to the prairie and made 82 rods of worm fence with stakes and riders. Just before I left I went to brother Elijah Cheney|Cheney to get a drink of water and his dog bit me very badly through the calf of my leg. He was an ugly dog and had bit several persons before I was very lame for some days and the next time I went to my lot…

June 19, 1843 ~ Monday 19 I finished digging my well got about 4 feet of water in the rock & course gravel Theire was a meeting held by a company calling themselves labourers saying they were oppressed & manifested some spirit of mob & disrule & did not act in wisdom June 20, 1843 ~ Tuesday 20th I finished stoning my well it being about 25 feet deep. Their…