4th mo., 19th, 1858

This closes my 57th year. I drawed on sawlogs in the forenoon with Ira for John Frost & 7 for myself. Finished planting onions in the A.M. And in the P.M. set out 28 peach trees west of the house. James Mills helped me set them. This was a slim spring for making sugar. Reubin Weres works for me this season with Otis & James.

The years grow shorter. My contimplation this morning the 20th before I arose from bed was that I might improve in a better life for the years seem to grow shorter.

4th. mo., 19th, 59

Brings me to the close of my 58 year. I was very sick & lame in 10th & 11th mo. last with the Rheumatism Billeous fever & the Disentary. The first complaint lasted me all winter but wore off mostly through the spring So that my health now is rather good. My eyesight has improved since my sickness. It was this year that I sold my farm for $40 per acre. I was under the necessity of selling on the account of having to pay out so

much money for Samuel & Stuart. This step in selling to George Chamberlin was one of much serious thought & reflection But on the whole think it was the best thing that I could do, though with some misgivings it was that I had made up my mind to leave my old home of 33 years standing. James Mills (a colored boy) and myself put up the stake & rail fense just west of the corncrib or worked at it.

This was the year that brother Ira died. 9th mo. 21st, 58 So death is thinning our numbers But

4th mo, 19th 5th day of the week closes my 59th year. I have been just a week in my new home in the old Dr. Wixom house hired of Abram Lapham. I spred straw in the morning of this day on the N.W. lot on the farm. Gideon & Otis ploughed. Otis went