IMH 74:4 p330

"Chronicles of Upper Burnet" (1)

Thursday, October 14th.

It began to rain soon after daylight and kept at till noon and some time after when it cleared off. I spent the forenoon mostly where
Bill Hand and his cousin were making clapboards   I went back there about three o'clock but they were just quitting as Bill was almost
sick. Tom Newbern29 was there hunting stone for his hearth and I staid with him awhile, after which I went down to where Dan Bain
and Parke Co. John were breaking up a field. Alvin and Father worked at their stable when it was not raining

Teaching Notes: The "clapboards" that Bill Hand and his cousin were making were likely to be used as roofing shingles. They
may have been used for siding purposes. Generally there were made out of  cedar. A section around 12-15 inches was cut and
the the clapboards were made using a too called a froe.

Parke Co. John was probably a horse or a mule. Parke county is about 70 miles west of Morgan county.