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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  January 29 : "Started for New York with William to go to Calafornia Got to New York at nine oClock at night"

1852  January 30: "Went to the office Got a Ticket Paid one hundred and Eighty Dollars"

1852  February 9:  "Left New York for home at five oClock in the Evening Got to Hancock ten Minutes Past twelve"

photo of diary

 

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

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