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Jan: 1777
1 31 hogs killed
9 17 hogs killed
27 20 hogs killed
Feb: 1 a beef killed
11 a mutton killed
18 a beef killed (66 lb. of tallow in cellar)
Mar: 5 11 doz. & 2 candeles in the cellar
8 made 100 lb of soft soap 2 geese killed
7 beds 7 bolsters 10 pillows 7 pr of blankets
5 mattresses one straw bed 6 counterpains
14 made a pot of hard soap not weighed
15 made 40 lb of soft soap
25 made a pot of hard soap not weighed
made 6 doz & 10 candles
28 a beef killed kept only one quarter 10 lb. tallow
a goose killed 2 ducks killed a shoat killed
April 7 2 ducks killed
9 a shoat killed
T.Jeff. 14 old fine shirts 9 ruffled ditt. 12 new plain
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M. Jefferson 10 old ruffled shifts 4 new ones, not made
8 old ones ditto 8 night caps 6 fine linen Aprons
8 coarse ditto 6 pr of silk hoes 6 pr ditto of
cotton
Pattey Jef. 7 new shift 2 night caps 9 frocks 4 pr
stockings 2 laced tuckers 2 hemstitched do
April 15 a beef killed sold one quarter yield 10 lb. of tallow
17 made 8 doz candles
a shoat killed
20 made 68 lb of soaft soap
31 a shoat killed
May 4 a shoat killed
6 a mutton killed
8 made 2 doz candles
12 french beans planted sugar, 2 & ditto mazzeis,
13 a shoat killed made 17 candles
sowed – pudding peas & gallevance ditto a shoat killed
19 a shoat killed
26 a lamb killed
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June bought 15 chickens from old Jenny
bought 11 [ditto] of Juno bought 8 [ditto] of Jackson
bought 10 ditt of Squire bought 4, ditt Fanny
bought of Jupiter bought O[?] of Phill
bought of Will bought of Mrs Scot 8 ditt
n:b: all these were pd. for with bacon
July bought 7 doz from Ellkhill
bought 14 ducks & 4 geese
Aug 3 2 ducks killed
4 packed up for our own eating 28 hams
of bacon 21 shoulders 27 middlings
packed up for workmen 40 hams
50 shoulders a goose
12 killed 2 ducks killed
13 a goose killed
14 2 ducks killed & a shoat
15 a goose killed
a goose bought
6 geese at 18d a peice 2 geese given me
bought 5 ducks
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23 2 ducks killed
24 a goose killed
28 a lamb killed
2 ducks killed
29 a goose killed
30 a shoat 2 ducks killed
Sep. 1 a goose killed
2 a goose & shoat killed
3 a mutton killed
4 2 ducks killed