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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.

March 16: "Pleasant no Sugar wether yet nor any Signs of a leter yet"

March 17:  "went to Delhi with the wagon Very Bad Roads Got a Leter from William Dated Panama well and in Good health"

March 18: "Last night Snow fell ten inches and to Day it is Going off again quite a Sloppy time Bought one Barrel of oat Meel for Robert 234 lbs $3 and fifty Cents per hundred to Start for the Railroad next Monday"

 

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

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