Get in touch with the librarians at the Vermont History Center in Barre. They have a searchable database of farm journals from the period you're looking at and LOVE to talk about them.

This is one from their collection in which a young man sketched out his fields and what was in them (in this case, grass for livestock grazing and other crops) and also wrote journal entries about his life.

https://vermonthistory.org/history-center/

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