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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.

July 4, 1859:  "This is the Glorious old forth    the Cannon is roaring all around us   we had quite a smart frost last night  Something I niver Saw before on the forth   Charles is gone to Delhi   there is an old fashoned Cleabration there and I Supose there will be Greate Gathering of People as there ought on Such a Day    for it is one long to be remembered   but I cannot go this Day"

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

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