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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.

1853  December 31:  "Came home by Delhi Expecting to Get a leter from Wm but was Disapointed     this is the Last Day of the year    1853 has Pased away and Many has been Called to there last Acount and we are Still Spared in health and Strength and in the injoyment of Plenty for which I know we are not as thankful as we ought to be     but let us try to be Better for the year to Come  So farewell Old Year

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

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