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1866 Diary of
​Mary (Knox) Herrick

June 30, 1866

6/30/2025

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Saturday, June 30, 1866
Emerson come for Em and Liss.  They went out to Cs to cut and make ? for the S school.  Met at the school house to sing for the Fourth.  Father got Joe Smith.
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June 29, 1866

6/29/2025

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Friday, June 29, 1866
Grandpa Griswold (hoed?) here.  Ely went home after dinner.  Em walked Billy, brought ?
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June 28, 1866

6/28/2025

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Thursday, June 28, 1866
Milo here. They tore down the old shop. Went to W place and got some timber of that hog pen. Tom come up but did not stay. I went to ? Called to Henrys and Mrs. Elisha Ss. Rode home with L Blair.
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June 27, 1866

6/27/2025

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Wednesday, June 27, 1866
Father and Ely Wyman gone to work for Milo on the road.  I whitewashed the kitchen.  Liss and I cleaned up.  Liss gone to sewing society to Mrs. W. E. Boies.
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June 26, 1866

6/26/2025

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Tuesday, June 26, 1866
Made another great cheese and baked some.  So very warm.  I am so tired.  Ely Wyman come out at noon to help father.
*Ely Wyman was the 12 year old son of blacksmith Horatio Wyman
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June 25, 1866

6/25/2025

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Monday, June 25, 1866
We washed.  Girls walked to their school.  Father hoed potatoes up to the other place.
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June 24, 1866

6/24/2025

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Sunday, June 24, 1866
Made a cheese.  Went to meeting in afternoon.  Very warm.  H and Lid Blair here in evening.
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June 23, 1866

6/23/2025

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Saturday, June 23, 1866
A shower.  Billy brought Bill home, took Em to go to Spfd.  Mount.  Joy went home at noon.  Lillian, (Eunice and Lucia here)
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June 22, 1866

6/22/2025

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Friday, June 22, 1866
Made a large cheese this morning.  Men at work on road.  Mr. Hayden’s funeral.  L Blaine and wife and Mrs. Osborne took tea.
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June 21, 1866

6/21/2025

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Thursday, June 21, 1866
Just going to cleaning when Aunt Clara? Come.  Liss ironing.  I devoted up my time to have her visit pleasant.  Liss and Lucia went to sw up town.
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    Mary (Knox) Herrick was born May 7, 1813 in Blandford, MA to Harry and Charlotte (Blair) Knox.  She married Thomas Herrick June 11, 1836.  They had ten children: Charlotte, Henry, Ursula, Emma, Mary, Isabella, Melissa, Bessie, Abbie and Hattie.

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  • Home
  • Resources
    • Blandford's History
    • Blandford Families >
      • Blair Family
      • Boise Family
      • Hayden Family
      • Knox Family
      • Wyman Family
    • Audio/Visual and Oral Histories >
      • Legacy and Oral Histories
      • Oral Histories
    • Blandford Cemeteries >
      • Old Burying Ground >
        • p 2 Old Burying Ground
        • p 3 Old Burying Ground
        • p 4 Old Burying Ground
        • p 5 Old Burying Ground
        • p 6 Old Burying Ground
        • p 7 Old Burying Ground
        • p 8 Old Burying Ground
        • P 9 Old Burying Ground
        • P 10 Old Burying Ground
        • P 11 Old Burying Ground
        • Names and Grave Locations Old Burying Ground
    • Stories, Memoirs and Histories >
      • Edna (Wyman) Hart Stories >
        • My Memoirs
        • Old Fashioned Recipes For Common Ailments
        • Remembrances
      • Doris W. Hayden >
        • I Remember
        • The Ashmuns of Blandford
        • Believe It Or Not
        • Blandford Postmasters
        • The Reverend Cushing Eells
        • Harvesting Ice
        • Hayden Pond
        • Kaolin Road in Blandford
        • Local Picture Writings
        • Mrs. Josephine Porter
        • Sunset Rock
        • How It Was Done
        • Weaving
        • Mari C. Gibbs
        • Obituary For A Law Office
        • Outlying Blandford Burial Places
        • Don't Wake Up Elizabeth
        • Hastings Family Reminiscences
        • Lucelia Cook's Diary
        • Union Agricultural Society Beginnings
        • Woman Ahead Of Her Time?
        • Blandford Baptist Church
      • Wallace R. Heady
      • Charles Taggart
      • Louise Mason >
        • The Huckleberry Trolley
      • Joe Mullens
      • Esther (Hart) Ripley
      • Harold Ripley >
        • Blandford Fair Memories
        • Moving Day
        • Two Of Us Are Left
      • Percy Wyman Stories >
        • A Day In The Life Of A Boy
        • The Kaolin Mine
        • Mrs. Josephine Sheffield Porter
        • Percy Wyman's Younger Life
        • Shoeing Cattle
        • Breezy Hill Farm
        • North Blandford
        • Building A Stone Wall
        • Going To The Grist Mill
        • Chestnut Trees
        • Evening Star Of Life
        • Bygone Fourths
        • Troubles With Overland 83B
      • Blandford Monthly >
        • Harriet Maria Hinsdale
        • Old Meeting House Marker
      • Madeline Waite >
        • North Blandford's Older Industries
      • Harry Waite >
        • Good Old Days In North Blandford
      • Irene Merrill Mason >
        • 1829 Turnpike and Gatehouse
      • Robert F. Wood >
        • Reverend Sumner Gilbert Wood
      • Sumner G. Wood >
        • Fifty Years Ago
        • How Blandford Viewed The Railroad
      • Elsie Gibbs Hill >
        • Frank Nelson Gibbs
      • Springfield Republican >
        • The Mountain House
        • Blandford Hunt and Banquet
        • Dr. Wallace H. Deane
      • Barbara McCorkindale >
        • Irreverent Look At Our Forebears
        • Blandford's Lost Gold Mine
        • Springfield Ski Club
      • The Blandford Girls
      • Rev. Frank A. Higgins >
        • Basketry In Blandford
      • Susan B. Tiffany >
        • Quilting
      • Clarence Bates >
        • Tanning
      • Barbara Brainerd >
        • A Town's Special Treasure
      • Duane Wyman >
        • Blandford Cemeteries - A History of Time
      • Betsy (Cross) Brooks >
        • J. J. Cross
        • Cobble Mountain, The End Of An Era
      • Dr. Howard Gibbs >
        • A Visit To Aunt Hannah
        • Deacon's Son and Parson's Daughter
      • Henry B. Russell >
        • More Blandford Notes
      • Plumb Brown >
        • Cheese Making
      • Natalie Birrell >
        • Gerald Wise
      • Lorinda Loomis Gibbs >
        • White Church at North Blandford
      • Gordon C. Rowley >
        • Musical Instruments 1st Cong Church
      • Hannah Gibbs Diary
    • School Photos
    • 1865 Civil War Diary of Daniel Ware
    • Blandford Bicentennial
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