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Timothy Meigs Younglove Diary
April 1844
Compiled by
8333 Pleasant Valley Road, Hammondsport, N.Y.
Great-Great Grandson of T. M. Younglove
SEPTEMBER
1 Sabbath
J. McB. & wife, Self & wife went to hear Mr Spaulding preach.
2 Monday
Boys on hill. Tom finished sowing the new ground east of the old ground. I budding, McB & Julia left & took Halsey & Jacob with them.
3 Tuesday
Boys on hill. I budding Mrs Hill died this morning at 2 oclock A.M. Emma sick.
4 Wednesday
I attended Mrs Hills funeral & then helped on the hill. Wm Andrews & wife took dinner here Emma quite sick.
5 Thursday
Got the young horses shod & set some buds. Boys on the new follow Emma better.
6 Friday
CSY & I went to Jn McBs & took Julias things, beds, clothing etc & found them well stituate & in good spirits.
7 Saturday
Looked about & in the afternoon came home found Emma much better.
8 Sabbath
Girls went to meeting Self at home.
9 Monday
All hands threshed with machine. Hough & Jessy helped
10 Tuesday
I went up & sowed 3½ bush. of wheat on the new follow. CYE & Tom harrowing.
11 Wednesday
I finished sowing (½ bus) & CYE finished harrowing. Dus yesterday & today drawing off corn. Tom drew off 255 rails from P. Depews.
12 Thursday
Tom, Dus & boys at corn till noon, a smart shower drove them off. The first one we have had in a long while. Self & Father
went to Bath to see the races. No heats run today but a trotting horse against
Alfred Brundages racer for $60. The trotter beat. The meanest set of men I ever
saw together.
13 Friday
Dus not here, self & Tom at corn.
14 Saturday
Tom very sick with coleramorbus all day. Dus finished drawing off corn. I began to plow corn ground J.H.Hill & Jane Moore here in afternoon. Old Mr Patchin & wife here to dinner.
15 Sabbath
Self & Matilda went to Sams.
16 Monday
I went over to direct the seating of the school house. Plowed in the afternoon. Dus drew off 300 rails from P. Depews now we have 555.
17 Tuesday
I went to Wheeler to get Losey to mend the old waggon & brot home 52 rails for fencing the school yard. Tom & Dus plowing hot & dry.
18 Wednesday
I budded some in the nursery & helped White fix the cistern. Tom & Dus finished & began to cross plow began to fit the cidermill.
19 Thursday
Tom & Dus plowing Mother, Matilda & self went to Bath to attend Doc E.B.Pullings funeral he died yesterday on account of a very slight cut on his fingar, made while attending a postmortem examination upon the body of a daughter of Bagardice of Bath. Who was sent to Doc Case for a premature delivery & died very suddenly there is an intense feeling upon the business in Bath. The examination took place on the night of the 7th & Pulling was taken ill the next day & raved like a mad man ever since The illness can only be compared to the Hydrophobia, he suffered the most intense pain the whole time & when he was put into the coffin the flesh began to drop from the bones.
20 Friday
I went & got 79 small sheep from Wheeler then helped Dus cradle buckwheat brot home the hogs from the stubble Tom
finished plowing by the barn. Boys picked up apples for cider.
21 Saturday
I made cider 3 Ύ bbls for some men in Howard at 12/ Tom began to fence the new ground wheat. Dus cutting buckwheat. Philip helped.
22 Sabbath
The weather heretofore been very hot & dry. It still remains very dry but yesterday the wind blew & a thunder shower passd round. A little frost last night for the first. Clear & a
little cool.
23 Monday
Tom & I went on the hill & began to fence the wheat. Last night a heavy frost Showers & wife started home. Sam got 12 bush. apples. CSY got home from Palmers clear Dus not here.
24 Tuesday
All hands went up & finished the fence around the new ground looked like a storm.
25 Wednesday
Some rain, began to sow the wheat beyond the barn, began to pick apples. I went over & set up with William Baker very sick with sore throat.
26 Thursday
Father & I went to Bath to the Senatorial Convention Geo D. Biers of Ithaca nominated cold & some rain I finished sowing the wheat by the barn & the boys harrowed it in. Tom Dus husked corn.
27 Friday
Picked apples in forenoon & then went to general training J.H.Hill here all night cool Dus not here.
28 Saturday
All hands picking apples. Dus not here. Cold & look like rain or snow.
29 Sabbath
Rainy but the top of the hills are covered with snow. Matilda & I went over to see Wm Baker no better but rather worse, is really considered dangerous. I sat up with him He was easier & thot
better.
30 Monday
Father & I went up & picked out some sheep to sell ewes picking apples found snow on the hills as late as noon.
OCTOBER
1 Tuesday
All hands picking apples warm pleasant weather.
2 Wednesday
All hands on hill threshing buckwheat Hough & Jessy helped.
3 Thursday Picked apples Philips rained so we done but ½ days work Lay Noble came & bot 35 ewes at 12/ per head. David Curtis came & got 11 bush. apples 4/.
4 Friday
CSY & I went down & began to survey the land about the lake covered by highwater Boys pick apples hail storm J. McB & wife & two boys came visiting. Dus quit. B.R.Hurd & wife Father Hoyt & Mariah came.
5 Saturday
Self, wife & our Reading friends went to poor house & then they went home Philip began to work a month. Dus not here.
6 Sabbath
At home cool Revd Mr Wipple died yesterday at 2 P.M.
7 Monday
CSY & I surveyed for T. David by order of the land office. School meeting J.H.Dildine trustee for 3 years McB, wife & Mother went to Mr Whipples funeral cold.
8 Tuesday
Finished off threshing buckwheat, Dus helped us in afternoon & Mr Hough & Jesse. Warm J.H.Hill here alnight.
9 Wednesday
J. McB went home boys husking. Father & I went to look at A.S.Holladay lot. I went over to Bakers about hiring teacher.
10 Thursday
Frank Laughlin & J. Hemmin digging potatoes. Boys husking. Father & I went to Bath. I went over to Bakers in eve. Kate Baker & 3 girls sick had a long talk with Wm about school politicks & etc, all mixed up.
11 Friday
Jo Hemmin, Jim Laughlin & Father in law & Jimy Quin digging. Boys at corn. Matilda & I started for Reading.
121314 & 15
Tuesday came home from Reading found well in there but Harriet & Edwin Matthews both very sick. Caucus in H.P. this evening. I found Rachel Cameron & took her home then came back & heard the Jaw Bone band of Hornelsville sing political songs The Irishmen digging potatoes all the wile I was gone & boys
husking.
16 Wednesday
Husking, I went down & survey for S.B.Fairchild a little. Irish digging potatoes cool.
17 Thursday
C.S.Y. started to take Lucinda home began to rain about 9 oclock. I went & got Mrs Booth. J. Quin & Hagen dug till it raind. C. Ellis & man came to work very rainy.
18 Friday
Dull heavy foggy Tom & I went up & cleaned the buckwheat. Brot down 75½ bus. C. Ellis & man husking. Philip not here.
19 Saturday
Got 40 more bush buckwheat Irish finished digging potatoes Philips not here.
20 Sabbath
I went to hear Mr Wilson & then went up the valley, saw Tom Bakers
wife.
21 Monday
Picked up the apples in the hill orchard, two loads. Philips not here.
22 Tuesday C.S.Y. & I went up & surveyed for Olander Dunning & measured our pine lot. Philips finished husked Tom drew rails from Depews.
23 Wednesday
Agricultural fair today. I took two bucks, two yoke of oxen & basket of apples, got first premium on apples. Tom draw rails & Philips gone to mill. Sam Hoyt & wife, Aunt Polly Hoyt & Hannah, Guy Marshall here. Very pleasant.
24 Thursday
Visiting all day, went round the valley. Tom drawing rails & Philips resetting fence on flat. This is now the third day that the weather has been warm clear & pleasant.
25 Friday
Tom drew rails Philips at fence. Father & I at the cider Our friends went home. Aunt Polly staid pleasant.
26 Saturday
Tom & I went up and cleaned 33 bus. of wheat & brot home, took to H.P. sold to J.W.Davis for 6/6 bot tea set of Randel $6.25. Went over in eve to school meeting pleasant.
27 Sabbath
At home lowery.
28 Monday
Very rainy & cold, sleet on the hill Philips not here. Tom saw wood.
29 Tuesday
C.S.Y. & I went up the hill & got the bucks & little sheep everything on hill is covered at least ½ inch with ice, as it rained & froze yesterday & a little snow The timber is breaking very much indeed I think I never saw trees so loaded. No ice here. Philip not here Tom at wood Snowed some.
30 Wednesday
Snowy bad sour day. Father & I went to H.P. & got some oil to make putty. Tom went to Wheeler & got the old waggon & the rest of the scantling to fence the school yard Killed two pigs.
31 Thursday
We had a meeting to fence the school yard. I went in forenoon & surveyed J.S.Bronsons lot in afternoon we met & dug holes & put together some of the fence. Philips not here Tom
helped fence.
NOVEMBER
1 Friday
All hands at the school yard fence again, finished front & line next to Katy Baker. Agreed to meet again on Thursday next. Tom & boys making cider Pleasant, snow all gone except on north side of hills.
2 Saturday
Went up the hill for the purpose of threshing but so snowy & wet that we did not thresh. Philips & Hough got out dung.
3 Sabbath
At home. Tom Baker & wife here & Mr. Tenlon also. Began to rain just
night.
4 Monday
Went up & threshed with machine. Dus., Hough, Jessy & Philips helped threshed 1200 sheaves & in the evening cut 12 bushels apples for sauce.
5 Tuesday Election Day
Great excitement but the day here passed very pleasantly. No quarreling or disputing more than common very pleasantly got along with I think the whigs were much better organized than the Democrats & had their men better trained & knew their men better More preparation & consquently more unison.
6 Wednesday
Went up the hill & threshed 1450 sheaves, finished & brot home a load. Reasor & Philips Hough & Jessy helped.
7 Thursday
I worked on school fence & railing outside front fence Tom brot down to Adsit 40 bushels wheat, got my town a/c audited $10.25.
8 Friday
Self & wife went to Bath, got Matildas teeth filled paid $1.75 Tom drew down wheat & yesterday fenced stacks. Found Julia & McBurney there, they came home with us.
9 Saturday
I surveyed for John Benedict & Tim Lake. Tom brot the rest of the wheat.
10 Sabbath
McB & I went down to meeting in afternoon. E.Y.Knapp took tea with us The election returns have come in so that it is given up that Polk is elected President. The Whigs do really feel bad while the democrats are flushed with victory fine
pleasant weather.
11 Monday
Went up & began to thrash & broke the rim & quit. Went down to Hport got it mended. Philips helped all day, Hough & Jes helped a little & Dus Tom & Philips got dung.
12 Tuesday
Went up finished threshing the spring wheat & began up on the oats. Got a stone in the thresher & broke the cylinder Dus, Philips, Hough & Jessy.
13 Wednesday
I went up & got 50 bus oats. Tom getting dung.
14 Thursday
I plowed my new nursery & then Tom, boys & I got 120 bus potatoes in the cellar.
15 Friday
Julia & Mc went home. Ed & C.Y.E. went with them. Father & I went to Bath. Fine weather for the season.
16 Saturday
Tom getting dung. Self burning brush on sidehill. I got notice in the evening from the Sheriff H. Magee that I am draughted as a Grand Juryman for next court first week in December. The weather is fine & pleasant Sam here & brot us a forequarter of beef weighing 144 pounds.
17 Sabbath
Pleasant fine day & quite warm. Went up the valley to hear Mr Malory
preach.
18 Monday
Father & I went to Bath to get threshing machine fixd John Disbrows funeral today Saw W.S.Hubbell & sent for Kendalls life of Jackson $3.00. Mr. Theodore S. Brown came this morning & began our school. Tom finished his work tonight & Mat began this morning to work ½ month $4Ό pleasant day.
19 Tuesday
Self, Mat & Hagen getting dung. Tom went to H.P. preparing to go to school.
Very pleasant.
20 Wednesday Got dung, Hagen helped again, cleaned well by the barn. Richard Faulkner & wife here in afternoon Father went up the hill. Warm & pleasant.
21 Thursday
Matthew & I went up the hill & began to plow the ridge field. Very fine pleasant day. Tom & I went to the factory in the evening & got cashimere for each a pair of pants.
22 Friday
Mat & Hough plowed on the hill. Father & I fenced the stacks etc Matilda & I went to Abm Brundages eve visit J. Randel & sisters here.
23 Saturday
Matthew plowing. Hough took our oxen to move J. Daniels school house CSY & I went up & looked over the fields by Huffs to find where somebody had dressed some sheep. H. Barrett told Wm Sprague that he found two sheep heads etc but we could not find them then went to the moving warm.
24 Sabbath
Cold & blustering snow squalls.
25 Monday
Self & Tom went up the hill after the sheep, found that somebody had left the fence down & the ewes, lambs & little sheep all together, brot them down, put the buck with our flock of ewes that are for sale & sorted Mat getting dung. Father & I went to H. P. got some stove pipe I went to J.M. Brundages & got Adsits corn sheller. Very cold First day we foddered sheep.
26 Tuesday
I went up to J. Daniels & got 10 13/16 lard to make medacine for Myras burned head etc Mat at dung turned out the rest of bucks. Cold.
27 Wednesday
I went to H.P. & got gray shod & then went up to the gulf sawmill & got 517 feet of boards of John Faulkneer. Mat finished the dung, got one load of wood. Matilda & Mrs
Taylor went over to Wm Bakers. Cold.
28 Thursday
Very snowy all day, sleighs began to move for first Mat drew wood Father & I picked up about the barn, sorted sheep etc cold.
29 Friday
I surveyed for John Brown & John Allen. Father went up & paid Tillett for pasturing sheep last summer. Mat drawing wood not so cold Sold Sam Fitsimmons a ram for $4. & lent one to Geo. Heverland.
30 Saturday
Mat helped Ira butcher I killed old reds calf then went up to Houghs & got the rest of the oats, the thresher etc. Mr Sawyer the Universalist Minister here to dinner pleasant today snow almost melted off & at night rained hard. Myra quite bad with her burn Emma unwell.
DECEMBER
1 Sabbath This morning the ground again covered with snow & snowing finely.
2 Monday Went to Bath as a Grand Juryman with Judge Larrowe. The Jury was called & Otto F. Marshall appointed foreman. Judge Larrowe charged the jury & after being sworn we retired to the jury room and appointed Edward J. Farnum Clk. Cornelius Herring & Ira Nash of Howard. Lorenzo Whiting Jasper, Alven Mead Greenwood, Charles Oliver Dansville, James Harding Hornelsville, Daniels Curtis Campbell, Benj. B. Hollet Reading. John F. Williams Prattsburgh, Willis Gaylord Hornby. James Pierce Pulteney. T.M.Younglove Urbana. Luther Campbell Greenwood. Edwin Smith Wheeler. Nelson Wollcott Caton. Hiram Averill Cameron. Numbering 22 in all. There were 3 bills of endictment, found one against John White of Howard for the 2nd offence of petitlarceny which amounts to a felony One agains McFarson & William Cramer for assault & battery with an attempt to commit a rape upon a girl by the name of Louisa Cornish and one against Sim Bacon for bribery at election, it was proved by Doc Case and a Mr Likes that he gave a Mr Chapman $15 to vote and vote right. There were several cases of illegal voting, one against Benajah P. Bailey of Painted Post, sometime last summer he moved his family & goods to the city of New York, but his arrangements failed, he altered his mind & returned having been absent from 4 to 6 weeks no bill Another Stephen S. Picksley a pedlar of Patent rights or rather a blackleg voted in Bath under the pretence of residing with Clark, Keeper of the Mansion house never came to Clarks until the 11th May staid one week then left & returned about 10 days previous to election staid over one day went away & returned the Saturday night previous to Election no bill. The Whigs (with a few honorable exceptions) seemed to be determined that no enquiry should be made relative to illegal voting They endeavored to bluff off everything in that shape as every complaint was on the same side Esq Oliver & Mr Curtis particulaly took the lead & were foiled by Peck & Gaylord Esq Averill was appointed examiner & Job Goff Assistant. On Tuesday evening J. McB & I came home as he was attending court as a witness.
2 Monday to 7 Saturday
We got dismissed Saturday between 10 & 11 oclock A.M. Got a dollar per day & 7 cents a mile. I paid 5/ per day for my board at R. Browers I came home on foot. The weather was been warm with some rain during the week & Saturday fine indeed. J.D. Blanck came as far as the poor house We had a long chat. Jac Willhelm has been five days this week making an ox sled. No school Saturday.
8 Sabbath
Cold, Father & I went up to the Matthews farm & got some sheep that were left there by mistake 65 ewes & 40 lambs & a little sheep brot them home & turned out two bucks.
9 Monday
Father & I cut a pine tree brot it down & made a hog trough Sorted some sheep then went down & got shoe set on Fannys lame foot. Cold.
10 Tuesday
Set a barpost at barn. Hung a gait by old stable door, picked up about the yards etc etc Cold & a prospect of snow. Mc & wife.
11 Wednesday
Went up & fitted up the yard round the Matthews barn Took the horse power to our thresher up & put it in the barn. Yesterday McB. Wife & Hals & Jac came. Matilda & I went & took carpet rags to Mrs Cadwell went to H.P. Cold.
12 Thursday
Thanksgiving today. Had a chicken pie for dinner. Tom Baker & wife, Jn McB & wife & Mr Brown here to dinner. I went down to Adsits & got 300 brick & 3 bus lime to fix fireplace very pleasant.
13 Friday
I went to Esq Powers & got a load of sand a bile coming on my nose very sore. Ewes & lambs mixed cold.
14 Saturday
Father & I sorted the sheep & then he went to Dus barn & mended racks. I went to H.P. to get White fix our fireplace. Could not get him, got Parker. Cold My bile very soar.
15 Sabbath
Cold day S.L.French buried a child today I staid in house all
day with my lame nose.
16 Monday
Park & myself took down the back of the chimney with a view of turning the fireplace into the kitchen. Dirty job. Hough tended mason Very cold.
17 Tuesday
Parker & I at the chimney again. Hough helped. I went to H.P. & got a crane eye made. Matilda with me cold very.
TIMOTHY M. YOUNGLOVE DIARY 1844
DECEMBER
18 Wednesday
Again at chimney Parker & Hough John Quick here preparing to butcher the hogs.
19 Thursday
Parker finished the fireplace, paid him $4.50. Geo Stone, John Quick & I killed hogs 6, cut them up & finished all off. I went down & got a barrel of coarse & one of fine salt
20 Friday
Salting meat etc Huff come & got sled.
21 Saturday
No school. C.S.Y. went to Bath. Father & I fixing the bobsleds. Tom cut wood I went H.P. in evening, got up a petition for M.H.Rose for P.M. Mr Homes here.
22 Sabbath
At home reading Kendalls Life of Jackson, just come & writing to H.R.Pierson. South warm & thawing some. J.D.Blanck here.
23 Monday
Father & I went to H.P. got Sawney shod & the back fastened on to the sleigh Signed M.H.Roses petition for P.M. in H.P. Cold & snowy heavy wind.
24 Tuesday
C.S.Y. started for Allegany for Lucinda fixed the bob sleds & got our load of wood pleasant day.
25 Wednesday
Father & I went to Prattsburgh to celebrate the day by delivering to the town a banner offered to the one that would give the greatest Dem Maj. P.Burgh gave 152 & drew the prize. It was handed over to Judge Leland with a very appropriate & recd by Judge VanValkenburgh in a very fine but short speech. The whigs tolled both bells fine warm day. C.S.Y. got home with Lucinda. Matilda went to dinner party at John Brundages no school.
26 Thursday
Father & I went up the hill & got the harness & brot the ewes home & took the bucks away. Sent back 101 our ewes are some of them having lambs. In evening went to H.P. to caucus warm & inclines to rain.
27 Friday I went to Bath to convention to nominate Judges Loan Commissioners etc. A very spirited convention Levi Nox of Wayne & Charles Lefferts of Hornelsville Judges A.P.Ferris & Hiram Hess Loan Com. Very cold.
28 Saturday
Father & I making sheep racks. cold.
29 Sabbath
Matilda went to meeting & I went over to Texas to see James Ellis who got his leg broke wrestling with John Willhelm at school a few days since. Pleasant day.
30 Monday
Father & I at work at sheep racks Myra no better, quite a high fever.
31 Tuesday
Myra no better quite a high fever. Father & I at work at sheep racks again. The weather is still pleasant. We have had but very little snow thus far a great many squalls but at no time do I now recollect of having an inch of snow at a time. The fall was uncommonly dry & has remained so since the roads have been good & smooth almost the whole time The weather is pleasant, not having had very cold weather but much warm & pleasant this day closes the old year.
(Copied & edited by L. Paul Wood, 8333 Pleasant Valley Rd, Hammondsport, N.Y.) great great grandson of TMY,)
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