Daily Archives: March 8, 2014

8 – Mild but hazy day, Wind S. – Rode to Fortune, the Meadows, and to Town, return’d to Dinner, busy burning brush, spreading Manure & Sowing Clover Seed in front of House in the old Field on Rye ~ Today finished scraping Trees at Furley Orchard, which has taken 17 days

From the journal of Captain Henry Thompson, March 8, 1814. Courtesy the Friends of Clifton.