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July 28. 1796. Thursday. -

[1796-07-28]
Billings and Sullivan are gone to ...

July 30th. Saturday. -

[1796-07-30]
All hands carting Earth and making ...

July 29. 1796. Fryday.

Docno: DJA03d225

Author: JA
Date: 1796-07-29
Hot after Thunder, Lightening and an Hours Rain. The two Lathrops threshing. Billing and Bass carting Earth. Lathrops threshing. Billing and Bass brought up a third Load of Seaweed. They go on {p. 236} making the Heap of Compost with Lime, Seaweed, Earth, Horse Dung, Hogs dung &c.
Still reading the Second Volume of Petrarchs Life.
Cite web page as: Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses, ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2007.
http://www.masshist.org/ff/