“4th Thursday  fine dry weather  verry dry cool morning & evening & hot in middle of day  I did my choars choared round the office some closed up about 8 ½ & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick & tiered out  Dutch camp meeting  commensed today in the ________ woods.

“5th Friday  cool morning & evening & hot in middle of day verry dry for the season  I did my choars choared round the office some closed up at 8 & went to bed at 9 ½.

“6th Saturday  A fine day but some cool & cloudy  I did my choars choared round some closed up about 8 ½ & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick & tiered out.

“7th Sunday  A fine cool day with some clouds & verry dry for the season  I did my choars was at the farm & brought down some apples etc went to bed about 9 nearly sick & tiered out.

“8th Monday  fine dry weather with hot day & cool nights  I did my choars choared round the office some closed up at 8 & went to bed at about 9 nearly sick  Connell commenced digging my cistern, Farr commenced at Aurora.

“9th Tuesday  verry dry weather the ground extremely dry but pleasant with cool nights & hot days, the thurmometer standing at 80 degrees or more above zero  I did my choars choared round the office sum closed up at 8 and went to bed about 9 ¼ nearly sick  My red cow went to bull Connell & Jonathan Pollard stoned my cistern mostly up.

“10th Wednesday  fine weather but hot & dry  I did my choars choared some & helped on cistern some  closed up about 8 & went to bed about 9 ½ nearly sick  Connell & Pollard finished stoning cistern & put on one coat of plaster today & whealed some dirt from cistern.”