Adams Family Correspondence, volume 10
Shaw at this place I call N1. Shaw at the other No2
october 30. Shaw No 1 & 2 carting Sea weed. Joy getting wood Trask Hayden & Minos the No leged Negro diging potatoes5 Arnold & Bass spreading sea weed Copland absent. Statson in the Garden—
31 Shaw No1 Bass Arnold joy Minos at the Beach medow diging potatoes very small & slow work— driven of at 12 oclok by a heavy Rain. Spread sea weed in the afternoon shaw No 2 at home getting wood for himself & making a pigs trough Stutson in garden
Novbr 1 All Hands at the Beach medow. left only half a dozen Bushel
2d. sunday—
3d Shaw No1 No 2 joy and Copland splitting Hills Arnold & Bass spreading sea weed, a drisly wet day—
4th Shaw No 1 & 2—Copland Arnold Bass joy & Minos diging potatoes at shaws place
5 all Hands at potatoes stutson Garden
6 ditto—
7th shaw & Howard killing creatures6 Bass & Arnold employd all
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day in bringing round the Scow— Copland Minos shaw No2 & joy at potatoes
8 shaw No1 & Bass loading the Scow & carting up sea weed joy Shaw No 2 Arnold Copland Minos diging potatoes
9th sunday—
10th shaw & Bass loading the Scow & carting up sea weed shaw No2 plowing captain Beals joy Copland Arnold potatoes