EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL AND LETTERS.
Some extracts from the journal as a beginning to this chapter will, Ihope, be interesting to some of the descendants:
"Aug.2nd, 1802--Richard Lowerison's barn burned.
"Aug.7th--Mr.Milledge preached at church.Got upland hay all up.
Have 60 tons good hay in barn and in stock.
"Aug.28th--Quarterly meeting at our house.
"Sept.10th--Mr.Albro dined at our house." (Mr.Albro was a Halifax man who traded in cattle.)"Dec.28--John McCormick, apparently in good health, died instantly at night.
"May 10th--Mr.Marsden started to-day for the Conference.
"June 26th--Mr.Bent arrived at our house to-day and went over to Tantramar.
"June 27th--Mr.Bent preached his first sermon in Tantramar.
"May 3rd, 1803--William Bennet started for Conference.
"Dec.--Mrs.McMonagle's house was drawn from the plain to Mount Whatley.
"Jan.9th, 1806--W.Wood Fillmore was married to Nancy Patterson, of Cole's Island.
"April 5th, 1806--Tolar Thompson brought a large birch log across the marsh on the ice, and also a load of grain to the mill and returned the next day.
"June 16th--Harmon had the old shop drawn to his house, had 17 yoke of oxen.
"William Allen was buried at the churchyard at Camp Hill, attended by a large concourse of people.Mr.Mitchell preached the sermon.
"Nov.29th--Mr.Roach lost his vessel; the Capt.and two men were drowned; 515 firkins of butter saved.
"Jan.12th, 1806--This day Wm.McKenzie was found dead, sitting in his chair, supposed to be frozen to death.
"June 3rd, 1808--Wm.Black came to our house and Mrs.Black and son, Martin Gay.Mr.Black preached at Stone Chapel.
In February of same year, "Mr.Foster came to mill in a cart and John Patterson from Cole's Island with a sled.""Jan.19th, 1808--Mr.Bamford moved to our house.
"Jan.25th--A meeting to confer about the Byto*; nothing was done.""Jan.3rd, 1809--Martin Black married to Fanny Smith."[FOOTNOTE: *This, I suppose, was the aboideau that had to be abandoned, to which reference has been made.END OF FOOTNOTE]