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arrived in the settlement accompanied by 3 Priests. Potatoes are still quite green & growing rapidly.

Monday 4th. Very rainy day—ploughed in on the side of the hill in field No 22 18 Bus wheat. Thrashed 37 Bus: 3 Harrow teams agoing. 2 men taking down the upper frame of old Saw Mill to convert into a stable. Jacques Dahonte[1] who came up with Bishop Blanchette made his appearance; recd no letter by him. He says he was ordered to take down a batteux load of potatoes for Plomondon.

Tuesday 5th. Very rainy day; cleared up towards evening. Sowed 20 Bus Wheat Thrashed 50 Bus Wheat. Employed at sundry other jobs as usual. Mr. Robt Logan returned from Nisqually with the horses that took over the furs and also those of Mr Douglas & party. Edgar got off for Nisqually today having only 34 head of cattle.

Wednesday 6th. A Beautiful day. Sowed 20 Bus: Wheat—thrashed 40 Bus: Two men pulling down the old Saw Mill to make a new stable-otherwise employed as usual. Broke in 2 wild horses. Carrier employed fixing the Kitchen. Tom Thumb[2] arrived from Nisqually bringing papers for Van couver. They came rather too late to be sent by Jacques Dahonte.

Thursday 7th. A very fine day again. Ploughmen finished ploughing field No 22 and the head ridges of field No 5—& began to plough the 52 acre piece in field No 3 where the Colewort & turnips were. Thrashed 36 Bus Wheat. Took up 50 Bus potatoes. 5 harrow teams agoing in field No 22. Carrier putting up a pig sty.

Friday 8th. A beautiful day. Loaded a batteux with potatoes say 130 Bags at Plomondons plain—carted 30 Bags to

    ton (Wilfred P. Schoenberg, A Chronicle of Catholic History of the Pacific Northwest, 1743-1960 [Portland, 1962], 6). The Hudson's Bay Company had invited the Catholic clergy to establish a mission there to help keep French-Canadian servants and Red River settlers at its Washington posts, instead of moving to the Willamette Valley (see HBRS VI:16, 17, I7n, 77n, 78n, HBRS IV:240). On the establishment of the mission at Cowlitz see "St. Francis Xavier Mission, 1838-1880, Cowlitz Prairie," by Sister Mary Louise Sullivan (Seattle University thesis, 1948).

  1. ↑ Apparently a Fort Vancouver employee of the Company.
  2. ↑ Unidentified.

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