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 7th and 8th, “I workt on the Baruks in the yard.” On the 9th, “this morning we Began a frame Before the Coleg [at this date the five Harvard buildings all faced west towards the Common] & danil peabody wos our master workman.” From the 11th to the 13th, “I workt on the Baruks in the yard.” Here he was interrupted, and “ordered to fix a old Barn for the province use…we workt at the Barn sargent Hardy & J. plats & Woodbary & I.” Then he “went to worke to the Hospital” for a week or so. On November 8th, however, “I workt on a lital fraim in the yard”—perhaps one of the “offices.” From the 10th to the 12th, “we workt on a Beruke afore the Colige.” From the 14th to the 16th, “I workt on the fraim a fore the colig,”’ on the 17th, “we fraimed of won side & part of tother,” and on the 18th, “we finisht the fraem jest at Night.” On Sunday November 19th he began one of the big jobs: “this day we Lokt out som sils for a Nother Baruk a hundred & Eight fot Long & got them to gether.” On the 22d he was again called off, first to work “on a Barn to fix it to make Cartridges in,” and then on “the gard hous to go to Cobil Hil.” But by Wednesday the 29th he returned “to worke on the Baruke a fore the Colig,” and continued until December 6th: “this day we raisd a Baruk a Crost the Common & then went & Laid out a Nother hundred & Eight feet long.”