Joseph Price's Diary

Jany 26th Wind N E & Snowing very fast made between 3 & 4 I & quit about 10 O'C- here they Came for old widow Grows Coffin we got Lippens & Loyd to work at both I off about 2 OC in Slay with Jont Jones to town Bout. 1 qt Oyl 25 Cents & I did Spend not a penney back about 6 OC- & Lippens & Evans done very [illegible] much nearly finished Both I Sprig the Lid of Grows Set off about 9 OC- & took Bevan['s] home & put it in, home about 1 OC-

27th Wind N W & very Cold Lippens & Evans in J Morris s wagon with Grow Coffin & I of[f] for Bevans & they Interd her at Church & we Interd him at Haverford Graveyd I dined at Bevans then home & had a Childs Coffin for Enoch Holgates Child John Holgate School master and or Mason Buried yesterday He about 56 yrs old near about my age It is said his intemperance kill him Soke the whis & Brandy