.MzE.MTY3MDY

the petty jury. Mrs Morgan was going to have a large party the night he came away. Papa said that Mr Wolding, who you know formerly kept school in Providence, had four men indited who had tarred & feathered him, from all accounts I should think he was much like Cleveland. In the evening I finished my net? 15th This morning I tool all our seeds and went to the claim in the wagon with Papa & Olliver who both worked all the forenoon in the garden making beds, for me, I worked as hard as I could all day hoeing raking & planting. My flower bed I sowed as follows first Snopipers?, Coreopisis, Double Carnation, Poppy, Star of Bethlehem,

Tulips, Globes, Golden, Eternal flower, Double Dahlia, Thorn Poppy, Purple Egg Plant 

Poppy, Mourning widow, China pink, Lady in Green Poppy, Pink Bergamot besides this bed I have two others that are larger in which beside the the things I told you of I have first some Dahlia roots which Mrs Morgan sent by Papa and some Pink seed. I intend to sow more seeds by & by. every thing is doing first rate except my Pinks & Rosebushes & the Grapevines. I saw one bud on one of the grapevines yesterday. I am in hopes they will come to it by & by. besides my flowers I planted some beets & parsnips and in the root and herb line unknown coriander

hoarhound, Sage, Dill, Balm, Bergamot, Peppers, Sweet Marjoram, Summer 

Savory Lavender, Cayenne peppers, Saffron. Our neighbors seem to think we shall have a very handsome garden and I am in hopes that I shall have one You know it was all the comfort I expected to have in the west and sure enough it is. After I got through & went went over to Mrs Stephens with my net with which she was very much pleased. Yesterday was quite chilly in the wind wich did not blow very hard. in the sun it was very warm indeed About Noon Thomas Hamilton came to the house to get work so Papa sent him to the woods to chop logs two of which, Papa & Olliver with the horses drew one to the mill & one for a house beam. Olliver brought in a load of boards from the mill some sidings & some flooring. Spent the evening in reading. unclear 16th Today it is really chilly & the wind blows very hard from the North east. I am writing while I am waiting for Olliver who has gone to Mr Hills for potatoes with Charley but now he has come back and has the horses most tackled. I am going over to work in the garden again. Papa and Thomas Hamilton have gone off on foot. Thomas is going to work in the woods & Papa has gone for Mr. Gunsollie to get him to work on the house. When I got to the claim I found it so cold that I thought I should have to give up working in the garden, but I mustered courage enough to plant an asparagras bed and then I went into Mrs Flemmings to warm me but I came as near being smoked to death there as I had been to freezing. She told me she had lived there four years in just such a smoke though one hours work on the chimney would prevent it all but Mr. Flemming was no longer to fix anything round the house one thing led to another and she told me that when she lived in Indiana she had to get up in the morning, leave her children abed and asleep and go a 1/4 of a mile to milk her cows & then bring home two pails full of milk, then if her children had waked she would tie them to the bedpost and go 1/4 of a mile in another direction for a couple of pails of water, then she had the horses and cows to & cattle to fodder and lead to water. Mr. F was at work at his trade, she