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1866 Diary of
​Mary (Knox) Herrick

July 31, 1866

7/31/2025

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Tuesday, July 31, 1866
A, L and B went away.  L lost her veil.  Abbie went to Mr. Warfields after it.  Mr. Britton cutting rye.
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July 30, 1866

7/30/2025

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Monday, July 30, 1866
Father went to Westfield with a calf, got home at noon.  Brought another man, Aldrich.  Mr. Britton went in afternoon and worked for Wm. Hinsdale.  Called at Mr. O’s with Betsy.
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July 29, 1866

7/29/2025

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Sunday, July 29, 1866
Aunt Lucina and Betsy come from meeting.
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July 28, 1866

7/28/2025

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Saturday, July 28, 1866
Mr. Britton come.  In afternoon come very hard showers.  Hay out.
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July 27, 1866

7/27/2025

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Friday, July 27, 1866
Lowry, come off about 10 but Cady the hired man went off.  Father mowed in cider mill lot.  Britten did not come.  Em got home school.
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July 26, 1866

7/26/2025

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Thursday, July 26, 1866
Father don’t feel able to mow with horses.  Bell went up North St to see school.  Got home.  Luthera and Eunice called.
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July 25, 1866

7/25/2025

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Wednesday, July 25, 1866
They worked at hay in the Gomery (?) lot.  Come a shower about 4 o’clock.  Father is all worked out driving so.  May Hawes birthday 4.
*Mary ‘May’ Hawes is the daughter of Emery and Ursula (Herrick) Hawes, and the Granddaughter of Thomas and Mary (Knox) Herrick. She was born July 26, 1862
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July 24, 1866

7/24/2025

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Tuesday, July 24, 1866
Bell and I washed.  Mr. Britton come.  Liss and Bess have to work out.
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July 23, 1866

7/23/2025

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Monday, July 23, 1866
Rainy some.  Father sowing turnips.
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July 22, 1866

7/22/2025

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Sunday, July 22, 1866
Went to meeting all day.  Down to Henry’s at noon.  Lots of strangers at meeting.
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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
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      • 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
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