22. My son & his wife sat off for Worcester.

23. Went to church twice at Walpole.

24. Nearly closed taking and dividing Stock at Walpole.

25. Left Walpole for Worcester after dinner. Lodged at Keene.

26. Came from Keene to Worcester in the Coach. Got home at 10 in the Evening.

28. Dismissed James Davis.

29. My son went to Boston.

30. Went once to Church.

31. Begin to repair Stables.

August, 1809.

1. Tim3. Whiting and wife on a Visit. Went to Bank. 2. Minot Thayer-visit.

3. My Son returned from Boston. Sent Mary Ball 78 dollars.

5. Reed 3245 Dollars, part payment for the house I sold in Boston.

6. Went to Church once.

9. Turnpike Directors attended the Committee of the General Court to examine the road, one day. Three of our Servants unwell and lame.

10. My Son went to Providence.

12. My Son returned from Providence.

17, 18, 19. Kitchen Fire very agreeable every evening.

20. Went to Church twice.

21.

22.

Mrs. Thomas & Miss Calef went to Lancaster.
Attended at Bank.

24. Turnpike Directors, one day, at Worcester.

29. Rode out with Mrs. T. My son's wife went to Boston.

30. Rode out with Miss Calef.

31. Charles went to see his father.

September, 1809.

3. Went once to Church.

4. Charles returned.

6. Went to Boston. Called at Mr John Andrews', Jamaica Plains.

7. Coates the broker failed. I lost by him 5000 dols. Attended Turnpike Directors' meeting. Charge 5, 6 & 7th.

8, 9. Employed both days in endeavoring to get security, but could not.

10. Hastings, Etheridge & Bliss' affairs engaged me all Sunday. 12,000 dollars on their paper. They failed for 80,000 dollars. My Son went to Boston.

12. Employed all day on Hastings, Etheridge & Bliss's

concerns.

14. Returned to Worcester with my granddaughter Augusta. Brought up with me 3000 dollars (in Gold), from Boston. Engaged 1000 dollars of Walpole Stock to Felch.

15. Bargain concluded.

17. My son came from Boston with Hannah Weld.

18. Mrs. Thomas & Miss Calef went to Boston in the Coach.

19. Attended Bank.

1 Hastings, Etheridge & Bliss were booksellers at No. 8 State street, Boston.

23. Mrs. Thomas and Miss Calef returned from [Boston], with Mr. Wm. Andrews, &c.

26. Supreme Court. Wm. Andrews and his daughter and his brother's wife returned to Boston.

27. Supreme Court.

28. Mr. Mycall and Moses Thomas spent the week with

me.

30. Rode out.

October, 1809.

1. Went to Church twice. Hon. Tim3. Bigelow dined with me.

4. Chosen again a Director of the Worcester Bank. Missionary Meeting. Dined with the Society.

8. Went to Church once.

10. Note at the bank 1600 dols. for my son.

11. Bargained with Cheever Felch' for all my Stock in trade at Walpole & printing materials, to take payment in 20,000 Watts' Psalms & Hymns at 17 Cents each in Sheets; and 5000 Bibles in 8vo. with Apocrypha, in sheets, at 110 cents each-3 years' credit on interest.

15. Went to Church twice. Mr. Nash preached.

16. Went to Bank.

17. Packed Prichard Books. My brother and his wife came from Lancaster.

1 Cheever Felch, after continuing as a bookseller in Walpole for some time, took orders in the Episcopal Church, and during the War of 1812 was a chaplain in the navy. In December, 1815, while stationed at the Charlestown Navy Yard, he established by command of Commodore Bainbridge, the first naval school for officers ever organized in our navy.

18. Mrs. Thomas, Miss Calef, Eliza & Mrs. Thomas of Lancaster went to Leominster. Isaiah and Miss Weld went to Boston.

19. Mrs. Thomas, &c. returned from Leominster, &c. 22. Went to Church twice.

23. My brother and his wife returned home.

25. Eliza and Miss Calef went to Leominster in a Chaise. Rode out.

26. Dined with Dan'. Waldo.

27. Rode out.

29. Went to church twice.

31. Attended Bank. Eliza and Miss Calef returned from Leominster.

November, 1809.

Charge Turnpike Corporation three days 1st, 2d & 3d. 4th half a day with Mr. Zeigler measuring Chandler's Hill. 1. Went to Boston with Levi.

4. Returned to Worcester.

7. Attended at the Bank.

10. Measured Chandler's hill to ascertain how many feet of ground were dug and carried off, to make the road.

12. Went to Church.

14. Sat off for Walpole. Got as far as Winchendon in the evening. Lodged there.

15. Arrived at Walpole.

17. Sold the printing Materials at Walpole to Cheever Felch for 700 Dollars-Took his note & sold him 3500 dollars worth of the Stock.

.18. Left Walpole at 7 °Clock this morning with Anson Whipple. Lodged at Whitman's in Westminster.

19. Rode home. Stopped at Mrs. Legate's. Arrived at Worcester at 2 °Clock, afternoon.

21. Sat off with Eliza, in the Stage on the old road for Boston.

22. Attended the meeting of the board of Directors of Worcester turnpike, in Boston, at Stone's. Went to the Theatre in the Evening.

23. Attended proprietors' meeting of the Worcester Turnpike at Stone's in Boston. Chosen President pro tem.-again chosen Director-All the officers of the last year were rechosen.

24. Violent Snow Storm; by which I was confined all day to the house.

25. Sat out at 5 Clock in the morning in the Stage for Worcester on the Turnpike road.

26. Went to Church twice.

29.

Agreed to become a partner in a Tannery.'

30. Thanksgiving. My Son & his family, and Wm. Sheldon and his wife dined with me.

1 This was the tannery owned in 1789 by Palmer and Daniel Goulding, and later by Samuel Johnson, and was located on Mill Brook, east of the Exchange Hotel. In April, 1815, Enoch Flagg, as agent for the proprietors, offers it for sale and describes it as "one of the most extensive and convenient Establishments in the State is in perfect repair, and has all the accommodations and necessary Tools for carrying on the business in the most perfect manner. Through the middle of the yard runs a large Brook, which is confined within its banks by a very handsome stone-wall. Appertaining to the yard, is a decent, well-finished House, containing eight rooms-an excellent Garden, and a Well of good water. A few rods from the Tanyard is a building in which Bark is ground by water, and in which is a Patent Bark-Mill, strong and well-constructed. The situation is such as will command an extensive sale of Leather, and experience justifies the unqualified assurance, that a person who is acquainted with the business, who is attentive, judicious, and of good habits, and able to stock the yard, would acquire, by conducting the Establishment, a good estate."

See entries, December, 1815.