March 30, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 30th, 1785
Thick ice. White frost. Winter-aconites out of bloom: snow drops make still a fine. Violets, & coltsfoot grow.
March 29, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 29th, 1785
My niece Clement was brought to bed of a boy. This child makes my 42 nephew, & niece now living.
March 25, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 25th, 1785
Shoveled the alleys, & threw the mould on the borders, & quarters.
March 22, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 22nd, 1785
Wheat-fields look naked like fallows. The surface of the ground is all dust.
March 21, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 21st, 1785
Mr Charles Etty sailed from the mother bank, near the Isle of Wight, where they stopped to take in passengers.
March 19, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 19th, 1785
Sowed a bed of spinage: the winter-spinage killed. Tulips, & crown-imperials, & hyacinths sprout. Planted eight larches in the Baker’s hill. Cucumbers thrive. Ice still in water-tubs. Men plough: the frost pretty much out of the ground wch is mellow.
March 17, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 17th, 1785
Made the four-light beargin cucumber-b ed with five dung-carts, & 1/2 of dung.
March 10, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 10th, 1785
Much beech-woods, & faggots carted home.
March 9, 1785
Posted by sydney on Mar 9th, 1785
On this day Mr Charles Etty sailed in the Duke of Montrose India-man, Captain Gray, for Madeira, & Bombay.
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