Zachariah Law & Zachariah Clayton

Zachariah Law –Shade nr Todmorden
Shopkeeper
Born and lived in Longfield 61 years ago. Leaving three years ago. Whilst at Longfield had two farms lived at one 16 years, and the other for 24 years.
I grew potatoes for self and sale. No turnips.
Plenty of eggs for self and sale.
Sold milk, new and old.
1st farm – 3 milch cows and a horse.
2nd farm, 6 milch cows, 3 young cows and a horse
Had a garden but did not sell produce.
No pigs, geese, nor foals, no bees.

His father was at Croft in Langfield – weaver –
Grew potatoes for himself, no turnips, no seeds, sold a few eggs. Sold milk mainly old but a little new. Had 5 or 6 milking cows every summer and sometimes two calves. A small garden – no breeding pigs nor geese only one foal and no bees.

Zachariah Clayton lived at Nest in Erringden.
He was seventy years old and was a weaver.
He was born in Sowerby township and lived there until he was twenty-four years old when he moved to Erringden where he has lived ever since. He had lived at three different farms; Holderness, Marshaw Ridge and Holloclee bfore moving to Nest about 1825.
This is what he says about life on his farms:-

I grew potatoes but only sold any some light times.
I grew a few turnips but only in my gardens.
I never had any seeds except garden seeds for my own use and hay seeds some of which latter I have sold.
I generally kept poultry and sometimes sold eggs among my neighbours but never took any to market.
I kept milch cows (up to 5 at once)
I sold the milk new or old just as my neighbours wanted it.
I had calves – have kept and brought up two in a year besides these I sold for veal.
There was a garden belonging to each of the farmhouses out of which I sold a little fruit and some trifling matters but I did not make a practice of selling the produce of my garden.
I never bred any pigs or kept any except for my own use.
I never kept any geese – nor foals, nor hives.