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from the Cottonoires[1] 20 head of cattle. Drove them out to Na wa cum on their way to Nisqually. The two parties house building getting on pretty well.

Thursday 30th. Fair weather wind NW. Mr. Douglas accompanied by Mr. Sinclair[2] & the party of men retiring pr English ship arrived from Ft Vancr on their way to Ft Victoria. Employed much as usual: sowed 12½ Bus Wheat—thrashed 45 Bus Wheat.

[October, 1847]

Friday 1st. Fair weather, a change to rain towards evening with a southerly wind. Mr. Douglas & party with 9 loaded & 9 light horses got off for Nisqually by 10 A.M. Obliged to give all the harrow horses to the party. Farm work otherwise proceeding as usual. Sowed 15 Bus Wheat—thrashed 45 Bus Wheat. Sutherland, Edgar & 2 others receiving the Co[mpan]ys cattle from the settlers & driving them out to Nawacum. Indian fishermen at the weir begin to take the better kind of salmon.

Saturday 2nd. Very rainy day southerly. Sowed 9 Bus Wheat, thrashed 30 Bus: Took up potatoes for rations. Edgar & party endeavouring to collect cattle and driving them to Nawacum.

Sent Konea[3] with barrels to begin the fishery at the river side, our hill where the wheat stores are.

Sunday 3rd. Very rainy day. Revd Bishop Blanchette[4]

  1. ↑ Another name with many spellings. Here probably Michel Cottonoir Jr. or Sr., both listed in the 1850 Lewis County census with their families. Michael "Cottonair (Cottoneau, Cottonoir, etc.)" Jr. and Sr., had donation claims. See Shackleford, Washington DLCs, 426, and M. Leona Nichols, Mantle of Elias (Portland, c1941), 262.
  2. ↑ William Sinclair, Jr., is listed in the 1850 Clark County census (born in Ruperts Land). He worked for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver, where he became a clerk in 1849; he was in charge of the Cowlitz Farm, 1857-59 (see HBRS VII:320-21).
  3. ↑ A laborer on the Cowlitz Farm employee lists, 1847-49, H.B.C. Arch.
  4. ↑ Archbishop F. N. Blanchet returned to Oregon by sea from Europe with mission reinforcements for the Pacific Northwest in August, 1847 (Edwin V. O'Hara, Pioneer Catholic History of Oregon [Paterson, N. J., 1939], 128, 130). In December, 1839 Blanchet arrived at the Cowlitz settlement and chose the first permanent mission site in Washing-

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