Two years after the move to Palmyra, with the whole family pitching in, they had saved enough to buy one hundred acres and settle themselves in a "comfortable log house."  They then cleared sixty acres of heavy timber, gathered sap from fifteen hundred sugar maple trees, and made one thousand pounds yearly of sugar, molasses and maple syrup, even winning a county prize for one year's production of maple syrup.  In addition, they sold cord wood and vegetables, made and sold baskets, brooms and barrels, and peddled cakes and other foods from a pushcart.