1881 - 1891 Diaries & Ledgers of Dwight Bliss of Charleston Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania

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Diary & Ledger of Dwight Bliss - Table of Contents

Township: Charleston Township, Tioga County PA

Year: 1881-1891

Transcribed by Esther MAYS Harer

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Diary of EVENTS, &c., FOR THE MONTH OF__March __ 1882

Day of Week

WEATHER Wind/Asp'cts

Principal Occupation of the Day

Sales

Purchases

Contracts Made & With Whom

Cash Received

Dollar/ Cents

Cash Paid Out

Dollars/ Cents

Bills Receivable

Dollar/cent

Bills Payable

Dollar/ cents

Memoranda

Wed rain

it rained all day went to the rountop

C Close Grocery Housel Shoe

.42 .30

Thur Clear

Spliting wood 1-2 Cutting Shugar wood

{S Jones labor

1.20

Fri Clear

i am a boiling sap all day

three doz of eggs

{CC Mathers for Goods

0.63

CC Mathers Goods

1.13

Sat Clear

i am to work to the Shugar Bush

Sun Cldy

i am to home all day had company

Charley & John & Nett

Mon rain

i Geathered Sap and biled sap

Tues Cldy

i and Jake Sawed wood all day

Wed Clear

i split wood 1-2 and hauled wood

Thur Rain

i went over home and to the round top

L Housel Shoe mending

0.30

i was over to fathers 1-2

Fri Clear

i chopped down a tree and Cut wood

Star Calfe 41 week

Sat Nort Cldy

i am aboiling sap all day Got a pail

Sun South South Snor

i am to home 1-2 went to meeting

Latimer text 25 of acts 25 verse

Mon Cldy

i am to home today a cutting drags

G McConel 1 day labor

Sara Jones for labor

4.00

Star Comin One Calf

Tues Cldy

i and George sawed wood 1 day

G Maconel 1 day labor

1.00

Wed Snow

i am to home a spliting wood

Thur Cldy

i drawed wood 1-2 w+C448ent to the round top

C Close Grocery

0.57

Fri Clear

i went up to Antrim the most of theday

A. Tomb -1/2 egg 25 ct G Maconel (10 lb of shugar

Albert Tomb for eggs

0.25

George Maconell for labor

1.00

i was up to Antrim

Sat Cldy

i cut wood 1-2 hauled fence post

J ludow fence post .50

J Ludlow paid posts

2.50

Sun Clear

i am to home all day George Bliss

George Bliss was here

Mon Cloudy

i am to work at the shugar bush

Feched a pail of suirp

Tues Rain Clear

i am to home a making shugar

Wed Cldy

Boilt Sap 1-2 around the house

{Spalding O Bullard G

.10 .35

Thur Clear

i went to the city of wellsboro

CCMathers other 100 lb of shugar

CC Mathers oh shugar

8.81

{CC Mathers Grocery Goods

8.81

W Roberts Paid Hardware

5.90

zube calfed lady calfed

Fir Cldy

i am to home i hauled wood 1-2

Sat Clear

i cut wood 1-2 tap my bush over

Sun Clear

i am to home all day

George was here in the evening

Mon rain

i am to home a boiling Sap

Lade calf 41 weeks today

Tues Clear

i am to home a boiling sap

Wed Cldy

i am to home a boiling Sap

Miss Jones for butter

0.75

Miss Jones for butter

0.25

Miss Jones for butter

0.25

Thur Clear

i am to home a boiling Sap

G English 10 Shugar

G England for Shugar

1.50

Fri Clear

i finished boiling went to wellsboro

CC Mathers 63 1/4 lbs of shugar

CC Mathers for shugar

6.93

CC Mathers for goods

6.93

went to the city of wellsboro

18.24

22.74

Diary of EVENTS, &c., FOR THE MONTH OF__April __ 1882

Day of Week

WEATHER Wind/Asp'cts

Principal Occupation of the Day

Sales

Purchases

Contracts Made & With Whom

Cash Received

Dollar/ Cents

Cash Paid Out

Dollars/ Cents

Bills Receivable

Dollar/cent

Bills Payable

Dollar/ cents

Memoranda

Sat South Clear

i went up to Antrim a pedling butter

Antrim 11 lbs. Of butter 3.30

Sun South Cldy

i am to home 1-2 boiled sap 1-2

Spot Calf 41 weeks

Mon Clear

i am to home a boiling sap

Zube Calf 41 weeks

Tues Cldy

i am to home a boiling sap

Wed Rain

i am to home i and Charley sheled corn

Mis Chapman died this morning

Thur Rain

i am to home Gathered my buckets

Eugene and Mary was here

Fri Cldy

i am to home went to the funrel

Mr Chapman was buried

Sat Cldy

i am to home went over to hides

N Hide shoeing

0.60

Lil Calf 41 weeks

Sun Cldy

i am to home 1-2 I took Cora a piece

went to the funeral of Starkweather Baby

Mon Cldy

i hauled wood a part of the day

My Sheep has lambs

Tues Cldy

i am to home i drawed manure

Sarah Jones for washing

1.25

Wed Cldy

i went up to George Maconel Sawed 1-2

veal to JCKimball for 46dollars

{CC Mathers for goods & grocery

Grandmother Shumway died

Thur Cldy

i went to wellsboro a part of the day

Shugar & eggs to CC Mathers 3.66

CC Mathers for Shugar & Eggs

{5 pecks Dorson for Oats

3.66 1.66

Fri Cldy

i ama plowing for potatoes

H Kimbal 1 vele sharpened Gurnsey drag teeth

4.50 .20

Gurnsey Blacksmith

0.20

Thomas Peak was here 10 minets

Sat Cldy

i went to the round top 1-2 drawed manure 1-2

CC Close on Acount Housel on Acount

.57 .30

C Close on Acount Housel on Acount

.57 .30

Plowed for potatoes 1/2 day

Sun Clear

i and my family went to the Broughtons

myself went down to Broughtons

Mon Clear

i am fixed fence 1-2 drawed manure 1-2

i and Jake fixed fence

Tues Clear

i am to home i sowed Oats 1-2

J, Elliott for Goods

0.25

J. Elliott for Gooids

0.25

i sowed 3 1/2 bushels of Oats

Wed Cldy

i went to viledge 1-2 it rained 1-2

1 pail of butter

O Bullard Grocery Belcher hardware

.25 1.20

went to the vilage i planted a peck of potatoes

Thur Cldy

myself and wife went down to Broughtons

went down to Broughtons

Fri Cldy

i am to home a drawing manure

it is very cold weather

Sat Clear

i am to home a fixing fence

Piele Calf 41 weeks

Sun Clear

i went down to Broughtons 1-2

{Miss Kimball

latimer text 22 of luke 60verse

Mon Clear

i am to home a sowing Oats

{1 box oinntment Box in Dorson setting

.25 .10

finished sewing oats

Tues Clear

i hauled manure 1-2 mad Garden 1-2

{Sade to A Easman dentis

1.35

Wed Clear

i am a picking stone 1-2 went and got a pig

1 pig of E Close for 12.00

{E Claus 1 pig

2.00

Went over to Eugene & got a pig

Thur Cldy

i rolled 1/2 day

Fri Rain

i am to home i am a rowled a little

Sat Cldy

i and Jake made fence a half a day

Sun Cldy

i and Charley & Cora went over home

i and Cora & Charley went to fathers

12.93

13.04

Published On Tri-Counties Site On 01/23/2005
By Joyce M. Tice