To day I went to Crockett to attend the sale of the property belonging to the estate of Col. Long & in the evening returned in company with John Harwell. The hands at work in the cotton. weather changable & warm.
150 years ago today . . . on the 5th day of June . . . in the year 1860 . . . Luke Bryan, Ass't. Marshal, is enumerating the James Wrigley family in the Town of Liberty . . . in Liberty County, Texas . . .
Thus closes my notes for the month of December and also for the year just passed and gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than I know but trusting in Him I shall enter upon the pleasing task, which is useful as a reference and may be profitable to those who have an interest in me.
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