John Hunt Journal, 1773 3mo. 1 - 1777 1mo. 30

              --March 1773--
1st of Third Month, 1773. About home mending etc.
2. Do.
3. About home.
4. Went to Monthly Meeting. Benjamin Haris wife was buried.
[Left marginal note: fine moderate weather]
5. I went to Haddonfield to put new boxes in a pump for Isaac Andrews.
[Left marginal note: moderate warm]
[Right marginal note: I was in D[oubt] and G[uilt?] Re[garding] A Sa[ying] a f[ew] wo[rds]]
6. I went up to Springfield with brother Robert to settle some affairs between him and John Gibbs.
Went to uncle John Harvey to lodge.
[Right marginal note: V[ery] P[oor]]
7. Was First Day. We came home by Joseph Buzby.
[Left marginal note: rainy day]
8. About home splitting some rails.
[Left marginal note: moderate]
[Right marginal note: P[oor] P[oor] P[oor]]
9. Trimming apple trees.
10. Do Do.
11. Do and went to our meeting.
[Left marginal note: weather moderate]
[Right marginal note: O T P]
12. At home finishing George Dillwyn's pump and went to carry it home. Lodged at Dillwyn's. Brother Robert was with me. George spoke very prettily at the table at suppertime.
13. We went up to uncle John Harvey to see after some poor lads near there that wanted to go apprentice. Came back to George Dillwyn's. Samuel Emlen from Philadelphia was there and gave me some account of his being with cousin William Hunt in Old England.
[Left marginal note: Grows cold]
14. Went to our meeting. My wife and I went to Joshua Robert's after meeting.
[Left marginal note: moderate]
15. I went to John Lippincott's to fetch a sow and pigs home.
[Left marginal note: moderate]
16. At home hauling wood.
[Left marginal note: moderate]
17. At home hauling some rails and mending fence.
18. Went to our meeting.
[Right marginal note: I T I w N Sp a at S T In grt S A G P [I thought I would not speak and at some time in a great in great straights(?) and great (?]]
19. Making a bedstead for Samuel Collins.
[Left marginal note: warm]
20. Finishing the bedstead and took it home went up to Caleb Evins's to see them.
21. At Caleb Evins's, a violent stormy day.
[Left marginal note: First Day]
22. At Do. Dreadful stormy snow and hail and rain clears up this afternoon and we came home.
23. At home trimming apple trees. Went a little bit to William Downs' vendue.
[Left marginal note: a very fine day