kept of Jameses money one dollar and sixty cents pulling corn 26th Nov To George Duncan to one day 1/2 last of November one day (?) of December December 12 to George Duncan to 4 1/4 days works George Duncan $11 . 30 cents December 1st also credit to 9.00 same date February 15th 1858 (?) to Matthew Edmondson 3 days in favor of George Duncan George Duncan Dr to Five Dollars 12 1/2 cents Sold machine bushels of wheat sold at 50 cts per bushel Samuel Sampson Some James Robertson $5.85 + 4.25 $10.10 Ten Dollars Ten cts To Harrison Barrat $10.10 To Robertson 22.5 To Colton 10.00 Sarah Shaw 8.00 about $50.00 in all Samuel Shaw Dr to Robertson Colton & Co. to 12 Acres of wheat cutting at 60 cts per acre Samuel Shaw Dr to $1.80 January 1st 1860 5 days at Russels (?) 2 1/2 each 3 at (?) mine is the (?) of the time and cutting time 3 days cutting There time 13 days for 6 days for each making 12 days in all. my share being (?) days $ Dr for cutting wheat Edmondson tools Rent to Johnstons on Saturday night altogether William Hendersons account to Ambrose Bell $3.00 credit to 2 bus potatoes 50 cts Whole amount of corn being Ambrose Bell Dr to Weight Corn Dr to John Robertson Shaw for Wheat ground the one third in the sacks 4 Barrels corn Danial McKey One pair of Continental Wisconsin Madison George Duncan Dr to Bushels Deliverd to Three loads of (?) corn Amounting to or three (?) this 28th of June 1861 Settled with him July 10, 1861 Settled Dr to James Cotton to Thrashing bus wheat at 4 cents per bus Amount $4.60 To (?) of more 1.00 Paid April 9th $5.60 (1860) Dr to one Scoop Shovel Cotton Settled in full up to this Date April 9th 1860 Dr To Wm Cotton to $22.00 Sold the same to James Cotton for $12.50 leaving $10.00 paid April 9, 1860 Also Samuel Shaw Dr to Duncan Cotton & Co to Cutting 12 acres of wheat at 60 cents per acre included in ths settlement James Robertson Columbus City Paid (?) Collar (?) (?) Shirt (?) (?) Silk gloves Neck Tie paid April 7th 1860 Harrison & Barrat Paid to Harrison & Barrat April 7, 1860 in full of all Demands the summ of $9.90 To Meads $2.25 in Full of all Demands Reiner & Sons for shoes Tobacco in all $16.15 Paid to James Cotton on Settlement $18.20 April 9 (1860) James Robertson Harrison Barrat 1860 Dr to Harrison & Barrat to three yds linen at Calico bunches of Cotton about per bunch 1 Route to Kansas 2 Keosoqua Welington 3 Upton (?) 4 (?) Pleasant Hill Whole amount of corn to Collins Directions for Med J B Dougherty Stone agent Muscatine (?) Sir James Clark's Celebrated (?) (?) by enclosing $1.00 & Six Postage Stamps Breckenridge Utica Chillicothy loaned Ed 3 sacks of oats and 8 bu of wheat Nearest route to Kansas from Columbus to Keosoqua Milton & Lancaster Scotsville & Chillicotha Austinville Knoxville Crab Orchard Richmond Liberty Kansas City Time (?) by Samuel Comencing mostly February 1861 Tuesday Wednes Thurs Friday Sat Mon Tues Wed Thurs With Hatfield harvest- ing by which he agrees to cut my wheat for 40 cts per acre and allow me 50 cts per acre for team all settled Other Expenses Linchpin 10 cts Oil 10 (?) locks 30 Liquor 10 Rope 10 Liquor 10 Corn $2.00 $2.50 Mine being 13 acres route to Kansas Mount Pleasant Salem Kirksville Samuel Carson Route Home 21 miles to to Lawrence 12 40 miles through Oskaloosa & Winchester from there St Joseph & Hanibal to Warsau by Rail Road to Montrose 12 miles from there to Burlington by water Expenses first Received of the in cash & also $50.00 in trade Route to Kansas Mount Pleasant & Salem & Keosoqua & (?) & Upton & Memphis (?) Kirksville 15 (?) 12 & Callio 42 (?) 10 Lexington Wellington 12 Lone-Jack 10 Pleasant Hill 40 Peola (?) Indianapolis (?) Camping Places Oakland Mills Skunk River 15 Keosoqua Des Moines River 30 Memphis Kirksville Expenses from Lawrence to Burlington $14.00 + 14.00 for passage there for both being $28.00 Expenses by Rail Road from Atchison to Hanibal for one individual $8.00 by Stage 50 miles $14.00 by Water from Hanibal to Muscatine $2.00 Dr to John Robertson to one (?) eighteen Dollars $18.00 Dr one pair of (?) = $12.00 Samuel L. Shaw to $10.00 for Rent of wheat ground Dr to Johnston to $1.50 Dr to Dr to Samuel Duncan to 20 bus wheat at 75 cts per bus amount $15.00 Camping Places Oakland Mills So Skunk River Keosoqua Des Moines River 30 miles each Memphis Kirksville Glasgo Lexington Lone Jack Pleasant Hill Other Expenses Linch pin 10 Oil 30 Liquor 10 10 acre per day for 7 days Prices each first 15 second 30 3d 20 fourth 15 fifth Dr to (?) Robertson Paid paid Dr to Russel Duncan to $1.25 + Paid to Marion Duncan $1.85 for Waggon for Horse for Harness Paid to Harrison thirty five dollars by order on Clark from Collins & co of forty dollars this 7 of March Paid to Harrison & Barrat thirty five dollars by oder on Clark from Collins & co this March 7 1861 (?) Harvesting at home for Sam For father haying For me took my 4 calves out of Jims (?) august the 11th by settlement on reaping at (?) and Duncas 2 1/2 days at Rusels & sons 2 1/2 John & James Robertson 3 days Mr Hatfield I will enter into an agreement with you in regard to reaping on these terms (?) that you cut my wheat at 40 cts per acre for the consideration of 40 cts following 50 cts for my team per acre which with your force of harvest hands I would consider about equival- ent to my labor of myself & team at yours as for Denis it makes no difference to me whether we work against one another or that I work for you & you make it wright with him Entered into an agreement this day of july 1861 by which said Hatfield agrees to cut and furnish his hands to bind my wheat for which I help them cut theirs myself & team and in the end consider it an even settlement Diarrhea cure spirits of camphor essence of peppermint Hofmans anodyne one ounce each fine ginger 1/2 ounce capicom (?) put in warm sweeten- ed water dose 1 teaspoonfull Harvesting for (?) June 18 My self and team Dr to James Cotton to thrashing bushels at Whole number of lbs of wheat sold 26341 making 435 bus amounting to Whole amount of sold wheat and then 451 + 100 = 650 bus being the whole number of bushels both by weight & measure 650 + 26 Total 676 bushels (?) they come to be children (?) Predestinated & Predetermined by God from all Eternity (?) (?) (?) (?) because they are his (?) Because of the price he paid for them. Because they are loyal to his cause in keeping of his comand there is great (?) he that (?) me (?) (?) as to the duty of those children imitate him in his ordinaness. In his humility (?) (?) in faithfulness at (?) said John Robertson ten dollars on account September 17th 1861 William Robertson Dec 16 1855 Expenses on hand $2.40 .50 5.00 $7.90 Directions for making soft soap one pound of potash add three gallons of water boil the potash till dissolved then add three pounds of any kind of soap grease the cleaner the better to the lye and set it to boiling let it boil slowly so that it will not boil over it usualy becomes soap after boiling from one to five hours if it boils down W. Shaw 34.474 Atchison 20.397 Grimes 75.643 Bought Bought owe father use of planter george owes and chopping 2 loads of wood William Robertson Dr to $4.00 November 1st first Eighteen Hund Sixty 1860 owe george in hay days harvesting for me george andy helped george helped andy We the undersigned able bodied men all hereby volunteer our services as --- to Governor Kirkwood and obligate ourselves to march in defence of our country as occas- ion may require subject only to such regulations as may hereafter be enacted by the goverment for the regu- lations of volunteers mine the north half of the south quarter of the said section of which we have the As to the grain raised 30 bus of wheat for her bread & the rest sold from the machine to go to pay Collins & John Robertson I also wish her to retain enough money to clothe her and get her grocerys James Robertson June 30th 1861 Knowing the uncertain of life & certainty of death I therefore bequeath to Wm H Robertson my son & Mary E Robertson my wife all my property both personal & real which would remain to be disposed of after the liquidation of all just claims against said estate (to be disposed of) in the following manner my wife mary E Robertson shall received such a part of the personal property as shall be to dispose of in this maner so long as she lives single but in case of her decease or marriage it shall become the property of her son William H Robertson in connexcion with all the real estate owned by me at the time of decease James Robertson N B the real estate which I hold at present in my name to the amount of 160 acres to be disposed of in the following I would therfore propose that this company be pre- sented to the governor under the provision of the act of the legislature of this state for that part of the militia designated as volunteers In order that we may be provided with arms so that we may become more efficient in the military exercises in which we are at present engaged Yours James Robertson maner (?) the south half of it to be transferred to William Robertson after the payment of $100 with interest from January first eighteen hundred and sixty one ten percent James Robertson August 1st 1861 Fellow Soldiers I suppose you are all aware that the object for which we are assemb- led at this time is to cooperate with our country- men in their efforts to maintain and vindicate the honor of the amer- ican flag against treason under whose wings lie crouched (?) rebels (?) and despotism & strengthen the arms of of our chief magistrate whose action in the past has been both comprehensive & decisive marking his course by a firmness of action that merits the praise of friends & commands the respect of his enemies in the prompt and faithful execution of laws (so far as is in his power) contained in the constitution of these U States against a class of traitors who have ben & are yet busily engaged in the confiscation & appropriation of such property as should legally belong to us all in comon to their own selfish ends aiding them in end- eavors to trail the flag of our country in the dust and to trample under their feet this form of republican government which has been bought at so dear a price and handed down to us sealed as it were with the blood of our fore-fathers for they esteemed liberty as the dearest of name & was willing to undergo any hardships that they might gain this great blessing & esteemed the greatest achievement to which they could attain that of ridding themselves of a tyrants rule put pird to the horse june 11th 84 let us not cherish a desire to sully a character which every true american patriot should bear by descending so far as to subject ourselves to the reproach of our governor and country-men by assuming the name of Home-guards and under this title assuming to present our-selves to the governor this endeav- oring to dodge our share of the responsibility of each individual member of this glorious union by assuming to do something where there is nothing to do & where there is not at present the most distant prospect of having anything to do but let us ever be found marching in solid phalanx in behalf of our common government every heart beating in unison and offering to mix our destinies with those who are now seeking to vindicate the honor of the american flag bearing aloft on our banner the american eagle proud emblem of our nations glory Dr to Harrison & Barrat to November Bills Cotton Coat Waggon Store Bill Book of Waggon Boots Doctor Bill Smithing Taxex Sugar Rice Apples Butter muslin cloves Settled with (?) September 15th 1860 in full of all Remands Due me from John Robertson P B Groat paid settled John Robertson share of the sold wheat (?) consequential consumation amount of sod by weight bus lbs amount of (?) (?) by weight James share Johns share johnstons share jamess share of sod wheat johns James Robertson June Mr Wm and (?) before Wm that the tongue should be (?) with a plate on the upper side under the (?) also a (?) and a plate (?) and for the double tree after (?) we would exchange (?) & to get that he would rather have it (?) his but (?) that may (?) as it was (?) to me that he wished his tongue make so that the double tree (?) would be just (?) from the (?) (?) of 4 inches from the ends of the bound to the double tree of Ambrose Bell on Corn Dr to John Robertson to February Dr to gets smithing (?) To Mort & Pete to shoeing horses February 26th 1860 March also to 28th John Robertson April 9th 1860 Due John on settlement up to this date April to gets to making one brace for plow one (?) to setting 3 tires James Robertson Samuel Robertson Sales Number of bush by measure of sod bushels of old ground total by weight bus Johnstons share bus sod bus old ground Our share being whole number of bushels our share by measaure by weight difference our share by weight Wm Livery Wm More Wm Moriston Wm Shaw Warren Williams Albert Moore Amelia Williams Alice Williams Augusta Williams Bell May Caroline More Daniel Helmic Catharine Pratts Florinda Moore Howard Hawkins Hamilton Da John Songle James Gray John Helmic James Hawkins John Hawkins Lucy Williams Martha Malaby Malinda Hawkins Margaret Hawkins Mary Hawkins Mary Helmic Mariah Phillipps Martha Crabbe Mary Shaw Nancy Sigle Sarah Shaw Studyes gram geography arithmetic algebra Thomas Williams Eugene Hall Charles Hall William Hall Ellison Hoyt She has (?) lodging in the (?) of cold day where all the dead lodges of mortals (?) She has tools - and her red rosey checks lie moldering away I'll forgive him a (?) me when a thousand times over my folly her (?) was more than the (?) (?) and her beauty much more than the rest a song by James R A rich irish lady in London did dwell fine Sally fine Sally indeed was her name a rich merchants son came to court this fair damsel as she did appear but her riches was so lofty and her portion so high that all on this young man she would scarce cast an eye Oh Sally O Sally said he I'm sorry that your love and mine cant agree its you may retire and end your discourse for I'll never have you unless I am forced about 16 we else had come fast and gone and this very fair damsel took sick at the (?) and she sent for the young man whom she had once denied and denied its am I the doctor that you sent for me here or am I the young man that you now love so dear Its you are the doctor that I sent for you here you are the young man that I now love so dear you are the young man that can kill or can cure and without your assistance I'm ruined I'm sure Oh where does the pain lie does it lie in your head or where does the pain lie does it lie in your side its no loving sweetheart the right you faint guessed for the pain it doth pierce me right deep in my breast Oh S. O S. O S. said he don't you remember when I first came to court you you denied me you - you - with scorn and now I will warn you of things past and gone Of things past and gone I hope you forgive and grant me some longer in this (?) world to live (?) (?) I have breath I'll dance on your grave when you are laid in the earth its off of here finger she pulls diamond rings saying take these loveing in rememberance of me and fly from your colors no more to be seen when you are done dancing on Sally O queen Farewell to my parents and all my best friends (?) (?) (?) Now this here fair dam- sel is dead as supposed to all her best friends she has left her fine clothes