Friday 17th. Fair weather. Employed as much as usual. Sowed 18 Bus Wheat in field No 5. Thrashed 41 Bus Wheat. Started the 2 Wheel plough to prepare the potatoe land for next year.
Saturday 18th. Fair sultry weather—sowed 7½ Bus: Wheat—thrashed 23 Bus. Killed an ox and took up potatoes for rations. Received 21 Bus: Wheat from a Mr. Saml Davis.[1] Kalama has got 40 barrels repaired for the salmon fishery.
Sunday 19th. Overcast—heavy squall from from [sic] Southward this evening attended with thunder & lightening.
Monday 20th. Light showers of rain; splendid farming weather. 8 ploughs & 4 prs harrows agoing. Sowed 18 Bus Wheat. Thrashed [left blank] Bus Wheat & Bus Oats—3 men house building. Carrier collecting Iron from about the old Saw Mill. Made an attempt to get on with digging the well again. Kalama repairing salmon barrels. Sent down 40 Barrels to Plomondons landing place. Forwarded a letter to the Board of Management pr Mr. Hall[2] just received by him from Nisqually.
Tuesday 21st. Splendid weather—employed much as usual. The new oven finished. Sowed 18 Bus Wheat in field No 5—thrashed 58 Bus. oats. Sent off the Batteux with 50 empty casks & Laportre with a little Outfit to begin the fishery at the Forks—the batteux is to go as far as Thibeaults[3] to bring up the salt lately left there.
- ↑ Probably the Samuel Davis who settled in Yamhill County in 1849. He and his family came to Oregon in 1846 (Pioneer Card File, OHS), and he settled his donation claim in 1850 (Genealogical Material in Oregon Donation Land Claims, abstracted from applications by Genealogical Forum of Portland, Oregon [Portland, 1957], No. 1459). One neighbor was a D. Brock, and a witness was Mahlon Brock. Since a Brock family was among those who left the Cowlitz Farm area after the Indian disturbances in the winter of 1847-48, the Davises and Brocks may have moved together from Washington to Oregon.
- ↑ Pr—per, for, from (Roberts uses the same symbol for all three). Washington Hall, on the list of Vancouver voters in 1847 (Papers of Oregon Provisional and Territorial Governments, No. 1725). He settled at Shoalwater Bay (Clinton A. Snowden, History of Washington [6 vols., New York, 1909], II:445).
- ↑ The Lewis County census of 1850 has "Jochain Tibout," age thirty-eight, born in Canada. A French-Canadian named Thibault was
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