I'm guessing the field had to have stumps removed before palnting. --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Ron Zinck <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ron Zinck <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] a bit of history from he 1840s To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 9:48 AM Hi Pam: I am pleased to see you are putting this up on line. Lt. George Wilson is one my ancestors btw. Ron Zinck On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Pam Tessier <[email protected]>wrote: > Ah, the gems of information I find in our collection from time to time! > In 1949 a series of articles appeared in the Free Press Herald (Midland > - Penetanguishene) extracted from the journals of George Wilson of > "Medonte, Simcoe County, Canada West".  Lt. George Wilson was a retired > officer in the Royal Navy who owned Marchburn Farm in the Coldwater > River Valley. He settled there about 1831 and later represented Medonte > and Flos when the Simcoe District Council was established. In 1844 when > Flos was represented separately, he continued to represent Medonte. His > journals give us an idea of what our own Simcoe County ancestors > experienced in those early days. The copies we have cover 1838, 1841, > 1844, parts of 1849 and 1850. > > With your indulgence, I will send the list his entries on the first of > each month. > > The numbers represent the day of the month.......beginning with June...... > > 1838 > 4,5: Finished planting potatoes. Burnt last winter's chopping. Fire did > not run well. > 7: Commenced logging for turnips. {will someone please explain this?} > 17: Very warm. Hay knee deep. Crops all looking well. Engaged F. > Rutherford for 2 months at 12 dollars per month. Engaged John Stephens > one month. > > 1841 > 6. Very warm. Spring crops looking ill from the long dry weather - a > thunderstorm, some rain. > 8: Began to underbrush 2 acres for turnips. > 13: Employed chopping for turnips. > 27: Fine weather, some rain. Employed chopping the Dam timber. > > 1844 > 7: Very busy clearing off the stones of the field we are plowing. > 12: Last two days very cold with frost at night. > 14: Very warm, the corn and potatoes recovering that were hurt by the > frost. Ploughing grass and hoeing potatoes. > 15: Burnt the brush which did very well. Ther. at 83 deg. > 17: Began to logg (sic) for turnips. > 29: The turnips sown. > > Pam Tessier > Penetanguishene Museum > > > > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ***************** Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message