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Monday 10 November 1834

7 ½

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no kiss fine cold frosty morning F44 ½° at 9 35 am - read from p. 399 to 436 end of vol. 1 Gutzlaffs’ history of China - breakfast at 9 – had S.W- gave order for Richard Woodhead to fit up Pickells’ stable with 2 cow and one horse stalls immediately to be done this week – for 45/. to 50/. finding wood and labour - S.W- brought me plan of the Godley slopes intended to be sold by Mr Stocks and 2 or 3 other commoners together with some other bits of ground – adjoining the Godley road and the new bank part of the old Wakefield road – just staid to finish breakfast and came away -  A- off to Cliff hill at 10 35 having had much talk to S.W- about dividing the property – determined upon it – he convinced A- had better name it to the Sutherland’s herself first and he, S.W-, have nothing to do with it - from about 9 ¾ to 12 ½ making extract from vol. 1 Gutzlaffs’  China - note to A- from Mr Parker (she out) with Mr Hirds’ lease -  

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down the old  bank to Halifax at 1 to Mr Parker’s office about the Godley slopes (Godley road embankment)  – Mr P- had been confined to the house with a bilious attack 2 or 3 days – about ½ hour with him - to be a meeting of the commoners on Monday - Mr. Adam will attend - to buy for me what adjoins me, and to prevent the 150 yards near the new present turnpike being sold at all, if possible - if not, to get it for me if law and money can do it - Mr. P- said they had just sold to Isaac Green a field in Gibbet lane (for £900 I think he said) at about 2/10 a yard the field through - or which field with 2 others had been bought for £900 in 1832 - my 2 fields in Hopewood lane are on Day’s map no. 277 = 2D.W..0qrs.6p. and no. 279 =2D.W.0qrs.5p. - Mr. Eastwood going to give up business as a sort of working Jeweller’s shop - the young man going into the stone trade having married Mr. Greenwood’s sister (the mason’s son who has got on so well at College (Cambridge?) and to have the stone in Northowram in a farm of his - E- had inquired if P- knew of a place in the country with a little land - would Mytholm do? I said E- had better see it - there were about 30D.W. or 32 forgot which I read and I had asked Pearson £65 per annum rent but the place must be put up to let by ticket - P- said Mr. Sutcliffe would like to stay on at Northgate - well! said I, if he will take it on my terms i.e. on a running lease from then to their, so that I have it at liberty when I like, I will not be so hard about the rent - in that case, I should not think myself bound to stick up to the £120 a year which I have asked - P- to ask him what rent he will give - then (after being full ½ hour at Mr. P-‘s) to the liberty - Mr. J. Waterhouse junior there - shewed him the plan of the slopes, and begged him to explain to his father and say I should be glad to see him at Shibden Hall having much to say on other business subjects - JW- junior sure I should find his father at the counting house and walked with me there - 1 ¼ hour talking about the road and navigation - he cares not about buying that part of the embankment opposite his farm - the commoners will not allow it to be planted and it is good for nothing else - it was Mr. Emmet of the Back lane said so much against my being allowed to plant the piece I had got - well! said I, nobody needs to be against it - I want merely a copse wood, and don’t care much about it - I should be willing enough to sow it with whin seed (I have plenty) if that would do any good - of the farm belonging as I thought to Mr. W- he has only 1/3 jointly with Mrs. Empson and the late Mrs. Christopher Saltmarshe - Mr. S- does not care about it, and the E-s want him to buy their share but he will wait till he sees what is to be received from the commoners for land taken - thinks the 150 yards ought not to be sold - does not believe a word of Joseph Wilkinson’s having bid 10/. stocks a yard for it - said I understood Stocks’s object was to erect a beer-ship on it which I wished to prevent and would not let the land go for 10/. a yard if I could help it - asked for a list of the proprietors of the navigation - excused himself from giving it and could hardly believe that he had lent me one to copy before said any proprietor could consult the books at Mr. Norris’s and gain any information from him - would get me from him a copy of the last act - I saw Mr. W- was rather shy of saying much - he said it had not been made law to make the concern public and he thought it was prudent not to do so - he offered me the loan of a sort of balance sheet which I declined saying I merely wished to know the sum total of stock which I noted down from the last settlement dated 31st May last = £159631.15.7 there is nothing in hand - at least if the dividends were due just now there would hardly be enough to pay them said I had lately heard much about the concern and hoped the money was laid out judiciously - this seemed a sorish subject - yes! all laid out well - nothing could be said against anything but perhaps too much had been spent at Salterhebble and it appears there was some inadvertence on the part of the subcommittee on this point - I asked if it was true that the canal was to be deepened for large vessels - no direct answer - but this plan seems to be the favourite one with W- and his friends - it would be good for the coal trade which goes on 2/3 of the line to be able to ship the coal in vessels that could coast it in London - canal and docks, all would be to alter, but something must be done - old Briggs now the largest proprietor - William B- 1 of the subcommittee timorous - none of them liked the responsibility of determining with a general meeting of the proprietors - W- urged the necessity of the subcommittee giving a decided and unanimed opinion in which I agreed - WB- will only give an opinion as an individual - no member of the subcommittee more diligent in inquiry into the business than Mr. Hodgson and he satisfied with all that had been done - I asked if as a friend W- would advise me to sell out - no direct answer - but situated as he was he should not like to sell out in a hurry - a good investment - always marketable - owned shares might sell less well than now for by and by much money might be to be advanced - had been no transfers these 3 months - when I said I had reason to suppose I could sell at £430 he seemed surprised - would not take up himself to say there never would be a railroad but it would not be supported by the people of this parish - the Leeds and Selby a poor concern - would never pay till there was a railroad from East to West right across the country - the proprietors of our navigation would never have anything to do with a railroad - I asked if the half million spent on widening the Aire and Calder and the ½ ditto spent on Goole paid well - W- answered that was such an immense concern, nobody could tell except those who had an intimate knowledge of it in all its bearings - there is to be a meeting of the subcommittee on Wednesday and will probably be a general meeting soon - said I did not wish to sell out if the concern of ours was likely to go on well - had no wish for parsimony, cared not what was laid out if it was laid out reasonably and paid a reasonable interest - W- owned a railroad would hurt the canal, but when I said would it diminish the profits one half? he seemed to think not - I came away with the impression that W- the Messrs. Rawson and co. want a ship-canal that twice cent per cent must be raised on the original stock, and that this measure will be carried without a well-sustained opposition - W-owned it was a risk to run - but there was hazard in everything - even to let it alone, was hazard - yes! I agreed that something must be done, but the question is, what - sometime at Greenwood’s (the cabinet maker) about washing-stand for north chamber etc - home at 4 35 Mallinson just come to see if we could get  a window to light the little landing place near my aunt’s room door – no! not for the gutter – gave up the thought – nailed up with board the hole made in the under drawing  - thinking of getting a borrowed light from my aunt’s room - talking to A- telling her all and ¼ hour

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with my father – dinner at 6 ¼ - coffee downstairs – played 4 hits of which lost 3 – then talking about the navigation concern and looking over maps – ¼ hour with my aunt till 10 10 - then till 11 writing the 2 last pp. and so far of this - cold windy day - a slight shower about 12 ¾ pm F45 ½° now at 11 pm - took back to the library vol. 1 Gutzlaff and brought home vol. 2

[sharanya-farms]

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[wutbju]

That little driveway there off of East North street in 1955 has always intrigued me.

It's a big house. And I lived right near that spot from 1992-1996. Who was there? What's their story?

Victor Daniel Gifford was the son of a horse farmer and a horse farmer himself. That spot there (what is now Profs Place and Tassel Trail on BJU's back campus) was Victor's farm. He called it Oakledge Farms.

He judged horse shows and participated in them. He boarded horses and bred them. The horse that the Greenville News talked about the most was named "Genius."

He and his wife Lucy had one daughter, Angeline Rita Gifford, who spent at least one year up at Wheaton.

Victor's wife, Lucy Wright Gifford, had been an invalid for 14 years after a hip fracture when she died at 81 years old in 1965. She was just a few months older than Bob Jones, Sr., btw. Yet officially he officiated her funeral with her pastor, Walt Handford (John R. Rice's son-in-law).

Bob Sr.'s inclusion had to be a mere formality because, according to faculty stories, he was pretty infirmed by this point.

Yet...

Right after Lucy died with Bob Sr., BJU put Mr. Gifford on the Co-operating Board of Trustees.

There's only one reason that happens: control.

And usually financial control.

Mr. Gifford was 82yo himself at this point.

When he died, his daughter Rita inherited that property. But get this.

Rita Gifford didn't sell that property to BJU until November 6, 1998! She lived out in Simpsonville at this time.

So from at least 1970 to 1998, BJU just leased this land.

They built on it. They charged rent for houses on it. They put barbed wire around it.

And it wasn't theirs. Personally, this surprises me. I had no idea BJU didn't own the land they were charging me rent for.

[avillion-farms-reviews]

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I used to lease a farmhouse on the edges to move away from our busy plans for getting work done or to invest energy with family. Reviews of Avillion farms surfaced to me. This year, rather than frequently renting, we made the decision to purchase our own Gated Community Farmland near Bangalore. The businesses buy a large piece of land, divide it into smaller pieces, and build the infrastructure needed.

[ericasaffron]

Field Trip #5

I was surprised when we first visited Spitalfields City Farm, because I was thinking the farm to be in the countryside rather than in the middle of the town. At first, I thought the farm was small as the other areas were hidden when you first walk towards the entrance.

Speaking with Phillip We first spoke to Chief staff member Philip, he talked about the history of the farm and pointed the problems with the farm, particularly with funding and how they would want more visitors to donate.

We learned that Spitalfields city farm is 1 out of 12 city farms in London, and It was created in 1978 after the World War 2 bombing when local people took over the land and started growing vegetables. The Tower Hamlets council owns the farm and the current lease lasts 25 years, with 9 years left. There’s a current conflict between the local community at the farm and the mayor.

The farm is a registered charity, and Philip said it was a charity before being a farm and a space for the community to use.

It costs 35,000 per month to maintain the farm, and there are currently 10 staff, with around 6 staff being full-time employees. The farm experienced financial difficulties 4 years ago, and financial management is a problem. Currently, there are 8 trustees and 4 live locally, and Phil expressed that it's hard to recruit good trustees.

There are 2 gardeners and one person who is connected to the Bangladeshi community and specialises in growing South Asian crops.

I was surprised to hear the amount of money needed/extended monthly to keep the farm running. It was a lot higher than I expected. Phil told us that the farm has grown in an ad-hoc way, and there are a lot of temporary wooden structures that's not being used for anything.

Warm spaces need to be improved as it becomes a concern during school visits, and also the toilets require plumbing.

Near the farm, there are 2 primary schools. One 95% Bangladeshi school and one catholic school. Phil wants more young people aged 16-17 to get involved with the farm and show that farming can be a potential career path.

Currently, there are no structured free activity for visitors, but there are scheduled activities for school visits.

The farm struggles to track the exact number of people who come to the farm and Phil wants to convert visitors to potential donors. Currently, there’s a QR code where people can donate near the entrance of the farm.

There have been consultations with the community in the past, asking about what they like and dislike about the farm. Farm Tour When we had the tour with Emma, the farm was a lot bigger than I expected. During the tour, we got to see all the animals at the farm -there were ferrets, rabbits, ducks, goose, pig, goats, sheep, and donkeys.

We found out that a farm is a non-slaughter farm and a lot of the animals here at the farm has been adopted from other farms. Most animals are elderly animals and animals who have lost their teeth or blind. The chickens were rescued from the battery factory and the produce from the farm and eggs is sold to the public.

I didn’t manage to feed their animals but did manage to pet one of the donkeys at the farm and that made me feel nice as I don’t really get to experience visiting the farm that often. It reminded me of my childhood where I rode a pony, seeing all the donkeys and the ponies together.

I made notes whilst Phil was talking and shared it with the group on Slack. Whilst making the notes, I wrote down some comments of my own:

Regarding tracking number of visitors of the farm being an issue, this could be giving a paper ticket to every visitor that visits the farm and tracking the number on a paper, have a register where visitors can write their name or sign their name on the register and that can be used to track the number of visitors.

After writing these comments down, I realised that I was leaning more into solutions and becoming a solutionist which was not the objective of this module.

[hakesbros]

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[madibe16]

I’ve enjoyed learning about my people that came before me, you know, all the genealogy and DNA stuff. Doing my research makes me think of being a detective searching for clues. I love finding new and interesting (maybe just to me) stories of my ancestor's lives, through the bits and pieces of clues I’ve found. I posted on Facebook recently about a woman who disguised herself as a man and fought in the American Revolution as a patriot. Her name was Deborah Samson, and she was my 4th cousin 6X removed. I’m writing stories about different ancestors, to be able to combine them into a book for my family. If people are interested, I’ll be writing and posting about a different ancestor at least one a week, that’s my goal, and I’m sticking to it!  My next story is about Rebecca Towne Nurse, one of the victims of the Salem Witch Trials, she was my 9X great-grandmother. Something I found out was my parents were 10th cousins, both being related to Rebecca’s father William Towne. My mother came down through Rebecca, my father came down through her brother Joseph. 

Rebecca Towne Nurse 

(1621-1692)

9X great-grandmother

Rebecca Towne was born on February 13th, 1621, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. She was the eldest of eight children of William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne. William and Joanna arrived in America c. 1635, with six of their children, the last two were born in Salem Massachusetts. 

In 1644 Rebecca married Francis Nurse (1617-1695) who was born in England and emigrated c. 1640. The first mention of him in Salem, lightly crossed out in court records, (probably by a sensitive descendant) is the presentment on March 31, 1640, of “Francis Nurse a youth for stealing of victuals (food) and for suspicion of breaking into a house”. Francis was only 19 at the time and apparently was hungry, but his integrity and character improved over time, and thought of later in life, as an upstanding member of the community.

Rebecca and Francis raised their eight children on a farm in Salem Village, now known as Danvers Mass., near Salem. Their children were John Nurse b. (1645-1719), Rebecca (1647-1699), Samuel (1649-bef.1720), Elizabeth (1656-1733), Mary (1657-1749), Francis (1660-1716), Sarah (c.1651-1754), Benjamin (1666-1747) . Our family comes down through John. 

By trade, Francis Nurse was a tray maker, which included making many other wooden household articles, as well as farming, because the demand for trays could hardly produce an adequate living. 

When the colony and the towns of Salem and Topsfield made early grants of heavily forested land, not much attention was paid to accurate boundaries. The result was that as they were cleared and cultivated, the obscurely defined grants were found, in some cases, to overlap. In 1678, Nurse had hardly been given possession of the 300-acre parcel of land, that he had made a deal to lease to own when the conflict of the boundaries descended on him.  (This farm still exists and is preserved as the Rebecca Nurse homestead).

Many books have been written about the Salem Witch Trials, so I’m not going to go into too much detail about that. Except to say, I believe the problems for Rebecca started years before the trials. There was the issue of the land grants and confusion about the boundaries, which produced a number of enemies. Also, the issue of Rebecca’s mother Joanna Blessing Towne, who twenty years earlier had been accused of witchcraft. (It was believed at that time that witchcraft was spread among family members, especially among the maternal line). The cause of the witchcraft accusation, some believe, was because Joanna testified in court on behalf of Rev. Thomas Gilbert, who was the first ordained minister of Topsfield MA. According to resources “...he was tried for intemperance and as there was no doubt of his guilt, his connection with the church was severed”. “The charge was not on account of his use of wine, but because of his coming intoxicated to the Lord’s table”. Joanna had testified saying she had witnessed the incident in question and stating the Reverend had not had too much to drink. Her defense of Gilbert contradicted the testimony of the very powerful Capt. John Gould (1635-1710 my 10th great-granduncle). In addition, it was said Joanna had been heard speaking ill of her daughter-in-law’s mother, Phebe Gould Perkins (1620-1686 my 10th great-grandmother), the oldest daughter of Zaccheus and Phoebe Deacon Gould. Zaccheus’ sister Priscilla was the wife of Putnam patriarch John Putnam of Salem Village. Making enemies of both the Goulds and Putnams was not wise. It’s very possible that Joanne became a target for going against them. 

The boundary dispute between Topsfield, Salem Village and Salem Town, went on for many years. 

The third generation of the Putnam family was Thomas Putnam Jr. his wife Anne Sr. along with their daughter Anne Jr. who were the principal accusers during the witch trials. Thomas was responsible for accusing 43 people, his daughter was responsible for 62, Rebecca Nurse being one of them.

With the boundary dispute principles between Salem Village, where the Putnam family led the faction, and Salem Town, where the Porter family led the faction, the Nurse and Town families followed the Porters, who identified with the mercantile town. Those same lines of dispute explain the pattern of witchcraft accusations. The same villagers who stood with the Putnam’s, show up as complaints on witchcraft indictments during the trials. Similarly, many of the accused in Salem belonged to the Porter faction.

People have been giving reasons for the witchcraft trials for centuries, from witchcraft, and ergot fungus poisoning on the barley to greed and hatred. I believe it was greed for land and revenge.

In 1692, Rebecca Nurse was 71 years old and had raised 8 children. She was a fervent churchgoer and was well known for her piety; but also, being only human, she could lose her temper on occasion. A newspaper of the day referred to her as “saintlike”, and a perfect example of good Puritan behavior. Rebecca would be accused, tried, and convicted of witchcraft and put to death without the legal protections Americans would later get. 

Rebecca was accused on March 19th. A warrant issued on March 23rd for Nurse’s arrest included complaints from Anne Putnam’s Sr. and Jr., Abigail Williams, and others. Rebecca was arrested and examined the next day. (During her examination on March 24th, she was quoted as saying: “I can say before my Eternal Father I am innocent and God will clear my innocency… The Lord knows I have not hurt them. I am an innocent”). She was accused by townspeople, Mary Walcott, Mercy Lewis, and Elizabeth Hubbard, as well as Anne Putnam Sr. who testified that the ghosts of Benjamin Houlton, Rebecca Houlton, John Fuller, her sister Bayley, and her three children, came to her at various times in their winding sheets and cried for justice of being murdered by Rebecca Nurse. Anne Putnam Sr. “cried out” during the proceedings to accuse Nurse of trying to get her to “tempt God and dye” Rebecca stoutly denied the charges, but was indicted for witchcraft. She remained in jail.

On April 3, Nurse’s younger sister Sarah Towne Cloyce came to her sister Rebecca’s defense. Sarah was accused and arrested on April 8th. 

On April 21, another Towne sister, Mary Towne Estey, was arrested after defending her sisters. 

On May 25th, judges John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin ordered the jail in Boston to take custody of Rebecca, Martha Corey, Dorcas Good (Sarah Good’s daughter age 4) Sarah Cloyce, John and Elizabeth Parker, for acts of witchcraft committed against Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Hubbard, Anne Putnam Jr, and others. A deposition written by Thomas Putnam, signed on May 31, detailed accusations of the torment of his wife, Ann Putnam Sr. by Nurse and Corey’s “specters” or spirits. 

 On June 2nd four indictments were returned against her for afflicting persons. On June 3, a grand jury indicted Nurse, and John Willard for witchcraft. A petition from 39 neighbors was presented on Rebecca’s behalf and several neighbors and relatives testified for her. On June 28, 29 and 30th, witnesses testified for and against Rebecca. Several witnesses, at that time, testified they were afflicted by her, that her apparition pinched and choked them, and was threatened by death. Rebecca’s body was searched for a “witches mark” of which one was found. On the same day, Rebecca was examined, Bridget Bishop, John Proctor, Alice Parker, Susannah Martin, and Sarah Good were also forced to undergo physical examinations by a doctor, with some women present. Nine women signed the document attesting to their exams. A second exam later that day stated that several of the observed physical abnormalities had changed; they attested that on Nurse the “witch mark” “appears only as a dry skin without sense”. Again nine women signed the document.

The trial was a sham and a virtual mockery of the judicial system. The complaint against Rebecca was signed by Edward and Jonathan Putnam, family members of Thomas Putnam. At her trial, testimonials regarding her Christian behavior, care and education of her children, brought a verdict of not-guilty. But a guilty verdict for Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Susannah Martin and Sarah Wildes. William Stoughton, (a colonial magistrate and administrator in the Province of Massachusetts Bay) then politely asked the jury to again retire and reconsider their verdict. Stoughton was not satisfied with the verdict. He wondered what Nurse had meant when, after Deliverance Hobbs was brought into the courtroom to testify against her, Rebecca had said, “But she is one of us”. Nurse was brought back into the courtroom and asked: what had she meant? Rebecca did not answer, she was old, hard of hearing and overwhelmed. She stood silently, her silence was interpreted as an admission of guilt. The verdict was reversed and she was found guilty. Later, she explained in a statement, that she said what she said because Deliverance Hobbs had been in jail with her.   Grave charges have been made against the chief of justice in this case, as he practically forced the jury to reverse their not guilty verdict. 

Rebecca was condemned to hang!

The Massachusetts governor, William Phips issued a reprieve which was met with much protest, was soon rescinded. Rebecca filed a petition protesting the verdict, pointing out she was “hard of hearing and full of grief”, and had been unable to hear the last question asked of her. 

On July 3rd, Rebecca was taken into the Salem Church and excommunicated in front of the entire congregation. 

On July 12th William Stoughton signed death warrants for Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, and Sarah Wilde.  All five were hanged on July 19th on Proctors Ledge. 

As was the custom at the time, after Rebecca was hanged, her body, along with the others, was buried in a shallow grave near the execution spot. They were considered unfit for a Christian burial in a churchyard. According to oral tradition, Nurse’s family secretly returned after dark and dug up her body, to be properly buried later that night, somewhere on their homestead. The exact location was kept secret by the family because they were afraid her body could be dug up and taken away, by those who prosecuted her. In 1885, some descendants of hers erected a tall granite monument at the Rebecca Nurse Homestead cemetery. The inscription on the monument reads:

Rebecca Nurse, Yarmouth, England, 1621. Salem Mass. 1692

O Christian Martyr who for truth could die

When all about thee owned the hideous lie!

The world redeemed from superstitions sway

Is breathing freer for thy sake today.

(From the poem “Christian Martyr” by John Greenleaf Whittier)

In 1706, one of her accusers, Anne Putnam Jr., gave a public church confession upon entering the Salem Village Congregation. She expressed great remorse for her role against Rebecca and her two sisters, Mary Estey and Sarah Cloyce, in particular. “I desire to be humbled before God for that sad and humbling providence that befell my father’s family in the year about ‘92; that I being in my childhood, should by such a providence of God, be made an instrument for the accusing of several persons of a grievous crime, whereby their lives were taken from them, whom now I have just grounds and good reason to believe they were innocent persons; and that it was a great delusion of Satan that deceived me in that sad time…” The Nurse family accepted Anne’s apology and were reconciled with her. 

In 1711, Rebecca’s children petitioned the government for a reversal of attainder, which they received, and were granted compensation for Rebecca’s wrongful death.

In 1712, the Salem Town church reversed the verdict of excommunication it had passed on her, “that it be no longer a reproach to her memory or an occasion of grief to her children”. 

The Nurse family lived in the homestead for many years. Eventually the house and land were sold to Phineas Putnam, a cousin of Rebecca’s great-great-grandson, Benjamin, in 1784. The Putnam family remained at the Nurse’s homestead until 1905. By 1909 the farm was saved by volunteers and turned into the Rebecca Nurse Homestead, a historic house.

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Just watched A California Christmas on netflix and I could totally see Kara as a struggling dairy farmer fighting to keep her family's land, with Lena as the big city stooge sent to make Kara sign a bill of sale.

In the movie the big city guy is pretty much a layabout until he goes to the farm, which I have a hard time believing for any universe Lena is in, so in the supercorp version I think Lena would be cutthroat and ruthless and exceptionally accomplished, but I think she'd have lost her passion for it a long time ago. She's just going through the motions, and her mother Lillian has long noticed it.

So Lillian sends Lena out to do her dirty work-- charm the cute farm girl and talk her into selling her land over, and be back before Christmas, with the promise of a promotion at the end of it.

Except by the time Lena gets to the farm she's already spilled coffee on herself and has had to raid the clothes donation box in the back of the SUV for something more casual. The result being that she's mistaken for a new ranch hand and is roped into helping deliver a baby calf the moment she steps on the farm.

Realizing she's found her way in, Lena continues to pose as said ranch hand, Winn-- "short for... Winnifred, but my friends call me Winnie," Lena revises quickly-- while her friend and driver/assistant Jack tracks down the real Winn and pay him off for both his discretion and his expertise as Lena struggles through the daily tasks of a ranch hand.

It's rough, Lena soon realizes, and difficult work. But... she enjoys it? And the cute farm girl Kara makes it all well worth it. Slowly, Lena learns her way around the farm, and bonds with Kara, her sister Alex, and her young cousin Clark. Little by little, as the weeks creep closer to Christmas, Lena and Kara find themselves falling in love.

But Kara's friend and wishful suitor Mike has his suspicions and makes it his mission to find out the truth. When Jack learns that Lillian is heading out to the farm for a visit and an explanation why Lena doesn't have the signed contract, he and Winn scour the area for Lena and Kara, and are overheard by Mike. Mike puts the pieces together, finally understanding that "Winnie" isn't the person she says she is. He sends the proof to Kara.

Lena intercepts Lillian near the farmhouse the next morning, determined not to let her take Kara's farm. But Lillian is obstinate, and Kara is furious, so Lena is exiled while Lillian makes her pitch. It's a generous offer, given how much debt Kara is in, and Kara doesn't know what else to do. In a last ditch effort to keep her pride and her farm, Kara insists on taking 24 hours to review the contract and make her decision.

She throws Lena off her property after Lillian leaves, unwilling to hear out her desperate explanations. Lena returns to Jack and Winn (who have spent the intervening time bonding over video games and wine), despondent and heartbroken and wracked with guilt. Winn finds a bottle of wine that is still in Lena's truck-- wine that Kara's family occasionally made back when the farm was doing well.

Turns out, the wine is amazing, and when they take it to a wine connoisseur, discovers that there's an intense demand for more. So Lena returns to Kara's farm, both to apologize and to tell her of the new plan to save the farm. They work all night to return the neglected vines back to their former glory, and the wine guy comes the next morning to see the vineyard and taste the supply Kara has on hand. He's very impressed, and is interested in leasing the vines and buying the stock on hand. The sum he offers is considerable, enough to get the farm out of debt for good.

Kara is able to decline Lillian's offer, and later Lena calls her mother to explain why she did what she did. But Lillian cuts Lena's apology short. As much as she... dislikes having a deal fall through, she's actually proud of Lena. She hasn't seen this kind of passion from Lena in years, and that Lena made a decision she thought was right and stuck to it is commendable. Lillian tells Lena the promotion is still hers, if she wants it.

Oddly, though, Lena doesn't need it.

To celebrate the farm's new success as a vineyard, Kara and her family host a party. Alex and Clark help Lena secretly spruce up and decorate the old dairy barn for the event, surprising Kara the day of.

When Kara learns that Lena has helped with the preparations, the last of her anger at having been deceived recedes, leaving only affection in its place. Lena reintroduces herself, and explains how even though she had hated the work she did for Kara, she also loved every minute of it... loved her life on the farm in a way she's never loved her life before. She'd been happy. With Kara.

Kara informs her that the ranch hand position has been filled, but... she could be persuaded to work something out. Her grin is puckish, and Lena beams as she leans in for a Christmas kiss....

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Treaty Between the United States and the Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi Indians Signed at Chicago, Illinois, 8/29/1821

File Unit: Ratified Indian Treaty 117: Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi - Chicago, August 29, 1821, 1789 - 1869

Series: Indian Treaties, 1789 - 1869

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006

Transcription:

Articles of a Treaty made and concluded at Chicago in the State of Illinois between

Lewis Cass and Solomon Sibley Commissioners of The United States, and the Ottawa, Chippewa, and

Pottawatamie Nations of Indians.

Article I". The Ottawa, Chippewa and Pottawatamie Nations of Indians Cede to the United States all

the Land comprehended within the following boundaries: Beginning at a point on the South bank of the River

St. Joseph of Lake Michigan, near the parc aux Vaches due North from Rum's Village, and running thence

South to a line drawn due East from the Southern extreme of Lake Michigan, thence with the said line East

to the tract, ceded by the Pottawatamies to the United States by the Treaty of Fort Meigs in 1817. if the said

line should strike the said Tract, but if the said line should pass North of the said Tract, then such line shall

be continued until it strikes the western boundary of the Tract ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Detroit

in 1807, and from the termination of the said line following the boundaries of former cessions to the main branch

of the Grand River of Lake Michigan, should any of the said lines cross the said River, but if none of the said

lines should cross the said River, then to a point due east of the source of the said main branch of the said

River, and from such point due West to the source of the said principal branch, And from the crossing of

the said River, or from the source thereof, as the case may be, down the said River, on the north bank thereof

to the mouth; thence following the shore of Lake Michigan to the south bank of the said River St. Joseph,

at the mouth thereof and thence with the said south bank to the place of beginning.

Article 2. From the Cession aforesaid, there shall be reserved, for the use of the Indians, the following Tracts,

One tract at Mang-ach-qua Village on the river Pebl'e, of six Miles square. One tract at Mick-ke-saw-be- of

six Miles square.

One Tract at the Village of Na-to-wa-se-pe of four miles square.

One Tract at the Village of Prairie ronde of three Miles square.

One Tract at the Village of Match-e-be narh-she-wish, at the head of the Kekalamazoo river.

Article 3. There shall be granted by The United States, to each of the following persons, being all Indians

by descent, and to their heirs the following tracts of Land.

To John Burnet, two sections of Land.

To James Burnet, Abraham Burnet, Rebecca Burnet, and Nancy Burnet each one section of Land. which said

John, James, Abraham Rebecca and Nancy are Children of Kaw-kee-me sister of Top-ni-be principal Chief of the

Potowatamie Nation.

The land granted to the persons immediately preceding shall begin on the north bank of the river St. Joseph,

about two miles from the mouth and shall extend up and back from the said river for quantity.

To John B. La Lime son of Noke-no-qua one-half of a Section of land, adjoining the tract before granted,

and on the upper side thereof.

To Jean B. Chandonai son of Chip-pe-wa-qua two Sections of Land on the river St. Joseph, above and ad-

-joining the tract granted to J. B. La Lime.

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To Joseph Dazé son of Chip-pe-wa-qua one Section of Land above and adjoining the tract granted

to Jean B. Chandonai. To Monguago, one-half of a Section of Land, at Mish-she-wa-ko-kink.

To Pierre Moran or Peeresh a Potawatamie Chief One Section of Land, and to his Children two Sections of

Land at the mouth of the Elk heart River.

To Pierre Le Clerc, son of Moi qua one Section of Land on the Elk heart River, above and adjoining the

tract granted to Moran and his Children.

The section of land granted by the Treaty of St. Mary's, in 1818 to Peeresh or Perig shall be granted to

Jean B. Cicot son of Pe-say-quot sister of the said Peeresh, it having been so intended at the execution of the

said Treaty.

To O-she-ak-ke-be or Benac one half of a Section of Land on the North side of the Elksheart river,

where the road from Chicago to Fort Wayne first crosses the said river.

To Me-naw-che a Potawatamie Woman one half of a Section of Land, on the eastern bank of the St. Joseph

 where the road from Detroit to Chicago first crosses the said river.

To Theresa Chandler or To-e-ak-qui a Potawatamie Woman and to her daughter Betsey Fisher one Section of Land

on the South side of the Grand River, opposite to the Spruce Swamp.

To Charles Beaubien and Medart Beaubien Sons of Man-na-ben-a-qua, each one-half of a Section of Land,

 near the Village of Ke-wi-go-shkeem on the Washtenaw river.

To Antoine Roland, son of I-gat-pat-a-wat-a-mie-qua one half of a Section of Land, adjoining and below

the tract granted to Pierre Moran.

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To William Knaggs or Was-es-kuk-son^ of Ches-qua one half of a Section of Land adjoining and below the

tract granted to Antoine Roland.

To Madeline Bertrand wife of Joseph Bertrand a Potawatamie Woman one Section of land at the Parc aux

Vaches on the north side of the River St. Joseph.

To Joseph Bertrand Junior, Benjamin Bertrand, Laurent Bertrand, Theresa Bertrand and Amable Bertrand, children

of the said Madeline Bertrand, each one half of a Section of Land at the portage of the Kankakee river.

To John Riley, son of Me-naw-cum-a-go-quoi, one Section of Land, at the mouth of the river au Foin, on

the Grand River, and extending up the said River.

To Peter Riley the son of Me-naw-cum-e-go-quoi, one Section of Land at the mouth of the river au Foin

on the Grand River, and extending down the said River.

To Jean B. Le Clerc son of Moi-qua one half of a Section of Land, above and adjoining the tract granted

to Pierre Le Clerc.

To Joseph La Framboise son of Shaw-we-no-qua one Section of Land upon the South side of the River

St. Joseph, and adjoining on the upper side the Land ceded to The United States, which said Section is also

ceded to the United States.

The Tracts of Land, herein stipulated to be granted, shall never be leased or conveyed by the grantees or

their Heirs to any persons whatever, without the permission of The President of the United States.

And such tracts shall be located after the said Cession is surveyed, and in conformity with such surveys,

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as near as may be, and in such manner as The President may direct.

Article 4. In Consideration of the Cession aforesaid, The United States engage to Pay to the Ottawa

Nation, One Thousand Dollars in Specie annually forever, and also to appropriate annually for the term

of Ten Years the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars, to be expended as the President may direct, in the

support of a Blacksmith, of a Teacher, and of a person to instruct the Ottawas in Agriculture, and in the

purchase of Cattle and farming Utensils. And the United States also engage to pay to the Pota-

-watamie Nation Five Thousand Dollars in Specie Annually for the term of Twenty Years, and also to

appropriate annually for the term of Fifteen Years the sum of One Thousand Dollars, to be expended as

the President may direct, in the support of a Blacksmith and a Teacher. And one Mile square shall

be selected under the direction of The President, on the north side of the Grand River, and one mile

square on the South side of the St. Joseph and within the Indian Lands not ceded, upon which the

Blacksmiths and Teachers employed for the said tribes respectively shall reside.

Article 5. The stipulation contained in the Treaty of Greenville relative to the right of the Indians

to Hunt upon the Land ceded, while it continues the property of The United States, shall apply to this

Treaty.

Article 6. The United States shall have the privilege of making and using a Road through

the Indian Country from Detroit and Fort Wayne respectively to Chicago.

Artcile 7. This Treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the Contracting parties, so soon as

the same shall be ratified by The President of the United States by and with the advice and consent

of The Senate thereof.

In Testimony whereof, The said Lewis Cass and Solomon Sibley Commissioners as aforesaid and the

Chiefs and Warriors of the said Ottawa, Chippewa, + Pattiwatimie Nations have hereunto set their

hands at Chicago aforesaid, this 29th day of August in the Year of our Lord one Thousand

eight hundred and twenty-one.

In presence of —

Alex. Wolcott Jr. Ind. Agent.                                           Lewis Cass,                

Jno. R. Williams, Adjt. Genl. M. Ma.                             Solomon Sibley.

                                                                                           Ottawa's{ [written vertically]

G. Godfroy Indian agent                                          Kewagoushcum his + mark

W. Knaggs Indian agent                                          Nokawjegaun his + mark

Jacob Visget                                                                  Kee-o-to-aw-be his + mark

Henry I. Hunt                                                               Ket-che-me-chi-na-waw his + mark

A. Phillips PMsr. US Army                                       Ep-pe-san-se his + mark

                                                                                         Kay-nee-wee his + mark

                                                                                        Mo-a-put-to his + mark

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Mat-che-pee-na-che-wish     his x mark

R. Montgomery                                                                                                                          Chippewa's{Met-tay-waw     his x mark

Jacob B. Varnum US factor                                                                                                                           {Mich-el     his x mark

John B. Beaubien -                                                      Quoi-quoi-taw his x mark                               To-pen-ne-bee his x mark

Conrad Ten Eyck                                                          Pe-an-nish his x mark                                        Mee-te-ay his x mark,

J. Whipley                                                                        Wy-ne-naig his x mark                                      Chee-banse his x mark

George Miles J                                                               Onuck-ke-meck his x mark                             Loui-son his x mark

Henry Connor                                                               Ka-way-sin his x mark                                        Wee-saw his x mark

James Barnerd                                                             A-meck-kose his x mark                                    Kee-po-taw his x mark

John Kenzie. Sub Agent                                           Os-see-meet his x mark                                     Shay-auk-ke-bee his x mark

                                                                                            Shaw-ko-to his x mark                                        Sho-mang his x mark

                                                                                            No-shay-we-quat his x mark                            Waw-we-uck-ke-meck his x mark

                                                                                           Mee-gwun his x mark                                           Nay-ou-chee-mon his x mark

                                                                                           Mes-she-ke-ten-now his x mark                      Kong-gee his x mark

                                                                                           Kee-no-to-go his x mark                                     Shee-shaw-gan his x mark

The tract reserved at the Village of                    Wa-baw-nee-she his x mark                             Aysh-cam his x mark

Matchebe-nash-she-wish at the                          Shaw-waw-nay-see his x mark                       Meek-say-mank his x mark

head of the Ke-kal-imazoo River, was               Atch-wee-muck-quee his x mark                   May-ten-way his x mark

by agreement to be three miles square.          Pish-she-baw-gay his x mark                           Shaw-wen-ne-me-tay his x mark

The extent of the reservation                               Waw-ba-saye his x mark                                    Francois his x mark

was accidentally omitted.                                     Meg-ges-seese his x mark                                  Mauk-see his x mark

Lewis Cass                                                                  Say-gaw-koo-nuck his x mark                          Way-me-go his x mark

Sol: Sibley                                                                    Shaw-way-no his x mark                                    Man-daw-min his x mark

                                                                                           Shee-shaw-gun his x mark                               Quay-guee his x mark

                                                                                           To-to-mee his x mark                                         Aa-pen-naw-bee his x mark

                                                                                           Ash-kee-wee his x mark                                    Mat-cha-wee-yaas his x mark

                                                                                           Shay-auk-ke-bee his x mark                            Mat-cha-pag-gish his x mark

                                                                                            Aw-be-tone his x mark                                      Mongaw his x mark

                                                                                                                                                                                  Pug-gay-gaus his x mark

                                                                                                                                                                                  Ses-cobe-mesh his x mark

                                                                                                                                                                                  Chee-gwa-mack-gwa-go his x mark

                                                                                                                                                                                  Waw-seb-baw his x mark

                                                                                                                                                                                  Pee-chee-co his x mark

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Vancouver Island (CDN) project aims to nurture next generation of farmers

Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture, an 83-acre farm in North Saanich on Vancouver Island, opened in January, 2021.

Stephanie Jacobs spends her Saturdays knee-high in soil and manure, planting medicinal herbs in a quarter-acre plot that used to be the car park of a racetrack. This is the closest she has come to owning her own farm, something she has dreamed of since she was a child.

“Farming is my passion in life,” she said. “It connects me to the ecosystem in a larger way.” After looking for farming land near her home on Vancouver Island[1] for two years, she’d given up – land prices were far too high. Plus, even if she had been successful in her search, she wasn’t entirely sure she would be able to take the long, physically demanding days for such slim profits.

Then, she heard about Sandown. Sandown Centre for Regenerative Agriculture is a 83-acre farm in North Saanich on Vancouver Island[2]. It is located on an old racetrack, nestled in the shadow of Victoria Airport and downstream from an Amazon warehouse.

Ms. Jacobs works in the hot afternoon sun cutting yarrow flowers at Sandown.

The centre opened in January, 2021. It is a non-profit that is focused on regenerative agriculture – an eco-friendly approach that integrates livestock, removes tillage and uses crops that are good for the soil to sequester carbon and increase biodiversity.

But Sandown is also interested in fostering the next generation of farmers through what they call their farmpreneur program – an initiative that provides farmers with affordable land and the knowledge, support and community they need to become financially viable. The program helps them get started by leasing them plots for a fraction of what it would cost to purchase or lease land for a farm.

The economic challenges posed by farming stretch beyond Vancouver Island. According to the Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council[3], 47 per cent of agricultural producers can’t find enough workers, leading to $2.9-billion in lost sales. This labour shortage is only getting worse. As of 2017, a quarter of farmers were set to retire by 2025. Simultaneously, 200,000 fewer young people were entering the industry.

“We are facing a shortage of farms and farmers primarily because new farmers cannot purchase land,” said Ms. Jacobs. “It is simply out of reach financially. The program at Sandown offers farmers an opportunity to access land at an affordable rate to start farming.”

Once in the program, the farmpreneurs are given help with marketing their produce, and research on how to best cultivate crops. They are also connected to the other farmpreneurs, and encouraged to foster a sense of community and camaraderie.

“We asked ourselves: ‘How do we incubate new farmers and support them to learn?’” said Lindsey Boyle, board member and co-founder at Sandown. “Not only on how to farm regeneratively – which is a climate solution and a way to grow better food – but how do we support farmers to learn in a way that’ll make them want to stick around?”

This means giving farmers guidance on how to make their operation financially viable. According to Ms. Boyle, selling produce is rarely enough, especially when competing with cheap imported goods, and especially when considering the huge upfront investment farming entails. For example, Ms. Jacobs has planted perennials such as raspberry bushes in her plot, the equivalent of a quarter of a football field. She will not reap the fruits of this investment for at least five years.

Ms. Boyle therefore argues that today’s farmers must think about multiple revenue streams. One short-term example would be to market farms as a wedding venue until they can make more money through farming. Other options are to teach agricultural students, and provide services such as consultations on soil health to the general public. Ms. Boyle would also like to see an agri-tourism sector fostered on the island.

“We call it farmpreneur because we want to fix this narrative that farming is a ton of work and that you’re barely scraping by,” said Ms. Boyle. “We really have to make it so people are well set up and supported to successfully run a business, which in many cases is more than just selling the food you grow.” But other options start at the roots. Sandown is researching the ways in which regenerative agriculture could be more financially viable in the long term.

Matthew Kyriakides is the manager of land resources at Sandown and a PhD student at the University of Victoria. Over the next few years, he will be working with 20 plots of degraded land, and will be using various techniques – some traditional and other regenerative – to see if he can bring the land back to health. He is hoping that the regenerative techniques will prove to be more successful, and more financially viable.

Matthew Kyriakides, manager of land resources at Sandown, will spend the next few years seeing if he can bring 20 plots of degraded land back to health.

While the traditional techniques will be straightforward – a single crop, placed into land that is tilled, and controlled via pesticides – the diversified techniques will use a combination of techniques. In some, the land will not be tilled, and in others, Mr. Kyriakides is using cover crops – specific crops grown for the protection and enrichment of soil – and animals, such as sheep, for weed and pest control. “I’m hoping I can find a win-win with this,” said Mr. Kyriakides. “And I feel quite confident that a diversified system will be the way to go.”

However, Ms. Boyle thinks that farmers won’t be truly financially successful until a larger, structural issue is tackled: supply chains. According to Ms. Boyle, the upfront costs of farming are huge and without a marketplace that offers stable, guaranteed prices for local produce, most would-be farmers simply won’t be able to justify the risk.

“We need a business model that will connect farmers to the people who need a secure supply of produce,” said Ms. Boyle. “We need them to forward-pay, to build relationships where those growers can trust that there is going to be a market for what they’re doing.”

Ms. Boyle thinks that this will allow local, regenerative growers to scale up, making agriculture more sustainable, both environmentally and financially. “We need to support financially to get to those bigger volumes,” said Ms. Boyle. “We need to provide that financial incentive so people won’t see this as a small-market niche.” When Ms. Jacobs thinks of the future, she also envisions an updated, more community-based agricultural industry, one that will support her, her family and their lifestyle moving forward. “I dream of being able to let my kids run into the field and eat raspberries until their bellies are full,” said Ms. Jacobs. “And then still have enough to be able to give to other people.”

Source

Kate Helmore, Vancouver Island project aims to nurture next generation of farmers, in: The Globe and Mail, 6-08-2022, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-regenerative-agriculture-sandown/

[1] Vancouver Island is an island in the north-eastern Pacific Ocean and part of the Canadian province of British Columbia. The island is 456 km in length, 100 km in width at its widest point, and 32,134 km2 in area. The island is the largest by area and the most populous along the west coasts of the Americas. The southern part of Vancouver Island and some of the nearby Gulf Islands are the only parts of British Columbia or Western Canada to lie south of the 49th parallel. This area has one of the warmest climates in Canada, and since the mid-1990s has been mild enough in a few areas to grow Mediterranean crops such as olives and lemons. The population of Vancouver Island was 864,864 as of 2021. Nearly half of that population (~400,000) live in the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia. Other notable cities and towns on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Courtenay, and Campbell River.

[2] Geographically, the Sandown site sits between two village sites: the original Tseycum village called W̱SE¸IKEM, or Tsehum Harbour, on the east side of the peninsula, and the later village site on the west side, where the Tseycum community lives today. As North Saanich became a centre for agricultural activity, the lands now known as Sandown became part of the 500 acre (!) Glamorgan Farm. The handsome buildings from this historic family farm are still in operation, right across the road.  https://www.sandowncentre.com/about

[3] The Canadian Agricultural Human Resource Council is a national, non-profit organisation focused on addressing human resource issues facing agricultural businesses across Canada. https://cahrc-ccrha.ca/

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Saturday 22 March 1834

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up at 6 for ½ hour with bowel complaint and therefore went to bed again - fine morning no white frosty even at 6 am F50 ½° at 9 25 am at which hour breakfast - Mr. Parker came at 9 ½ from Mr. Pollard to say that a man of the Rawson was going to build a steam chimney near St James church –would be a detriment also to my propriety - would I join Mr Pollard and the feoffers at Waterhouse’s charity to buy the ground of the man? could have it for £400 and should not lose more than £20 or £30 a piece by it in selling it for cottages - I declined having anything to do with it - Mr P- brought Mark Town’s lease which I signed - spoke to him (Mr. P-) about the sale of the Staups property - advertised p. 2 Hx Guardian of this morning - the public house and Staups buildings and William Green’s house and 23DW.1qrs.19p. make lot 6 - should like to buy it - without saying by whom mentioned having £8000 bid for Northgate without the sheep-croft or 2 fields above H-x - he thought it a pity to let so much money lie dead, or rather producing so little as at present - said I was not much inclined to let it go at that price - would rather buy what I wanted and borrow money for the time and pay off by and by - at present the funds too high and I did not want to have a large sum without well knowing what to do with it - just finished breakfast and then came Washington with plan of bar-house - thinks it will cost £100 - he is employed about the sale of the Staups property - a great many people for the public house - would sell for 2 or 3 times more than its worth - told him to consider what I might venture to give for it - would get one of the Crownest far-off tenants to bid for me - thought it would fetch above £3000 - there were the coals of Fold farm - said I did not want to have anything to do with them - well! but I must find a loose for them - yes! said I, I know that - he thought they were to go with the public house and if I could get them for very little it might be worthwhile - very well! I replied you can consider what you think them worth to me - told him what I had asked for Northgate - was the land worth 8/. a yard - no! but worth 7/. taking it all together - at this rate, and buildings valued £1000 the land

6DW.1qrs.0 = 19600 yards = £6860.3.0 + £1000 = £7860.3s.0d. and he thought it worth £8000 –

6DW.1qrs.8p. = 18816 + 784 + 242 yards = 19842 yards at 7/. = £6944.14.0 and at 8/. = £7936.16.0

3136 yards = 1D.W.

1/4D.W.  = 3136 yards/4  = 784 yards

1/4DW. = 26 perches  1 perch= 30 ¼ yards = 786 ½

Northgate land 6DW.1qrs.8p. = 19842 yards at 8/. = £7936.16.0

Buildings S. Washingtons’ valuation                               1000.0.0

vide Friday 21 February 1834         p.                              8936.16.0

 Washington brought my father a plan of Butterworth end farm which he values at about 40 guineas per annum says there is hardly a fence left - buildings in very bad repair - £500 wants laying out - out a little while with Pickels and his 5 men - and with the 2 masons and a boy - finished getting all the walls low enough before noon - then began the heading next the palisades in front of the buttery - with Charles and James H-

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- at my desk at one - wrote all so far of today till 2 10 - from then to 7 10 at which hour dinner and coffee in ¾ hour and afterwards to 9 ¼ wrote and sent (in a parcel with Washington’s letter he brought this morning and the pattern glove sent to him to Whitleys by Miss Rawson)  5 pages and ends to ‘Miss Walker’ parcel to ‘Miss Walker, Heworth Grange York per mail 22nd March 1834’ and wrote letter to ‘Mr Thomas Thorpe 38 Bradford Street Covent garden London post paid’ ‘Shibden Hall. Saturday 22 March 1834. Sir - I have received the parcel containing n°467 £2.2.0 and 4 volumes of catalogue for which I am much obliged - on shewing this letter to Messrs. Hammersleys and co., they will pay you the above sum of two pounds and two shillings  I am sir, etc etc A. Lister’ - and in  the course of the afternoon or twice downstairs with masons and Charles Howarth and much reading Encyclopaedia articles monophysite and Nestorians and Chapter 47 Gibbon (vol. 8 octavo) respecting the ‘monophysite controversy’ - Miss W- asked me the meaning of [it] – she had been reading Quarterly of Guizots’ new edition of Gibbon - wrote as followed ‘Monophysite controversy’ more particularly opposed to the Nestorian as the catholic was opposed to both – Monophysite from 2 Greek words signifying – one nature – the monophysites maintained that there was only one nature in Christ, the divine and the human being mystically united in one - the Nestorians maintained that there were 2 separate persons in Christ mystically united in one -the Catholics maintained ‘Christ in one person and in 2 natures’ but don’t pother your head about such matters which are, perhaps, too high for us all.’ - Kind letter – but the kindness is more in the quiet confidential manner of writing than anything else and might be seen by all the world  except tell her never to look even half cross at me and being only quiet and gentle she will have more of her way and I less of mine than anybody but herself would believe  said I had written  as I told her to Mrs. L- but......... had not sent the letter which should now be rather modified – that is I will not tell π- that Miss W- and I are positively engaged and advised Miss δ- [W-] not to name it as  she asks my leave to do   to Steph say    he had better hear it from π- than from Miss W- or me wrote the last 22 lines till 9 ¾  - ¼ hour with my father and Marian, an hour with my aunt till 11 pm. Fine morning - lowing about noon -and rain between 2 and 3 for about an hour - afterwards tolerably fine, and fair in the evening. F49 ½° at 11 pm – reading newspapers till 12.

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Friday 14 March 1834

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very fine morning Fahrenheit 53 1/2° at 7 1/4 - out at 7 20/.. to Charles H-'s [Howarth's], and along my walk at nine in twenty five minutes incurred a cross in the hut thinking of Miss W [Walker]

breakfast at 9 3/4 with Marian - out at 10 1/2 - with John Booth planting lavender &c. in my walk came in at 11 1/2 - had Mr. Fuller of Horley Green about Northgate house - would like to buy the whole if the Times allowed it - asked £120 per annum rent - said if he thought we could agree on these terms, he had better arrange with Mrs. Scatcherd to give the house up to me - wrote and sent by Thomas at 12 35/60 note to 'Mr. Edelstone, Lee Bridge' compliments - should be particularly obliged if he would inform me if he thought Mark Town a good farmer and likely to pay his rent regularly - apologized for taking the liberty of asking these questions but hoped Mr. Edelstone would do me the favour to give a direct answer - wrote and sent note to 'Mr. or Mrs. Waterhouse Wellhead' compliments - ask if they can let me have the catalogue of Rouge Croix's letters and if Mr. W- [Waterhouse] ordered one for me at Whitleys -

then out till near 2 and then till 2 20/.. wrote the last 24 lines - Note from Mr. Edelston saying he is 'perfectly satisfied with Mark Town both as regards farming and money matters' - note also from Mr. Waterhouse - hopes to get the catalogue Tomorrow and ordered me one at Whitleys - out with John planting out flowers till 6 1/4 - then had Mark Town Told him Mr. Edelston's note was satisfactory and let him the land - explained that there would be no mention of water - his use of the Little field well would be merely by sufferance - the lease should be ready at Mr. Parker's on Tuesday afternoon and possession of the land given by Washington or John Booth at 10 a.m. on Wednesday and gaps made for him to cart manure - told my father I had let the land -

dinner at 7 20/.. and coffee and read from page 425 to 508 Waldensian Researches 2nd series - with my aunt from 9 20/.. to 10 20/.. - fine day - Fahrenheit 53 1/4° now at 11 40/.. p.m. till 12 10/.. looking over papers -

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1832 Nov., Tues. 6

8 50/..

12 1/2

Fine morning – Fahrenheit 49º at 9 20/.. a.m. – Called up to Wilson the joiner come about the library passage up and down stairs in 1/2 hour – Till 9 giving orders – Then breakfast with my father – Waited for Marian to order about flannel for waistcoats and drawers. Determined to have all ready to be off in January –

Had Washington – To have all the bills next week for wearing, mystal at Southolme etc. etc. – Just saw my aunt for a few minutes – Very kind 2 1/2 pages Letter from Miss McL– [MacLean] (Coll house aros) to say the bay on laurel leaved willows were sent off to Glasgow yesterday week with orders to be forwarded here immediately –

Off at 11 1/4 with Marian to call at the vicarage – There in 20 minutes and sat 1/2 hour with Mrs. Musgrave – Then went with Marian to Walker’s shop to order flannel etc. for things for me in readiness for being off – Hoped I really should be on route in January – Then parted with Marian –

Went to Whitley’s. Bought Hooper’s medical dictionary 25 /. [shillings] published at 28 /. [shillings] and in 50 minutes at Lidgate (at 1 1/2).  Miss W– [Walker] very glad to see me, I having said I should not go till tomorrow – Sat 1/2 hour with her and home at 2 1/2 –

Met Mr. Samuel Waterhouse junior (ætatis 17) at her gate – Stood talking a few minutes while Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood left Miss Walker – Mr. S[amuel] W[aterhouse] just came to her door to ask how she did – She said she should have me to nurse [her] now and really seemed much better and in good spirits. 

Talked of the agreeable surprise of seeing [me] but yet seemed more inclined to talk of business than love. I appeared in more than good spirits. She would think them all put on. And perhaps believe me feeling more acutely than I really did. I kissed her, but in a common way, and she did not push herself to me as yesterday and was more guarded.

She will not give me much reason now either to hope or despair. Her self possession will probably be undisturbed enough. I left her with no pleasant feeling, saying to myself, ‘Damn her. It is an arrow and perhaps a lucky escape.’ I dont think her answer will be yes.  And the more easily reconciled I am the better. Shall I dislike her by and by? At least I shall be more at liberty without her –

Fred Wilson, the joiner, and his man in the library passage at 2 1/2 – 26 or 27 inches lower than my blue room closet but determined not to be beaten with it, and went on – Dusty job to get the studding down –

Had only just managed and given orders what was to be done when James Holt came at 4 5/.. and had him till 6 – Something must be wrong that Mr. Jeremiah Rawson will not let go into their works – Probably they are stealing my coal already – Holt says I should not take less than £200 per acre but if he was in their place he would not give £250 per acre –  

Said I had at 1st asked the price between the 2 leases (£205 and £230) = £217.[pounds] 10. [shillings]. 0 [pence] but had said I should be worse to deal with now – Proposed asking £220 per acre but Holt owned the coal was worth as much now as when sold to Oates and Green and worth quite as much or more to Rawsons than to them (∴ [therefore] I ought to have £230 per acre) –

Owned too that I ought to have more for the coal at the top of the land, for it would make that at the bottom of less value. He thought they had a hundred yards plumbing dip i.e. could get with the water head a hundred yards breadth on this side and alongside the present waterhead driven by Oates and Company – Should shew Mr. J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] the coal plan – Ask him what fields he wanted and might let him Hugh grave field and the coal ungot to the north west of it and to the north east down in a straight line under the cunnery plantation down to the road but not to let him come lower down – 

Owned afterwards it would be as well not to let him come lower than the Cunnery houses, for if he got down to the brook he could throw such a quantity of water upon us – If he did not come lower down than Cunnery houses or the present Wakefield road, I might leave or fence of coal or turn the water, and not be so much injured –

Holt would meet J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] on the ground and see what he wanted – No air pit necessary for the lower bed coal, and not to sell any upper bed but by a separate agreement – Upper bed costs 6 d [pence] a score (corves) more getting than lower bed, and not being able to get it all, obliged to leave posts, makes it not work so much by £50 an acre as lower bed –

If J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] would not let Holt go into his works, I might propose either of the 2 brothers Squire or Tom Lassey of Thornhill, the former steward to Mr. Ingham of Misfield – In making the agreement to have surface measure, and the power to send down people into the works whenever I liked, and to have a clause to prevent J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] damming or turning any water back into the old works after he had got the coal (Had I not better have a bond of indemnity against this?) otherwise he might drown me in water and prevent my getting the coal below where he had been getting and had turned the water –

It was right enough that I should make no allowance for gauls or jumbles or ruttle – Great difference between drawing out at the day and pulling up thro’ a shaft – At their (Holt’s) pit on Swales moor 150 yards deep pulling costs them 18 pence a score; and ropes cost them £15 or £16 a year – One collier may be reckoned to get 25 corves a day for five days in a week – If J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] gets £100 profit per acre it will be quite enough –

Then see according to the following what to ask an acre for the coal –

Making all sufficient allowances there will come out of one square yard 5 corves, which (as J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] sells at 7 d [pence] and 8 d [pence] a corve, average at 7 1/2 d [pence] a corve –

Expense of getting 20 corves (or one score) 4 /. [shillings] to the colliers –

Banksman 1 /. [shilling] a score – wear and tear say 6 d [pence] a score, certainly enough –

Lower bed 18 inches thick – Lightcliffe bed 25 inches thick – Billy stocks paid £260 an acre 5 or 6 years ago for what he bought – This that Hinscliffe is taking must be worth as much – He will have very little to sink – 14 or 16 yards and coals worth less as nearer the surface – But not for being dry – But there is a gaul that throws up the coal near Lidgate (breaks out in the road going up the hill) and there cannot be any coal on this side that gaul near more than a daywork or 2 to get in that field next below the Smith (Hinscliffe’s) –

Speaking of Godley, wished Holt not to let it go for nothing but said I had mentioned it to Mr. Samuel Freeman – Holt said I could employ no one better – He said it was North £80 a daywork but £ a daywork was the outside – ∴ [therefore] the 20 dayworks = £2000 

Carr has been arrested several times lately – Speaking of the cottages on Godley land, Holt knows that the 4 belonging to his uncle George Holdsworth would be sold – Cost £50 each building and £40 the ground – But might be had he thinks for £ 200 – Will inquire and let me know –

Speaking of his farm, some people might buy it at 3 1/2 percent Rent £66 per anum but it would not suit him to buy land at that price – He explained the manner of working coal pits – Asked him to give me an underground plan of a pit in working and asked him to let me know when I could go down with him into one of his pits. I must understand coal-getting before I have done with it – Holts pit at Binns bottom will be ready for working in 2 months from this and I can go in at the day –

Dinner at 6 3/4 – In 1/2 hour wrote and sent at 7 35/.. 3 pages to “Dr. Belcombe York” or rather 2 pages and 3 or 4 lines to him and the rest to his wife, to be torn off and given to her, thanks for her letter and to say yes! I thought black velvet properly garni au blonde (white) would be very becoming to her –

Told him wished I could give a better account of his patient, but she was not worse on his hands, which was marvellous considering the affliction she had had on account of the sudden death of her most particular friend, the news of which had arrived the day after our leaving York – No pills last Thursday – Begged to have them next Thursday – Ask how long they are to be gone on with without interruption – She thought at 1st, but not afterwards, they gave her much physicky pain in her bowels – These last had behaved very well considering the affliction she had been in –

In fact, she believed she could not have been so well now, had she not had his advice – He is ‘in très bonne odeur’ and his patient has faith enough in him – Mr. Day has been and, I suppose, would not let her believe in her own existence without the use of his ointment but ‘ce nous est égal’ – Ask him to write a letter I can shew. Not to spare a little anxiety and to ask whatever questions he knows will be proper. ‘Indeed not say I have the good of your reputation at heart’ –

John’s son Joseph Booth came over with Scott’s head groom to bring 2 perfect horses to Mr. Thomas Dyson of Willow field – Had him (Joseph B– [Booth]) in and spoke to him – He is grown, and improved – Perhaps I shall take him with me abroad – Then writing journal of today – Had John in – He is much pleased and satisfied with his son – Talked to him about his family – To send Charlotte for my aunt, to hear her read and see her sewing so as to be able to judge what she can do and be fit for –

Then my father and Marian just gone to bed. A few minutes with my aunt – Then came back to the drawing room – Read my letter from Vere dated Turin 24 October 3 pages and ends of small sheet (Frankfort paper) – Very nice chit chat amusing letter –

And read my letter from Lady Stuart (Richmond park) enclosing Vere’s 2 last to her – A kind 1/2 sheet full and a few lines on the envelope (franked by Lord Goderich) from Lady S– [Stuart]. These letters put me in spirits. I am better without Miss W[alker] – 

11 1/2 before I had read my letters and written so far of today –

5 corves at 7 1/2 d pence = 37 1/2 d [pence] = 3 1 1/2 per square yard

One score or 20 corves = 12/6 [shillings/pence] expense of getting which = 4 /. [shillings] to the colliers. 

∴ [therefore] 12/6 - 5/6 = 7 /. [shillings] clear gain per score = 1 /. [shilling] to the banksman or per 4 square yards = ./6 [shilling/pence] wear and tear (quite enough) –

At the forgoing rate, 5 corves or 1 square yard = clear gain of 1/9 [pound/shillings], 1 score (20 corves) or 4 square yards = clear gain of 7 /. [shillings] ∴ [therefore]

1 acre or 4840 square yards = at 1/9 [pound/shillings] per square yard or 7 /. [shillings] p[e]r 4 square yards = £423. [pounds] 10. [shillings] 0 [pence]

Now Holt said this calculation would do, and that £100 clear gain per acre was enough ∴ [therefore] if I have £250 per acre J[eremiah] R– [Rawson] has a profit of 423. [pounds] 10. [shillings]. 0 [pence] – 250 = £173. [pounds] 10. [shillings] 0 [pence]

Very fine day – Went up to my room at 11 50/.. at which hour Fahrenheit 49º

[sideways in margin] Sunday 23 December 1832 vide page 231, suppose Messieurs R– [Rawson] to sell at 7 1/2 per corve or 12/6 per score and allow half for expenses, then 48040/4 or 1210 x 6 shillings x 3 d [pence] = £363 + 15. [pounds] 2. [shillings] 6 [pence] = £378. [pounds] 2. [shillings]. 6 [pence], so that paying me £230. [pounds] 10. [shillings] 0 [pence] per acre then remains to Messieurs a profit per acre of £147. [pounds] 12. [shillings] 6 [pence]