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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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This collection includes eleven full years of diary notations and financial information for Dwight Bliss of Charleston Township. Not everyone is interested in Nineteenth Century farm economy. There's me and maybe three other people on the planet. However, do not overlook these pages. If nothing else is of interest to you, the last column, Memorandum, includes notation on countless deaths and other events in the area. It is at the far right and you'll need to use your scrolling bar to get over to it. Also the daily financial transactions give us great insight into the lives of people operating in a barter (trade) economic sytem. Don't pay too much attention to the prices. We'd need a Consumer Price Index to convert them to a 2005 equivalent to get significant comparative information from them. Many thanks to Esther for making this available to us. Back to Table of Contents
Diary of EVENTS, &c., FOR THE MONTH OF__January __ 1888
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
1Sun South Cldy i am to home 1-2 went to meeting                        
2 Mon North Cldy i am to home i Cut wood 1-2                       H Maconell Baby born
3 Tues North Cldy i went to Antrim Cut wood 1-2 At Antrim for potatoes 7 for $5.20   At Antrim for potatoes 5.20              
4 Wed North Cldy i and Said went over to fathers                       Said & went over to fathers
5 Thur NE Cldy i drawed wood 1-2 Shoveled my sawdust out                        
6 Fri SE Snow i Greased my Single harness           {J Davis tea 1.00         Greased my lite harness
7 Sat South Clear i am to home 1-2 went to Wellsboro 1-2           {C Webb Do Bruester tongs 2.50 1.25          
8 Sun NW Cldy Myself & famley went down to Broughton                       We went down to Broughtons
9 Mon NE Cldy i went to the round top Cut wood 1-2                        
10 Tues NW Snow i Cut wood 1-2 it Snowed all day                        
11 Wed South i am to home all day                        
12 Thur South Clear i Cut ice today                        
13 Fri South Snow it Snowed all day                        
14 Sat North Clear i went to Antrim 1-2 went to the Boro                   L Housel Mending Paid .30  
15 Sun North Cldy i am to home 1-2 went to meeting               Awom at Antrim Paid 2.40 W Roberts hardware Paid 2.03  
16 Mon North Clear i went to Antrim 1-2 went to the Boro                        
17 Tues South Snow i am to home all day                        
18 Wed North Cldy i went to Antrim 1-2 to home 1-2       A wooman at Antrim 2.40              
19 Thur North Cldy i drawed wood 1-2 Cut wood 1-2                        
20 Fri North Clear i am a tending the oction of Kimball                       Auction Sale at Kimball
21 Sat Inorth Clear i and Jake cut ice all day                        
22 Sun North Clear My self went over to Bills                       Went over to William Bliss
23 Mon South Clear tinkered all day                        
24 Tues North Clear i went over to Johns                       Went over to John Bliss
25 Wed North Storm very Cold a laying around                        
26 Thur NE Storm very Cold & laying around                        
27 Fri NE Cold i am a laying around home                        
28 Sat NE Cold i and Jake are a cutting ice                        
29 Sun NE Clear i Shoveled Snow am to home 1-2                        
30 Mon South Cldy i packe ice 1-2 went to wellsboro 1-2                        
31 Tues NE Snow i sawed wood 1-2 went over to fathers                       Went over to fathers
Diary of EVENTS, &c., FOR THE MONTH OF__February __ 1888
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
1 Wed North Cldy i Sawed props for Bill Chapman               W Chapman 1 day Paid 1.00      
2 Thur North Clear i went up South after Pine                        
3 Fri South Cldy i am a cutting props for Chapman               W Chapman 1 day Paid 1.00      
4 Sat South Rain i am to home all day it Stormed                        
5 Sun South Cldy we went down to Broughtons                       We went to Broughton
6 Mon North Clear we went over to Eugene Clauses                       Went over to Eugen
7 Tues South Cldy i am to home a Cutting wood                        
8 Wed North Cldy i am to home 1-2 went to the round top       C Church _5 butter 1.10 C Church for Grocery 1.10          
9 Thur North Clear i am to home a Cutting wood                        
10 Fri North Faior i am to home a drawing wood                        
11 Sat South fair i and Jake cut ice                        
12 Sun North fair i am a cutting props for Chapman                        
13 Mon South fair i am a drawing and packing my ice                        
14 Tues South fair i am a cutting props for Chapman               W Chapman 1 day Paid 1.00      
15 Wed North Cold i am to home all day father & mother was here                       Father & Mother was here
16 Thur South Clear i and father went to Antrim                       Went up to Antrim
17 Fri South rain i am a laying around home                        
18 Sat North Rain i am to home a tinkering                        
19 Sun South Clear i am to home went to meeting                        
20 Mon South Rain i am to home it rained                       Mrs A Walker died today
21 Tues North fair went to town Election                        
22 Wed NE Clear i went the funrel of mrs Walker                       Mrs Walker was bured
23 Thur NE fair i went to wellsboro and home again           Housel Shoe mending 0.60     Burncroft flour Paid 1.38  
24 Fri NE Clear i am to h ome a Cutting wood                        
25 Sat SE Snow it snowed all day i am to home                        
26 Sun N Fair i went to the round top                        
27 Mon North Storm i am to home it stormed                       Blackey had a calf
28 Tues North fair i went to the Grist mill                        
29 Wed Sou fair i cut wood a part of the day                        
                             
                             

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