William Gaston letter to Charles W. Karthaus & Co., 1819 January 9, page 2 and 3

This Gentleman has Quit Paying & moved near Augusta, where he Plants Cotton, & had A Plantation both sides of Savannah River, one in this state & the other in Carolina, & the latter State has lately Repealed A Law which prevents your taking slaves from this State or any other Into So: Carolina, which makes the whole possession of there Slaves Desirable to Mr McKinne, as He would take them to His Place on the CarolinaSide:- & I have an Increase notice to get the Slaves out of Georgia, as the Legislature of this State have passed A Law lately which might authorise the Gov'r to Seize their negroes, & He has already seized some situated very similarly; & his circumstance makes me very Desirous to Sell out to McKinne, as He could So conveniently move them out of the State, which is his Inducement to Buy me out. Your Power of Att'y & asc is with me & I Shall act on It the moment I get any funds in hand: - hoping to Say Something Conclusive Shortly I am upland Cotton 25 1/2 S: Yours Sincerely
Rice 5 1/2 @ 6$ Wm Gaston
tobacco 10 @ 12 $

Exports from Savannah from 1st October to 31st December 1818.
Bales of Bales of Tierces Hhds:
Sea Island Upland Rice Tobacco
Octr 1818 Coastwise 1 615 2 "

{ Havre " 430 50 "
Novr { West Indies " " 310 "
{ Castwise " 2,278 181 18

{Liverpool 149 4,183 " "
{Havre 20 2,227 246 "
Decr {Nantz 44 220 63 "
{West Indies " " 499 "
{Coastwise " 3,641 350 "
Total 214 13,594 1701 18