I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

I was glad to hear of that determination as I detest the practice of cousins marrying or any marriage between persons in which there can be traced the most distant relationship. I go for the improvement instead of the deterioration of our race.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

Yesterday I staked off the ground on the hill for an orchard. I want to get 1000 apple trees agrowing.

I read the book with interest, but when Jackson was a candidate in 1828 for the Presidency, I opposed him and voted for Adams. I favored a protective tariff.

The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.