Jonas

January 19, 2010 Jonas Blomberg  This month I have decided to move to New France to start a new and hopefully a better life. They gave me three grants of land on the south shore, which I have decided to divide up and give to habitants. I am a seigneury and have been given a house to take care of and rent it to habitants. My job is hard work; every one relies on me for a good harvest to last through the winter sufficiently. The habitants worked very hard every day of the year they chopped four trees down today and made them in to fire wood. I hope it will last through the winter to keep our house warm .I also have to provide a mill, house and lots for the tenants. I get paid on St. Martin’s Day; I get part of the crop and money for rent. The kids and Marry are coming up in a couple of months I am looking forward to this because I haven’t seen them in so long, and jenny is starting to walk, and this year the boys will be able to help me on the farm. When the boys arrive we will start to fix the house. We have to fix a wall with field stone and mortars coved with white wash, and replace the roof with new shingles. I am going to by some new pine wood furniture to put in the den. This will be my last diary entry for a while because I am going on a trip to get supplies; I will be gone for about a week. January 27th 2010

Dear Diary. My group and I got back fro our supplies trip today. It was a good and hard trip. The only type of food we had for the hole seven days were soup and stale bread. The weather was so bad there. It was so cold we had to be bundled up in so many layers, of clothes, underneath our jackets. While I was away the habitants Mo and Marry took very bad care of the land and every thing was left a mess. The few animals were not taken care of and the crops are not close to being finished and I am afraid they will die from the cold. On the bright side my wife and the kids are coming to New France in two days I cant wait. I hope they will like it here. I am pretty lonely now with no one so that is why I am writing this diary. They can sled on the frozen river with the other kids in the camp. It is getting late so I am off to bed I probably wont write as much over the next while because I have to catch up on all of the work the habitants didn’t do. Good night.

