Volume 02 Page 0042

List of Negroes at Gowrie and East Hermitage This 23d April 1854

	Robert	(Driver)
C	Hester	died 5th Decr Prime
	Hannah	P
	Nat	½
	Polly	½
	Captain
	Minda
	Mathias	P
	Julia	P
	Nancy	(Jacob) P
	Maria	(Plan'n Cook)
	Fortune
	Mary
_	Rhina	_ P
	Charles	(Trunk Minder)
	Juna	& Child (Isaac) P
	George	(Cooper) P
	Betty	P
	Jack	(Short) P
	Louisa	& child (Mendoza) P
	Catherine	P
	Phillis	½
	Hector	(Captn) P
	Joaney	P
	Tyrah
	King	(at Marshland)
	Fortune	½
	Betsey	½
_	Ishmel	P
	Crecie	& Child (Cato) P
	Betsey	(Little)
	Jack	(Savage) Carpenter
	Amey	& Child (Brister )
	Harry
	John	(Chief Engineer &c,)

	Primus	P
	Lucy	P
	Tommy	P
died of Cholera Feby 28th /55	Phiby	P
	Billy	(Carpenter)
	Scotland
	Bella
	Sam	P
	Stephen	(Miller) ½
	Binah	(Currie) P
	London	(House Boy) ½
	Nancy	(Ben) P
	George	(Hunt) Trunk Minder &c, Age 50 yrs
	Flora	(Nurse) 50 [yrs]
	Fanny	8 [yrs]
	Hannah	(Old, Minding Children)
	Dolly	(My Cook & Washer)

Negroes at Gowrie, Old & Young = 55
Prime Hands [at Gowrie ] =23
Half Hands at Gowrie ] = 3½
Total Prime Hands at Gowrie 26½

C stands for Cholera by which
We have lost Twelve in Decemr 1854

This List fills me with melancholy as
I recall some sad scenes. I begin now
a new book trusting its pages will
not be stained thus for years at least
to come. __Louis Manigault