Tuesday.–Grandfather took us to ride this afternoon and let us ask Bessie Seymour to go with us. We rode on the plank road to Chapinville and had to pay 2 cents at the toll gate, both ways. We met a good many people and Grandfather bowed to them and said, “How do you do, neighbour?” [...]
Saturday. – Our brother John drove over from East Bloomfield to-day to see us and brought Julia Smedley with him, who is just my age. John lives at Mr Ferdinand Beebe’s and goes to school and Julia is Mr Beebe’s niece. They make quantities of maple sugar out there and they brought us a dozen [...]
Canandaigua, N.Y. November 21, 1852.–I am ten years old to-day, and I think I will write a journal and tell who I am and what I am doing. I have lived with my Grandfather and Grandmother Beals ever since I was seven years old, and Anna, too, since she was four. Our brothers, James and [...]