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Michael Strong wrote:
"Michael Strong
of York Mills 1861 his book July the 29th 1861.
Margaret gave Mrs Leach two dollars to stand in the
rent.
Wednesday, July the 23rd, 1861
I fell on hogs hill, Being the worse of liquor and
broke two of my ribs.
June 1846 me and my family came to Canada.
Butter got from Mrs Jackson in June 1861
by Robert 4 pounds at 6
by Robert 3 pounds at 6
July 16 by Robert 5 pounds at 6
July 20 by Robert 3 pounds at 7
July 29 by Robert 3 pounds at 7
August the 19th 5 pounds at 7
the 31t 4 pounds at 7 this all settled.
August the 12th began to work again after my
fall pulling peas for Mr Leach til half past 10:00 back from half past 6
morning from seven till half past 4.
Leach's peas L 6 - 3 Van Nostrins 30
Morgans grass 1 - 10 Traylon 6 - 3
Jacsons grass - 15 Green 8 - 9
Greens grass - 6 - 9
George Jacsons
thrashing - 5
Peebles - 3
With Turner and Mr Green
For John Lukes in the year 1859 20 cords of wood
at 2 and sixpence a cord 2 days Robert and me digging potatoes and one cord
of wood and 2 logs 3 dollars
April 1860 I gave Mr Leach s-2 7-6 on my note
April 1861 I was 3 days with John Lukes
1861 Boy with Mr Jackson Aug 14,15,16,17,19,20,21.
August 11, 1861 John McIntyre's son born.
Thursday the 2d of January Mr McDogles daughter
died.
I will tell you a story that happened long ago when the English came to America. I suppose you all do know they couldn't whip the yanks, I'll tell you the reason why, Uncle Sam made them sing roat hog. (sic)
With Mr John Lukes 3 days at the dam digging
potatoes me and one boy 2 days
one cord of wood and two saw logs
ORO January 11, 1862 We came to John McIntyre's with all we had. Tuesday the 14th I lent Maryann 10 shillings to give Parkins.
February the 26th, 1862 it snowed all day
27th all day drift
28th snowing drift
the first Monday of this month I lent John one dollar.
to Mr William Jennings 31 1/4 cords for 32 1/2 to
be paid me in ...(illegible)
indue Maryanne for shirting this paid
March 1862 March the 31st Joseph went to Mr Hall.
on the 29th I got my deed of Mrs Smith's place.
March 1862 92 pounds of pork got from John McIntyre
for 18 shillings.
April the 8th one barrel of flour at 4 dollars
on the 19th 1 1/2 bushels of potatoes.
May the 8th one barrel of flour got from John
at 4 dollars.
Sixteen shillings of that to be paid to Mr McDogle
in the forepart of the summer and 4s to John for one bushel of the wheat
another bushel sowed for me at s3 and 9 pence
May the 8th 1 bushel 1/2 of potatoes at s3 and 9
this all settled and paid but McDogles 16 shillings.
May the 12th I begun to garden for John and me 1862.
June 1862 - George Harrison plowing for wheat
half day, half a day for oats and half day loging at my bee half day. I
was one day splitting rails, Robert one day picking stones. George with me
loging Tuesday the 23d 3 hours on that day I got my leg brusd.
Thomas Harison three days having Robert in return
one day picking stones and 2 days hoing potatoes.
June the 16th, 1862 and 17th hard frost
the 20th Joseph went to his place, the 21t James
and me put in the fence by the peas... on the same day my cow took the bull
on the 16th our potatoes and beans were killed.
June 1862
John got for me in Barry, 21 pence
turnip seed 1 1/2
one bushel of potatoes
The 1t of July I had the oxen
John with me
the 14th and 15
and the oxen 1/2 day
the 16th I got sick and 17th
John with me 1 day 1/2 under Brushing
James Robert and me 1 and 1/2 with John haying in
one day of myself mowing and half day of James and Robert and one half day
of myself at hay.
John with me one day at the seders one half day taking
out the plates and he and his oxen 2 days halling logs me mowing
swails 1 and 1/2
Saturday August the 16th, 1862 Charles McConnell
married in Barrie.
on the 21t I raised my house, on the 30th hard frost
that killed the potatoes.
August the 22d weet
the 28th and 29th and 30th I was with John at wheat
and peas.
Saterday, 1863 February the 2t Joseph begun his
month with Mr Guthrie
February the 4th, 1863 from Mr Lock
14 yrds shirting at 1 2
4 yrds factry at 1 1
3 yrds factry at 1
3 yrds ..... at 1 6
tea 4 6
tobaco 2 9
3 pounds sugar 1 2 1/2
3 spools 9
March the 7th
one lb tea half tobaco 2 lb sugar 2 yrds blue bery
May the 6th 1863
I sowed my first field of wheat in Oro
on the 7th burnt my fallow
on the 10th the rain came and on the 12th rain
Lumber for my underfloor 574 feet at 6 dollars
a thousand, the rest at five
for lumber the whole amount L2-17 1/2
May the 27th I had my first logging bee 1863
I had 2 gallons of whiskey at 3s per gallon.
John McIntyre
Duncan Ferguson George Cammel
Farquhar Bell Neal Gilcress
William Lang with their oxen and George Harrison
Thomas Steel
Lawhlen Galbreath
Charles McCartor bestowed me half bushel of wheat
For loft 100 & 12 feet
For the floor 36 feet
July the 25th, John finished molding the potatoes and James with him.
December the 20th, 1863 300 and 8ty feet of lumber
from Mr Clark at the rate of six dollars a thousand.
Thursday, December the 31st, we had a stormy freezing
day, and January the 1st and 2d a hurricane of wind and frost. A little more
moderate on Sunday the 3d. On Tuesday, December the 29th, 1863 Joseph went
to live with Mr.... and came home New Year's Day at noon.
Thomas Harison Colebery with his oxen drawing straw
1/2 day
halling logs 1/2 day, December 1863
on the 30th December 1/2 day
Joseph had the oxen 1/2 day
James and me at the Mashiene (machine?) ---- 2 days
1864, January the 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th there
were beautiful sunshiney. Wed the 30th rain and snow, Feb the 15th and
16th hard frost and blowing snow, the 17th and 18th severe hard frost, the
19th a little more moderate.
April the 18th, 1864 James went to work with Mr.
George Brown.
James first months wages
April the 18th 1864 James went to Mr George Brown,
he cut his nee on the 15th of May and lost two weeks by that.
June the 3d he begun his 2d month he lost one day
going into Barry for boots on that day he got 12 shillings and 6 to pay for
his boots then on the 12th of July he got 2 - 6 to go to the walk in the
third month, then on Saterday the 6th dito he went to Barry to get pants and
borowed 12 - 6 on Mr Browns acount
January the 27th 1865 I settled with Mr Coal Robertson
and paid him 15 leaving six shillings and a penny 1/2 to pay of the old debt
and on the same day I got 7 yrds and a half of print at 4 1/2 per yard which
comes to s9 1/2.
John McIntyre plowing with me half day on the
19th April 1865
the 20th weta 3/4 quarter day
the 21t til 12 o'clock
finished the plowing
on the 27th the horses here all night on the 28th
John sowed 3 bushels of wheat before dinner time
then draged after then the horses here that night and...
May the 11th 1865 I begun to plant potatoes and finished
on the 19th and planted my corn on the 21th 1865
1865, Joseph came home from Flaherty's on the 22nd
(May) after serving one month and 2 days.
June 1865 - Alexander Gilchrist with me 2 days loging
going to Barrie with hay in winter going to mill
with a grist and home and taking to mill another grist
Against that James one day and half work and 8 bushels
of turnips at ... one dollar.
for my pig ten dollars and five cents
in June 1865 Lilly bulled on the 7th
Cherry buld on the 20th
Dasy buld Agust the 3d 1865
June the 25th, 1865, I got in a passion at breakfast
when Joseph refused to come to breakfast when I bid him two or three times.
Then Eliza rose in a passion at me, and said she never saw the Sunday morning.
But I was scolding and told me that I told a lie that morning, which set
me on fire.
July the 4th, 1865 Joseph went to James Flaherty's
to work at twelve dollars per month, out of which he received ten shillings.
July 17th 1865 Robert went to George Anderson's
to work
James went to Joseph Hall's to live on the 18th dito
Joseph went to James Flaherty's on the 11th dito
and he got two dollars out of his months wages before on a count of work
done before.
On the 6th of December, 1865, I bailed Alexander
Correy to keep the peace from one year to this date. Hard frost from the
5th to the 7th.
January the 29th, 1866, I paid paid the note for
John's cow to Cole Robinson. 17 dollars.
MICHAEL and MARGARET STRONG married on the 4th
of June 1835. Michael Strong born 1804, on the 27th of December and Margaret
born August 1815.
1866, December the 30th and 31st snowey, January
the 1st, 1867 A very fine day of sunshine. Joseph with John Dunsmore preparing
for Janet's wedding, to be married the next day, (Jan. 2, 1867)
January the 7th got from Mary Ann s4-6 to pay for
her weev. A very cold day John Dunsmore and me went to the weaver. On the
8th Robert bringing in potatoes. Joseph went to Donel Grants for slay.
My first Globe paper printed January the 18th, 1867.
1867 January the 27th Constant snow all day, on the
28th clear in the fore part of the day.
Joseph and Robert with Donnel Grant Junior on the
28th dito choping.
1867 My sow took the boar this 28th day of January
on Monday the 20th of May she will have sixteen
weeks in of her time. James went to live to Sandy Wat on this 28th
Township of Scot, Liskdale P.O. 1867
April the 5th, 1869 Daysey calved a heifer calf
the south down lambed on the 17th dito.
On the 16th, the snow on our hill was two feet and
a half deep.
April the 9th, 1869 Fredderick Simson stole my dog
while we were at John Dunsmore's.
May the 13th 1869 My cow and heafer went to peases
pasture from which time they got milk every day since May the 14th my mare
took the horse, 6 dollars insureing a fole and on the next round he refused
to try the mare to the horse. She took the horse on the 28th the last time.
May 1869 George Peas had one days plowing bestowed
him from me and one day harrowing with no driver and two days for horse pasture,
the other for rent cows pasture and one day plowing for two dollars.
June the 15th, 1869 Eliza's second son born.
Eliza's first daughter born October the 7th, 1871.
the first July the 1t gentle took the bull and Daysy
on the 4th
July 1869 Paes had my horses half a day bringing
in hay and he had the mare and wagon to Barrie on the 21t with his wife
and children.
August the 6th we brought our cows and horses home
from peases place. Daysey buld August the 5th 1869 August the 13th 1869 our
sow piged and had 9 pigs.
October 7th, 1869 I past my note for the black
mare to William John Bell.
to be paid at his residence on the ridge road.
90 dollars
15 months credit.
October 20th 1869 heavy snow.
Mr. Abram Van Medonte
Warminster P.O. in the year 1869 for oats L5-2-3
from Dunsmore's place.
December the 18th, Mrs Harrison died 1869.
We got Mrs. Loges letter March the 19th, 1870.
March the 23d, 1870 Cul Robertson bought the fan
colt from me at 60 dollars.
March the 27th, 1870 it snowed all day and on the
28th, we went to Brake Roads, on the 29th warm and thawing. James and his
mother went to Barrie to meet Mrs. Lodge with the horse and cutter.
My sow piged April the 9th 1870, on the 11th
Gentle calved.
April the 14th, 1870 James begun to plow one half
day. April the 16th Robert gave in his resignation.
May the 10th 1870 Dol took the horse young looks
all
May the 10th I sowed my wheat, on the 13th I sowed
my peas.
May the 16th, 1870 my mare took the horse the second
time, he has been here 5 Mondays on the 6th of this month.
May the 16th 1870 I began to plant my potatoes in
the field and finished on the 21t. On the 14th of this month Daysy calved
a heafer calf. I finished my sowing of oats on the 21t.
May the 26th 1870 Daysy was to the bull
Robert burnt his bush in Medonte on the 31st of May,
1870.
June the 4th 1870 the rain came on and rained
on the day following on Sunday and showery on Tuesday with thunder and
lightning.
June the 6th, 1870 Robert sold to Mr. McCauly all
the green and growing pine in Medonte on the 13th lot that would make timber
to be taken off before June the 6th, 1872. McCauly bid him eighty cents per
thousand for cutting and skidding the logs.
June the 6th 1870 Dooll took the horse the last time,
on the 30th the rain came on and rained the afternoon.
June the 17th My two cows was Buld 1870. Got from
Maryann 11lb butter at 7 cents per pound comes s4 1/2
July the 16th 1870 Daysey buld the 3d time.
August the 7th Daysy buld 4th time.
August the 11th, 1870 I gave George Ashton 8 dollars
for Frank Hall and got a small cag of malt he said which I gave to Hall that
day.
September the 16th, 1870 I sold the colt for
100 dollars and paid it to Harrison on the land in Medonte for the boys and
sold the horse the same day for 100 and 10 dollars and took a mare in part
payment for 25 dollars and 25 dollars in cash then Robert traided the black
mare for a yoke of oxen and gave 15 dollars to boot.
May the 26th my sow took the boar, September the
17th she piged.
October the 6th 1870 I thrashed, had of wheat 22
bushels, of oats 80, of peas 22 and paid John Daro 3 dollars for thrashing,
all of the men to be paid is Alexander McCarthur Steel John Dunsmore and
Jim Harison was with me and rige and his 3 mares - he was indue me one day
of horse and half day of himself.
Sunday the 9th of October, 1870 Jane McConnell came
to our house and stayed til Wednesday, the 12th.
Robert left her to the station in the cars. On the
13th I put up my pigs to fat.
Beef to John McIntyre 125 lbs October the 20.
November the 2d, 1870 Joseph Strong married on Wednesday, to Jane Kile at about one o'clock.
Mr. Abram Van,
Deacons P.O.
Medonte
Mr Charles McConnell,
Township of Stevenson,
Morley's P.O.
Mr George Turner,
Utterson P.O. by Muskoka Falls,
The township of Stevenson
Victoria County
Mr. James McKelvey,
of Tonnyglasson, County Monaghan
Ireland, Bally Bay P.O.
Charles McConnell
Township of Scot,
Liskdale P.O.
Stevenson Johnson's P.O.
Lakeshore Line County of Grey
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