Handwritten journal entry of Horatio Gates Onderdonk, discussing economic conditions, rental market in New York City, his real estate holdings, and ornamental plantings. Onderdonk notes his family consists of himself and wife [first wife, Elizabeth Schenck Onderdonk], daughters, Henry W. Eastman [clerk], and freed blacks; discusses at length status of his various tenant houses and their occupants (location not yet determined_could be in North Hempstead, Brooklyn, or New York, N.Y.).