journals (accounts)

June 30, 1809 notes regarding moving currant wine from one cask to another or put in bottles; ; with a note on the contents of the wine cellar.

May 10, 1809 notes regarding smoked meats being taken from the smokehouse and packed for shipment to New York or stored at Augusta.

July 25, 1808 note regarding collecting currant juice to make wine; with the contents on the wine cellar as of July 26.

July 25, 1808 notes regarding making currant wine.

December 19, 1807 notes regarding emptying a barrel on currant wine made in 1806 to be put in bottles or other containers, the loss of another barrel of wine, and an inventory of the wine cellar; with a July 25, 1808 note about bottling the contents of a barrel.

Notes regarding oxen and hogs slaughtered December 4, 1807 and preparing the various pieces for processing by smoking, salting, or pickling

October 20 [1807?] note regarding harvesting potatoes, some to be shipped to New York; September 12, 1808 note regarding harvesting "French pickles," a small variety of cucumber.

July 31, 1810 note regarding storing the newly made barrels of currant wine in the wine cellar.

July 28, 1810 notes regarding bottling wines made in 1807 and 1805, adding wine made in 1805 to wine made in 1809, and four new barrels of currant wine made Caty Call; with a July 31 note on making a fifth barrel of wine.

Note regarding making two barrels of currant wine July 27-28, 1809; with a note on the contents of the wine cellar.

May 10, 1809 notes regarding planting beans, pumpkins, watermelons and other vegetables.

May 9, 1809 notes regarding planting lettuce, turnips, and other vegetables.

May 9, 1809 notes regarding planting peas, beans, potatoes, and other vegetables.

May 5, 1809 notes regarding planting grape vines, lettuce, and other vegetables.

[July 15], 1806 note regarding the dry weather affecting the clover grown at Augusta, Tuxedo, and the farm at Clove, cutting the clover, and rye harvested at Augusta the previous week; July 16 note regarding filling two vinegar barrels containing "mother" (microbial sediment from fermentation) with water in which pomace left over from making currant wine was steeped and molasses; and July 17 note regarding harvesting peas to be used for seed.

July 11, 1806 notes regarding the state of the garden and the peas planted May 30; with a July 15 note regarding harvesting currants and making two casks of wine.

June 25 and 28, 1806 notes regarding vegetables planted in the garden at Augusta.

June 11, 1806 note regarding the progress of vegetables planted in the garden at Augusta; note regarding potatoes and pumpkins planted June 13-14 at Augusta; and June 25 note regarding peas and potatoes.

May 29-June 2, 1806 notes regarding vegetables planted in the garden at Augusta; with a July 3, 1806 note regarding harvesting some peas planted May 30.

May 28, 1806 notes regarding vegetables planted in the garden at Augusta.

July 1805 notes on making currant wine with the recipe used and a July 20, 1805 note regarding putting two year old wine into jugs and the sediment into a vinegar barrel.

Titled "Garden, farms, &c 1806, transient memorandums, 1807, 8-9;" with July 21-30, 1810 notes regarding cattle from the farm at Clove.

Solomon Townsend memorandum book, July 1805-July 31, 1810.

Undated [1810?-1811?] note recording an expenditure.

On January 27, 1811, Townsend breakfasted with his daughter Hannah and her husband, Isaiah Townsend, and then they all went to John Townsend's to dine in the afternoon and Dr. Davis arrived; the next day Townsend visited friends and met with other Assembly members in the veneing to choose a nominee for speaker; Nathan Sanford was chosen speaker on January 29.

The stage arrived in Albany the night of January 26, 1811; after leaving his bags at Lewis's tavern, Townsend called on his daughter Hannah and her husband, Isaiah Townsend, and then dined with [Benjamin?] Ferris and James Warner at their lodgings before returning to Lewis's.

Account of Townsend's January 24-26, 1811 trip from New York to Albany for the session of the General Assembly (continued); the party reached Kingston at 11 o'clock at night on January 25; they stopped there for the night and resumed the journey early on January 26; at Katerskill [i.e. Catskill], lacking snow on the road, the stage decided to go on the ice on the Hudson River to Athens; here some chose to hire a sleigh to continue on the ice but Townsend remained with the stage which put its wheels on again.

Account of Townsend's January 24-26, 1811 trip from New York to Albany for the session of the General Assembly (continued); the stage carried the mail so it made many stops on January 25; the stage arrived at Shangum [i.e. Shawangunk, Ulster County?] before sunset where its wheels were swapped for runners and General [Seth] Marvin and Dr. Anthony Davis arrived having come from Chester by sleigh.

Account of Townsend's January 24-26, 1811 trip from New York to Albany for the session of the General Assembly (continued); Townsend arrived at Odis's before the stage; he left the horse to be taken to Augusta with the other horse and sleigh and got in the stagecoach; after a number of stops, the stage reached Augusta at 2 o'clock in the morning, January 25; Townsend took ome papers and left intructions and the stage quickly departed.

Townsend left New York on January 24, 1811 to go to Albany for the session of the General Assembly; the stage already had six passengers; Townsend took a horse from Hoboken to Odis's where he had had a sleigh and horse taken earlier in the week as he planned to go in his own sleigh.