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| Prince Edward County Archives This is the second Deborah Mullett Bowerman Diary dated 1887- 1892: It is held at the Prince Edward County Archives and has the accession number A2001.016.096a - labelled Journal 2. Click here to see the first diary. Transcribed by Lydia Wytenbroek, history student at Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia and posted here with her permission. Pam Noxon, archivist at the PEC Archives, also grants permission for this posting. Thanks to Dr. Robynne Rogers Healey, Associate Professor at Trinity Western University, for her role in this effort. Copyright: © Lydia Wytenbroek and Randy Saylor, 2008 |
| Notes
1. Many of the dates on the left hand sides of the pages were cut off. i.e. see page 3 –the entry before the 5th –the actual month is cut off. So for many of these (if I couldn’t figure out the month) I put “[?]mo, 6th” etc. Also on one page there was a line at the top cut off so I think I made a note to you in the diary with square brackets. I made a few notes for you in the diary in square brackets. 2. Whoever numbered these pages, numbered them differently. Every two pages only has one number (i.e one of your photocopied pages has one number, but there are two pages of her diary to each photocopied sheet)/ So I put an “a” and a “b” after the page numbers, but there was no a or b in the actual numbering. 3. There were more words I couldn’t figure out in this one. Her writing was worse by the end and harder to read. These certain flowers she’s always talking about – looks like its spelt “cerus” –I’m wondering if she means cherries! (at first I thought she meant crocuses or something). See what you think. 4. I tried to put in a [sic] when she missed her apostrophe… 5. On one of the pages there was an envelope and then the next few pages were not pages from her diary just loose leaf papers. So I typed them up. Were they what was in the envelope? [Page 1a] [blank] [Page 1b] Diary of Deborah Mullett Bowerman written in and near Bloomfield 1887-1892 [pg 2a] [blank] [pg 2b] 1887 5mo 7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] 49, At home bakeing [sic] & churning, Mary on the Market with the Butter & Eggs, [Fowels?] 60 cents a pair then went too Carries [sic], The above written by my Mother most 83, writeing [sic] without glasses. _ _ _ __ _18th Sallie [Ellicotts?] daughter married to a young man by the name of Thomas of Baltimore, __ _19 Our monthly meeting, E Varney got home, Discovered buds on the Night, Blooming [Cerus?],_ Mary Jane Williams here to see Rachel, Willie got here from Hamilton, _ _ _ __ _21st Vincent Bowerman’s birth day [sic], would have been 95 years Old. __ __ __ [pg 3a] [88?]/5/23rd Jane Cronk called on us, Stephen & Lydia in the afternoon fixed my dress sleevs [sic] for me. __ 24th Lydia came home, Carrie went to John William’s, _ __ 26 Our quarterly meeting began, Levi went to the boat to meet some of the friends, _ Sarah Wood from the States, Mary Jones, Johan Ward & [Aize?] Willsey, __ 27 Uncle Arthur here William Robnson & wife here also Levina [Merills], R Sills & Carrie, _ _ _ __ mo 2nd Maturah Bowerman here for a short visit, then went to Stephen Hubbs, __ 4th Annie Mullett & Katie Impey here. Wm Henry & Judith here also, _ Alfred Mullett & his Sister, stoped [sic] one night with us _ 5th Nellie Fox here for dinner [pg 3b] _11th Mary Elizabeth & Merton went over to see Mary Levens, _ __ _12 E Cadman went to the fast friends meeting, in the morning, then started for home, going to Picton over night, _ _ _ Stanley & Rachel went to the Sematry [sic] __ _13th Jane Cronk & Lena called in the evening to pay for some butter & Molasses, _ _ _ Found our first Night blooming [Cerus?] in [blossing?], which had been 24 days in comeing [sic] out, the largest one we have had at all measuring ten inches across, _ _ _ __ _20th The second blossom came out as large as the first No person in to see it but ourselves, Henry Hubbs in the morning, __ _27th The third blossom came out several came in to see it, Johnson Brewer spent the day with us, _ _ _ __ [pg 4a] 1887 6mo 28th Stanley & Rachel gone out on a fishing partey [sic]. 6/24 Discoverd [sic] some more buds on the Night blooming [Cerus?], _ _ _ [7? I think this is the last number of the year? but it got cut off when photocopied…] 7mo 1st Dominon [sic] day, took Levi over to the little lot, then we went on to S Hubbs, where I had not been for seven years, neither on the road since last summer __ 2nd A very hot day, Mary very buisy [sic] in the kitchen __ 3rd Sixty six years ago to day [sic] my Grandfather & Grandmother Mullett landed in Quebeck [sic] with eleven Children, six sons & five daughters in the year 1821. Levi & Mary gone down to Carries [sic] this afternoon. _ Brought Lydia back, & left Mary there for one week, _ _ _ [pg 4b] 1887 7mo 25th Edith died 15 years ago to day [sic], Deborah Sills here sewing for Mary, Edwin Williams unwell with a Sun-stroke, Mary down there after buries [sic], did not get home till ten oclock [sic], all alone with Merton. _ _ _ __ 8mo 20th Levi & Mary went to Belleville with the horse & Buggy, [Anthoey?] Haight & his Nephew Henry Niles called in. __ _21st First day a dark cloudy day, Sarah Foster & Walter called on me. __ _30 George Browning the Butter maker cam [sic] here, talk of putting up a Creemer [sic] in Picton. _ _ _ 9mo / 2 & 3rd Mary Richie here plealing [sic] pares [sic] for Mary. _ _ _ _4th Levi & Mary down to Carries [sic]. [pg 5a] 1887 9mo [3rd or 5th? it’s cut off] Stanley Rachel & Lydia gone to Belleville takeing [sic] Merton with them, very much against our wishes, I hope nothing will happen to him before he gets back, A beautiful day, Mary washing Very, very lonesome day without our little boy. And Rachel gone also, _ _ _ Returned the 7th all right & well, __ 8th Carrie and her Motherinlaw [sic] started for [Kinden?] Carrie to see Mary Elizabeth Garrett the latter to see her Sister, __ 20, Our travelers returned from [Kinden?] all well & found all well at home, _ _ _ __ mo 14th Frank & Mary Wareing came down for a visit, Left for home on the 20, _ _ _ __ 21st Nelson & Rachel called on us, on [on?] their way from Huntingdon, took [R: perhaps a word is cut off here?] with us, also there [sic] daughter Mary, __ [pg 5b] 9mo 19th Levi begun to dig the fundation [sic] for the buttry [sic] factory in Picton. _ _ _ __ 10mo 19th Uncle John came down on the boat alone, to make us a visit for the last time most likely, spent three nights with us, Levi took him to the boat, he was 85 years old born in 1802, _ __ 10mo 31st Grandfather Mullett died 22 years ago this evening Aged 97, years, __ 11mo 29th My Birth day [sic] 83 years old, not a very pleasant day sitting alone most of the day, while the folks were putting up stoves & cleaning the pipes, mailed a letter to my brother James. _ [pg 6a] 1887 12mo 25th Christmas day, also first day, A goose roasted, Edwin & Carrie here & their boys, also Stanley & Rachel, __ 26th The above ones went to Samuel Yerwoods [sic], left the Children here Ryerson & Levi Sills, spent the afternoon with us, _ Mary down with Carrie. __ 28th Jane Cronk & Leana here for a visit, _ Some Cards received from Annie who is in England, also one from Rachel Sills. _ _ _ __ 1888, 1mo 1st First day raining Levi & Mary went too [sic] meeting Lydia Merton and myself all alone. _ _ _ __ _8th Daniel & Deborah here for a evening visit also Walter & Mary, _ Stanley & Rachel & Carried here for dinner, _ Johnson Brewer came & stoped [sic] four days with us. _ [pg 6b] 12th of 1moth _ A letter from Jeramiah Lapp Abbie Ellsworth & E Cadman. __ _22 First day Quick silver 31 degrees below zero, _ 19th Rachel Sills here for a visit __ 2mo 4th Our Quarterly meeting a very good one, came & had a little meeting in our house one evening, _ Did not have much company, Wm Robinson & wife Thomas Robinson & wife Chester Yerks & wife, & Justine Robinson from Leeds. __ _6th Vincent Bowerman died about one oclock [sic] in the day, buried on the 8th of 2nd month 1885, Aged 93 years, __ _19th Robert & Elizabeth Came up for a visit stoped [sic] two nights with us, __ _29th Uncle Benjamin & Maria came stoped [sic] three nights with us, had a very good visit with them, _ _ _ * [R: there is a funny symbol here she makes that I’ve marked with an asterisk like I did on the other journals. In the other journals she used it to then continue writing about the same entry but in a later place. Anyway, here there is no other asterisk and I’m wondering if maybe the bottom of the page got cut off and so we don’t have that?] [pg 7a] 1888 3mo 4th Carrie & Rachel here for their dinner on there [sic] way to the Yerwood wedding. _ _ _ __ 10th Elizabeth Cadmans [sic] Birth day [sic] 58 years old, does not seem posuble [sic] __ 11th Johnson Brewer passed away to his long home about five oclock [sic] in the morning, of a first day of the week __ mo 22nd Aunt Hannah Mullett died, __ mo 2nd Moved into our new home again up in Bloomfield, Levi in Picton, __ 11th Jane & Lena here for an afternoons [sic] visit. _ _ _ 9th Abbie Ellsworth here sewing for Lydia, here three weeks. _ _ _ __ [pg 7b] 5mo 3rd Nancy Anderson Died at Lewis Levens [sic], aged 73. _ __ _6 Nelson & Rachel here also Walter & Mary, _ _ _ _7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic], 50 years old. __ _24 The Queens [sic] Birth-day [sic] a fine day, Wm Valentine called on us looking very feeble, Mary Richie also called on us. Lydia & myself all alone, been so all the week, Mary down with Carrie, Levi in Picton makeing [sic] butter. _ _ _ __ 6mo 2nd Our quarterly meeting began, no strangers here only Sarah Wood from Laree, _ Elizabeth came up stoped [sic] with us through quarterly meeting then went to Napanee with Lydia to have her teeth drawn, William Henry brought Aunt Eliza down to see us once more. stoped [sic] two [pg 8] nights with us, in her 81 year, __ 1888 6mo 10th Rachels [sic] birth day [sic] 20 years old, took dinner with us also Stanley The first day of the week, the Hickete Yearly meeting. a great many folks here from the States. Caleb Gibson died, buried tomorrow in Picton. _ __ mo 2 Uncle James here for a visit, went to the Sand-banks haveing [sic] never been there, spent his birth-day [sic] with us, 80 years old. _ _ _ __ 3rd My father & mother landed in Quebec with eleven children. Also Joseph Sivetman with his family. __ 22 Went down to Edwins & Stanleys [sic] stoped [sic] there one week, locking up the house, takeing [sic] the Cats Dog & fish. __ [pg 8b] This refers to Consider M. Haight’s [daughter? it’s cut off] 1888, 8mo 5th Fifty years ago to day [sic], my father died, on first day evening about ten oclock [sic] in the evening Aged 38 years. __ _6th Margaret Jane Sivetman died Aged, nine Night blooming [Cereas?] blossemd [sic], _ a number of people into [sic] see them. __ _19 First day, Levi Mary & Merton gone up to call on Eliza Varney, leaveing [sic] me alone not very pleasant, got a beautifull [sic] bunch of flowers sent me from the Cematry [sic]. __ 24, Uncle Arthur & Aunt Jane came down for a visit, stoped [soc] three nights with us. _ _ _ _26th Willie Mullett wife here with her babie [sic], also Abie Ellsworth called on us, __ [pg 9a] 1888 9mo 1st Elizabeth Cadman came up for a visit on the Cars from Picton, stoped [sic] with us till the fifth, went down to see Carrie & Rachel, also Mary Levens. _ _ The third Rachel Sills came up & spent two days with us, _ The fifth of the month Anne Mullett & Nellie Fox came here spent two days with us. _ _ _ __ [?]mo 8th Uncle Henry came here on his way to the States, _ left on the 17th for Nelsons, _ _ _ __ 18th Debie Brown buried at Hillier. 21_ Levi & Mary gone down to see Amey Leer. _ __ [?] mo 21st Marys [sic] Birth day [sic] 53 years old, a dark gloomy day, Lydia & myself here alone, Levi & Mary down to Carries [sic]. _ __ [pg 9b] 11mo 22nd Very cold quick-silver down to ten, Mary Richie called on us, __ 1888, 29th of 11mo My birth day [sic] 84 years, old A roast goose for dinner Plumb pudding & a very nice lemmon-pie [sic], got up by Carrie_ Edwin & Carrie & the Children here, Stanley & Rachel, _ Walter Levens and wife and son, & Eliza Varney, besides our own family. _ a fine winters [sic] day _ A letter from Belleville & a small Birth day [sic] Card from Cousin Mary. _ __ 12mo 2nd _ First day Levi & Mary gone to meeting, Lydia down to Carries [sic], _ __ _25th Christmas day, Lydia & myself here all alone, not a very pleasant day, hope it may be better next time Mary Richie sitting with us part of the time. _27th Cards from England from Sophia [pg 10a] 1888 12/28th Lydia got her pictures from the little boy Eaton _ Grandmother Mullett died 43 years ago to day [sic], Aged 72, _ __ [?] _ Lydia down to Carries [sic], Mary Richard’s [sic] called on us. _ _ __ [1 presumably. but cut off?] mo 1st 1889 New years day Lydia at Edds Mary home, Lewis Levens called in for the first time [?]th A very heavy wind from the South such a on [sic] that had not been known for years, unroofing houses & blowing down trees & fences, but the worst of all killing my Grandson by the falling of the barn-door on his head, _ living but three or four hours after, _ [R: “Edwin Williams” is written up the side of the page here so I don’t know which line it should go on. I guess that was her grandson?] __ [?]mo 24th Our wedding day 38 years ago, Taken with a very bad Direah [sic] in bed five days, _ [pg 10b] 1889 2mo 1st Our Quarterly began not very large but good, No strangers not many friends called on us, knowing our situation Justice Robinson took dinner with us one day, _ Carrie was with us and her three little fatherless boys. _ ___ _6th Three years ago To day [sic] Vincent Bowerman Died aged 93 years. Susan Dorland died about seven in the evening Aged 78, 1889 __ 3mo 2nd My Brother John died aged 86 years buried in Bloomfield, by the side of Aunt Bathsheba, _ _ _ _3rd I was taken sick & kept my bed for six weeks, with a bad cold, _ Elizabeth & Rachel up to see me, _ _ _ __ 4mo 11 Mary Waring came down for a visit went back into Huntingdon, _ _ _ __ [pg 11a] 1889 4mo 28th Levis [sic] Birth day [sic] 57 years old. Spent the day over to the Lott all alone, makeing [sic] his family feel very uneasy. _ __ 5mo1_ In the year 1819, My sister Mary carried our Queen Victoria about the room, at the George Inn (Hotel) in [Flminster?] Somersetshire Old England. _ DB Aged 84 years, __ 7 Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] 50, born in 1838, Not much of a Hollowday [sic], washing Annie Mullett came from Belleville, Lewis Levens [sic] birth day [sic] yesterday _ _ _ __ _24 Amis Weaver here for a visit _ no other person, rather lonely, hope it will be better before long _ _ _ ___ [pg 11b] _29 Carrie makeing [sic] tea cake _ Lydia picking up in the Cellar, A very cold day for the time of the year __ 6mo 1st Our quarterly meeting Uncle James & Uncle Arthur down, no strangers here, but they had a good meeting, & an excellent sermon from Eliza Varney. _ Samuel & Jane Bonestill here. _ _ _ __ 6_9 First day a wet day, none of our family at meeting, no person called on us but Mary Richards, _ the last first day we spend in Bloomfield, __ _10 Rachels [sic] Birth day [sic] 21, years old, Thought we were going to have a good visit with her, but had none, we moved over to the [left?] Lot, It does not seem much like home, hope it will better [pg 12a] 1889 6/10 _ after we have been here longer Its [sic] not a very pleasant feeling for an Old person 84 years old to be move- -ing I did not think it would have [affected?] my mind so much. been thinking about it ever since four oclock [sic] this morning. _ _ _ __ 21st Merons [sic] Birth day [sic] 6 years old, out in a boat with Grandfather Williams & caught a small fish, _ Stanley & Rachel up in the evening after nine oclock [sic] __ [most likely 27. cut off] Mary Richards came home from meeting with them spent two days with us, _ 28th William & Mary Ann came over to see us, _ __ 29 Our folks went to the Sand Banks __ 30_ Levi & Mary went to meeting, & then over to Levens for their dinner. _ [pg 12b] 1889, 7mo 3rd Sixty eight years ago this morning, My father & mother Landed in Quebec with eleven Children 6 sons & five daughters, _ Also Jospeh Sivetman & his family. Mary & Carrie gone to Picton & then on to Stanleys & Rachels [sic]. _ _ _ __ _7th Rachel Sills came here for a visit, left on the 10th _ Little Daniel Dye here stoped [sic] one night with us. _ __ _13th Elizabeth Cadman came up for a visit, went home on the 15, First day evening spent in singing hyms [sic] with Lydia. _ _ _ __ _25_ Seventen [sic] years to day [sic] Edith died about three in the morning. _ __ _27th Carrie Lydia & the two boys went down to see Rachel, stoped [sic] one night with her, Aunt Amey here for a visit [pg 13a] 1889 8mo 1st Consider Haight died 51 years ago the 5th of this month, at Fredericksburg, _ Lydia being three months old the day he [sic] was buried Code [sic] weather a fire in Stove, __ 10 Stanley & Rachel went down to the thousand Islands, returned on the 12th Lydia kept house for them. _ _ _ __ 16 Walter Levens & Levi Sills called on us in the evening, sent Rachel a bundle of letters. __ 20th Isabela Peterson here stoped [sic] all night with us, Mary took her back to Bloomfield this afternoon, _ __ [?]mo 4th Lydia went a fishing brought a fine black Bass enough for all our dinner. _ _ _ 15th pealing pares [sic] yet. [pg 13b] 1889 9mo [?] Benjamin & his grandaughter [sic] [Mimie?] came up for a visit stoped [sic] two nights with us, __ _13th Carrie started for Toronto, with several others _ [Mimie?] here serving for Lydia goes home tomorrow, Mary takeing [sic] her to the boat. _ _ _ __ 15th Lydia gone to meeting also Levi, _ took dinner with Jane Cronk, Mary Richards came back with her, to spend a few days with us, Our Rachel and Stanley came up in the afternoon, _ __ _23, Carrie came from Toronto, saw a great many sights brought the Children a watch cack [sic], _ _ _ __ 10mo 23rd Mary Richards came here from Andrew Clarks, not very well, Stanley & Rachel here in the evening, _ _ [pg 14a] 1889 10mo 23rd Mary & Carrie gone too Bloomfield to paint the floar [sic], _ __ _27th Carries [sic] little boy Birth day [sic] five years old, Thomas, turkey for dinner, Stanley & Rachel came in, Gilbert Jones & wife called on us, Mary Richards here sick, first day no person went to meeting. Our meeting got very small only two men at meeting to day [sic], __ 11mo 12 Levi and Mary brought [away?] the last board from Bloomfield, got here about seven oclock [sic], __ 14 Elizabeth came up for a visit, Eliza Varney brought her from the Sation [sic] went down to see Rachel, went home on the 18th, _ !7th Mary Levens & Lydia Sills here for a visit, _ __ [pg 14b] 1889 11mo 20,th Marys [sic] Birth day [sic] 55 years not a very pleasant day, a girl here sewing for Lydia, Manley Yerwood here on bussiniss [sic] with Carrie, Stanley & Rachel here for dinner, a wet day. _ _ _ __ _29th My Birth day [sic] 85 years, not a very pleasant day had three Ducks for dinner, Stanley & Rachel here for dinner, myself not very well, a girl here sewing, for Carrie. _ _ _ __ 12mo 8th Nathaniel & Isabela here for dinner Levi Mary Lydia & Merton went down to see Rachel. _ __ _9th Washing two weeks wash, myself fixing up an Old Sampler for Lydia marked in the year 1873, _ _ _ [pg 15a] 12/ 20th 1889 Carrie & Lydia went to Picton, had to borrow a lantern to get home, A very dark day & night __ 22nd First day a heavy wind, no one person went to meeting, raining _ __ 25th Christmas day Stanley & Rachel here for dinner, A large goose for dinner __ 26th Andrew Whycott died about ten in the morning. _ _ Aged 83 years. __ 28th Levi & Mary went to the funeral to the house over night. _ __ 1890, 1mo 1st _ Walter & Mary Levens here for dinner, no sleiging [sic] raining hard most of the day. _ _ _ __ [pg 15b] 1890 1mo 14th Lydia married to John Williams in Picton at the age of fifty one years, started for Whitby next morning and so on to Toronto, was gone four weeks, had a nice time with her friends I hope it may prove a happy union for it has been a heavy trial for her [poor?] Old mother, now in her 86 year. _ _ _ __ _2mo 13th Our Bride folks returned home to John Williams house, took dinner with us the next day. _ __ _17 Charles Gidion very low, died a few days after __ 3mo 2nd Jane Cronk & Lena here for a short visit took tea with us. __ _7th Dr Nash called here to see Carrie Reuben Branscom & Sarah here for a visit _ _ _ [pg 16a] 1890, 3mo 9th Deborah Sills that was once, & Mary Levens here for a visit took dinner with us, no sleighing _ _ _ __ _10, Elizabeth Cadmans [sic] Birth-day [sic] sixty years old, Levi in the Swamph [sic] choping [sic], saw a robin for the first time, very early we think __ 8th Lydia came home & stoped [sic] all night with us, a great treet [sic], for the little boy, as well as for her poor old mother, who had lived with her over fifty years. _ _ _ __ _24 Carries [sic] Birth day [sic], Aged 35 years _26 Samuel Yerwood died Aged 27 Lydia spent the day with us brought her ironing over with her. _ mo 11th __ Lydia came across the feilds [sic] and stoped [sic] all night with us, a grate [sic] treet [sic] [pg 16b] 1890 4mo 13th A most beautifull [sic] bright warm day, the first day of the week, Levi went to meeting alone Mary down with Rachel for a visit gone two nights, have not seen Lydia to day [sic] _ pretty lonesome for an Old woman, or rather her poor Old mother, who lived with her most 52 years. __ _22nd Rachel Sills up for a visit over with, Mary Levens, _ _ _ __ Went to John Williams the 21st while she was here for dinner, also Nelson & Rachel Walter & Mary, Mary Bowerman & self _ the first time I have been on the road since I came here ten months ago. _ __ [pg 17a] 1890 5mo 7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] fifty two years old, Spent the day with us & fixed my flannel dress. _ __ _14 How strange we should keep the wrong day for Lydias [sic] birth-day [sic] the sixth instead of the seventh. _ __ 21st Vincent Bowermans [sic] Birth-day [sic] would have been 99, Lydia spent the day with us, helping Mary & Carrie clearn out my room, or their front room _ _ _ __ 24th Stanley & Rachel here also Lydia Carrie & her two boys went home with them, stoping [sic] there till Second day the 26, __ [pg 17b] 1890, 5/25, First day no person went to meeting, Levi tired out, wet day all alone, _ __ _28_ John Williams & Lydia went to Belleville, returned on the first of 6mo __ 6mo 5th Prepartive meeting Mary & Lydia went, came back here & spent the day with us, a heavy thunder storm, Levi took her home in the evening. __ _10 Rachels [sic] Birth day [sic] 22 years old expected to have spent a pleasant day with her, but other company comeing [sic] in, broke it all up, we are all liable to disappointments. _ Thomas Stinson & his two daughters came in. also John Williams [sic] Sister & daughter __ [pg 18a] 1890 6mo 14th Mary on the Market with potatoes & eggs, 11 & 12 cts a dozen, potatoes seventy five cents a bag _ __ _15th First day _ Levi went meeting alone Rachel Sills here & Lydia also Isabela Peterson, I forgot John Williams. _ Mary Carrie & the Children took Rachel back to Levens in the evening. _ __ 6_22_ I went to stop with Lydia one week, _ Mary Levens little boy born, our Mary being with her, _ Carrie & Lydia went for her, First day afternoon, _ __ 8th Fox & Mary Mullett came here, spent a week with us, _ _ _ __ 29_ First day two men friends from the States at our meeting, Benjamin Brown & Thomas Hogue, _ was at John Williams on the 26th, Gilbert Jones bringing them there, _ _ _ [pg 18b] 7mo 1st Dominon [sic] day _ Mary Bowerman & Mary Mullett, gone up to see Lydia, Levi in Picton makeing [sic] butter. _ __ _2nd Mary Mullett here yet, Carrie has taken her to Andrew Haights to day [sic] Lydia going also, _ _ _ __ __ 3_ Sixty nine years ago this morning we landed in Quebec father mother & eleven children, _ Also Joseph Sivetman with his family in the year 1821, _ __ _5th Mary Mullett left for hom [sic], going to Picton with M Bowerman on the Market _ then on to the Steem-boat [sic] Our Rachel here for a short visit. _ _6, Levi & Mary went to meeting, but few there, _ _ _ Carrie & the children gone over to Levens for a ride, & to see how Mary is, _ [pg 19a] 1890 7mo 8th Carrie & Lydia gone to Picton, to get trimmings for a dress caught in a heavy thunder-shower. __ 9th A great change in the weather [Geeat?] coats wanted this morning And a fire in my stove, also a brick under my feet. _ _ _ __ 17_ William Valentine died aged 84 years Buried the 19, at the Semetry [sic] at Picton, * __ 6_ Rachel Sills here to spend the day with her Mother, also Lydia, continued cold yet, a fire in my Stove, a brick under my feet, mufflers on my wrist, _ _ __ * The meeting held at the Methodist meeting house, James M [Lauling?] had a great Sermon for the inhabitants, _ [pg 19b] 1890 7mo 20th First day our folks gone to Wellington, to attend a four oclock [sic] meeting appointed by James M Laughin._ _ _ __ _21st James M Laughlin & two other friends took dinner & tea with us, then went on to Picton to have a meeting in the Methodist meeting-house, Levi takeing [sic] them down. _ _ _ __ 23rd I was up to John Williams [sic] to spend the day to meet James M Laughlin & two women friends from the States, had quite a nice visit, _ __ 24_ Carrie up to J Williams [sic] picking berries, _ Stanley & Rachel here in the afternoon, for a short time. __ [pg 20a] 1890 7mo 25th Eighteen years ago this morning about three oclock [sic] in the morning, Edith died Aged fifteen years, at the brick house back in the Concession. _ _ _ __ 26_ Lydia came down & stoped [sic] all night with us, & all first day, also John Williams took dinner with us, _ Stanley & Rachel here a little while in the afternoon, Rachel in a peck of trouble, on account of some person breaking into their house while they were at meeting, takeing [sic] away all her little trinkets. _ ___ 22 Mary & Carrie up / John [Wille?] picking berries, [pg 20b] 1890 7mo 31st Carrie gone down to Stanleys [sic] with Flora Williams [that?] was once. _ _ _ __ 8mo 3rd Lydia Emaley [Harzard?] died about six in the morning, buried the 4th _ Flora Mullett here all night and starded [sic] for home, 8mo 1st __ _ Lydia & Mary & the Children went down to the Semetry [sic] to a [flareupt?] or a something else. Lydia lost her gold Spectacls [sic], so much for these [spreas?]. __ [1838?] _ 8/5th Consider [Merritt?] Haight died 52 years ago about three oclock [sic] in the morning _ Fhorty [sic] six years old, Lydia was three months old the day her father was buried. Mary down to Stanleys [sic] picking berries, a very wet day a thunder shower _ [pg 21a] 1890, 8mo 7th 1838 Consider Haight buried, in Adolphus town, _ A very unpleasant day Mary & Carrie doing up berries. _ _ _ __ Carrie picking berries all day at L W 11th Quite cold fire in my room Levi with his overcoat on in the morning __ 12_ Went to Jane Cronks for dinner, Mary Lydia & John Williams, eleven of us sat down to [dine? din?] _ __ 20, _ Rachel came up to see us, went up for Lydia, so we had pretty good time, Levi went to Kingston, to sell butter, _ 16th The teacher came here to board, _21st Monthly meeting at Hillier, none of our folks there a wet day. _ _ _ __ [pg 21b] 8mo 24 Consider here also Walter Levens, Mary Levens Lydia Sills & Libey Dimond, _ Levi & Mary Went over to Stephen Hubbs, _ __ _26, Lydia & Ellen Williams down here to spend the day. _ __ 28th Sanley [sic] sick sent up for Mary, but Carrie went, _ __ 30 A cold day fire in my room all glad to get under the blankets. a letter from [C?] M Collins. The teacher gone to see her sister. _ __ 9mo 7th First day a very warm day quicksilver up to 82, in my room Levi went to meeting alone, Stanly been very sick for the last week, John Williams & Lydia went down Stanley better _ _ _ [pg 22a] 1890, 9mo 9th Rachel Sills [sic] Birth day [sic] 59 years old is it posabel [sic], And there yet, _ John Williams and Mary Richards took tea with us. __ 17, Elizabeth went home to day [sic], spent a week with us, Mary took her Picton took dinner with Levi at the Creamry [sic] also John Williams & Lydia, then down to see Cemetry [sic]. _ Mary Richards spent two days with us last week. _ __ 10mo 12th First day Levi & Mary gone to meeting, then down to see Rachel, I have been looking for Lydia, yesterday & to day [sic] up till three oclock [sic], then she came also John Willaims _ how little they know a mothers [sic] feelings, especialy [sic] after living with a child fifty two years, Patience it will all be over soon, _ __ [pg 22b] 10mo 13th Carrie gone up to help Lydia about her Carpet, _ her three Boys with the Hooping-cough, _ Lydia lost her gold Spectacls [sic] on the Decoration-day in the Cematry [sic], got them again about six weeks after being picked up by an honest woman __ _14 Went up to see Lydia or rather to stay with her while J. Williams went a Duck shooting, a great job to get me off, but was glad I went poor Lydia I think she has got out of the frying-pan into the fire. _ __ 11mo 2nd Levi & Mary went too [sic] meeting then to Jane Cronks [sic] for dinner, John Williams & Lydia here for dinner John Garrett & wife called on us last week. _ _ _ __ [pg 23a] 11mo 4th 1890, Would have been my fathers [sic] birth-day [sic] had he been living, _ Snow last night for the first _ _ A letter from Mary Mullett saw Uncle Henry at Wm Henrys __ _8th Levi & Mary on the market with Fowels [sic] & Butter, 40ct for fowels [sic] a pair, butter 20ct a pound, _ * __ 9th First day a very wet day no person went to meeting, very unpleasant day very lonely, miss Lydias very much __ * 8th Bought four & a half of flannel for my shimeys, seventeen pounds of sughar [sic]. _ _ _ [pg 23b] 1890 11mo 16th First day Levi & Carrie went too [sic] meeting, rather a lonesome day. 12th of this month Lena Robinson married to James Sivetman, _ _ __ 17_ Nelson & Rachel here for a visit, brought me a new apron & made it for me, brought me a nice bar of Sented [sic] soap. _ _ Our little boy Merton sick. better to day [sic]. _ _ _ __ _20th of 11mo Marys [sic] Birth-day [sic], fifty five years old, Not a very pleasant day, Rachel up with Lydia, _ goes home the 22nd _ Levi & Carrie gone up to Monthly meeting at Wellington. __ 23_ John Williams [sic] & Lydia here for dinner, First day Levi & Mary went to meeting. _ __ [pg 24a] 24th 1890_ Carrie went up to help Lydia wash with her new machine __ 26 Sarah Foster & Walter here for dinner, __ _29th of 11mo My Birth day [sic] 86 years old Lydia & her husband here for dinner also Rachel & her husband. not feeling very well myself __ 11mo 30th of 11mo First day dark & cloudy Levi & Carrie gone to meeting. _ Lewis Levens [sic] barn burnt down that evening. _ _ _ __ 12_ 1st Jane Cronk here for a visit, had not seen her for some time. had a first rate visit with her. _ [pg 24b] 12mo 8th Nathaniel Sivetman and Isabel here for a call to see their Old Aunt once more. had not been here for a twelvemonth. __ _16th Went out in the kitchen & took my dinner with Carrie & her two children Thomas & John, Merton being up with Lydia, I had not been to the dinner table in eight weeks before, being on my bed complaining of great weekness [sic], or rather Old Age, being now in my 87 year. _ Mary up with Lydia, Levi at Picton, _ _ _ __ 26th Levi & Mary gone down to Stanleys to see Rachel not being very well, Carrie over to Hubbs last evening for a visit also the teacher, _ Sarah Kingston married, & starts for the West this morning a widdoer [sic] [with?] seven children. _ [pg 25a] 91 2mo 28th Levi & Mary gone up to John Williams, as he is not well, I think its [sic] conclueded [sic] at last for Levi to go to Picton again this summer to make butter, & I do not know but what Mary is going with him, _ I wonder what they will do with the poor Old woman, it does seem as tho [sic] she outlived her usefullness [sic]. _ I have been complaining for the six weeks, not well yet. what a blessing to have your health. _ _ a Postal Card from Uncle Arthur this morning. _ _ _ __ 3mo 3rd Snowing fast a Card from Elizabeth. _ myself being in bed ten weeks to day [sic]. _ not able to do much of any thing yet. _ _ _ [pg 25b] 1891 3mo 8th Levi & Carrie gone to meeting, _ After dinner Levi & Mary went down to Stanleys. _ Mary stoping [sic] all night, Rachel not very well. _ __ _9th Raining Levi going down for Mary, Lydia down there yesterday myself far from well, Sent Mary Richards a letter yesterday, _ I doubt if I ever write her another __ _10th Elizabeth Cadmans [sic] Birth-day [sic]. Sixty one years old, it does not seem possable [sic], _ Lydia here this afternoon, _ Mary & Merton down with Rachel, _ _ _ __ 15 _ First day Walter & Mary Levens here also Lydia for dinner, brought the baby nine months old, a cold day [pg 26a] 91 3/19th _ Monthly meeting to day [sic] Mary stoped [sic] at John Williams [sic] after meeting. _ __ 24_ Carries [sic] Birth-day [sic] down to Stanleys [sic] with the two children myself with a very lame back __ 4mo 1st Lydia here for supper, had some sausage meet [sic] for supper [cut off?] Levi gone to Picton, with butter eggs __ [R: there is a thing in brackets here that says “J. F. Mullett was 52” but it’s someone else’s writing I think] 4mo 2nd John Fry Mullett Died aged 42, Sophia Mulletts [sic] husband in England __ _9th Prepartive [sic] meeting Levi went alone, Amos Bowerman here for dinner. _ __ 9th Edith Birth-day [sic], 34 years old, _ a bright sunney [sic] day _ A letter from Sallie Ellicott with a photograph __ [pg 26b] 4m 11th First day Levi & Carrie went to meeting, brought Mary Ann Richardson back with them, _ _ __ 15th _ Stanley & Rachel here in the afternoon eating sugar, eat [sic] our last sausage-meet [sic], _ _ Resewed [sic] John Frys [H unaoral?] Card from England __ 20_ Lydia & Rachel here for dinner looking for a boy to work for them, _ _ _ __ 21st Writeing [sic] to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, _ Our Mary killed the first flie [sic]. _ my sight failing fast _ scarsely [sic] read what I have wrote, _ _ _ __ [pg 27a] 1891_ 4mo 28th Levis [sic] Birth day [sic] 59 years old _ A very cold day, plowing in [he] garden. Four months a go [sic] the 23rd of this month I came down stairs [sic], burnt a light every night since most, And had my breakfast in bed ever since. 28th Considers [sic] Birth day [sic] born in 1802, At Adolphus town _ _ _ __ 30, Jane Cronk & Lena here for a call, also Lydia & her girl Mary cutting my toe-nails, made a great fuss about it __ [?]mo 3rd Walter & Mary Levens here Carrie Lydia & the Children went over to Stephen Hubbs, found them all gone. _ _ __ [pg 27b] 1891 5mo 7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] 53, years old, spent the afternoon at home with her Mother, the last one very likely _ As I am feeling very far from well but will it not be a happy exchange, from all our trials, _ Edmond Richardson died the day before yesterday. _ _ _ __ 11_ Mary gone down to Stanleys [sic] he being sick _ Mary Richards going to the States, wanting to give her a book but our Mary refuseing [sic] to let her have it, makes me feel very uncomfortable But suppose I shall have to put up with it. _ __ 12th A fine day Stanley better Mary comeing [sic] home to night [sic] _ Sarah Foster & Walter gone up to Edmond Richardsons [sic] funeral [pg 28a] 1891 5mo 12th _ Mary Richards here stoped [sic] all night with us, going to Oregan [sic] starts tomorrow with her brother Edward, has a daughter living there, _ _ _ __ 16_ Carrie Lydia went onto the Market with butter & Eggs got 16ct of butter & 12cts for eggs a dozen, let one basket of eggs out of the wagon breaking 8 dozen Lydia got herself a new dress, cloth for a new jacket, [looks like “ttr rung” possibly tire rung?] for the sleigh, _ _ _ __ 21st Vincent Bowermans [sic] Birth day [sic] would have been one hundred years old if he had lived, Born in seventeen hundred and ninety one 93 when he died at 13 Bloomfield in 1885, _ Levi & Mary at Hillier Monthly-meeting. _ _ _ __ [pg 28b] 1891 5mo 22nd Elizabeth Cadman came up on the boat, __ 24 Henry Haight here for dinner the first day of the week Levi & Mary went too [sic] meeting. Elizabeth at John Williams. _ _ __ 25, Elizabeth here & Lydia also Rachel & Stanley, _ _ __ 26, The folks got me up to John Williams to spend the afternoon with Elizabeth, _ _ _ __ 28, Elizabeth going home, Carrie & two of the Children gone with her, Lydia takeing [sic] them down to Picton __ 30, Mary planting potatoes or rather helping Levi, _ _ _ __ [pg 29a] 1891 5mo 31, _ My brother James came here with his son Edmond started for home again the next day, __ 6mo 2st Nelson & Rachel came she stoped [sic] one night with us. _ Carrie came home, after haveing [sic] a good visit __ 5th Mary Waring came here, stoped [sic] with us three days, through Quarterly meeting __ My brother Arthur came to attend the Quarterly meeting, also Stephen Robertson and wife. _ _ _ __ _9th Uncle Arthur going home, Mary takeing [sic] him to Picton, I am going up to spend the day with Lydia, Our Rachel is to be there, her Birth day, 23 years old. __ [pg 29b] 12th Well I went but did not find my little Granddaughter there, so I spent three days with Lydia _ Nathaniel Sivetman & his daughter came in while I was gone, for which I was sorry. _ _ _ __ 14 First day Levi & Carrie went to meet ing _ Levi & Mary went down to see Rachel in the afternoon, takeing [sic] the little boy with them _ _ Carrie gone out for a walk with the Children, _ We here [sic] that Samuel Naish is very unwell, _ _ _ __ 19 _ Carrie & Lydia went to Picton got me some letter paper, Lydia lost her veil, _ the second one within a few months. _ 20th Carrie gone again to day [sic] takeing [sic] all the Children with her, for a ride, __ [pg 30a] 1891_ 6mo 21st Mertons [sic] Birth-day [sic] eight years old, First day of the week, Levi Mary & Carrie went to meeting, But few there most all gone to Yearly-meeting, Mary Ann gave them a good sermon, from the Text,, _ “ They that hunger and thirst after Rightesness [sic] shall be saved” Carrie cleaning out the little parlor. Rachel came up for her Mother to go down & spend three or four days with her. _ _ _ __ 23rd John Williams gone to a funeral Daniel Youngs [sic], Lydia came this far with him, helped Carrie a little, __ 25th Levi went to meeting found some friends there from the States going to have a meeting here tomor- -row, at half past three. _ _ _ __ [pg 30b] 1891 6mo 28, Mary Mullett & Ellen Fox came here from Belleville, stoped [sic] all night with us, also Mary Levens, took dinner with us, _ _ _ __ _29th Our folks gone to the Sand-Banks Four friends called on us from the States, _ Barckley Straton & wife, Elizabeth Rusel, & her Nephew Robert Rusel. Elizabeth had a few words of encourage- ment for me. _ _ _ __ 7mo 1st Dominon [sic] day raining most all the day. _ Libbie went home for the Hollow days [sic] wrote too [sic] Sophia & Annie, _ _ __ 3rd Seventy years ago to day [sic] my father And mother landed in Quebec with eleven children after a passage of seven weeks, also Joseph Sivetman and his family in the 1821, _ A bright sunny day. _ Deborah Bowerman [pg 31a] 1891 7mo 3rd Went up to see Lydia spent two days with her, _ 4th A very heavy thunder shower, hail stones an inch round, _ Stanley & Rachel up in the evening for potatoes, mailed a letter for Uncle Arthur. _ __ 4th With Lydia, Mary Levens and her Sister May with her, _ _ __ 5th First day John & Lydia went to our meeting, Levi & Mary came to J Williams for dinner, Carrie & her two boys, went to dinner with E Varney I came home found a cold house, __ 6th Cold weather a fire in the Stove Brick under my feet, quite unwell myself, _ _ _ __ [pg 31b] 9th Levi & Mary went to meeting left Carrie up with Lydia to help her about moveing [sic] some things. Thomas Robinson to be buried tomorrow Cold weather yet. _ _ _ __ _12th Went to meeting were [sic] I had not been for three or four years, A friend from the States there, gave us an excellent sermon, on the subject of prayer & faith, after meeting sent to J Williams & got our supper, also Silvanus [Outwaters?] & his wife __ 14th Our Rachel here drove herself up the little girl comeing [sic] with her. __ 15th Archebald Crosbie & his Sister here for dinner, Attended our Monthly meeting his sister Isabela Henderson, from Norich, __ [pg 32a] 1891 7mo 16, Young potatoes for dinner the first time _ _ _17 Carrie & Lydia went on the market with Butter Eggs & hog-fat 11ct a pound a wet day, got very wet, _ Nettie Cronk went home, Carrie takeing [sic] her to the Station, _ _ _ 19 First day Carrie & the Children went to meeting _ after down to see Rachel _ In the evening Jane Cronk, Lena & James Sivetman made us a call in the evening. __ 20th A cold morning, glad to put on on [sic] my winter dress again, & get round the stove, warmer in the afternoon, _ _ _ __ 21st Cold morning again a winter dress comfortable again. _ _ _ __ [pg 32b] 1891 7mo 22nd Another cold morning fire feels good, _ _ _ 21st Sarah Whycot & her daughter here for a visit had not seen her before in seven years, had to be lifted in & out of the buggye [sic], walk with Crutches, made my apron for or in part, seventy seven years old. _ _ _ __ 24th Lydia here geting [sic] her jacket made by Nettie Cronk, stoped [sic] all night with us, & the next day fixed my dress for me, spent some time up stairs with her mother reading over some memorandiums [sic] about Edith, made by her Grandmother, during her last sickness _ _ _ __ [pg 33a] 1891 7mo 23rd, Lydia came home from meeting with them, We had five Night blooming [Cereses?] out in blosom [sic] no stranger into [sic] see them _ Nettie sewing yet. leavs [sic] to day [sic] or tomorrow. _ _ _ __ 25th Mattie Richardson came for a visit also her little boy gone up to see Lydia, _ Mary & the Children gone up to Wellington to take Nettie Cronk home, _ __ 26, Lydia & Mattie went to Nathaniel Sivetmans. _ _ _ 27th _ Daniel Mullett & wife called on us. _ Mattie started for home, Mary takeing [sic] her to Picton. __ 30th Lydia down here helping Carrie Mary down with Rachel, Sallie Mallory here for a visit _ _ _ [pg 33b] 1891, 7mo 30th Mary down with Rachel picking berries, Levi and Merton gone also. _ _ _ __ 31_ A very cold day for the time of the year glad to sit round the Stove, & a brick under my feet boiling up the berries that Mary got __ 8mo 1st Levi gone down to help Stanley raining again _ _ three barns burnt day before yesterday with lightening. A very cold day glad to get round the stove to warm my hands, Mattie went home _ _ _ _2nd First day Levi & Mary went to meeting _ Lydia went to stop a few days with Rachel, Levi & Mary went down to see Stephen Hubbs __ [pg 34a] 1891 [8mo ?] Consider Haight died in the year 1838, Aged 36 years, Lydia was three months old the day her father was buried. _ Was buried the seventh in Adolphustown [sic]. _ _ _ __ _8th Mary went on to the Market with butter Eggs, & fowel [sic], butter 18cts Eggs 13cts a dozen fowels [sic] or rather Chicken 55cts a pair, _ Lydia down here with her Mother. _ __ 9th First day Levi went to meeting alone one little boy. _ Carrie down with Rachel. _ _ _ __ 10 & 11th Very hot weather, quick silver up to 84 in my room so warm could not do any thing [sic], _ 13th Prepartive [sic] meeting not one man there, a sad job our meeting going down so _ _ _ [pg 34b] 1891 [date and first line cut off?] And than to Stanleys. Myself feeling quite unwell. __ 20th Mary just gust [sic] got home from Rachels [sic], been gone five days. Levi gone too [sic] Kingston looking after the butter makeing [sic], poor man I hope he will not miss it [?] leavs [sic] his family in a very unpleasant situation. _ Monthly meeting to day [sic] at Wellington no person gone from here. _ _ _ __ 23 First day a wet day Levi and Mary went to meeting, in the evening went down to Stanleys, Levi stoped [sic] all night. _ _ _ __ 25th Thirty eight years ago to day [sic] Levi & Mary married, this day cold glad to put on an extra shawl, and a brick under my feet. _ _ _ [pg 35a] 1891 8/28th A very heavy wind rather cold, Amey Lear here came over a foot, Levi takes her home to night [sic], _ __ 29 Seventh day of the week, Mary down with Rachel, her baby born about ten in the morning, _ Merton got kicked in his face by one of Shannons [sic] colts, _ Heard that Sallie Mallory was buried on the 27th also that Elizabeth Comstock was dead, died a few weeks ago, _ _ _ __ 30th First day _ Mary Levens & her sister Lydia called here, also Mary Jane Bowerman & Sarah Ann Derbeyshire Eliza Varney & Willie Richardson took tea with us, Lydia getting supper Carrie gone down to see Rachel. _ _ _ __ 27 of 8th month Sallie Mallory buried. [pg 35b] 1891 9mo 4th Lydia And Ella Williams down for a visit, Lent Ella the Diary men daughter. _ _ _ __ 6th Lydia And Merton & Thomas gone down to see Rachel. _ _ _ __ 5th Carrie & Lydia gone on the Market then back to see Rachel, Mary came home with them. _ _ _ __ 9 I went up to spend the day with Lydia while the folks went to the Picton show __ 10th Frederick Richardson & Hannah here for dinner also Stephen & Lydia John Williams & Lydia, _ Levi Mary & Carrie going up there to spend the evening. __ [pg 36a] 1891 9mo 11th Mary gone back to Stanelys again, will be very glad when Rachel gets well. _ _ _ __ [2?] _ Aunt Rachel came here, [3?] _ Daniel Mullett & Deb called on us in the afternoon, then Rachel Lydia & John Williams went down to Stanleys, then back to stop all night, next day I went up there to spend the day, with Rachel _ __ [5?] Rachel came back here, Walter comeing [sic] for her in the evening. _ _ _ __ [?] 3rd Warm weather yet Mary Levens & Mary here for a visit. __ 20th Carrie Lydia & the Children went down to the Sematry [sic] Levi and Mother at at [sic] home, did not get home till dark. _ _ _ __ [pg 36b] 1891 9mo 29th And 30th, Quite a change in the weather not very pleasant for Old people, no Stove in their room, _ __ Lydia went up to Wellington for her Carpet, got very cold. next day came down here & spent a few hours with her Mother. __ 10mo 3rd Elizabeth came up, left for home again on the 5th _ the sixth was her wedding day 45 years ago, _ _ _ __ 6th Uncle Arthur came on his way way [sic] from Quarterly meeting at Leeds, stoped [sic] all night with [Aichelans Suthard?] __ 19th Arnold Haight & wife came here, took dinner with us, _ _ _ [pg 37a] 1891 10/12 _ Uncle Arthur left here for home, _ Lydia came down to help Carrie, so as to let Mary stop with Rachel, _ _ _ __ [?] 2mo Stanley & Rachel here stoped [sic] all night with us, _ Mary Ann Valentine sold all her things off _ going up to Pickering to live __ 27 Uncle Henry came here Sarah Foster bringing him here, _ Lydia also came down, & took dinner with us __ mo10 30th Coppied [sic] a verse for S A Derbeshire And Mary Jane Bowerman, __ [11/12?] Dominon [sic] day, Lydia here fixing of her little girl, send her home __ [pg 37b] 13th Stephen & Lydia called on us, also Walter & Mary. _ Our Mary went down to stop a few days with Rachel. _ _ _ __ 29th My Birth day [sic] 87 years old born in the year 1804, in England _ Nathaniel & Isabela Sivetman, happend [sic] in here, after meeting first day also our Lydia, Mary went down to Stanleys _ Nettie Cronk here sewing. _ _ _ __ 6th I went up to John Williams, to see Lydia spent two days with her __ 10_ Rachel came up to see us, to spend a few days, _ __ 16th Rachel went home, 18th Mary up helping J Williams clean a lot of flowels [sic] for Toronto market. _ [pg 38a] 12mo 23rd 1891 Levi took Libbie home, a wet day _ Mary took on the market, with two geese four turkeys & four fowels [sic] _ Lydia here looking after work & the Children myself feeling quite unwell. _ _ _ A new teacher comeing [sic] on after the Holadays [sic]. _ _ _ __ 1892 first month first, so unwell cannot think of any thing. _ Stanley & Rachel here, the former on his way from Belleville _ _ _ My eyesight & memory getting worse _ _ _ __ 19th Levi & Mary went to Picton a very cold day quicksilver down to 24 below zero _ 22 Abigale Garret & Mary Elizabeth here for dinner went to J Williams, and stoped [sic] all night _ [pg 38b] 1892 1mo 23 _ Stanley & Rachel here __ 24 Walter & Mary Levens here first day heard that Joseph Baker in England was dead _ _ 26th Lydia [re?] helping Rahcel about [tucking?] up the babys [sic] cloths [sic] a very cold day, the Children not at school _ __ 26, Had my hair cut did not seem like the right time for Mary, __ 27, Got word that Elizabeth was sick, Levi & Mary gone down Stanley & Rachel gone over to see Mary Levens, for a visit. _ ___ [pg 39a] 1892 2mo 2nd A rough day Our folks gone down to look at the Creamy [sic] _ Stanley & Rachel here yet. _ _ _ __ [?] /31st First day A fine day none of our folks at meeting, Levi & Mary got home in the evening, left Elizabeth quite unwell, __ 2/5 Silvanus Outwaters here for dinner & Ephafram Robinson also from Leeds, __ _6 Our quarterly meeting began, Thomas Robinson & wife here stayed all night with us. _ __ 3mo 24_ Carries birth day [sic] _ 37 years old, Levi walked to meeting _ 25th Robert Cadman here for a call up for wheat at [Labon?] Williams __ [pg 39b] 26 A fine day the Children gone up to J Williams. _ _ _ __ 27 First day Levi & Mary gone to meeting in the buggy _ very bad roads, John Williams & Lydia down here for dinner, made a mistake & did not have the goose __ 4mo 3 Lydia got her dinner with us Levi & Mary gone over to see Mary Levens little boy quite sick, __ Lydia set up her stocking 4/4 1892 _ _ _ [pg 40a] 1892, 4mo 10th _ _ _ Walter & Mary Levens here for a visit __ _11th Second day washing two weeks wash _ _ _ 12 _ Lydia all day, _ Libbie Vincent here in the afternoon. _ ___ 13_ Deborah Dans wife from Belleville also Maud & Mary Levens for a call Carrie gone to Picton with Levi. _ __ 22 Rachel Gone home, been here the last week _ _ [pg 40b] 1892 4mo 23rd Levi sawing wood with his mitts on all day, very cold. __ 24 first day Levi & Carrie went to meeting only two men there Carrie went up to John Williams, after dinner. __ 60 28th Levis [sic] Birth day [sic] 32 years old down to Picton with Rachel, Ella Williams here sewing for Carrie __ 5mo 7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] 54 years old All of us up to John Williams to spend the day a fine day, Ella Willams there also, Oh what writeing [sic] do not think I will try [cut off!! any more. right seems to ? all?] [pg 41a] 1892 5mo 15th Rachel Sills came up for a visit, _ Came to our place the 18th _ next day up to John Williams, with Mother. the eighteenth __ 24th Henry Mullett came here from the States, stoped [sic] with us five days, then went on to Belleville to W Henry Mulletts __ 21st of 5mo Elizabeth Cadman came up, gone over to see Mary Levens to day [sic] with Mary Bowerman, this 29th of this month. __ Yester day [sic] last evening Lydia called me out to see a rain-bow [sic], most likely the last I shall ever see. _ _ _ __ 6/2nd Elizabeth started for home yes- terday, went as far as Picton stoped [sic] all [pg 41b] 1892 6/2 _ night with Stephen & Lydia, went to the Sematry [sic] with Mary & Rachel. _ _ _ __ 4th Still at John Williams Mary Jones & [Aize?] Willse here to see Mother, gone up to see Hillier to attend the quarterly meeting, __ 5th Quarterly meeting at Hillier our folks all gone, I am still with Lydia. Got a bit of Aspargrass [sic] for dinner that Eliza Varney sent me, _ so cold I want a brick under my feet, _ _ _ __ 8th Mary gone down to stop with Rachel a few days, sush [sic] cold weather I have a brick under my feet. _ [pg 42a] 1892 6mo 10th Our Rachels [sic] Birth day [sic] her Mother & Carries two little boys with And Carrie _ Carrie getting the childrens [sic] pictures taken, _ So cold to day [sic] glad to put on another shawl And a brick under my feet. A woman papering the kitchen for Lydia _ My head feeling very light, not much to be wonderd [sic] at, _now most 88 years, _ John Williams brought me in a sprig of the Bay berie [sic] tree, A beautiful bright day. going out to take my [bitters?], and get my lunch, _ expect to go home on first day the 12th of this month. __ 12th Came away from John Williams Frank Waring died last week _ _ berried [sic] last seventh day the 10th 16 _ Carrie started for Yearly meeting Amey Leer here for dinner. Rachel gone to Picton with Lydia. ) [pg 42b] 1892 6mo 23 Lydia down here, als [sic] three friends from the States, Samuel Moon and his wife, als [sic], Rachel Price, who gave us some good advise. _ __ 26_ Libbie here with her husband took tea with us, the three friends at our meeting, John Williams and Lydia was there also, Levi & Mary also leaveing [sic] me at home with the children Carrie not got home yet. _ _ _ __ 23rd Rachel Price & Samuel Moon & his wife was [sic] here, gave me a nice little bit of good advise. _ __ [pg 43a] 20_ Eliza Clark, and Alace Gregory here, the farmer from England, _ Laura Phelps bringing them here for a call took tea with us. __ [?]mo 1st Dominion day Eliza Maria Phelphs And Abby Ellsworth here, also Thomas Clark, _28th George Grubb here an Irish Friend, a minister. _ Robert Taylor brought him here, gave us a good sermon. __ 5th My father & Mother landed in Quebec 70, years ago to day [sic] with eleven children Also Josephs Silvetmans family Mary up to John Williams makeing [sic] soap, Rachel here again, _ _ _ __ [?]th Rachel gone home, & down to see Elizabeth, _ I am going up to stop a few days with Lydia _ [pg 43b] 1892_ 7mo 15th Still up with Lydia very hot weather, John Williams came home last evening _ not feeling much better, complaining of his head a good deal, myself copping [sic] a peice [sic] of poetary [sic] for Phebe Jane Levens. _ Lydia fixing my old dress, _ _ Levi hived a swarm of bees. _ Mary at Fredericksburg yet. A heavy thunder shower about five oclock [sic] in the afternoon. __ _18 Our folks got home from Napanee & Fredericksburgh. _ Rachel comeing [sic] with them, _ __ 22nd A very heavy thunder shower, killed a horse a short ways from our house writeing [sic] to Uncle James, _ mail it the 25th 1892 [pg 44a] 1892 7mo 29th Mary Waring came down t omake us a visit went over to Nathaniels after meeting Mary takeing [sic] of her __ 8mo 2nd Gone up to see Lydia Mary Bowerman cutting my toe nailes [sic] not at all ready to do it, Mary & Carrie up to John Williams picking berries picked most a hun- -dred boxes, Mary Waring stoping [sic] with me, _ Levi helping George Hubbs, _ __ 4 Mary waring went home, _ 12th Columbus Clothier & Katie came 14 Went up to John Williams to tea went to meeting in the morning _ [pg 44b] 1892 8mo 28th _ _ _ Lydia here looking over some old papers _ _ __ 20th Columbus & Katie left here for Bellville, And so back to [Hauntingdon?] Went down to see Uncle Benjamin __ 30th Carrie up to J Williams picking berries. _ _ _ [envelope] [loose piece paper 1] Life! we have been long togather; Through pleasant & Cloudy weather, Tis hard to part, when friends are dear Perhaps, twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warming, Choose thine own time, Say not, good-night, But in some brighter clime, Bid me good morning. Vincent Bowerman [loose paper 2] My Grandfather Bowerman Died at Bloomfield On the 6th of 2nd month 1885 Aged 93 years & 8 months __ Found a Memorandum of Grandfathers this morning, which I coppie for Carrie, _ _ _ “1mo 24th 1882 Is the 32nd year me and my wife was [sic] married 32 years ago this day we were married, in the Friends Meeting-house in Bloomfield.” Deborah Bowerman Aged 80 __ The above was written without Spectacls [sic] __ Vincent Bowerman Died at Bloomfield On the sixth of 2mo 1885 [pg 45a] [blank] [pg 45b] Deborah Bowerman died near Bloomfield Tenth month 24th 1892 aged 87 years and 11 months [pg 46a] [blank] [pg 46b] For Those Grown Old By Wilhelmina Stitch I pray you be not angry, hard or cold With those grown old Two things there be that torture me (How shall such pain in rhyming lines be [told)?] The sound of children crying bitterly, And words like spears, hurled at the [maimed?] old. __ They are so tired; no longer are they girls with youths brave armour warding off Life’s blows, They are defenceless; very swiftly hurt; One sharp word hurled, and lo? the hearts blood flows. They are so very tired; one never knows When they may slip into the arms of Death And sob like children lost and found again And with this hurt, tear-laden breath Till Death, the friend, how they’ve escaped from pain. [pg 47a] Oh, sin indeed to make the old weary of life; They who have had their share of misery & strife Oh, wrap your tenderness about them like a shawl To comfort them and keep them from the cold And let your love build up so high a wall _ The spears of life find not the [maimed? unarmed?] old Copied by Carrie E. Williams July 1928 [pg 47b] [blank] [pg 48a] [blank] [pg 48b] [Newspaper Clippings] LIVING BY THE DAY “I COMPARE,” says John Newton, “the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bun- dle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another which we are to carry to-morrow, and so on. This we might easily manage if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday’s stick over again to-day, and adding tomorrow’s burden to our load before we are required to bear it.” PATIENT WITH THE LIVING Sweet friend, when thou and I are gone Beyond earth’s weary labor, When small shall be our need of grace From comrade or from neighbour, Passed all the strife, the toil, the care, And done with all the sighing, What tender truth shall we have gained, Alas ! by simply dying? Then lips to chary of their praise Will tell our merits ever, And eyes too swift our faults to see Shall no defect discover Then hands that would not lift a stone Where stones were thick to cumber One steep hill, path, will scatter flowers Above our pillowed slumber. Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I, Ere love is past forgiving, Should take the earnest lesson home- Be patient with the living ! To-day’s repressed rebuke may save Our blinding tears to-morrow Then patience-e’en when keenest edge May what a nameless sorrow Tis easy to be gentle when Death’s silence shames our clamour, And easy to discern the best Through memory’s mystic glamour; But wise it were for thee and me Ere love [is?] past forgiving To take the tender lesson to be- Be patient with the living! THE MEDICINE OF SUNSHINE – The world wants more sunshine in its dispo- sition, in its business, in its charities, in its theology. For ten thousands of the aches and pains and irritations of men and women we commend sunshine. It soothes better than morphine; it stimulates better than champagne; it is the best plaster for a wound. The Good Samaritan poured out into the fallen traveller’s gash more of this than of wine, and oil. Florence Nightingale used it on Crimean battle fields. Take it into all, the alleys, on board all the ships, by all the sick-beds, -not a phial full but a soul full. It is good for spleen, for liver complaint, for neuralgia, for rheumatism, for falling fortunes, for melancholy. We suspect that heaven itself is only more sunshine. |