For these blessings may I remember not to eat and rise up to play after those many blessings and Bounties have been bestowed.

19th of 4th mo., 1840.

Closes my 39th year. It was on the 1st day of the week. I went to meeting serious reflections crowded on my mind upon entering my 40th year.

19th of 4th mo., 1841

I am this day 40 years old. When a child I thought to live to see 40 years would be quite aged and true, I find on arriving at that age I feel the infirmity of years. I finished gathering sap and sowed peas in the P.M. and took up appletrees out of my slugsweeting nursery for Wm. C. Blackwood and Oliver Helliker.

19th of 4th mo., 1842

This day completes my 41st year. I see clearly that time is short and flies swift as the wings of the morning. I have endeavered through the day to call to mind the advanced state of my life and hoped that I might renew my life in Christian virtues.

I was busied in the morning on waiting on John Cross and family of ___ who had staid with us over night. I ploughed a part of my garden piece north of the barn, drew and piled up stumps in the PM below the barn. Gideon & Ira went to Orchard lake to fish. Francis & I set out some slugsweeting sprouts & I then fixed and trimmed & hewed 5 small trees in the N.E. corner of the orchard.