Journal entry – John Grey – 9 Nov 1833

Saturday 9th November



There has been a fall of Snow in the night which lay all the day & gave the country a very wintry appearance.  Mr Dickinson joined me early to settle our accounts & receive directions respecting the thinning of plantations which Mr Parkin will not have leisure to attend to.  We heard parties too who had disputes about their Veins of Ore, but which we managed to reconcile.  I walked with him to Randle Holme to see the new Cow House & other repairs that had been done under his superintendence, & very well done.  Also to look at some draining wanted in the small portion of tillage land upon that farm, which is reckoned large in that Country.  The repair of Alston Mill is in progress.  I then drove, or rather walked over the mountain to Whitfield, for the road had become so slippery that my horse could not keep his feet.  Stopped about an hour with Mr Ord , & reached Corbridge in the evening, when I sent to Mr Jay the plans of the proposed house with Mrs Greys and my own remarks upon Mr Hays alterations, also several papers and statements from the parties concerned in the dispute & arbitration at Scremerston writing to him on both subjects.