April 22, 1856 - May 1, 1856

1856 april 22nd Sent to Mill yesterday & got 3 Turns
meal & sent 2 Turns to mill, Raining this morning
Shelling Corn, working on baskets etc etc

23 Striping Tobacco — Rained in evening

24 Halled Tobacco from mountain
& striped all day - F. W. came here ––

25 Hilling in new ground & halling wood
Cut & spayed 13 ^{15 marked}altered shoats clear this morning
Doct Thompson came again I went to Riceville
Lowry taken sick, clem better Fanny Pall sick & Jerry Smith
Bedding Cotton ground & Potatoes Planted Irish & Sweet
got 1 Bushel from Mr Anderson of the Nansemond

26. Planting Potatoes & Corn at stony point etc
Hester folded a mule Colt this day
about night Just went 1 year to a day
quite Cool this morning — —

27 Doct Thompson here making 8 ^{in all} or times

28th Coltering & Hilling in new ground, Henry
& Sandy Plowing at stony point - cloudy &
like for Rain clem & Pal getting Better
Lowry Fannie & Jere Smith still complaining

29th Plowing & Harrowing & Bedding on Branch
for Corn. Jordan Coltering in new ground
Balance Hilling in new ground – fine weather
I think the negroes that were sick is mending
Manured Plant Beds about this time,-

30 Finished Planting Corn on Branch this morning
Planted Snaps & Pumpkins Finished ^yesterday Coltering new
Hilling at new ground fine clear day
Jordan Henry Sandy & Buck Halling out [water stain]
in Lot back of Garden

May 1st Striping Tobacco Raing this day
- 2 Carried 1 Land Lugs & short Tobacco to Riceville