| For labor on a farm, per year, from | $50.00 to $75.00 |
| For labor on a farm, per month, from. | 5.00 to 7.50 |
| For labor on a farm, per day, except in harvest and haying, from | .25 to .37 1/2 |
| Per day for cradling grain | $0.62 1/2 |
| Per day for mowing grass | .50 |
| Baking and binding after a cradler | .62 1/2 |
| Baking only after a cradler | .25 |
| Binding after a cradler | .37 1/2 |
| Cutting timber and splitting it into rails, per hundred | .37 1/2 |
| Splitting rails, per hundred | .18 3/4 |
| Crackling or breaking flax per hundred hands full | .12 1/2 |
| Swingling flax per lb. about | .03 |
| Spinning it for common wear per lb. (women's work) | .12 1/2 |
| Weaving linen for every day wear per yard about | .04 |
| Linsey-Woolsey per yard about | .07 |
CARPENTER'S WORK.
| Per day from | $0.50 to $0.72 |
| For making the woodwork of a wagon | $25.00 |
| Of a lumber sleigh | 1.50 |
| Of a plow | 1.00 |
| Of a fanning mill | 12.50 |
MASON'S WORK.
Per day from $0.50 to $0.75
[The sums] paid for the mason and carpenter's work of the dwelling house of Peter Gumaer, done about the year 1753, will show how cheap those mechanics worked at that time.
The house was 45 by 40 feet on the ground, with a cellar under the same, divided into four cellar rooms and four dwelling rooms. The walls were of stone, masoned with clay mortar and were about two feet thick, pointed outside of the house and inside of the cellar rooms with lime and sand mortar, and plastered inside of the rooms and chamber with mortar of lime, &c. The mason work of this house was done by three masons, by the job, for 30 L., equal to $75; and the carpenter's work was also done by the job, by a Mr. Wells, for the like sum of 30 L., equal to $75.
To show how cheap these mechanics worked, I have thought proper to give a further description of this house, being as follows, to wit: The two side walls were about 20 feet high from the bottom of the cellar to the plates, and the two end walls were about 28 feet high. The two walls, which divided the cellar and dwelling house each into four apartments, were about 16 feet high from the bottom of the cellar to the chamber floor. The two chimneys, with the supporting walls in the cellar and forming the fire-places, were about 40 feet high from the bottom of the cellar to their tops, and were each about 10 x 6 feet square above the upper floor, from which they were tapering towards the top of the roof, and above it were about 4 or 5 feet square.
The carpenter's work consisted of hewing, fitting and laying the cellar beams, which were about one foot square, and reached from the outside to the inside walls, also hewing, planing and laying the beams of the upper floor, which were of pitch pine timber and about 14 X 10 inches square, also hewing and planing the plates on which the roof rested, also hewing the rafters, which were about 8 x 6 inches square at the lower ends and about 5 inches square at the top end and those on the sides were about 32 feet long, and those on the two other sides, or ends, were about 26 feet long, and each pair of the long rafters contained a girth of about 25 feet long and about 8 x 6 inches square. The lath on which the shingles were nailed were of split timber, hewed 1 1/4 inch thick and about 5 inches wide, the shingles were of white pine timber 3 feet long and 1 inch thick at the butt end, shaved to near an edge at the other end; the lower and upper floors were of pitch pine boards, 1 1/2 inch thick planed on the side within the rooms.