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| Prince Edward County Archives Levi Vincent Bowerman (1832-1910) married Mary M Haight (1836-1905) and lived in Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County. His diary is held at the Prince Edward County Archives and has the accession number A2001.016.072 100a. Transcribed by Lydia Wytenbroek, history student at Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia and posted here with her permission. Pam Noxon, archivist at the PEC Archives, also grants permission for this posting. Thanks to Dr. Robynne Rogers Healey, Associate Professor at Trinity Western University, for her role in this effort. Copyright: © Lydia Wytenbroek and Randy Saylor, 2008 |
| Vincent Bowerman's Diary A2001.016.072 100a
[cover] Vincent Bowerman’s Diary 1877 – 1884 Including a note on my birth p42 M. [Y?] Williams [pg 1] Vincent Bowerman’s [milored?] Diary is one of the most important family documents. p 5. Aunt Paty Hubbs, (née Margaret Southard) was Nancy Southard Bowerman’s sister, Vincent’s sister in law p 17 Feb. 18, 1828 Nelson Sills here au auguing [sic] to work our farm p 18. 3 mo 14, 1778 Nelson Sills moved up here 19. George Lear died 3 mo 20, 1878 23- 1 mo. 25. went to Levi’s (Bloomfield) – staid [sic] until 23rd – 4 mo ‘79 p 30 – Thomas Bowerman Jr. died 4 mo. 1, 1881 – 10 ½ yrs buried 3rd p. 31 – moved into new home 4 mo. 5, 1881 p 37 – Mother’s wedding 9 mo. 13, 1882 p 39 – Meeting trouble p 42. – My birth [pg 2] 6 mo 24 my legg [sic] Rather sore I have but little hopes of it ever getting much Better Levi Bowerman Bloomfield [pg 3] Vincent Bowerman Born 5 mo 21 1791 Married 1813 moved on my new farm 1814 about Christmas [pg 4] [duplicate of page 3] [pg 5a] [blank] [pg 5b] V Bowerman Book Book C Sarah Terwilligar wife of John Terwilligar of Bloomfield died 2 mo 23 1877 Wife of James Foster daughter of Vincent Ferguson died 2 mo 23 1877 Peter McFaul died 2 mo 26 77 from the effects of a paraletick [sic] Stroke Buried at Hillier the meeting held in Friends house mtn at Bloomfield [pg 6a] 2 3 mo 4 “77 first day went to meeting after meeting went to Stephen Whites had a very Satis factory visit I Went up to Leavens & Nan Cy [sic] Bowerman wife of D B from Illinoise [sic] Came there Wife of Auther [sic?] Branscomb and daughter inlaw [sic] of John Branscomb died 3 mo 8 1877 and was buried 10 the 10 Levi & Mary went to Napanee had a Snow storm to ride in 17 thometer [sic] 2 below zero 6 oclock [sic] AM [pg 6b] 3 3d mo 17 Wm Allen had a meeting in our meeting haus [sic] Commencing 7 oclock [sic] in the evening Gilbert Miller the Metho dis [sic] preacher died in Picton 4 mo 6 1877 Ruth the wife of Benjamin Brislol died 4 mo 7 1877 John Levils Barn was burned 4 mo 11 1877 burned up 13 cows 2 horses and every thing[sic] else that was in it the work of an Incendeiry [sic] David Cunningham died 4 mo 18 1877 buried the 20th [pg 7a] 4 1877 4 mo 26 the Boys gatherd [sic] 77 the Sap buckets and put them in the Sap house 4 mo 30 Levi began making Cheese gat but 700 of milk the first day W H Ruttan went over to Gilberts Factory the Same day [?] Burlingham died 3 mo 12 1850 Phebe his widow died 4 5 mo 1877 buried the 6 by the side of her husband in the Stinson burying ground 5 mo 17 Went to Wellington to attend the monthly meeting Stoped [sic] at John Dortands & took diner [sic] Self and Levi [pg 7b] 5 Mary Carrie & Thomas had a very good visit several of his family at home that day 5 mo 25 James Carter Came home to day [sic] he has been to see his sick Father found him dead and buried 5 mo 31 Made Aunt Paty a visit found her Some better than she had been [H Merland?] Hubbs died 7 mo 28 1869 Sufferd [sic] long time & very much his complaint being dropsy his legs both Bursted [sic] and ran [pg 8a] 6 watter [sic] for a long time before he died. 6 mo 1 quarterly meeting our company the first night were John Mulett Duncan Wood W Henry Mullett & wife Fredrick Sweetman & wife and four children John Hudson Sarah Phelps Robert & Elizabeth Cadman 2 night Lavina Merrel Justice Robinson & and his daughter Melissa 3 night Robert & Elizabeth W H Mullett & wife [pg 8b] 7 Phillip & Wm Ward John Mullett & Wm Allen Duncan Wood Reuban Burchard John Hudson Jr Byron Robinson Alford Mullett & wife George Wantman Anna Barton Liza Ward Barton Ward Sarah Phelps Biship Hannah died 6 mo 18 1877 after about a weeks Illness buried 19 6 mo 19 Reuben Garratt & wife here to night [sic] [pg 9a] 8 Sarah B Saterithwait a friend from England attend our mo meeting Elithabeth daughter of Dr Willy Dorland died 6 mo 20 1877 buried 22 6 mo 24 Gideon Clark of Halderman and his sister Sarah Jane was at our place and Staid [sic] all night Sarah B Satterthwaite had an appointed meeting 4 oclock [sic] this afternoon in our mtng house 7 mo 1 had the first mess of young potatoes the 9th 1877 had them plenty so that we used no more old ones [pg 9b] 9 John Jones died 3 mo 29 1867 Reuben Cunningham of Meaford died 7 mo 10 1877 Levi Began to mow 7 mo 11 1877 on the Bloofied [sic] place 7 mo 25 Thomas & Lydia Stinson & the wido [sic] phbe Bowerman from [Mich?] again here on a visit Phebe Nexen with them 7 mo 27 Peter McFauls Wid ow died was buried the 29 at Wellington 1877 8 mo 8 to day [sic] they buried James Coopers [sic] wife of Sidney 1877 to day [sic] I eat the first green [pg 10a] 10 apples from the august apple tree John Mullett and Mary went to Andrew Haig hts for a visit John came back Mary Staid [sic] there 8 mo 18 John Mullett left home this afternoon Deborah and Rachel Sills came here this evening for a visit Seaborn Dorlan died in Wellington 8 mo 27 1877 Was bured [sic] the 29 Noah McLain & Joseph Radclif Left here 8 mo 27 8 mo 31 Finished getting in the harvest 15 loads of oats 7 loads wheat [pg 10b] 11 7 loads of peas 9 mo 13 We went to Wm Garratts to a feast made to cellebrate [sic] his marriage and his Sister Phebe they were both married on the Same day 9 mo 13 1818 9 mo 16 1877 Benjamin Mullett Elizabeth Cadman Rachel Sills here to night [sic] Started for home the wind blew So hard they could not get across the Ferry and they came back to try a gain [sic] in the morning Rachel Cle ndenan and her daugh tor [sic] Mary Waring here + [pg 11a] 12 8 mo 24 Self & wife went to E Leavens met a Social company of ten persons met in comem oration of the [predence?] of Phebe Bowerman Widow of Brother Stephan Bowerman from the far West Sister to Wm Gart t for a visit Gideon H Bowerman died 9 mo 15 1877 6 oclock [sic] AM buried the 17 in the old Burying ground nigh his own residence 9 mo 20 Shut up our fatting [sic] hogs Levi & Ma ry went to Huntingdon the Same time [pg 11b] 13 Tabithy wife of Gilbert Jones of Murray was bu ried 10 mo 9 1877 William Harris of Wellington was buried 10 mo 10 1877 the first Snow fell 11 mo 5 began to snow about 5 oclock [sic] at night John Lombard moved in to our house 11 mo 16 1877 Willet Hubs died 11 mo 6 1877 Peter Allen of Picton died 11 mo 18 1877 after a few hours Illness 11 mo 21 Nelson Sills here 12 mo 4 finished cutting apples to dry no Snow on the ground yet [pg 12a] 14 1877 Joseph Haight died 12 mo 5 1877 was buried the Seventh [wnd, wend or wind?] 12 mo 28 1877 We have had scarcely any cold weather weather ther [sic] is no Ice in the Bay or in any of the harbour the Steam Boats are Running the Same as Summers there was a few cold days in the [fore part?] of the month The milk ponds froze over so that the Boys sketed [sic] on them but it only lasted a few day there is no Frost in the ground the people are ploughing [pg 12b] 1878 15 12 mo 30 the weather something [sic] colder than it was no snow 1 mo 4 1878 had a visit from our neighbour E Leavens and Joseph Berge from Whitby Walter Roges of Illino as [sic] first Snow Storm fell 7 or 8 inches of Snow it came from the South East 1 mo 6 the thermometer 6 below zero at 6 oclock [sic] AM 4 above the same evening Charles Boekus died in Picton 1 mo 11 1878 Sarah Jane wife of John Waring died 2 mo 13 1878 [pg 13a] 16 1878 1 month 21 no Snow the frost coming out of the ground and getting to be very mudy [sic] the thermometer [sic] up to 40 Samuel Baker of Hunting don died 1 mo 25 1878 buried 28 Levi and Mary went to Pic ton to market came home by the way of G Lears found hi m not much better quite fee ble 2 mo 4 our company to attend the quarterly meeting 1 night Arthur Mullett and Son Phillip Ward & his cous in [sic] Elizabeth Ngt 2 night David Dunham [pg 13b] 17 3d night Phillip Ward Phillip Brewer Edward Hudson Edwin Mullett Elizabeth Night Sarah Phelps Sarah Eliza phelps Arthur Mullett Rueben Haight 2d mo 18 Nelson Sills here to day [sic] arrainging [sic] matters to work our farm Abraham Fry died 2 mo 23 1878 was Buried the 26 aged [mearly or nearly?] 91 Dormand Cronk Son of William and Hannah Cronk died 2 mo 28 78 aged 16 [pg 14a] 18 1878 3 mo 5 Elizabeth White Debor ah and Self went to See E [lipkatet?] found him predy [sic] smart had a very nice visit with him and the family Jacob Peterson died 3 mo 8 buried the 10 aged 89 years 7 months & 14 days Consider & Ryerson Sills came here 3 mo 8 to begin to wrk the Farm 3 mo 11 Rather colder thermoter [sic] 34 for the past ten days the thermometer has Ranged from 45 to 50 no snow to be seen Nelson Sils moved up here the 14 of 3 mo 1878 [pg 14b] 19 George Sear was taken Sick last Christmas day Supposed he had taken heavy cold was quite sick for several days then got some better but gained very litte [sic] kept along so until 3 mo 19 near 12 oclock [sic] had an Eliptick [sic] fit died about 9 o clock [sic] the next morning the 20th buried 22 ‘78 3 mo 23 got a telegraph from mariposa that my daughter inlaw [sic]Mary Bo werman lays very ill no hopes of her recovery [Hiilery?] wife of Benjamin Simpson died 4 mo 4 “78 [pg 15a] 20 buried [7?] in the cemetry [sic] at Picton 4 mo 30 1878 the plum trees are in full Blow a remarke ble [sic] Early Spring the people nearly done Sowing the Spring grain the trees are [leeving? or bewing [sic]?] out very fast 4 mo 28 the last accou nt we had from Marip- osa May Bowerman was getting better George Sear Born 9 mo 14 1810 Sarah Lear Born 6 mo 16 1842 N Sills began to mow 7 mo 8 78 Finished haying the 20 Began to cut barley 7 mo 19 [pg 15b] 21 Thomas Waring died 7 mo 20 1878 after a few heart illness he eat a hearty supper and died at 3 oclock [sic] the next morning buried 21 in Frends [sic] burying ground at Bloomfield the funeral attended by a very large concourse of people many more than could get in the house for about 3 week [sic] We have had very dry hot weather on the morning of the 21 had a very fine shower 8 mo 28 fell on the watter [sic] Box hurt my side very bad N. Sills finished the harvest the Same day [pg 16a] 22 Carrie Starts tomorrow to Pickering to School never went She did not go She Back out 9 mo 8 Wm Cadman wife and daughter here went to See the Sand Banks the wife of John H Leavet died 11 mo 2 was buried at Picton the 4 1878 Aunt Poly Dorland dau ghter of Thomas Dorland of adolphus Town was buried 11 mo 8 “78 11 mo 6 first snow fell enough to cover the ground Amos Hubbs died 12 mo 1 Buried the 4 [pg 16b] 23 in the Picton Seminary had their meeting in Picton Philip Brewer buried Same day Sarah Bedford in Bellville died & Buried Same day Deborah Boori of Pickering Buried 12 mo 1 1878 12 mo 11 Rained all day the [sic]10 at night began to [snow?] Snowed all night the fall about eight inches of snow My Self Debora & Lydia We Shut up the house and went to Levis [sic] on the 25 of 7 mo Staid [sic] there until 23 of 4 mo 79 [pg 17a] 24 5 mo 3 79 Jonathan Striker died 3 mo 14 buried 18 79 Wm Sauthard he that lived on the Rige Road died 5 mo 1 uried 4 1879 in the buring [sic] ground on his own farm of Joseph Terwilegars wife died 5 mo 11 1879 N Sills finished planting corn 5 mo 23 24 began Roling [sic] the grain 7 mo 10 Levi began to mow Nelson about the Same time [pg 17b] 25 Finished getting in the hay 7 mo 19-79 Began to cut Barly [sic] Lucy Morden died 7 mo 29 buried 31 “79 Daniel Leavens died 8 mo 29 buried 31 1879 aged 90 years & 4 months _ _ _ 11 mo 2 1879 First snow fell 11 mo 2 11 mo 7 the snow has none of it gone off yet it is 6 inches deep now &-haning [sic] on the Bushes yet this a very clear Sun Shiney [sic] day 11 mo 8 began to use the coal Stove [ornot?] to burn coal [pg 18a] 26 Patty the widow of Cornelius Bowerman died 11 month 29 buried the 2d of 12 mo 1879 11 mo 9 Began to use coal for our fire dont [sic] like it dont [sic] like it as well as wood Abigail the wido [sic] of John Jones She died 12 mo 13 1879 She has been living at Levi Varneys her soninlawes [sic] in Bloomfield interd [sic] the 12 mo 15 Amy wife of John Short died 12 mo 15 1879 Daniel Dorland of Mury died 6 mo 19 1880 Gilbert Haight of Graftan died 6 mo 19 1880 [pg 18b] 27 wife of Abraham [Saler?] died 3 mo 20 1880 it should be Elizah hoag Joseph Hoag of Mariposa died 4 mo 9 buried 11 1880 Jacob Bowerman of of [sic] Wisnonson died about the first of 5 mo 1880 5 mo 20 1880 the apple trees just begining [sic] to be in full Blow the people generally done Sowing Samuel Harris Buried 6 mo 3d 1880 Hannah the wido [sic] of John Southard Buried 6 mo 20 1880. [pg 19a] 28 John Davis died in Bloomfield 6 mo 8 1880 I hurt my leg getting into the carriage at the meeting house after attending one of the new [lites?] nigh meeting the 2 day of 7 mo 1880 Joseph Baker died in Picton 7 mo 21 1880 John Levitt began to gather apples 8 mo 23 80 Ellen Fox here 9 mo 5 “80 a very beauti ful day Deborah Lydia and Self here alone to day [sic] Leavetts folk all away [pg 19b] 10 mo 24 the Snow fell 4 inches very damp load ed on the trees so as to Brake some of them down 11 mo 6 & 7 the storm be gan about one oclock [sic] in the morning the wind from the South west it blew a real gale with Rain most of the time Eliphalet Leavens died 11 mo 1 1880 Thomas Bowerman died of [? ?] died 9 mo 15 1880 aged 78 [pg 20a] 30 3d mo 9 Returned from Bloomfield to our old home for the last time Coanrod Branscomb died 3d mo 5 buried 7 1881 3 mo 23 1881 began to move to Bloomfield Thomas Bowerman my grand Son [sic] and Son of Levi Bowerman died 4 mo 1 1881 Buried the 3 aged 10 ½ years he died at 8 oclock [sic] in the evening [pg 20b] 31 We moved into our new house 4 mo 5 1881 4 mo 30 1881 a beautiful Sun Shiny day Levi busy sewing Barly [sic] Mary Bowerman of Mariposa died 5 mo 2 1881 5 mo 2 I was going up Stairs and fell & hurt my Shoulder very bad Dr Nash died 5 mo 14 1881 5 mo 5 1881 Our quarterly meeting came of the 4 & 5 [th?] prety [sic] good meeting take it altogether We had considerable company [pg 21a] 32 quite a number running in and out But didnot [sic] stay long 7 mo 6 thermomtr [sic] stoped at 90 at 2 oclock PM Elizabeth Comstock from Michagain [sic] here attended the 11 oclock [sic] meeting at Wellington also the 4 oclock [sic] meeting at Bloomfield took logings [sic] with us 7 mo 10 1881 I forgot to say she gave a lector [sic] on the freed people in the evening James B Vincent died 12 mo 17 1881 [pg 21b] 33 on page 396 [g veben?] Friends Review [?] be found a History of the Rise and [pregness?] of the Scriptures Cornelius Nexen died 8 mo 28 Buried the 30 1881 __ The first Wno fel [sic] 11 [?] november 12 1881 12 mo 9 1881 this year our cheese factory only neated [sic] us 175 dollars [Delile?] Drumon daughter of Wm & Matilda Bramscomb died 12 mo 18 1881 [pg 22a] 34 Reuben R Burlingham Died 11 mo 22 1881 Richard Southard died 1 mo 20 1882 buried 22 1 mo 24 1882 on this day of [his?] [birth?] 32 years ago I and my present wife was joined in marriage 6 mo 9 1882 And here we are yet Phebe Widow of Reuben Burlingham died 1 mo 29 1882 aged 91 Hannah widow of Joseph Baker died 1 mo 30 1882 [pg 22b] 35 Jane wife of Fanington [Beelah?] died 2 mo 9 1882 Buried 11 in Friends buring [sic] Buring [sic] ground Cory Bull died 2d mo 18 1882 his was an instanaius [sic] death Cory Bull died 2 mo 18 1882 his was an instant tanious [sic] death Our sister Mary Bowerman from youn [sic] street has been here on a visit left here for her own home 6 mo 19 82 [pg 23a] 36 6 mo 9 a very beau tiful Sun Shiney [sic] day 7 mo 13 82 Mara Richar dson her son Richard daughter Catharine came to our place 4 day Richard went to Picton next day to monthly meeting next day they and also our folks went on the Sand banks [lured or hired?] the stage to come here and take them John G & Catherine Largent Fritchley, Derbyshire Eng. Rowland H Hazard Fallsington, Buk Co. [Penna?] [pg 23b] 37 Sally Garratt widow of [Towsen] Garratt died 8 mo 30 1882 the first ness green corn 9 mo 13 1882 the Indian corn all ripe and mostly cut Caroline E Bowerman and Edwin Williams wer [sic] married at the Brides Fathers 9 mo 11 1882 11 mo 19 the mill pond frozen over Suffient to to [sic] Bear a man [pg 24a] Persis E Hallock Poplar Ridge Cayuga Co N.Y. Susan C Gorham Sherwood Cayuga Co. N.Y. 10th Mo 24th 1882 Rebecca Cooper died 11 mo 16 1828 [sic. Should be 1882?] Buried the 18 __ on first day the 24 12 mo 1882 When our folks went to the meeting house they fou nd it locked and gurded [sic] by three men on the inside they locked [sic] on the inside they locked on the inside and left the key [pg 24b] 39 in the key hole so we could not an other [sic] one in the out side [sic] so that every [window??] of access was cut off while a man watching the door on the inside a cople [sic] of our friends unscrwd [sic] the hinges and took the door off and went in took their seats the [watchr?] in side [sic] kept walking and talking prety [sic] mu ch all the time the m eeting lasted On fourth day 27 when they went to the meeting the house [pg 25a] 40 [was?] locked and [Barded?] Irons [cover?] the hinges So that the door could not be taken off Some of our friends got Something under the lower Sash of the windown and pri de [sic] it up so that they [could?] [?] get their hands off it the out siders [sic] pulling it up and the insiders pulling down and they soon pulled it to peces [sic] while they were this someone went to the litle [sic] door of the wood house and opned [sic] one of them and went in [pg 25b] 41 1 mo 27 1883 Stephen Hubs took Foxs Journal home with him to read [?] 2 mo 3 a very stormy day for the [Ranters?] to jold their quarterly meeting 3 mo 29th 1883 this day the judge put us in possesion [sic] of the old meeting house again __ John White died the 1 of 9 month at Bloomfield Aged 87 years. 9 mo 28 83 Charles Finemore moved into Levis house by the factory [pg 26a] 42 Elly Kingston died 2 mo 14 1883 Carry was confined 6 mo 21 1883 with a litle [sic] Boy not very small Levi [away?] to Yearly meeting will not be home until sometime next week Lydia Stinson died 7 mo 24 1883 Early in the morning Buried in the afternoon of the next day Deborah Edith Bowerman Died 7mo 25th 1872 __ [pg 26b] 43 Ernest C. Hazard born on the 18th day of August 1870. Edith May born on the 23rd day of the September 1871. Willet Edward born on the 3rd day of January 1873. [Charles? looks like Crarles?] Augustus born on the 28th day of July 1881. George Edgar born 21st day of May 1883. [pg 27a] 44 Elen Bowerman Died 11mo 25th 1883 Buried the 27th __ The decision of our Law Suit has com [sic] to us By telegraf [sic] [? to] received us the 10 day of [first?] mo 1884 the the [sic] [Plantif?] came to appeal which will take up some time the mercury stood at 32 this morning 1 mo 25 3 below zero [pg 27b] 45 The Bloomfield tannery was burned between mid night [sic] and day light [sic] on the 19 of 3 mo 1884. I believe tho [sic] [?] there is some Insurance on it __ My sore hell get bad about the 10 of may 1884 Mary Waring here from Whitby here on a visit [pg 28a] 46 Jacob Shorts Died 9mo 17th 1884 Aged 97 __ John Richards Died 9mo 19th 1884 Aged 95 __ John Wright Died 9mo 19th 1884 __ John Riches Widdow [sic] died 12th of 10mo 1884 Aged 66, __ [pg 28b] 47 [blank] [pg 29a] 48 Phebe Bowerman Batle [sic] Creek [Calhown?] Co Michagan [sic] in came Charles Vale Mary L Bowerman Pine Orchard Ontario Milton Bowerman Spring field Green Co Missouri [pg 29b] [dark] |