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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  October 1:   "Commenced working on the Roads fine for that Busness"

1852  October 3:  "Fine Sabath Morning the Birds is Singing like a Morning in the Spring"

1852  October 5:   "Thomas and Me Dug forty Bushells of Potatoes this Day we have a fine Crop this year   School Meeting this night   Cool North West wind"

1852  October 7:   "Went to Delhi to Atend the fair their was a Greate Display of Cattle and Every thing Else with any Quantity of People"

1852  October 8:   "a Letter from William Dated Grey Eagle August 15"

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

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