Fri.Sep 1 Came in coudy and unpleasant. Rained some. In the forenoon I ironed some for Aunt Emma. There has quite a number called to see Louisa today. Toward night I called down to Mrs. Lucy Brockway. Mrs. Rebecca Lord and Sarah Jane Anderson are to watch with Louisa to night.
Sat Sep 2 It has been another unpleasant day, rained a little. Louisa is failing fast. In the afternoon I came up to the (stores) and found Father and Oscar there, and came home with them in the boat. Uncle (Wilks) died a day or two ago, he has been unwell for a number of years, he was 82 years old.
Sun Sep 3 It was cloudy in the morning but soon came off warm. Louisa died this morning at about 7 o'clock she was but 16 years old. Mother went down there and spent the day. Angeline Tooker and Ulysses Warner were published in Hamburgh and married in Westbrook. This evening I have been at the school house and heard Mr. Chas. Wood deliver a lecture on Slavery. It was very good.
Mon Sep 4 Was a warm day. Father, Mother, Oscar, Isabel, Lewis and I went to the funeral, it was attended at 1 o'clock, there was a great many there. Mr. Waggoner preached the funeral sermon.
Tue. Sep 5 Was a warm day. We washed. Isabel spent the night with Celia B.....
Wed Sep 6 A pleasant day. Uncle Horace, Aunt Rhoda and Lucy Ann Brockway and two of her children spent the day here. Ellen has gone up to C B's to spend the night.
Thu Sep 7 A warm day - thunder shower last night. Mother spent the afternoon at Mrs. Frank LaPlaces. Isabel is going to spend the night with Ellen LaPlace.
Fri Sep 8 A warm day. I spent the afternoon at Harriet LaPlace's. Heber came home to spend the night, the vessel is bound up the river with a load of coal.
Sat Sep 9 A clear day, but the wind blew hard at the westward.
Sun Sep 10 A rainy day. It thundered and lightened last night, all night and rained very hard.
Wed Sep 13 A pleasant day. In the morning Father carried Mother down to Essex in a boat, & she walked back to night.
Fri Sep 15 A pleasant day, rained hard last night. Mother went up to Mrs. Miners and spent the afternoon. Mrs. LaPlace was there too. Oscar is 16 years old.
Sat Sep 16 A pleasant day. Mr. Rankins youngest child was buried she was 15 months old and died of the dysentery. The school closed for the season.
Sun Sep 17 Another pleasant day. Mother and Father went over to Hamburgh to hear the Rev. Moses (Balou) preach.
Mon Sep 18 A pleasant day. We washed. Mr. Osborn of Long Island took the steamboat, his wife died about a week ago.
Tue. Sep 19 A very windy day, cloudy in the morning and mostly through the day. Mother, Father and Oscar went on board the steamboat to go as far as Lyme ferry and then take the cars to New London. After they had gone, Mrs. Tiley and three daughters, (?) , Emily and Rebecca came here intending to spend the afternoon, but as Mother was gone they went up to Mrs. Ezekiel Brockway's all excepting Rebecca who spent the afternoon with me. Julia Harrison spent the night here.
Wed Sep 20 It has been a clear but very windy day. Mother, Father and Oscar came home. Mother brought me a green (merino) dress and Ellen & Isabel a (de..laise) one. I commenced to work on a pair of undersleeves.
Thu Sep 21 It has been another pleasant day. Ellen made a quilting she invited Celia Brockway, Leona Chapel, Ellen Brockway, Caroline LaPlace and Alice Tooker. Harriet Tooker was here, she came over to see if I would go to N.Y. with her in the sloop Intent, her father's vessel.
Fri. Sep 22 A pleasant day, I packed up to go to N.Y. and at night I went over to Harriet Tooker's and spent the night.
Sat. Sep 23 Another pleasant day. We started in the morning to go on board the vessel, we walked down to the cove & Capt. Tooker and Joseph Hayden took us to the mouth of the cove where the vessel was, in the long boat, we arrived on board the Intent about 7 o'clock and (saved) the tide most down to Essex and as there was no wind we anchored there until afternoon and then went down to Saybrook, we could not get over the bar then so lay there through the night. Towards night we went on shore and visited Lady Fenwick's tomb she died in 1648 and was one of the first settlers of Connecticut.
Sun Sep 24 A pleasant day, but the wind being ahead we were obliged to stay in Saybrook another night. Towards night Mr. Geo. Whittlesey a young man clerk in the Mr. Geo. Dickensons store, called on board.
Mon Sep 25 Another pleasant day, but cloudy at night, the wind still ahead.
Tue. Sep 26 In the morning a little cloudy but pleasant the rest of the day. In the morning we got under way and went over the bar about 10 o'clock with the wind ahead and they had to beat. Harriet was a little seasick but I was not. A little afternoon we had got most to Falkland Island there the wind died away and the vessel hardly moved, until towards night the wind sprung up again and at dark, Falkland Island was far in the rear. When we retired for the night, New Haven light was in view of us. Wednesday morning we were off Huntington Light, the vessel rolled and pitched so the night before that Harriet and I did not sleep much so we were up at daybreak. It was cloudy in the forenoon, in the afternoon warm and clear. We arrived in N.Y. about 4 o'clock P.M. and hauled into Tyson's slip, we had a very nice sail, we passed several islands and some with beautiful dwellings on them: on one there was an orphans school and on another was a state prison (v alms) house and we saw a great many people to work there, there was a great many women all with blue dresses on, they appeared to have been a washing by the looks of the clothes that were hung out. We saw one man imprisoned with his arms and legs through the (gates). The first thing when we get in N.Y. , a man came on board and wanted us to buy some (polishing ) of him he had but one paper left and that was broken open, he asked a (s-hling) for it we did not trade. Then we had a seranade.
Thu Sep 28 It was foggy in the morning, but very warm the rest of the day. After dinnner Capt. Tooker, Harriet and I went up to the depot and took the one o'clock train of cars for New Rochell. Capt.. Tooker took the next train of cars back to N.Y... Harriet and I sprent the night at her Aunt Deborah Hitts, she keeps house for Mr. Albert Seer her daughter Deborah's husband. Deborah died last August of the consumption she lost two children before she died all she had: we found Mrs. (Br ...........) there, she that was (An) Elizabeth Hitt she lost a child not long ago, all that she had. Mrs. Hitt is cousin to Father, she has two children with her, all that she has that are not married. Towards night we took a walk down where Mrs. Brundage (?) she spent the night with us.
Fri Sep 29 It was cloudy in the morning but clear and warm the rest of the day. Very warm for the season. At about 10 o'clock we left Mrs. Hitt and walked out to Pelham, about two miles and a half to Mrs. Hinmans Mrs. Brundage and Kate Hitt went with us, we found Mrs. Hinman quite smart for her, but Martha her oldest daughter was sick with the fever and ague which disease has been quite prevelent there this season. In the evening Oscar Hinman carried us a riding, we rode up to Mt. Vernon. Three years ago there was but 4 farms there and now it is a village of about 700 houses, after we go back we played (plays), and Chas. Hinman played the accordian. Mr. Campbel and his wife are living at the Hinmans, Mrs. Campbel is sister to Mrs. Hinman.
Sat Sep 30 Was a pleasant day, a little cloudy at night. In the morning we went down to the store and back. In the afternoon Charles Hinman carried us down to New Rochell to the depot and we took the 4 o'clock train to N.Y.. Capt.. Tooker met us there. His vessel lay in Quinces slip, he had not found any thing to load with. In the evening we went to the National Theater, we watched ("Eustache the co--dessred") acted out , also the "French spy" and the "magic rose".
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