[Hosea Stout Diary] Wednesday Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday the 12th 13th, 14th 15th 16th and 17th of May. I was out with the guard as usual, during which time nothing very different took place from day to day.
We enjoyed ourselves very well & had good times. We appointed Br J. C. Wright our justice of the peace before whom all were to be tried for any default or accident. If any one had bad luck he was fine for it[.] If any one had any too good luck he was fined or if he did not come in time to go out with us he was fined[.] If he was ignorant he was fined
My horse threw me off one day when I was trying to cach one that had got loose & I was allowed a pint for my good intentions and endeavors to catch the horse and fined a quart for having the bad luck of being thrown off while doing it[.] This was our custom while the guard lasted
We posted ourselves on the dividing ridge along which the road ran which we moved here on last summer & we could guard the whole frontier of the cattle range[.] Some times we scattered out & some times we kept together
We had orders to keep the herds off of the large flat S. of town where the farm was to be[.] We notified the herdsmen of the same several evenings to no purpose & had finally to whip several before they would keep away. It was wanted to reserve this bottom for pasture for the oxen when plowing.
We had several good rains during this time & the grass grew finely while the plows were going in an incouraging manner.
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
[Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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