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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__July 1889
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 Mon South Rain i am to home 1-2 went to Wellsboro 1-2           Kit Shod feed & sith 1.40 4.05          
2 Tues South Rain i am to home 1-2 went to the round top           E. Close 2 lb chees 0.22          
3 Wed South Cldy i am a cutting logs for Bowens               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
4 Thurs North Clear i am to home 1-2 went to Wellsboro 1-2                        
5 Fri North Clear i plowed my potatoes                        
6 Sat North Clear i and Charley howed corn   One Machine $50               Baley 1 makle 0.50  
7 Sun North Clear i am to work all day                       Charley & Jeney here
8 Mon NW Clear i sowed my Buckwheat 1-2 Cut logs for Bowen               Bowen 1/2 day Paid .75      
9 Tues NW Clear i Cut Logs for Bowen & Evens               B. & E 1day Paid 1.50      
10 Wed South Clear i went to the Boro 1-2 am to home 1-2       L. Bowen for labor 10.00 H. Clark for lumber 2.73     M. Clock 1 Rake Paid 25.00  
11 Thur South Cldy i went over to fathers 1-2 am to home                       Zube took the bull
12 Fri North Clear i am to home a mowing                        
13 Sat South Cldy i am a drawing in hay                   G. Navil 1paid 0.20  
14 Sun North Clear i am to home all day long                       Birt & Allis was here
15 Mon North Cldy i Split Some wood Cut Grass 1-2                        
16 Tues North Clear i am Charleyare a haying                        
17 Wed North Clear i and Charley are a haying                        
18 Thur South Clear i and Charley are a haying                        
19 Fri South Cldy i worked in the garden                        
20 Sat North Clear i am a haying today                        
21 Sun North Clear i am to home all day                        
22 Mon North Clear i am to home a haying       L. Bowen for labor 10.00              
23 Tues North Clear i am a haying and Charley                        
24 Wed North Clear i finished haying today                       I finished haying
25 Thur North Clear i drawed wood                        
26 Fri South Cldy i am to 1-2 went to Wellsboro                        
27 Sat South Cldy i am the home 1-2 went to Wellsboro                        
28 Sun South Clear i and famley went to Bills                        
29 Mon South Cldy i worked for Bowen 1-2               Bowen 1/2 day Paid .75 3 day    
30 Tues South Cldy i Cut Some Oats 1-2                 4.50      
31 Wed South Rain it rained 1-2                        
Diary of EVENTS, &c., FOR THE MONTH OF__August 1889
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 Thurs South Cldy i am a Cutting logs for Bowen               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
2 Fri South Cldy i am a Cutting logs for Bowen               Bowen 1day 1.50      
3 Sat SW Clear i Binded Oats 1-2Cut logs for Bowen 1-2               B & E 1/2 day Paid .75      
4Sun South Cldy went down to Broughtons                       went down to Broughtons
5 Mon South Rain i went to Round top 1-2 Dave Cut Oats 1-2                   D. Jones Paid 1.00  
6 Tues North Clear i am a Cutting Oats today                        
7 Wed North Clear i am a Cutting logs for Evens & Bowen               Bowen 1day Paid 1.50      
8 Thurs South Clear i am a Cutting logs for Bowen               Bowen 1day Paid 1.50      
9 Fri South Cldy Cut logs for Bowen 1/2 day     D. Jones ct Charley .60         Bowen 1/2 day Paid .75      
10 Sat North Clear i & Said went to Wellsboro 1-2 Cut by Oats 1-2                       I finished cutting oats
11 Sun South Clear we went over to fathers                       we went over to fathers
12 Mon North Clear i drawed in my oats                       John Elisender was Buried
13 Tues South Clear i am to for Evens & Bowen               Bowen 1 day 1.50      
14 Wed South Cldy to work for Bowen               Bowen 3/4 1.50 1.12      
15 Thu North Cldy Cutting Logs for Bowen               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
16 Fri South Cldy Cutting Logs for Bowen               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
17 Sat SW Clear i am Cutting Logs for Evens               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
18 Sun South Clear i am to home all day                        
19 Mon South Cldy i am a Cutting logs               Bowen 1/2 Paid .75      
20 Tues South i am a Cutting logs for Bowen               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
21 Wed South Clear i am a Cutting Logs for Bowen               Bowen 1day Paid 1.50      
22 Thurs South Clear i am a Cutting Logs for Bowen               Bowen 1day Paid 1.50      
23 Fri South Clear i am a cutting logs               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
24 Sat South clear That i am a cutting logs for Bowen       H. Bowen for labor 20.00     Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50   22.87  
25 Sun NE i am to home all day                     3.25 28.72 Loid & Nellie are to Daves
26 Mon South i went to Wellsboro           D. Davis 1 trns 4.50          
27 Tues South i went to Wellsboro 1-2 cut logs               Bowen 1/2 day Paid .75      
28 Wed   for Bowen               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
29 Thurs South i am a cutting logs               Bowen 1 day Paid 1.50      
30 Fri South i am a cutting logs               Bowen 1day Paid 1.50 183/4 days    
31 Sat North i am cutting logs               Bowen 1day 28.12      

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