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Business/Labor Home page | Excerpts from the diary of Nathanial Arbuckle, Delhi farmer, 1852-1861 Table of Contents

Note: For serious researchers only: may be hard to read, as is the original
Background:  Nathanial Arbuckle was a native of Scotland and came to Delhi when he was 17. His usually terse diary entries give some idea of the daily life of a farm family in the Antebellum rural Delaware County area.  Weather was vitally important to the success of his farming business, so he frequently comments on it. He also makes occasional comments on local and national events.

1852  June 16:  "Still Continues Very warm yet Expect to Send a Leter to Wm. this Day went to Delhi heard from Wm. dated 26 May working in the Mines Sent a leter"

1852  June 18:  "Fine Growing Day fresh Breezes from the North west Since the rain the fields Looks fresh and Gay Drawed all the Manure from the wagon house the Day Finished Sowing Buckwheat"

1852  June 19:   "Pleasant Sumer weather Crops Growing finely Since the rain Hoeing Potatoes in the Garden"

 

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Courtesy of the Delaware County Historical Association Archives, 46549 State Hwy 10, Delhi, NY, 13753. 

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