Straight today. Mrs. Jim Craig, Fred Collins and his wife called here
today. Some signs of rain.

10 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We was hoeing potatoes in the forenoon. It commenced raining about two o’clock. Stella came home today from Larrabee’s with Jim.

11 Sun
Cloudy with a SE wind and some rain in the forenoon. The wind came round in the afternoon quite    cold. I was home all day. Eliphalet Jones and wife, A.J. Fulton and wife and Zeb Cox here today.

12 Mon
Clear with a NW wind. I was home all day hoeing potatoes. Harden took Stella over to Blackden’s    to her school this morning. Eliphalet Jones and wife left here this morning. Wife went up to Jim’s    with them till noon. Some fears of frost tonight.
13 Tue
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We commenced working on the roads today. I took my supper at Jim’s. Mrs. Syphers and Mrs. A.J. Fulton here today picking strawberries. They took dinner and supper here today.
14 Wed
Clear and warm with a SW wind. We was working on the road in the forenoon and hoeing potatoes in the afternoon. Dolly and Adaline was here today. Some appearance of rain.

15 Thu
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We was hoeing potatoes till four o’clock. Then I went to Blaine    and got the sythe and pick fork from Jones and saw Stella at Aaron’s. I called to Collin’s Store and I called to Aaron’s. Zeb Cox here today and got his gum. Adaline Murray and daughter here tonight. Commenced raining this evening. I got Ermin’s ring from Ann Murray tonight.
16 Fri
Warm with a SE wind and very foggy and raining. I was home all day. Harden took out the    remainder of Aaron’s hay today that was in the Aheran barn. Adaline and Ann Murray left here this afternoon. John Hargrove and wife took dinner here today. Harden brought home a load of slabs today with the oxen. It still looks very rainy. Zeb Cox here today.
17 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a South wind. Signs of rain. Harden was chopping and I was hoeing    potatoes. It came on rain in the afternoon. Thomas Banks, Edward York and Mr. Houlton was here today also. It is still raining at bedtime.
18 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day till six o’clock. Me and wife went up to Jim’s an hour or two. Harden and wife went to R. Bell’s. Zeb Cox and daughter was here today.
19 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. We was plastering our potatoes and underbrushing    today. Harden took our wool down to Bell’s to send to Carding Machine. Hatfield Delong and John Clough was here to see the colt.
20 Tue
Some clouds with a NW wind. We finished underbrushing our foller today. Quite showery. James Kearney here to dinner. Harden and Anna went to Jim’s after supper.
21 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. We commenced our hay this morning. Harden was helping Jim to hoe potatoes this forenoon and helped us this afternoon. We hoed what there was below the barn and part of the other piece next to the road. I hoed a lot of beans and garden stuff.

22 Thu
Clear and cool with a NW wind. We was helping Jim to hoe potatoes 3/4 of the day. Finished hoeing all of ours this afternoon. John K. Tibbitts here today, an Apple Tree Agent from York County, Maine. The weather quite clear and cool tonight.
23 Fri
Clear and cool with a NW wind. I was hilling up our potatoes this forenoon. Harden was up helping Jim finish his. I went to Blaine and called at the Way Office, to Jones and got a pair of rubbers, called to Hussey’s and got 13 lbs of sugar. Drove to the Bank’s School House after Stella. From there to County Road and down County Road Factory after Stella and then home.
24 Sat
Some clouds with a cool NW wind. We finished hilling our potatoes today. Myself and wife went out to William Wilson’s this afternoon to the anniversary of their celebrating the twentieth year of their married life. We met with many friends and had a nice supper. Had a good time in    general. A.J. Fulton was here today.

25 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. Some showers through the day. I took Stella out this afternoon    to Aaron’s to go up to her school. Samuel Fulton wife and daughter, Sarah Fulton and son, Len Bartley wife and child all from Knoxford, N.B. was here today. Signs of rain this evening.

26 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind and rain. We was fixing the bridge at Mahan’s in the morning.We mowed part of the day. Mullen came here this morning. Took my wife over to John Lindsey’s.    She stayed there tonight. The wind is still at the SE at bedtime. All signs of more rain. We see it lightening but no thunder.

27 Tue
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. I drove over to John Lindsey’s in the morning and got my wife. Called to Cyrus Shaw’s to see old Mrs. Barker. Saw Mr. McClintock and wife.Drove home after dinner. It commenced to rain and it rained very heavy all the afternoon. It still looks rainy at bedtime. J.W. Fulton here today.

28 Wed
Some clouds with a warm NW wind. Some signs of fair weather. I was home all day mowing.    Harden and Perry went to Knoxford after a heifer. Came home tonight. Mrs. Shaw and Mrs.McClintock was here today and James Kearney came after my wife to go over to Lindsey’s. They supposed Mary Ann was dying. Daniel Smyth called here today. He talked of selling out and moving away. Samuel Richardson and wife called here looking for cattle.

29 Thu
Clear and warm with a SW wind. I started over to John Lindsey’s this morning after my wife. She    stayed there all night. Her and Mrs. McDonald. Mary Ann was sick. Came home and went to mowing and raking hay. Hauled in five loads the first this season. Signs of rain. J. Kearney, Cora Rogers, Minnie Giberson and Mrs. Fred Hawksley here today. Signs of more rain. Heavy    thunder and lightening in the night.

30 Fri
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Harden was mowing and raking hay today. I went to Blaine with Jim and called to Howard Safford’s, to Collin’s store, to Jones, to Post Office at Blaine, to David Smyth’s shop and got buckboard fixed. Jim got his mare shawed. Took dinner at Will Larrabee’s and stopped to R. Bell’s and got supper. Then called to Allen Delong’s, then home. Jim came in the evening and got the buckboard to go for the doctor for Debba.

31 Sat
Clear and warm with NW wind. We was mowing and raking in hay today. We have ten loads in tonight.

So Ends the Month of July

June 1886

1 Tues
Clear and warm with a NW wind. J.W. Collins plowed our garden for us this forenoon and Perry planted five bushels of potatoes this afternoon. Zeb Cox here today. William H. Downs and Rundlett was here today to see about the churn. I paid him and they took their suppers here. George Stuard drove up today to see our sick mare. Stella went out to Aaron’s today with J. McPherson.

2 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was planting potatoes all day below the barn. J. Kearney, Zeb Cox and George Whitcome, the peddler, here today. Aaron came out and brought Stella home and helped to plant awhile. J.W. Fulton and Isaac McPherson was here today.

3 Thur
Cold with a SE rain storm. Home all day. We put our young cattle in Jameson’s pasture today. I made a bee hive today. Harden broke down some oat ground. Jim was here tonight.
4 Fri
Clear and cool with a West wind. I sowed 16 bushels of oats today. Finished sowing. Aaron was here and helped us to harrow in the afternoon. He took out a load of hay for himself after supper. Frank Brown, from Knoxford, was here. Hatfield Delong was here today. J.W. Fulton and Stinson Shaw.

5 Sat
Clear and cool with a SE wind. We finished planting potatoes below the barn today. Our bees swarmed today for the first. We was harrowing in oats. Mr. Bartley came here today. I was planting our beans in the garden today. H. Batchelder hived my bees for me today. Jim was here. Joe Mullin brought Mary Ann Lindsey here tonight. We had to send her home. J. Kearney here.

6 Sun
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Alice and her children was here. Jud Straight, Mr. Hartley, J.W. Fulton, Mrs. Fred Hawksley, Merty Cox and May Hutchinson was all here today. My second bee hive swarmed today and went back in the older hive along with the swarm that went in yesterday. Harden and Anna and her father went to H. Delong’s.

7 Mon
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We finished harrowing in our oats today. Planted our beans and garden seeds and onions. Mr. Bartley and Anna went home today. Larrabee and Stora Key was today with beef. Jim Murray was here with his horse today. Zeb Cox here. Jim paid ten dollars school money here tonight. Stella went out to Dell Nutter’s tonight. Signs of rain this afternoon.

8 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I walked out to Silsbey’s and hired his oxen for two or three days. Harden went out and brought them in. We was harrowing for potatoes and planting beans and potatoes. A peddler called here this morning with specks to sell. He didn’t tell his name.

9 Wed
Some clouds with a NW wind. We had Silsbey’s cattle here hauling rocks on our buckwheat ground. I was making ready for planting Early Rose potatoes. There was a man that called here by the name of Thomson, an Irishman. He called himself a Doctor or part of one. Mrs. George Brown and Mary Hutchinson was here today. Stella went up to Straight’s today. Signs of rain tonight.

10 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. We was plowing buckwheat ground today and finished planting potatoes today. R. Bell and wife here today. J. Kearney, Arthur Hutchinson, Mrs. Fred Hawksley, Will Giberson and Zeb Cox and Watten, the peddler, came here tonight for his wool. This is a clear and cold night.

11 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We finished sowing our buckwheat today. Harden went home with the Silsbey cattle tonight and went on to R. Bell’s to get his horse to go to Knoxford for Anna. Watten left here this morning. We let him have 75 lbs of wool and paid him $13.35. Paid the bill up. Dr. Thomson was here again today. Dell Nutter got a pig today.

12 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind and heavy frost. Harden went to Knoxford this morning for Anna.Dolly went home with him. I finished harrowing in my buckwheat today. Stella went to Jim Collins on a visit this afternoon. My wife went to Lodge tonight. Jim was here to dinner and got a bushel of potatoes and bushel of oats. John Jamison here and got $1.25 cts worth of Early Rose potatoes on the pasturing. I wrote a letter to to got to New York to Dr. A. F. Evory.Ca.

13 Sun
Clear and cool with a NE wind. I was home all day. Harden and wife came from Knoxford this afternoon. Blackden came after Stella to commence school on West Ridge. Zeb Cox and Merty Cox was here today.

14 Mon
Clear and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. We built the yard round the barn today. James W. Collins was here and got a pig this evening. Jim’s wife was here today. My wife was up to Jim’s this afternoon.

15 Tues
Clear and cool with a SE wind. I went to Blaine this morning with the old mare and carriage. Got her shawed and mailed a letter to Ephraim and one to Bracket for Stella and one to Hill Gray and one to Dr. Evory of New York. Done some trading at Joneses and came home. Zeb Cox here. David Smyth was here with his stud this evening. Signs of rain tonight. Paid John Ramsay forty cents I owed him for leather.

16 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. Our third swarm of bees came out today. I finished up my second bee hive today. We commenced chopping our foller this afternoon. J.W. Fulton and Nell Mahan and Evelyn Fulton here. I went up to Giberson’s this morning and paid Mrs. Giberson four dollars and fifty three cts Lodge money.

17 Thur
Warm with a SE wind and some rain through the day and evening. Signs of more rain. James Kearney was here. We was to work fixing the cellar and underbrushing part of the day. Our fifth swarm of bees came out today. J.W. Fulton was here this morning.

18 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Very cold this evening. Signs of frost. Murray Shaw here to dinner today. I was making bee hives today and Harden was to work underbrushing foller.

19 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I harnessed up in the morning and started to Blaine. Called to Will wilson’s and called at A.J. Fulton’s. Drove on to Blaine and called at Hussey’s to the Post Office, to B.F. Joneses, to Chandler’s to see about oxen and called to Aaron’s when I was coming back. Got my dinner and came home. J. Kearney, J.W. Fulton, Mrs. Roger Hawksley was here today.

20 Sun
Clear and cool with a North wind. Home all day. Stella is away teaching school. Harden and wife was to Sabbath School today. Cora Rogers came out to commence teaching school in our District. She took tea here this evening and then went to Giberson’s.

21 Mon
Clear with a warm NW wind. There was an Englishman here today by the name of Cross. A comrade of John Hawksley in the Army. We was chopping today. Zeb Cox here. Our seventh swarm of bees came out today. One swarm came out at eight o’clock this morning and went for the woods. Another come out at noon. We hived.

22 Tues
Clear and warm with a SW wind. We was chopping at our foller today. Zeb Cox was here today to dinner and Cora Rogers, James Murray here all night. Joseph Crawford here and got a pig. Charles McPherson was here with his meat cart. Some signs of rain.

23 Wed
Clear and warm with a South wind. We was chopping at our foller today. I commenced hoeing our beans this afternoon. Wife on a visit to Everitt’s this afternoon. Jim Murray left here for home this morning. J.W. Fulton here today and brought us some honey. Some signs of rain.

24 Thur
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Jim came down this morning and helped to smoke out our bee hive. R. Bell here and Harden went down and helped to cultivate his potatoes. I was hoeing beans in the garden. Two people called in with a covered carriage. They came in by Straight’s and said they was from Easton Center and wanted to go to Blaine. Some signs of rain.

25 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We yoked our hog and turned in to pasture. Harden fell some trees. We ground my new axe. Me and Jim made a cultivator. Zeb Cox was here. Arthur Hutchinson and Corey girl from Hawksley’s was here today. It commenced raining quite early in the day and still raining at bedtime, at nine o’clock.

26 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. Some rain in the morning with a heavy thunder shower in the afternoon. Me and Harden went to Blaine to see Joseph Chandler about oxen. Harden got Laragens from Jones. Alice came and brought Stella home from her school and stayed all night. John Jameson got a pig today. I got my Road Book today. (Notation: “My new shoes”)

27 Sun
Cloudy with a cold North wind and rain all day. I was home all day. Alice and children here. She went home this afternoon and took Stella with her to go up on West Ridge to her school. Zeb Cox and Jud Straight and J.W. Fulton was here today. Harden and wife and Stella went to Sabbath School and meeting to hear Cogswell preach at our School House.

28 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. Me and Harden was chopping in foller today. James Kearney called in here today. plenty of field strawberries today. The first this season. Nothing special occurred today.

29 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Some heavy showers of rain. Me and Jim harnessed our team in double
wagon and went out to the factory. Took dinner at Larrabee’s and got my buckboard at Smyth’s. Got one bbl of flour and one of meal, two gal. Of molasses and 10 lbs of apples from J.W. Collins and came home. The weather is very cold.

30 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was cultivating and hoeing potatoes all day. Mrs. Straight, Merty Cox, Judson Straight and Daniel Lindsey was here today.

So Ends the Month of June

May 1886

1 Sat
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We finished our fence this morning down by the crick. Done some chores till noon then commenced plowing by the barn. The first we plowed this Spring. We went to School Meeting at four o’clock and voted to have meetings and Lodge in the School House. I sent an official letter out to Bracket by B.F. Jones. Sot our second goose. Zeb Cox here today. Mary Ann Lindsey and girls here tonight.

2 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Some signs of a change in weather. I took Mary Ann Lindsey home today with horse and wagon. On my way home I met Jim Mackey and his son Robert, I had not saw in seventeen years. I saw Jim Collins and talked with him. Jim Kearney,J. McDonald, Merty Cox and Evelyn Fulton was here today. I saw Daniel Craig here today and talked with him. Son of Christofer Craig of Kent, N.B.,CC.

3 Mon
Clear and cool with a South and SE wind. We was hauling rocks and plowing for wheat and repairing road by Giberson’s. Richard Bell was here and got one bbl of Early Rose and a peck of Cristy’s. Signs of rain. Frogs singing tonight.

4 Tues
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. The wind changed in the afternoon and was quite cool.We was moving our stoves and plowing all day. Mr. Straight was here tonight and borrowed our sheep shears.

5 Wed
Cloudy with a SE wind. We was plowing Green Sword today. William Trafford was here to dinner today from the Province. I received a postal card today from John R. Weed in answer to my letter sent to him with a check of forty dollars. Arthur Hutchinson called this evening and left our papers. Heard of the death of Mrs. Mullen.

6 Thur
Cloudy and cold this morning with a West wind. We was plowing and hauling rocks. Harden went to Everitt’s Rolling Frolick this afternoon. Zeb Cox and J.W. Fulton here today. Clear and cold tonight.

7 Fri
Clear and cold with a SW wind. Some rain and quite cold. I went to Blaine and took out 22 1/2 doz. Eggs. Sold for ten cents a doz. Called at Safford’s, called at David Smyth’s on my way out to see about my buckboard. Went on to Blaine and got my harrow teeth sharpened. Done some trading and got some plastor. Stopped to Aaron’s and got my dinner. Fed the team and started home. Stopped to Jim Collins and got 1 1/2 bushels of wheat and came home. J. Kearney, Mrs. Giberson and Mrs. Getchel here.

8 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. We was plowing wheat ground. Commenced raining about two o’clock P.M. and rained heavy till I went to bed at eleven o’clock. Nothing of consequence occurred through the day.

9 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a North wind. We was home all day. No one called and very little traveling. It was very cold for the month of May. The white cow came in today. Cleared off in the evening but very cold. I was reading John Colby’s Life the most of the day. The white cow calved today.

[The life, experience, and travels of John Colby, preacher of the Gospel. Dover, N.H. : Free-Will Baptist Printing Establishment, 1854. ]

10 Mon
Clear and very cold with a NW wind. The ground was some froze. The old cow calved today. We was plowing all day wheat and oat ground. Old man Hawksley was here today. Nothing of any consequence took place today. The night is very clear.

11 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Pails of water froze over and the ground froze quite hard. I was harrowing wheat ground. Harden was helping Jim plough. Anna was there on a visit to Jim’s. Mrs. Straight here. Every sign of a storm.

12 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a South wind. I finished breaking down the wheat ground. Picked some rocks. Harden had Jim helping plow the potato ground.

13 Thur
Cloudy with a SE wind. And rain. We was picking rocks and harrowing some. Jim had the mare and double wagon to move Debbie Wing in home. Harden moved old man Hawksley over to Fred’s. Aaron was here today. I don’t think of anything more worth noting at this time.

14 Fri
Some clouds with a SE wind. Harden was changing with Jim. Sowed 3 bs. And 1/4 wheat and 4 bs. Of peas and oats and harrowed them in today. Jim was here to supper. Mrs. Delong was here today for onions. Clear and warm this evening.

15 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I took the old mare and the carriage and carried Stella out to the examination today. I went on to Blaine and got the mail. Took dinner at Aaron’s and started home. Stopped to R. Bell’s and got our supper and came home. Harden sheared ten sheep.

16 Sun
Farnum was here and got his dinner and fixed Anna’s watch today. Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and rain all night and all day. We was home all day. J.W. Fulton and Mrs. Getchell and Will Giberson and Merty Cox was here today. Had some tunes on the organ and some singing. Nothing more worth naming occurred today.

17 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Harden finished shearing the sheep today. I was to work in the orchard grafting. J. Murray, J.W. Fulton, George Pierce was here today. Harden and wife and Stella went to Jim’s to a Pie Sociable this evening for the good of the Lodge. Myself and wife left alone tonight.

18 Tues
Clear and cold with NW wind and a hard frost. I took Mary Delong home in the morning from Jim’s. From the Pie Sociable. Harden was helping Jim to plow. I was home harrowing in our wheat and sowing oats. Aaron and wife was here to dinner and supper. Aaron went in back of hill to visit the School.

19 Wed
Mostly clear with a West wind. Quite warm. Jim was plowing sod land with Harden all day. I was harrowing in wheat and oats all day. I was talking with White from Knoxford today. Talking with Batchholder about his horse hoe.

20 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of rain. Very heavy thunder and lightening and heavy rain and hail from the NW in the afternoon. We was harrowing oats and finished plowing the sod ground. Freeman Brown from Knoxford was here.

21 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Cleared off in the afternoon. Me and Harden put up the fence along our plowed ground in the forenoon and in the afternoon we helped Jim fence. Zeb Cox and Mrs. Delong was here today.

22 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was helping Jim build fence half of the day. Saw Will York there. Harden was building fence and picking rocks. Will Giberson came here with a pair of boots to mend. Jim was here today. They all went to Lodge tonight but me and Anna and Perry.

23 Sun
Clear and cool with a NW wind. Myself and wife drove down to Bell’s this morning. Stopped there till after dinner. Then I took Dolly and drove out to Aaron’s. Very unexpectedly there was a baptism there at Jones Mill Pond. A large concourse of people. I think there was between 2 and 3 hundred. Seven baptized. Came up to Bell’s and took supper and came home.

24 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. Some showers. We brought our horse hoe home today. We sowed and harrowed in three bushels of oats and harrowed potato ground. A.J. Fulton and Merty Cox hear today. Signs of more rain.

25 Tues
Warm and cloudy and very foggy with a NE wind. Heavy rain all the afternoon and still raining at bedtime. We was choring all day. H. Batchholder was here today and Zeb Cox.

26 Wed
Warm and cloudy with a SE wind and rain most all day. I was home all day choring. Harden went out to H.W. Safford’s to get some salts for the gray mare that was sick. G.W. Edwards was here from Lyndon, Maine, selling horse hoes. Zeb Cox, R. Bell and J.W. Fulton was here today.

27 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of more rain. Harden went down and got Joshua Hartley to doctor over mare that was sick. Jim Murray, Jim Fulton and Zeb Cox, George Shaw, Cole Giberson, Will Giberson, Fred Hawksley and wife was all here today and a man by the name of Been from Kent, N.B. CC.

28 Fri
Cloudy with a NE wind and some rain. Joshua Hartley went from here with Jim Murray this morning. The gray mare very sick. Zeb Cox, J.W. Fulton, Jim Collins, H. Wing, Cole Giberson, George Shaw was here today. Harden and Perry was picking rocks with the old man. W.W. Larrabee and George York was here today and called to see the gray mare that was sick.

29 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Harden picking rocks and harrowing potato ground. H. Delong and Zeb Cox, S. Shaw, Mathias McDonald, John Hallett here today. Harden and Stella is away to the Lodge this evening.

30 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. Heavy rain and thunder and lightening in the afternoon from the NW. J.W. Fulton, John Mahan, Samuel Everitt, Edward York, Tom Watson from the Province, Arthur Hutchinson, Merty Cox, Mathias McDonald all here today. William Wilson called. All to enquire about our sick mare. The old mare foaled today.

31 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Me and Jim went to Blaine this morning with his mare and our truck wagon. I had twenty four and one half dozen of eggs. Came back and Jim stopped and got the mare shawed at Smyth’s. I took my dinner at W.W. Larrabee’s.

So Ends the Month of May

Photo: Home of Dr. Aaron Jones Fulton

Home of Dr. Aaron Jones Fulton in Blaine Maine.

Napoleon Bonapart Blackden

July 4, 1897
According to the Blackden Family Tree, Napoleon Bonnapart Blackden died of Cerebral Apoplexy, July 4, 1897. Mr. Blackden’s
death occurred while Fred Blackden was in New Brunswick on a fishing and business venture. It is evident that Fred would not
receive word of his father’s death following his return home. His time being spent working for Wilcox and raising the York barn.
Robert would have certainly mentioned Mr. Blackden’s passing in his diary if the word had reached the Fulton place.
Owen was born August 12, 1858 in Etna, Maine. When he was fifteen, he bought his time from his father, Napoleon, and began
to learn the Blacksmith trade. At age 29, he managed the LancyHouse in Pittsfield, Me. He would later own the Exchange Hotel
in Dexter where he provided the last days for his aging father. Owen managed the Presque Isle House in Presque Isle around
1913 to 1924. He also owned the Vaughn House in Caribou for about 20 years. This was a very popular hotel with 80 rooms. He
was an active Mason, very well known and often referred to as simply, “Pop.” Owen was married to Ada Carolyn Cleveland who would die in a car accident in N.B., Sept. 25, 1916. Owen died in Caribou, Maine, July 3, 1940 and is buried in Dexter, Maine.

[Rodney F.]

Forrest Burton Fulton

Forest Burton Fulton was the firstborn of Harden and Annie (Bartley) Fulton, being born January 28, 1887. R.M.Fulton
called him ‘Little Forra.’Forest took sick during the late summer and fall of 1893. Typhoid Fever was the epidemic of that period. Forra’s death
was a terrible blow to the Fulton family but must have been welcomed because of the extreme sickness that came with
this disease. As indicated by the diary of 1893, Forra died Dec. 01, 1893 and was buried just two days later. At that time, Kings Grove
was referred to as the Fossey Cemetery. The James Fossey house situated at the
entrance.Able bodied men would chip away at the frozen ground to make way for the
pine casket which would rest Forra’s tiny body.

On Monday, May 31, 1897, Robert M. Fulton would place flowers on a Forra’s grave not know-
ing that he would be laid beside him with just a few weeks…..or did he?

Alfred Gillen and Mary Hutchinson

Alfred L. Gillen, known by all who knew   him  as ‘Alf’  Gillen,
was the son  of  Joseph Gillen  who  moved  here  from Nova
Scotia.   Joseph settled on the East Ridge with his family and
engaged in farming.
On  November 7, 1891,  Alf  married  Mary  E. Hutchinson, the
daughter of Mr. &  Mrs. Arthur  Hutchinson  who lived  on  the
U.S.- Canadian Border at the North end of Mars Hill Mountain.
After living in Easton for a short period of time,  Alf  and  Mary
moved back to East Ridge and bought the property that is now
owned by Harley York, just  South  of  the  East  Ridge  Baptist
Church.
Alf and Mary would have no children of  their  own  but found
great joy in raising Mary’s  niece from a young child to  adult-
hood.  After many years of farming, they retired to a small lot
located on Benjamin Street in Mars Hill.
In November of 1951, the Gillen’s  celebrated  their  60th  year
of marriage. Open house was held in the afternoon & evening.
Miss Ruby Hutchinson cut and served an anniversary cake and
Mrs. Hudson  Hutchinson had charge of the guest book.    Over
100 guests called to extend congratulatory wishes.
Alf Gillen was a neighbor and friend of the  Fulton  family  for
many years.  He farmed for 50 years until his retirement in the
summer of 1947.

Mary  Elizabeth  Hutchinson  was the daughter of Arthur
and Louise  Hutchinson.     She was one of 10  children.
Her siblings were Sycha, Orpha, Annie, George, James,
Matthew, Helen, Hudson and Hubert.
The Hutchinson family lived  North  of  the  Fulton home-
stead  near  the  Roger  Hawksley place  situated on  the
U.S. – Canadian border.      The old well is boarded over
but remains as a reminder of it’s use over 100 years ago.

It is most likely that Mary and  her siblings  would  have
hiked down over the hill and across the brook to attend
school at the old  log school house that was referred  to
as the R.M. Fulton School, District # 7.

It is not known by me as to  how  Mary Elizabeth met Alf
Gillen but the probable  meeting   would  be  during  the
barn  raisings’  and  sociables  of the area called  the
Island. They were married in the Hutchinson home.

When Alf and Mary Gillen retired, they moved in town
and lived on Benjamin Street. As a child, I would have
walked to school and passed by their home many times.
How I wish that I would have been able to sit with them
and learn first hand about Robert M. Fulton whom they
knew and visited many times.

March 1897

1897 March

1 Mon
Clear and cold with a SW wind. Temperature 24 below zero this morning. Signs of more snow.

2 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and snow. Fred went to Centreville Mill today.

3 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SE snow and drifting. It stormed most all day today.

4 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. A dreadful blowing and drifting day. Fred yarded logs.

5 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Signs of a storm. Fred took out one load of logs. George
Lindsey came today.

6 Sat
Clear and warm in the morning. James and Harden went to Cloverdale.

(Note: Cloverdale,N.B. is fifty miles from the Fulton Homestead. It is where Martha (Jones) Fulton’s family
resides.)

7 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. R.L. Bell was here at noon. J.W. Fulton and L.H. Fulton not back yet.

8 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred and George was cutting and hauling logs.

9 Tue
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred and George Lindsey was to work. Lindsey took a load of logs to Wilcox.

10 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind and snowed 4 or 5 inches of snow. A.J. Fulton and Alice
Larrabee here today.
(Note: Aaron’s sister, Alice, lived close by in Blaine, so when Aaron took long carriage rides he would have his sister accompany him. It give Alice a chance to check in on her mom and dad at the same time.)

11 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. The wind blew in the afternoon very heavy from the NW.

12 Fri
Cloudy with a NW wind. Robert Jones and wife from Knoxford here. J.W. Fulton and wife here this afternoon.
(Note: Robert Jones anxious to talk with James and Harden about his family in Cloverdale.)

13 Sat Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Bell boys here to dinner and Fred.

14 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. In the afternoon the wind came round to the SE and snowed very heavy.

15 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE snowstorm in the night, fell 4 or 5 inches. The wind came round to the NW at daylight and blew the snow all away. It blew heavy all day.

16 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred went out to Blaine this afternoon.

17 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. George York here to dinner.

18 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Signs of a storm. George Lindsey came back today. Fred went up on the mountain.

19 Fri
A light SE snow in the night and snowed some all day. Fred went to the River on business.George Lindsey went home today.

20 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Fred killed a cow today for Mrs. Lorenca. Still snowing tonight.

21 Sun
Cold with a SE snowstorm all night and all day. Fred was out just enough to do the chores. Still snowing at bedtime.

22 Mon
Cold with a SE wind. Fred and Harden was to Town Meeting today. J.W. Fulton called.

23 Tue
Cloudy with a NW wind. Fish peddler here today. Fred went to the Fort today. Hired on business. Signs of a storm.

24 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. John Bartley here today. Fred took a load of wood to Stitham’s.

25 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Snowing and drifting. A regular March day.

26 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. John Aheran helped Fred today to cut timber. A regular March day, snowing and blowing.

27 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Cloudy all day. Signs of a storm today. Fred was away to the Fort on business.

28 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Harden and Fred went to a Meeting today. Clear tonight.

29 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. J.W. Collins here. Fred had John Aheran helping him today making timber.

30 Tue
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Fred and John Aheran was making timber today. Clear and cold.

31 Wed Some clouds and cold with a West wind. Fred had John Aheran to work today.

And so Ends the Month of March

February 1897

1 Mon
Mostly clear with a SW wind. George Lindsey was hauling wood all day for Fred. Harden and Fred was away for a horse.

2 Tue
Mostly clear with a NW wind. Fred took R.L. Bell’s wood machine home and went over on West Ridge and got one.

3 Wed
Clear and cold with a West wind. It melted all day. Harden went to Centreville Mill today for Fred. George Lindsey took out wood to W.W. Larrabee.

4 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred was making ready to saw wood. George took a load of sleepers to McPherson.

5 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred was making ready to saw wood. George took out a load of sleepers for John McPherson.

6 Sat
Clear and cold with a SE wind. Fred went to Bridgewater today on business. George Lindsey took a load of wood out. Mrs. Towle here. Paid out 20 cents. (Note: Mrs. Towle was the wife of W.R. Towle who taught school in the Robert M. Fulton house, which was a log cabin built in 1866.)

7 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I went out to the Baptism today. About 300 people or more. George took us out to the meeting house. (Note: This would have been the new Free Baptist Church that was in the process of being built. It was located on Church Street.)

8 Mon
It snowed a soft snow of about 4 inches in the night with a South wind this morning. R.L. Bell here today.

9 Tue
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind and snowed the most of the afternoon. Fred and George Lindsey was sawing wood all day.

10 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Very blustery and cold. Fred and George Lindsey was sawing wood all day for Fossey and Gilman.

11 Thu
Clear and cold with a NW wind. George Lindsey hauled one load of wood to York & Luce’s.

12 Fri
Clear and cold with NW wind. Harden and Fred took out 2 or 3 loads of wood today.

13 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind.
George Lindsey took out a load of wood today.

14 Sun
Clear and cool with a SE wind. Frank Blackden and wife and daughter here. Lindsey went home today.
(Frank Blackden, age 35, and his wife Emily (Smith) Blackden, age 30, and their 7 year old daughter Edna F. Blackden.)

15 Mon
Clear and cool with a NW wind. I took my dinner at Stephen Giberson’s. Fred and Lindsey sawing wood.

16 Tue
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred killed his pig this afternoon.

17 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. W.W. Larrabee and wife here today. Storming.

18 Thu
Cold with a SE snowstorm all day. Fred and George Lindsey worked till noon and gave up.

19 Fri
Cold with a NE snowstorm. Myself and wife went up to Stephen Giberson’s this morning and stayed
all day.

20 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind. LeRoy and Urban Bell and Perry Cox here today.

21 Sun
Cold with a SE snowstorm all day. The storm was heavy the most of the day. Held at sunset.

22 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred went out with a load of wood for York & Luce today.

23 Tue
Cold with a SE snowstorm. Commenced, I judged, about midnight and snowed heavy all day. I think twelve inches of snow fell. Arthur Hutchinson here all day.

24 Wed
Cold with a SE wind. They made a road scraper here this morning to scrape the snow off the road.

25 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Fred took two loads of logs to the river today. Had Harden to help him. George the peddler here.

26 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. George Lindsey went two trips to the river today.

27 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Harden and George Lindsey went two trips to the river today.

28 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind but got very cold through the day. Snowed and blowed and drifted. Lindsey went home.

And so Ends the Month of February

January 1897

1 Fri
Clear with a NE wind but very pleasant.
To Dr. A.J. Fulton’s to dinner and I came down to Larrabee’s with James Collins to W.W. Larrabee’s where we was visiting.
2 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind.
I rode up to A.J. Fulton’s with John Tweedie and got some papers.Walked home to W.W. Larrabee’s.

3 Sun
Stayed at W.W. Larrabee’s all day Sunday. Went down to the Baptism by the Starch Factory. Warm and melted all day.

4 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind and very foggy.
Signs of rain. Still at W.W. Larrabee’s. In the evening R. McKelvery came and moved us up to his place.

5 Tue
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind.
At McKelvery’s. R.L. Bell is here thrashing for McKelvery. He got done today.

6 Wed
Cloudy and quite warm with a SE wind in the forenoon.
About 3 o’clock the wind came round to the NW. Quite cold.

7 Thu
Cloudy with a NW wind and snow squalls all the forenoon but the sun came out at noon but clouded up the most of the time. Dr. A.J. Fulton was here.

8 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind.
Adaline is still sick. Robert went out this morning to get some more medicine to Doctor A.J. Fulton’s.

9 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a North wind.
The most of the day was pretty cold but at noon we had to put down the window blind, the sun was so hot. A.J. Fulton here.

10 Sun
Cold with a NW wind and snowstorm all the forenoon.
It stopped snowing and the sun came out a great many times. Called in to Adaline to see how she was.

11 Mon
Cloudy and quite warm with a NW wind.
Ash McKelvery moved us up to R.L. Bell’s today and we found things quite pleasant there. Had a good time.

12 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind and some snow squalls in the forenoon.
I went down to Robert McKelvery’s in the afternoon and stayed myself.

13 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind.
I stayed at R.L. Bell’s till after dinner and Ash McKelvery took me out to A.J. Fulton’s Drug Store and I talked with Aaron awhile.

14 Thu
Clear and quite cold but in the afternoon it was quite warm and pleasant for January.

15 Fri
Clear and cold with a West wind but the day was very pleasant and warm for the time of the year and the snow all off.

16 Sat
Clear and warm with a NW wind. We stayed at R.L. Bell’s all day and had a good time.

17 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and signs of a storm. Commenced to snow at dark from the SE, snow and hail.

18 Mon
R.L. Bell brought us home on half bare ground with horse and sled. It rained all day but home in one hour.

19 Tue
It cleared off at night.
The wind came round to the North dreadful cold. The temperature registered 20 degrees below zero with a dreadful heavy wind.

20 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred walked out to the river today. L.H. Fulton gone to Wing’s to make sleepers. (Note: Sleepers: Railroad Ties hewn out by axe )

21 Thu
Cold with a SE snowstorm. Commenced about 6 o’clock in the morning and snowed heavy all day and all night. Near a foot of snow. Men and teams laid by.

22 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. R.L. Bell came this morning to go to hauling wood. Fred and Harden to help him. Harden’s mare died.

23 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Fred was to the river. J.W. Fulton and Harden was to Centreville to the Mill.

24 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind.
Seven more baptized today making 19 in all in a week for the Ouserite Church, I suppose. (Note: Town records reveal no record of church movement that would resemble grandfather’s definition of ‘Ouserite.’ In August of 1894, a group of dedicated Baptists raised quite a stir under the leadership of Elder Charles Orser. This movement was the foundation of theFree Baptist Church that was established just a few years later and of which grandfather noted the laying of the cornerstone. It is possible that R.M. Fulton was making a reference to the ‘Orserite Church.)

25 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Snowing some and blowing some. Fred was hauling wood to George York’s.

26 Tue
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind in the forenoon and snowing. The wind came round to the North in the afternoon. Snowed and blowed heavy. Fred hauling for George York.

27 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind.
Fred killed his fowls. John Kelley went to Blaine. I had an ill turn.

28 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Fred started to the Fort Mill this morning. Signs of a storm. Harden took a load of Sleepers.

29 Fri
Cloudy with a NW wind and snowing and drifting and blowing and very cold. Fred got home from the Fort Mill and left his grist.

30 Sat
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. Fred is quite sick with a sore throat today.

31 Sun
Clear and cool with a SW wind. Fred was very sick with a sore throat and bad cold. Merty Cox called in today and some others.

And so Ends the Month of January

April 1886

1 Thur
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind and some rain. Snow running off very fast. No travelling with team. I was home all day wooding a wagon ex. Harden went to Mr. Straight’s. Jim was here this morning. (ex: axle)

2 Fri
Some clouds but quite pleasant with a West wind. We commenced today to saw up our summer’s wood. Quite squally this afternoon. James Kearney here to dinner today and Merty Cox made a call.

3 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Some squalls of snow and some sunshine. I went to Blaine with
the gray mare. Roads very rough. Some bare ground on the roads. I called at Aaron’s. Went to Blaine and mailed a letter to Joe Smythe. Went to Joneses and done some trading. Came back and paid Mary McCormick $1.75 cts. Called to Larrabee’s and got notebook. Called to R. Bell’s and fed team and got my dinner. Got hundred of B. Meal and then started for home. Called at James Collins to see him about some peas and oats. Got home about four o’clock.

4 Sun
Clear and cold with a North wind. I was home all day. Harden and wife and Stella went down to Richard Bell’s in the morning and returned in the evening. Some signs of a storm. Zeb Cox was here today.

5 Mon
Clear and cool with a SW wind. It froze very hard in the morning. The Selectmen was here today taking the valuation. Mrs. Hutchinson and daughter, John Bartley, James W. Fulton, Anna Murray, Nelley Mahan, George Hutchinson, and Harvey Everitt here. We hauled six loads of wood with double team and sawed seventy eight blocks more. The two Selectmen was Hill and Blanchard.

6 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a North wind. We was sawing and hauling wood all day. Every appearance of a snow storm. Mrs. Cox was here today. Aaron came here today and took his dinner. Drove out to Oran Frost’s and came back. Put up his horse and took supper. Took his mother with him and started for home. I was speaking to Doctor Sypher as he was going to Fred Hawksley’s to see a sick child.

7 Wed
Cold with a NE snow storm all day. Home all day choring. I had quite a talk with Dr. Syphers on politics. He called me up in the road as he was passing. (No doubt Dr. Syphers was democrat as grandfather was devout Republican)

8 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Signs of a storm. Took my breakfast, harnessed up and started to Blaine with horse and sleigh. Called at Aaron’s. Then I went to Blaine and got the mail. Called to Joneses. Called to Aaron’s and got dinner. Took wife and brought her. Called to Mary McCormick. Called at Larrabee’s. Called to Safford’s office. Called at J.W. Fulton’s and then home at half past three.

9 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden took a load of hay out to Aaron and brought a load of sphalts home. Went to Aaron’s again at night with his wife and Stella to Aaron’s birthday party. I went to James Collins and bought six bushels of peas and oats. George Whittaker, peddler, here today. H. Delong and J.W. Fulton here. (Aaron Jones Fulton, born on April 9th, 1851, was 35 yrs old today)

10 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Some rain. We was hauling wood in the morning. I got a letter from Joseph Smyth. George Whittaker called looking for his lost trunk. Len Bartley, his wife and children came here and stopped all night. McGaw, the peddler, called in today. I went down to John Ahern’s and nailed up the barn. Harden and Stella went to the lodge tonight.

11 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Len Bartley and wife and three children here. Harden and wife and Stella went to Jim’s to dinner. Came back and started for home about two o’clock. James was here a spell in the afternoon. This is a clear and cold night and freezing
very hard.

12 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. We was sawing and splitting up wood part of the day. I harnessed up and took my wife up to Hutchinson’s in the morning. Came home and helped to saw wood till 4 o’clock in the afternoon. Harnessed up and went up to Hutchinson’s and took supper. Started home with my wife. Talked with John Ahern some and got home before dark. Got a good feast of maple sugar.

13 Tues
Cloudy with a SE wind. Foggy and raining in the forenoon. Cleared off in the afternoon. We was hauling wood in the forenoon. P.T. Blanchard was here to dinner on his way to George Yorks. Hatfield Delong called in. John Elkins was here making a washboard. James Murray is here tonight. This is a very pretty night. Clear and foggy. (Percival T. Blanchard operated a Saw Mill located at Kings Grove along with his brother, Gilbert Blanchard. Percival would have been 51 yrs old at this time.)

14 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I harnessed up this morning and took my wife, took some eggs and one bushel of potatoes to change with S. Richardson. Took my wife to John Lindsey’s. Went to Blaine and called to Safford’s. Called to Aaron’s, to Sypher’s and went on to Blaine. Went to the Post Office and mailed a letter to George. Got one from Ephraim with a check of forty dollars in it. Called to James Collins and paid him $1.50 cts. Went to J. Ramsay’s, to Valley’s, to Jones, to Safford’s and took dinner at Lindsey’s and came home. Saw Hume as I came home.

15 Thur
Cloudy with a NE wind. Some rain and snow in the forenoon. We was sawing wood. Harden harnessed up in the morning and took his mother down to Everitt’s on a visit. I went down in the afternoon and took my supper and came home. James Craig called here. Dell Nutter and Mrs. Ackerson to supper here this afternoon. J.W. Fulton was here.

16 Fri
Clear with a SE wind. We was hauling and splitting wood. Stella and Anna went up to Straight’s to get candy in the morning. Harden went up in the afternoon. I sent a letter to J.B. Weed today. Arvilla York was here. McGaw, the peddler, Mrs. Will Wilson and Mrs. Wain Shaw and George York was all here today. The snow is going off very fast. Weather clear and fine.

17 Sat
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We had our School Meeting today. John Mahan, Clerk, and John A. Hawksley, Agent, resulting in the turning out of the Lodge and all Religious meetings out of the School House. James Kearney, Jr. and Zeb Cox here today and James Murray here all night after school meeting. I stopped to Jim’s and took supper and then came home. I was looking at our bees today in Jim’s cellar.

18 Sun
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Home all day. James Murray left her for home this morning to the Valey Settlement, so called. J.W. Fulton, this evening, was here.

19 Mon
Clear and warm with a NW wind. We sought out our bee hives today. We was sawing wood the rest of the day. We sawed one hundred and twenty eight cuts about average of ten inches each. Snow running off very fast. Zeb Cox and John A. Hawksley and a young man by the name of Knap was here today.

20 Tues
Clear and warm with a SE wind. Will Larrabee came out today with horse and wagon, the first this Spring. We was sawing and hauling wood all day today. Hauled nine loads and sawed one hundred and twenty seven cuts. Judson Straight here today. Stella got a letter from Minnesota today from Maybell. (Mabell Geneva Fulton, daughter of Ephraim and Louise (Webster) Fulton, Mabell, born August 29, 1871, would have been 15 yrs old)
Mostly clear and warm with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. We was sawing and hauling wood all day. Fields getting quite bare. Nothing of any importance passed today.

21 Wed
Clear and cool with a NW wind. Froze quite hard. We was sawing and hauling wood. I wrote a letter to John R. Weed with a forty dollar check. Mrs. Frost here tonight. They are traveling tow with wagons.

22 Thur
Mostly clear and warm with a SW wind. Some signs of a storm. I put fills in our wagon in the morning and started for Blaine. Took my wife as far as Jim’s and went on. Called to Aaron’s, fed the team and got my dinner. Wrote my letter to J.R. Weed and went on to Blaine. Went to Joneses and got 3 gallons of molasses and 22 pounds of pork. Went to Post Office and mailed one letter to Knoxford and one to Weed. Started home and called to Aaron’s. Called to Smyth’s for buckboard. Called to Jim Collins and paid him one dollar.

23 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was sawing wood all day. Finished all excepting about a half days sawing. Sot a goose today. Nothing unusual occurred today. (Sot? Not sure if the goose was ’sought’ or ’shot’ or ‘got’ or they ’saw’ a goose)

24 Sat
Clear and cold with a North wind. Very cold wind all day. Some signs of a storm. We was home all day. James Craig, James W. Fulton, Judson Straight and Mary Hutchinson was here today. Had some very nice hymns sung and played on the organ.

25 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I took Stella out to Richardson’s with horse and wagon looking for a school. We finished sawing up our years wood today. Jim and wife was here to dinner today. The weather is still cold tonight.

26 Mon
Clear and cold with a West wind. We was chopping in our foller today. Old Mrs. Delong and Mr. Straight was here today. We lost two sheep today. Had one lamb living. The weather looks very clear and nice.

27 Tues
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We finished chopping foller today. Richard Bell brought Stella home tonight from getting school on West Ridge. Mrs. Hutchinson and Merty Cox here today. Some signs of a storm.

28 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. We was sawing and splitting cedar today for the fence down by the spring and laid some of it up this evening. Will Larrabee called tonight and left a letter for Anna. Zeb Cox and J.W. Fulton here today. Harden went out to George York’s to help lift a cow. Some signs of a change in the weather.

29 Thur
Clear and cool with a NW wind. We was fencing all day. James Kearney and Mary Hutchinson here today. We had another lamb this morning. Stella was up to Hutchinson’s. All appearance of fine weather yet.

30 Fri
Clear and cool with a NW wind. We was fencing all day. James Kearney and Mary Hutchinson here today. We had another lamb this morning. Stella was up to Hutchinson’s. All appearance of fine weather yet.

So Ends the Month of April

March 1886

1 Mon
Cold with a NW wind. Snowing and drifting all day and snowing now at 10 o’clock P.M.

2 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a North wind. Snowing and drifting all day with signs of more storm.    J.W. Fulton here today.

3 Wed
Cloudy and cold with NE wind. We was breaking roads here today. John Herrin, James Murray,  A.D. York and James W. Fulton here today.

4 Thur
Cloudy but quite warm with a NW wind. The snow melting. Some signs of rain. Harden came   home from Knoxford today.

5 Fri
Cloudy but quite warm with a NW wind. Signs of more storm. I wrote a letter to Ephraim today.    Zeb Cox here today.

6 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine. I sent a letter to Ephraim. Took two bbls of potatoes out and sold them to James for $1.40 per bbl.

7 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Home all day. Appearance of good weather. Jim here tonight.

8 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Some signs of a storm. I was doing chores and repairing up   some things. Harden had a pain in his head. He went down to cut wood for Cox. He came home   again without cutting any. Thomas Bloodworth here today. William Giberson here today to     borrow shovel. This is washday with our women. Harden went out this afternoon to John Roger’s.

9 Tues
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Me and Stella went to Blaine and called at W.W. Larrabee’s   and took dinner. Stopped to Hussey’s and   done some trading. Called to B.F. Jones.      Stella got boots. Called to Valey’s. Stella paid him $6.90. Traded some. I called at Fred    Hewitt’s. Got a tin boiler. Called to the Post   Office. Got a letter from Ephraim. Got a  package from Portland Transcript. Some   signs of a storm today. Elder C. Rideout
called here today a few minutes. John Elkins   called. We got a butter tray from him.

10 Wed
Clear with a SW wind. I started to Littleton  with a horse and sleigh. Stopped to Blaine and got sleigh fixed. Went to Bridgewater  and stopped to Joshua’s. Took my dinner   and fed my team and then started to   Littleton at one o’clock. Got to John R. Weeds half after four o’clock. Stopped there all    night. Had a very pleasant time with Weed and family. Talked that affair of Ephraim’s all over.    Took supper and went to bed. I saw some of the greatest drifts of snow on my way, I think I    ever saw. I was told there was one drift between Bridgewater and the lines they took the road under, big enough to haul a ton of hay through.

11 Thur
Clear and pleasant with a SW wind. Some signs of a thaw. Fed my team at Weed’s this morning     and took my breakfast. After looking through the store I started for home about 9 o’clock. Had   a good time. Drove to Custom House, Joseph Smith’s. Stopped half an hour and drove to        Bridgewater to Joshua’s. Took my dinner, fed my team and started for home. Called at B.F. Jones and made some little trade. Got 40 cents from J. Hawksley. Got home at 5 o’clock.   P.S. I saw a crow on my journey. The first in this month. I thought it began to look like Spring.

12 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. I wrote a letter to Ephraim. Harden hauled a load  of plank from River de Chute for Zeb Cox. John Bartley and his son and daughter, Havelock  and Jane, J. Murray, J.W. Fulton, Orpha Hutchinson and Will Giberson here today. Got 80 cents    from Will Giberson.

13 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. John Bartley went home this morning. Me and Harden went to  Blaine. Orpha Hutchinson a passenger. Took single wagon out to Smith’s. I mailed a letter to   Ephraim, dated March 12, instant. I called to Jones. Harden got a suit of clothes at Hussey’s for $15.00. I saw Aaron at his place. Came home and brought Alice and her children with me.     Richard Bell came with Harden and took supper. Judson Straight here all night. My birthday. Seventy 70 years old today.

14 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Alice and her children here. Harden took them up to Jim’s.  Charles Lindsey was here to dinner. James Murray and James W. Fulton here to supper tonight.

15 Mon
Some clouds and quite warm with a SE wind. Every appearance of another big storm. I was home    all day. I made a cross bar for my pung fills. Harden went to Jones Mill and got a load of cedar sphalts. James Murray and Will Hargrove and Jud Straight was here today.

16 Tues
Cold with a SE snow storm all day and evening. James Murray here. We was home all day. I was   mending boots and horse harness most of the day. Crows and saw-whits plenty.

17 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day cobling. Harden went over to Watson’s Mill  for Mr. Straight with a load of wheat. James W. Fulton and Will Giberson here. St.Patrick’s Day.

18 Thur
Clear and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Old man Hawksley here most all day on a    visit. John York called here today and I paid A.J. Fulton’s tax of $8.76 cents on a Town Order     I held of $14.00. Paid Stella tax. Harden went to Fred Robinson’s and Stella to Silsbey’s.   Howard Lindsey and J.W. Fulton here today. Weather clear and fine tonight.

19 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. After shaving and dressing this morning, myself and wife started   for a two days visit with mare and pung. We called at S. Richardson’s, then to G. Silsbey’s and    put up till after dinner. Had a pleasant time. Left there at 3 o’clock. Called to J. Lindsey’s, then    we went to R. Bell’s and put up there for the night. Had a pleasant chat and good time in general.

20 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. We took our breakfast this morning at
R. Bell’s. Had a pleasant chat, then took our dinners. Left for home at one o’clock. Called at       John Lindsey’s and then to the Red School House. Stopped at the Conference Meeting. Saw a  number of our friends and then came home and found all well as usual.

21 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a South wind. Signs of a storm. Myself and wife went to James Murray’s  in the forenoon. Stopped there till after dinner. About noon it commenced snowing and blowing   from the NE. Then we came down to Everitt’s. Stopped there till about four o’clock. Snowed    very hard all the afternoon. Harden came after us with the team. A.J. Fulton, Zeb Cox and   J.W. Fulton was here today.

22 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NE snow storm all day. Eight or ten inches of snow fell. We started to      Town Meeting about 9 o’clock. Very bad roads. Town Meeting in Hume’s Hall. Our Selectmen      were H.W. Safford, Clerk: A.J. Fulton, Supervisor: W.L. Boynton, Treasury: C.F. Towle, S. Shaw,    Will Wilson, Constables. After getting through we took dinner at A.J. Fulton’s. Got home about nine in the evening.

23 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. It was snowing and blowing and drifting all day. It has been     snowing the most of the time since Sunday noon. I think it has fell a foot or more of snow.      Consequently, the travelling is very bad. Home all day doing chores and taking care of the stock.     James Murray was here. We settled with him. Squared all up.

24 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. Some snow and drifting bad. Snowed and drifted nearly all day.     Very bad travelling. Home all day. J.W. Fulton and Adaline Murray was here. Harden and Stella   went home with Adaline. Stayed the evening.

25 Thur
Clear and cool with a NW wind in the forenoon but changed in the afternoon to the SE and every      appearance of a storm. Roads very bad with about five feet of snow in the woods. Home all day.   William York here to dinner. Howie Lindsey here today.

26 Fri
Clear and cold with a SW wind. Very heavy wind. I was home all day. Harden went down to Knoxford    and brought home his intended bride. Dell Nutter, Zeb Cox, James Murray, and Anna Murray  here today and two Craine girls. Perry went down to stay with Adaline all night. (A pen notation    made at the bottom of page “O’ Happy Day” which could have been made by Harden later)

27 Sat
Clear and pleasant but quite cold with a NW wind. Harden left home this morning with his    intended bride. Went to Elder Hallowell’s and got married and went on to Knoxford for the         present. I went to Blaine and took Adaline and Anna with me as far as Lindsey’s. Brought them     home again. Traded some with Jones and paid for what I got. Called at Aaron’s, called at the   Way Office and got the mail and came home. (Another notation at the bottom of daily page,    “This was the Day”, possibly written at a later date by Harden or one of family)

28 Sun
Clear and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden was in Knoxford with his wife. Stella   went to the meeting. We had J. Murray and wife, Charles Lindsey, Richard Currie, J.W. Fulton,   Isaiah Garrison, Horace Cox, besides three young girls that called here in the evening. Every   appearance of fine weather.

29 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind in the forenoon but changed in the afternoon to SE and looked very much like a storm. J. Murray and wife and Stella came from Bell’s this morning. Harden  came from Knoxford in the forenoon and went back in the afternoon to move his wife up with   double team. Zeb cox, J.W. Fulton, James Murray and wife and daughter here today. I settled   with Murray today. Squared up with him.

30 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind and some snow in the forenoon with a little rain in the afternoon    but pleasant. Harden moved home with his wife today. We had about sixty people here, old and    young. We had a good treat. Some tunes on the organ and everything passed off quietly. James and Mary Ann and Evelyn, R. Bell and wife was here to supper. No doubt it will be long remembered by some present.

31 Wed
Cloudy with a SE wind. Rain all day and evening and very foggy. Every appearance of more rain.    Roads quite soft. Home all day. James Murray and Howard Lindsey here today. Nell Mahan and Evelyn Fulton here.

So Ends the Month of March

February 1886

No Entries for the month.

January 1886

1 Fri
Warm with a SE rain all day. I was home all day. John Bartley went home from here that day. Harden and Stella went to a New Years Tree. I sent a letter to John R. Weed about Ephraim’s business.

2 Sat
Warm and cloudy with a SE wind. Harden hauled eight logs to the Mill that day. Signs of another rain storm. James Murray here today.

3 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Myself and wife went to John Lindsey’s. Richard Bell and wife
and family, James Murray and family all here to tea. Signs of another storm. Found them all here when we came home from Lindsey’s.

4 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Quite foggy and some rain and signs of more rain. Mr. Straight was here helping Harden to haul wood today.

5 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind and rain all day and evening. Mr. Straight was here helping to haul wood again today. Zeb Cox was here today. There is about twelve inches of snow in the woods but the fields was quite bare.

6 Wed
Warm with a SE rain all day and evening. Myself and wife made a visit to Straight’s. We made a call at Hallett’s today. Some bare ground in the roads.

7 Thu
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Freezing very hard. Some bare ground. The roads very icy. B.B. Blanchard was here today. Agent for the Pearless Steam Cookery here.

8 Fri
Some clouds and cold with a West wind. Home all day. Stella went to James Murray’s. Anna was sick some at that time. Hatfield Delong and James Murray was here.

9 Sat
Cold with a NE snow storm all day. Home all day. Hatfield Delong here. Signs of rain this
evening.

10 Sun
Cloudy with a SE wind. Some snow in the forenoon. Alice and family and Stint Shaw here today. Harden went for the doctor for Anna Murray today. It was very bad travelling.

11 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. Signs of a storm. Harden went to help Richard Bell. James W. Fulton, Hatfield Delong and James Kearney here today.

12 Tues
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Stella was to James Murray’s. We got a letter from Mabell Fulton today. James W. Fulton here tonight.

13 Wed
Clear and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Hatfield Delong called twice today. James Murray here twice today.

14 Thur
Clear and cold with a SE wind. John Hawksley and Mrs. John Hawksley, Jr. and Mrs. Fred Ahley and Hatfield Delong was all here today.

15 Fri
Clear and cold with a SE wind. I was home al day. Zeb Cox and Mrs. Everitt and daughter and James Murray all here today.

16 Sat
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. Signs of a storm. I took dinner at Jim’s with Will York. Harden came home from Richard Bell’s.

17 Sun
Cold with a SE rain. I was home all day. Harden and Stella went to Aaron’s. Jim and wife and Will York was here to dinner today.

18 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Zeb Cox here. Harden went to help R. Bell today to saw wood.

19 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. I took Stella to see Mary Ann Lindsey. She was sick. Zeb Cox here today. It commenced snowing tonight.

20 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Twelve inches of snow fell the past night.

21 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Signs of another storm. I went to Blaine. I paid Mary McCormick $1.50 cts. Got three gal. Of mollasses. It is snowing today.

22 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Signs of another storm. I took Stella down to Lindsey’s to stay with Mary Ann. She was sick.

23 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Harden took a load of hay to Aaron’s today. I mended Caddy Shanks boots today.

24 Sun
Clear with a cold NW wind. I was home all day. Sever cold and signs of more snow.

25 Mon
Clear and cold with a SE wind. Signs of another storm tonight. R. Bell here this evening.

26 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a SE snow storm. Four inches of snow. I made Perry shoe packs today.

27 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Signs of rain. Will Wilson and son and Frank Russell was here today. I sold Wilson four bbls of potatoes.

28 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind in the forenoon and snowing in the afternoon. Harden came home from Bell’s today.

29 Fri
Warm snow and rain mixed all day and evening. Harden brought the hog home from Dell Nutters.

30 Sat
Cold with a NE wind. Some hail and some snow. Signs of another storm. Two and one half feet of snow in the woods.

31 Sun
Cold with a West wind and snow. Alice and children and Mrs. Mahan here today. I went down to Lindsey’s today.

So Ends the Month of January

Photo: December 1893 diary page

December 1893

1 Fri
Cloudy with a NW wind. The temperature at 32 degrees above zero. Quite snowy most all day. Mr.
Thomas Bartley here tonight. Stella Blackden and Mrs. Glidden here today. Harden’s little Forra
died today.

2 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. The temperature ranging from 14 to 18 degrees above zero. I was
home all day. There was some snow squalls through the day and very cold. John Bartley called here
today. His father, Thomas Bartley, took breakfast here.

3 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. The temperature ranging from two below zero to six degrees above. It began to snow about noon heavy and is still snowing at bedtime. W.W. Larrabee and wife and daughter, Aaron J. Fulton and wife, Fred Blackden and wife here to dinner. Leonard Harden Fulton’s boy buried today.

4 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. It fell about 10″ of snow the previous night and drifted bad. Fred
Blackden moved George W. Fulton from here today.

5 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. The shaw boys here today. It commenced to snow from the NW
about 6 o’clock in the evening. I was home all day choring and attending stock.

6 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind in the forenoon. Snowed some in the night. The shaw boys, Murray
and Frank, was here thrashing all day. The wind shifted to the SE in the evening.

7 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was tending the thrashing all day. James H. Webster called here
today. Frank and Murray Shaw moved their thrashing machine away tonight.

8 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. The shaw boys took their horse power away this morning to John
Boyd’s to do his thrashing. We put in some our straw. Signs of snow.

9 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Moderated some through the day. Some appearance of rain. We
put our straw in today. Murray and Frank Shaw came and got the tote they left here.

10 Sun
Cloudy and very foggy and soft snow with a SE wind and signs of rain. We was home all day. L.H.
Fulton’s wife and Birt Tapley and Mrs. Hutchinson called here today.

11 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I killed my beef today. L.H. Fulton helped me. Very cold. I paid
John McPherson what I owed them. So ends the day.

12 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind and some snow through the day and evening. Harden helped to kill
my hog today. Joe Charles, an Arabian peddler, here to dinner.

13 Wed
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. I sent out 1 1/4 of beef and hide to York
and Luce and grain to Wilson’s. Anna and children here.

14 Thur
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I sat in the house the most of the forenoon. I thought it too cold to be
out. I was helping Harden to load some straw up home.

15 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was helping L.H. Fulton to haul away my buckwheat
straw. He hauled me two loads of wood.

16 Sat
A cold SE snow storm commencing this morning about 4 o’clock and snowed heavy all
day and still snowing at bedtime. Harden went to store and brought me three gallons of
oil and 1/2 lb of salt.

17 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Snow the previous night about 8″ and drifted. The
road is very bad. Snowed some today. Richard Bell and wife here to dinner. It is cleared
off quite cold tonight. So ends the day.

18 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Road is badly drifted. Had to work to get to the
barn this morning. Harden drove with the team 3 or 4 times.

19 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind and snow most all day. I stayed in the house today. I made a pair of
moggy’s for Harden’s little boy, Beacher. Still snowing a bedtime.

20 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Snowing and blowing and drifting all day and still drifting at
bedtime. Roads very bad. The weather was bad. I did not water my cattle.

21 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and great signs of a storm. We killed fowls today and dressed them
for the market.

22 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Me and Harden drove to Blaine this morning with the double sled.
Took out grain, poultry, eggs and socks. Very heavy traveling. Very cold. Made a number of calls.
Took all day.

23 Sat
A cold SE storm of snow and wind all day till near bedtime. There was near, I think, 8″ of snow fell
and drifting bad.

24 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind and still snowing. We was home all day. Fred Blackden was here
to dinner. J.W. Fulton and L.H. Fulton called in today.

25 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day. Harden and wife went to Knoxford today.
J.W. Fulton and Birt Tapley called. It begun to snow about 10 o’clock and snowed till bedtime.

26 Tues
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind and very drifty. I was home all day. Harvey Everitt and Frank
Hallett was here this morning and got Hutchinson’s buck. Very cold tonight.

27 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. We was home all day. Brother Giberson called
here today and read and prayed with us. Birt Tapley brought the sleigh home.

28 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. We was home all day. Harden went away
with his first load of potatoes today. Signs of more snow today.

29 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We was home all day. I was helping in
the afternoon to prepare a place in my brook for a Baptism. Mr. Isaac Straight
was here to dinner. Birt Tapley called here tonight.

30 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Frank Armstrong, a
Book Agent for the World’s Fair, is laying with us tonight. I signed for a book at $2.00.

31 Sun
Cold with a SW snow storm all day and evening. The temperature registering from 4 to 18 degrees
above zero. I went down to the water to see the Baptism today. Hiram Bacholder, Wilmot Shaw and
Helen Hutchinson baptized. There was a host of people at the water’s edge.

And So Ends the Month of December
And the Year of 1893

November 1893

1 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. The ground froze quite hard with ice 3/4″ thick. I was home all day.
A little snow today. Signs of a storm. Quite cold tonight.
2 Thur
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day choring and sawing wood at the door. Harden commenced to plow potato ground today.
3 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It rained some in the afternoon but Harden finished the plowing of my potato ground this afternoon. I called down to John Aheran’s.
4 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I went to Blaine this morning and took the mare to Currie’s and got shoes set. Took dinner with Alice and stopped to R B sold 8 1/3 dozen of eggs at 17 cents.
5 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. Dr. A.J. Fulton called here and took G.W. Fulton out with him to work on his house. Myself and wife took dinner at L.H. Fulton’s today. I called to Stephen Giberson’s.
6 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. A heavy frost today. Harden took the double team and went out to Blaine to work for A.J. Fulton. Joseph McDonald here to get shoe fixed.
7 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day choring. Cleaned up the barn floor. Harden plowed in the afternoon. Maggy went to Blaine
8 Wed
Clear and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day choring and fixen up for winter. Len Bartley and wife called today. Harden was plowing for potatoes another year.
9 Thur
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Me and Harden and Birt pulled turnips for John Aheran today. Sixteen bbls and got eight of them hauled home.
10 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Froze very hard. Me and Birt fulton (Note: Meant to write Tapley) got the last of my summer wood in today. My wife was at Harden’s all day to tend to sick Fora.
11 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. I called with my wife to Harden’s to his sick boy. Poor Fora. I was choring the rest of the day. Eli Fletcher called today.
12 Sun
Clear and cold with a SE wind. I was home the most of the day. I went up to Harden’s and fed his cattle and turned them out. He went after Dr. White for his sick boy. Richard Bell and wife and Arthur Hutchinson and wife called in.
13 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day choring and sawing wood at the door. Mrs.Mary Gillen called in. Orin Wing called.
14 Tues
Cloudy and very Foggy with a SE wind. Myself and wife drove over to Fred Blackden’s this morning. Called to John D. Lindsey’s to see them and took dinner with Stella and got home at sunset.
15 Wed
Cloudy and very foggy this morning with a SE wind. It began to rain and rained till about 10 o’clock. The wind came round to the NW and began to snow and blow heavy. Still snowing at bedtime.

16 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. It snowed 5″ last night heavy wet snow. Snowing and blowing again tonight. Mr. Straight called in. Harden drove to Blaine with sled today.
17 Fri
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. It commenced snowing in the afternoon. It snowed some then the wind shifted round to the SE. Looks like more storm. I banked my house today.
18 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day choring. Quite soft in the forenoon but the wind shifted to the NW in the afternoon cold.
19 Sun
Some clouds with a West wind and quite cold. Froze Hard. Myself and wife went this morning at 10 o’clock to hear Elder Gray preach at our school house. Took dinner at James W. Fulton’s. Birt Tapley and wife called.
20 Mon
Mostly clear and cold with a NW wind. I thrashed out Harden’s beans today. Harden had his hog killed today. Myself and wife took dinner with Harden. Fora was very sick.

[Forrest Farrett Fulton- died of typhoid fever]

21 Tues
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day choring. We set in our bees today and helped to clean a bbl of beans for Harden today.
22 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Signs of a storm all the forenoon and I prepared for it as fast as possible. It commenced to snow in earnest about 3 o’clock from the SE. Snowing at bedtime.
23 Thur
Cool and cloudy and foggy this morning with a SE wind. Me and Harden went to Blaine this morning with double sled. Harden got his horses shod at Currie’s. I took dinner with Mrs. Alice Larrabee. Called at Bell’s.
24 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day choring and fixing up my grain boxes for thrashing. James McGee and J.W. Fulton here to supper. Signs of a storm. No sledding yet. Going with wagon.
25 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a West wind. I was home all day choring and caring for my stock. Cold and freezing all day and looks like snow. G.W. Fulton came tonight from Blaine.
26 Sun
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Mr. Isaac Straight and wife called in today and Fred Blackden and wife here on a short visit.
27 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day cutting wood and choring. Wife took an ill turn and we sent for Dr. Fulton. L.H. Fulton and J.W. Fulton and wife came in. Mrs. Arthur Hutchinson and daughter called.
28 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a South wind I was home all day. It commenced to rain about noon and rained very heavy from the SE. Still they are traveling in wagons.
29 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day except going up to Harden’s to see his sick boy. Signs of another storm. Stephen Giberson called in today to inquire how my wife’s health was. She was not well. Dr. Fulton here.

30 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. It snowed about 2″ of soft snow the previous night but most of it went off today. Signs of more storm soon.

So Ends the Month of November

October 1893

1 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a North wind and rain all day. Commenced in the night and still raining at
bedtime. Birt Tapley and wife here this evening. J.W. Fulton called.
2 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Me and Harden finished raking up our buckwheat today. Ready for hauling in. Three Hallett’s and one Mahan called this evening.
3 Tues
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was choring and digging potatoes all day and picking them up
myself. Got three bbls and 1/2 hauled in the cellar. J.W. Fulton called in.
4 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was digging potatoes today. Harden hauled in two loads of buckwheat. Joe Ackerson and wife called tonight and got some apples.
5 Thur
Cloudy and warm with a North wind. I was digging potatoes all day and Harden hauled in the last load of buckwheat tonight by lantern light.
6 FRi
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Cleared off in the afternoon. G.W. Fulton and wife here today. I took her home. Dot and Frank Larrabee here.
7 SAt
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Dot and Frank Larrabee here. Me and Harden took first load of potatoes to factory this morning at 40 cents per bbl. Rain began about 12 o’clock. Rained heavy and cold.
8 Sun
Some clouds with a warm West wind. We was home all day except I took the mare and carriage and drove Dot and Frank Larrabee to John Gray’s.
9 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I went to Blaine and settled with DeLong and paid him up. Settled with J.H. Bubar and got Mod shod. Begun to rain about noon. Heavy thunder shower in the SE.
10 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. John Close, Mr. Isaac Straight and George W. Fulton here today. I was picking over some potatoes.
11 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was digging and picking up potatoes all day. I walked up to Stephen Giberson’s at noon for help.

12 Thur
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I had Stephen Giberson digging potatoes all day. Mrs. Charles Cole
and son from Tobique, V.C., N.B. here tonight.
13 Fri
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I was digging potatoes today. Mrs. Cole and son left here this morning for Tobique, V.C., N.B. So ends the day.
14 Sat
Cloudy and Cold with a SE wind. I was digging potatoes in the forenoon. It came on rain about 10 o’clock and rained very heavy all the afternoon and evening.
15 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Fred Blackden and J.H. Webster and wife called here today and J.W. Fulton called in the evening.
16 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I drove out to J.H. Webster’s this morning with a tub of for Webster’s. (46 1/2 lbs) I called to Richard Bell’s. John Hersom for sheep.
17 Tues
Clear and cold with a West wind. I was digging potatoes all day. I had G.W. Fulton in the afternoon. We hauled in 7 bbls in the cellar. The ground froze hard.
18 Wed
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Me and G.W. Fulton was digging potatoes all day and hauled up 14 bbls to the house ready to go to the factory in the morning.
19 Thur
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I had George W. Fulton and son with me and Stephen Giberson digging potatoes all day. The ground froze hard.
20 Fri
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I had G.W. Fulton and son with me today digging potatoes and finished mine and put them in the cellar.
21 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Alice Larrabee and son here to dinner. I received a letter today from Mabel Fulton of Minnesota. Ephraim Lawrence called this evening. Harden done digging.
22 Sun
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden and family and Mrs. John Jamison called in awhile. Richard Bell and wife was here to supper. George Hallett called.
23 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a SW wind. I moved G.W. Fulton and family.I drove down and back 3 trips. Harden brought home my year old bull today.
24 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Very foggy and rainy looking and commenced to rain about 8 o’clock and rained very heavy all the afternoon. John Hallett here all this evening.
25 Wed
Cloudy and cool and foggy with a SE wind. I was home all day choring. The wind changed in the afternoon to the NW and cleared off. Harden hauled 2 loads to the factory.
26 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. We set up our two stoves today and finished picking off my beans today and other chores.
27 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Me and G.W. Fulton helped Harden to pull his turnips on Stephen
Giberson’s in the forenoon and in the afternoon we hauled 4 loads of wood for me. Tim Meagher called for turkeys.

28 Sat
Cold with a SE rain all day. I was home all day choring. I borrowed 10 bushels of buckwheat from
James Hutchinson today. John Aheran here to buy butter. So ends the day.
29 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a West wind and some rain through the day. I was home all day. J.W. Fulton and Birt Tapley called in this evening.

30 Mon
Some clouds and cold with a West wind. I sent 14 bushels of buckwheat to the Mill today. I went to Blaine and took out 6 turkeys to Tim Meagher @ 3.30. I called to Dr. Fulton’s, to B.F. Jones and took dinner to Alfred King’s, to Larrabee’s, to Bubar’s, to York’s, to B.F. Pierce’s and to Webster’s.

31 Tues
Clear and cold with a North wind. I was home all day. Harden brought me home a grist of buckwheat of 14 bushels. I turned down my plum trees today and put my onions in the cellar. George W. Fulton went out to work for Aaron J. Fulton.

So Ends the Month of October

September 1893

1 Fri
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Some signs of rain. I dug my onions today and raked up oats in the garden today. Mabel Fulton here tonight.
2 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Signs of rain. It cleared away some and we hauled 7 loads of oats for the first. Mabel Fulton left here today.
3 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day reading and doing our chores. Some heavy showers yesterday and today. J.W. Fulton called today.
4 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. I commenced digging my potatoes in the garden. We took 3 boxes of honey tonight.
5 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. After doing my chores I raked buckwheat all the forenoon for Harden. I picked some cranberries today.
6 Wed
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. I helped to haul in 5 loads of oats today. I dug some potatoes and helped fix a scythe for Jim and some other chores.
7 Thur
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. Heavy frost but clouded up and commenced to rain about 3 o’clock and killed some buckwheat.

8 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. Rained heavy all the previous night and most of the forenoon. I drove out to Blaine and stopped to Bell’s.Went out to Blaine with eggs and cranberries to sell. Stopped at Dr. Fulton’s.

9 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Cloudy and cold all day with a heavy wind. I was digging my potatoes in the garden. I finished digging and put them in the cellar. We finished cutting our buckwheat today. Harden went to Blaine. Raining tonight.

10 Sun
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Harden and wife drove down to Richard Bell’s this afternoon. Signs of frost.

11 Mon
Clear and cold with a NW wind. Myself and wife drove over to Fred Blackden’s this evening and stayed all night. Called to John D. Lindsey’s.
12 Tues
Clear and cold with a NW wind. We left Fred Blackden’s this morning and called to John Lindsey’s. Stopped to Maggy Fulton’s. Wife stayed there till night. Maggy brought her home.
13 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. I helped Harden today to finish mowing the peas and oats below the barn and my other chores.
14 Thur
Clear and warm with a NW wind. We drove to Richard Bell’s this morning and took dinner. Drove to
Webster’s to see Mabel. Paid Webster. I went to Blaine to J. Ramsey’s.
15 Fri
Cloudy and foggy with a SW wind. I was home all day. We had Jim and Birt Tapley to help haul in
our peas and oats. Got in one load and it came on rain and had to give it up.
16 Sat
Cool with a SE rain. Commenced in the night and rained heavy all day and is still raining at bedtime.I was home all day. Harden went to Blaine on business. John Bartley called today.
17 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. The wind came round to the NW in the afternoon and commenced
to rain and still raining at bedtime. John Bartley called.
18 Mon
Cloudy and rainy all day with the wind from the NW. We was home all day choring. John D. Lindsey and wife here to dinner. Harden went to the Fred Robinson Mill. So ends the day.

19 Tues
Cloudy and warm with a West wind. We rolled up our peas and oats ready for hauling in and mowed some. Maggy Fulton here to tea. Hildred Shaw, formerly Hildred Gray, here today.

20 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Rolled my beans and part of my corn and gathered some apples and done some of my chores. Harden was mowing oats.

21 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Heavy cold wind. We finished hauling in our peas and oats below the barn. We had Jim and Birt Tapley to help us. Old man Hawksley died today.

22 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. A heavy frost this morning. Dr. A.J. Fulton
called today. Harden went for him for ‘Forra.’ Sarah Fulton, wife of Thomas Fulton, here today.
23 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. Me and Harden went to old man Hawksley’s funeral today preached by Charles Orser. Text from 4th chapter of 2 Timothy, 6th verse “For I am now ready.”
24 Sun
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Richard Bell and wife was here to tea. James W. Fulton and some others called through the day.
25 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was raking oats and buckwheat the most of the day. We hauled in
three loads of oats from back of the barn. Twenty-four loads of oats in the barn.
26 Tues
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was helping Harden to rake oats and buckwheat in the
forenoon. He hauled the thrashers there in the afternoon.
27 Wed
Some clouds and cold with a NE wind. I was raking oats and buckwheat all day pretty much. We hauled in the last two loads of oats making 24 wagon loads in all.
28 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. I drove to Blaine this morning for the doctor for Harden’s boy.Mrs. Alice, W.W. Larrabee and daughter, Bertha and Green, here today on a visit.
29 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. All signs of rain. I commenced to dig my potatoes this afternoon.
We put the heifer I got from Harden in my pasture today.
30 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NE wind. A peddler from Fort Fairfield here today. I was digging potatoes
today. Dr. A.J. Fulton was here this evening.

So Ends the Month of September

August 1893

1 Tues
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. I was home all day. I had a lame foot. It rained most all the noon and still raining at bedtime. So ends the day.
2 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Harden helped me to mow my orchard today. Cleared off towards night.

3 Thur
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. I finished mowing and raked up what hay there was in the orchard.

4 Fri
Clear and warm with a South wind. I was home all day. Hauled in my hay out of the orchard today.
Alvin Giberson and Harden hauled it in for me. I was lame.
5 Sat
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day with a lame foot. Some signs of rain. I was weeding out my onions. Jim returned the hog he borrowed.
6 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Signs of rain. Fred Blackden and wife
and family here to tea this evening.

7 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Very cloudy and rained some in the afternoon and still looks like rain. We had cucumbers today. We sold some honey to Mahan’s.
8 Tues
Very cloudy in the morning but cleared off in the afternoon. Harden cut down the grass below the house today. Robert F. Jones and Dr. Aaron J. Fulton called.
9 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. We hauled in two loads of hay from below the house and raked up all around the road. Got in my seventh load of hay.
10 Thur
Clear and warm with a West wind. Very warm. I was home all day hauling in hay in the forenoon.One load for me and one for Harden. My eighth load.
11 Fri
Clear and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day choring and hauled in one small load of hay.
I picked off near a pail of cucumbers today. Evelyn here to dinner. My ninth load of hay.
12 Sat
Very cloudy and smoky this morning. The wind from the SE. I drove to Blaine and sold my eggs at
J.H. Bubar’s. Got some medicine at Dr. A.J. Fulton’s and drove to Fred Blackden’s and got dinner
and came home.

13 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a North wind. We was home all day. I took out a box of honey this morning. Harden took Mrs. Thomas Bartley today. Quite cool tonight. So ends the day.
14 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. I was helping Harden awhile to put up his fence. Fred Blackden and wife and family here.

15 Tues
Started for Cloverdale, CC, N.B. at 8 o’clock this morning to Aaron Jones’. Stopped at Cyrus Kinney’s and took some dinner. Drove to Florenceville and crossed the bridge.
Cloudy and cool day with some rain. Got to Aaron H. Jones’, 50 miles, 1/4 of  6 o’clock. Wind quite cold from the NW.

16 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. I traveled and viewed the place around part of the day and had a
pleasant time getting acquainted with friends and relations.
17 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. Signs of rain.We started and viewed the place.Went around Aaron Jones farm and viewed his field of grain, 40 bushels sowing of oats, buckwheat, corn, turnips and potatoes. Took a drive down two miles of level road.
18 Fri
Mostly clear and warm with a NE wind. Left Cloverdale. Myself and wife, Fred Blackden and wife and 3 children. Went up the North Branch of the Quincie to    Windsor, to Glassville Corner and thence to Brookes and took dinner. Four miles    to Bristol.
19 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. Found my cares all right. Fred Blackden and wife and family went home this afternoon. Dr. Aaron J. Fulton called here.
20 Sun
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. Robert Wakem and Rice Raimond from Wicklow, N.B., CC called today.

21 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. We was home all day. Signs of rain in the morning but commenced    to rain at noon. Joseph Parsons of Bridgewater and A.P. Kinney of Houlton called here.
22 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. Some rain through the day. Harden commenced plowing today.

23 Wed
Clear and warm with a South wind. Myself and wife made a visit to Mrs. Stephen Giberson’s. Mr.
Miller from East Blaine called and R. Irven called. My neice, Mrs. Margary Fitzherbert here tonight.

24 Thur
Some clouds and foggy in the morning and commenced to rain in the afternoon. Dolly Bell and son
here this afternoon. Harden commenced to mow oats today.

25 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. I took Margary Fitzherbert to Blaine this morning. Harden was
mowing today over the creek. I mailed a letter to Aaron Jones of Cloverdale.
26 Sat
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. I was trimming up round my garden. Harden finished mowing the oats over the brook.
27 Sun
Clear and cool with a SE wind. We was home all day reading. There was nothing of interest to record.

28 Mon
Cloudy and foggy and rained in the forenoon. Cleared off partly in the afternoon. The sun shone out but looks like more scattered rain.

29 Tues
Warm and cloudy with a SE wind. We went down to Richard Bell’s this morning.   All signs of rain
today. We stayed till afternoon. Commenced to rain about 3 o’clock heavy wind and rain. I called on G.W. Fulton’s wife.

30 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. The cold wind blew a gale and knocked off most all my apples. I commenced to dig my onions today.
31 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. I cut my oats in the garden and dug some
onions.  Busy all day. Mabel Fulton here tonight. Signs of frost. It rained heavy this afternoon.

So Ends the Month of August

July 1893

1 Sat
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day hoeing and weeding my garden. Ephraim Lawrence called this evening. Signs of rain tonight.

2 Sun
Some clouds and very warm with a NW wind. We was home all day. Richard Bell and Ephraim Lawrence called here today. Four or five young men traveled the road with fire crackers.

3 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was helping Harden this afternoon. Signs of rain tonight.
4 Tues
Heavy SE rain commenced in the night. Rained till noon today. We was home all day. Mrs. Evelyn Tapley here tonight. J.W. Fulton called.

5 Wed
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I drove out to Mars Hill Village. Took out eggs and got mare shod. Stopped to Richard Bell’s and got a pig. Signs of more rain.

6 Thur
A warm NE rain commenced in the night. It rained very heavy most all day. I was home all day horing and taking care of things.

7 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day looking after things. We had a feast of lettuce today for the first. Stephen Giberson called in this evening.

8 Sat
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. I hoed my potatoes today for the last time. Fred and Stella and John Bartley and ‘Abba’ was here today.

9 Sun
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Myself and wife, John Bartley and wife took dinner at J.W. Fulton’s today. Bartley and wife went home. Fred went home and Stella stayed here.

10 Mon
Mostly clear and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. I was weeding up my potatoes after hilling them for the last time. Some showers in the afternoon. I mowed some.

11 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I finished up my potatoes today down by the crick. Weeded out my
corn and beans. We had quite a heavy thunder and rain this afternoon.

12 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day hoeing up my potatoes and choring. I picked
some strawberries. Stephen Giberson and wife called in.

13 Thur
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. Me and wife drove down to see Maggy Fulton this morning and took
dinner, to Richard Bell’s and took tea and home.Len Bartley and wife and Robinson Longstaff and
wife called. Fred and Stella went home tonight.

14 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was helping Harden fence today. Wife went down to Richard
Bell’s. Dorothy was confined today.

15 Sat
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I drove out to J. Webster’s and took my dinner. Traded some
and got some haying tools at York & Luce.

16 Sun
Quite cloudy and some heavy showers of rain through the day. We was home all day. Harden and wife
and family here to tea. Birt Tapley and wife called in.

17 Mon
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. We commenced haying today. I went out to Will Cox’s this
afternoon for rake teeth for Harden for the horse rake.

18 Tues
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day fixing up my barn for haying.I helped
Harden to rake hay part of the day.

19 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I got in my first load of hay. John D. Lindsey and wife and girl
and old Mrs. Lewis to dinner and supper. They went home.

20 Thur
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. I was mowing and raking hay today and hauled in one load.
There was a Parsons from Bridgewater that called this evening with window fastenings.

21 Fri
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We went to Richard Bell’s this morning to see old Mrs. Bell.
She was dead when we got there. Three loads of hay.
(Note: Old Mrs. Bell was Richard Levarah Bell’s mother, Hannah, who was born at Brighton, N.B.,
Canada, on June 5, 1819.  She was the wife of Thomas Colby Bell.)

22 Sat
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. It rained, it rained and thundered in the night and some showers
through the day. I was home all day.

23 Sun
Cool and cloudy with a North wind. Quite showery all day and raining at bedtime. Myself   and wife
went to old Mrs. Bell’s funeral today. So ends the day.

24 Mon
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I was mowing and raking hay. Myself and wife took tea at
Harden’s. Quite cool tonight. Fear of frost.

25 Tues
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. Myself and wife went to Blaine today and went to Dr. A.J.
Fulton’s and took dinner and came home. I helped haul 4 loads of hay. Two in my barn.

26 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden hauled in hay all the forenoon. A Mr.
Brown from Washburn was here today getting signers for tinware. One load of hay  today. My sixth
load.

27 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I harnessed up this morning my mare and carriage.Myself and wife
drove over to Fred Blackden’s. Left there after tea and drove home.

28 Fri
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. I picked some berrys and worked some in
my garden. Elias McLaggen and sister called.

29 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day choring. It rained most all day and still raining at bedtime. I was picking some berrys  today.

30 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Rain showers most all day. John Jones and wife
called. Ephraim Lawrence here to dinner. So ends the day.

31 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. We had new potatoes today for dinner. Signs of rain tonight.

So Ends the Month of July

June 1893

1 Thur
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Heavy shower of rain in the forenoon. I helped Harden to plant potatoes in the afternoon.
2 Fri
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was helping Harden plant potatoes today. Two brood of chickens out now.
3 Sat
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. I helped Harden to finish planting potatoes today and planted my onions, beans and corn.
4 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. Commenced to rain about noon. Rained most of the afternoon and still raining.
5 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. We planted our cucumber seed today and my potatoes in the garden. Perry Oliver Cox here to dinner. Evelyn Tapley and Nell Mahan called.

6 Tues
Cloudy and foggy with a warm SE wind. It came on rain about noon and heavy the rest of the day and still raining at bedtime. Jacob Dewitt here all day and night.

7 Wed
Cloudy and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Jake Dewitt left here this morning. Watten, the Wool Peddler, here today. Paid him up. Rained about all night heavy.

8 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a NW wind. I went to Blaine with Buckboard. Took 13 dozen eggs. Called to Luce’s, B.F. Pierce’s, Hussey’s, J.H. Bubar’s, Dr. A.J. Fulton’s, Nutter’s and Valey’s and Fred Hewitt’s. Took dinner at Richard Bell’s.
9 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. Richard Bell and wife came here this morning and got some buckwheat and potatoes. Went home tonight. So ends the day.

10 Sat
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. I was fencing in the forenoon. In the afternoon I was repairing bee hives.

11 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. Signs of rain soon. L.H. Fulton and wife called in and J.W. Fulton and Mrs. Arthur Hutchinson.

12 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind. I was home all day. It rained very heavy the previous night. Harden was plowing buckwheat ground in the afternoon.

13 Tues
Some clouds and very warm with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden was plowing my buckwheat ground. So ends the day.
14 Wed
Some clouds and warm with a West wind. I was home all day. Me and Harden worked in my potatoes this afternoon. I hoed some in my beans and corn.

15 Thur
Some clouds and warm with a NE wind. I was home all day. Sowed 3 bushels of buckwheat today. Signs of rain. So ends the day.
16 Fri
Clear and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Harden harrowed in 3 bushels of buckwheat for me today. Mela Dow here to dinner today.

17 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day hoeing in my garden. Harden went out to the store today. I sent out and got 50 cents worth of sugar. Alvin Giberson here and got one bushel of oats.
18 Sun
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. We was home all day. The wind blew very cold this afternoon. Signs of frost. We kept the Sabbath at home resting, reading and praying.

19 Mon
Mostly clear and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day choring and working in my garden. Harden finished putting in our buckwheat.

20 Tues
Some clouds and warm with a heavy NW wind. I was weeding out my potatoes and my onions. Harden went to Knoxford with his colt and carriage.

21 Wed
Clear and warm with a NE wind. We cultivated our acre of potatoes today. Our bees swarmed today. Emmons Witcome here today.
22 Thur
Some clouds and warm with a SE wind. I hoed the weeds out of my potatoes in the forenoon and helped Harden to fence in the afternoon.

23 Fri
Some clouds and cold with a NE wind. I helped to fence for Harden in the forenoon and Harden helped Jim plow in the afternoon. I was to work in my garden.

24 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. Me and Harden and J.W. Fulton and Stephen Giberson went out to the stores today in our wagon and team. Commenced to rain about 9 o’clock.

25 Sun
Cloudy and warm with a NE wind and some rain. We was home all day. Old Mrs. Sprague and Mrs. Savage called here today. Signs of more rain.

26 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a NE wind. I worked on the road today. Paid $3.00 road tax. Took supper at Jim’s. Signs of more rain. So ends the day.

27 Tues
Some clouds and cool with a SE wind. I worked on the road all day. John McKeen and wife here tonight. Jim was here to supper.

28 Wed
Clear and cold tonight. Clear and warm with a NW wind. I was working on the road today. Finished all up. John McKeen and wife of Bridgewater left here this morning.

29 Thur
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I put the horse hoe in my potatoes for the first. Theodore Cane here today. Signs of a shower tonight.

30 Fri
Some clouds and warm with a NW wind. I was home all day. I was hoeing and weeding potatoes.

So Ends the Month of June

May 1893

1 Mon
A dull smoky day. Quite cold in the morning. I was home all day. Mrs. J.W. Fulton, Mrs.  George Hallett and Mrs. McDonald here to tea.

2 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Rained some and snowed some. W.W. Larrabee moved from here today. Fred and Jim.

3 Wed
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. Me and Harden went to J. H. Webster’s today with horses and wagon. Took out a lot of eggs. I registered the dog today. Cost $1.15.

4 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day choring. It commenced to rain at noon mixed with hail. Harden hauled some rocks today for the first. Hauled out some Buckwheat straw.

5 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. Wife was papering the house. It came on rain about noon and rained till bedtime. So ends the day.

6 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. We ’set’ our bees today. Theodore Cane called here today. James got my ladders today to fix his house.

7 Sun
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. We was home all day. Harden and wife and family to dinner. R. Bell and wife for tea.  ‘Set’ our turkey today.

8 Mon
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. I was home all day choring and caring for my stock. I    set up my Moresarcktie Plum tree today. Harden plowed today.

9 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a West wind. Signs of rain. Harden finished plowing his potato ground today. Easter Hallett came and scrubbed one room today.

10 Wed
Clear and warm with a NW wind. Myself and wife paid Mrs. Stephen Giberson a visit this afternoon. Harden was plowing old potato ground today.

11 Thur
Clear and warm with a NW wind. I went to Jim’s this morning and got saw and hammer. Mrs. Stephen Giberson here for butter. Harden finished plowing over the brook today.

12 Fri
Clear and warm with a SE wind. We was hauling manure in the afternoon. Stephen Giberson’s house took fire. Harden plowed in the afternoon.

13 Sat
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. We was cleaning house. Harden was plowing all day up by his place. All appearance of a heavy storm.

14 Sun
Cloudy and rainy all day. It rained all the previous night. I was home all day. Signs of more rain.

15 Mon
A drizzling SE rain most all day and still looks like more at bedtime. I was home all day. Harden went out and got the mare shod.

16 Tues
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Jim  was here for hay. Harden was plowing below the barn.

17 Wed
Cold with a SE rain all day and most all the previous night with the wind from the SE. I was helping Jim 1/2 of the day with dump body. Harden plowed below the barn.

18 Thur
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day choring. Elder Rideout called today.  Mrs. Eliphalet Jones of Knoxford, CC, N.B. and Robert Jones here on a visit.

19 Fri
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. It rained most of the previous night. We got our sheep sheared today. Fred Blackden and Mr. Tarr came here for Apple Trees.

20 Sat
Some clouds and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. I finished picking over my potatoes in the cellar. Harden was plowing for oats.

21 Sun
Cloudy and cool with a SE wind. I was home all day. Wind came to NW in the afternoon. Heavy cold wind and very smoky. Harden and wife called.

22 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. We sowed 9 bushels of oats today for the first this season. Stephen Giberson and wife here.

23 Tues
Cloudy with a SE wind and some rain and thunder. I was home all day. We put up my hen yard. Wife was to Sewing Circle at James Giberson’s.

24 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. We harrowed in 8 bushels of peas and oats today. I was home all day. We had quite a fire in the buckwheat straw today. The stovepipe burnt out.

25 Thur
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. I was home fixing up Buckboard. Harden harrowed in four bushels of oats. Eli Fletcher here today.

26 Fri
Cloudy and cold with a NW wind. Harden harrowed my potato ground and plowed my garden. Mr. Straight here today.
27 Sat
Clear and cold with a NW wind. The ground froze this morning. I went out to York & Luce and took out 22 1/2 dozen of eggs at 13 cents per dozen. Got some grass seed.

28 Sun
Cool with a SE wind. Rain from the SE in the forenoon. Wind came around cold to the NW in the afternoon. I went to meeting.

29 Mon
Cloudy and warm with a SW wind. I was cutting my seed potatoes today. Alvin Giberson was here for hay. He got two CT.

30 Tues
Some clouds and cool with a NW wind. I was home all day. Got our garden harrowed today. I was cutting seed. Frost this morning.

31 Wed
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Some showers of rain. I got an acre of my potatoes planted today for the first and some garden beans. Looks rainy tonight.

And So Ends the Month of May

April 1893

1 Sat
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. I was home all day. J.W. Fulton and wife and John
Bartley and wife and son was here. Raining tonight. Bartley and wife went home.

2 Sun
Clear and cold with a NW wind. I was home all day. Will and Alice went up to Jim’s in the
afternoon. Harden took Anna Murray and Dot to F. Blackden’s.

3 Mon
Cloudy and cold with a SW wind. Joshua Jones called here today. I finished picking over
my potatoes today. It snowed some in the afternoon.

4 Tues
Cloudy and cold with a SE wind. Commenced to snow ab