American husbandry : manuscript, [ca. 1775-1789]. MS Am 1563. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Summary:

Account of the climate, soil, production and agriculture of North American regions from Nova Scotia to the West Indies and west to Louisiana; organized by region.

Notes:

Transcription in an unidentified hand of the printed book American husbandry (London, 1775), incomplete; with a note in the hand of E. A. Holyoke, signed, dated at Salem, Mass., 7 Feb. 1789 (front flyleaf).

Title from spine.

Authorship of the original text is not definitely established; evidence indicates that the author may have been either John Mitchell or Arthur Young.