Volume 02 Page 0047

Tax Return for Gowrie Plantation year 1833

140 Acres 1st Quality Tide Swamp	@ 3 cents 7 mills pr Acre is	$ 4	29
140 Do 2d do Do Do [Quality Tide Swamp]	@ 2 [cents] 7 [mills] pr do	$ 2	84	2
20 Do Marsh Land	@ [cents] 1½ [mills] pr do	$	3
30 Do Marsh, opposite T Marchants	@ 2 [cents] 6 [mills] pr Do	$	18
70 Slaves Taxed	@ 31¼ cents each	21	87	5
		$29	21	7

By a recent Act of the Georgia Legislature
the Taxes for this Year are reduced 25/prcent
below the Taxes of last Year which
makes the General Tax this Year $ 21 91 [cts] 2 [M]
and the State & County Taxes on the above
Property added makes the whole annual Tax $ 25 89 3

For the year 1834 Sixty five Slaves

Route & Stages of Negroes who walk from Silk Hope to Gowrie

1st day	Goose creek near Dorchester from Silk Hope
2 day	corner or fork of Parkers ferry road & Bacons Bridge Road
3 day	3 miles beyond Parkers ferry
4 day	Fish pond Bridge
5 day	near Coosahatchie
6 day	Halfway between Grayhamville & Purrisburg
7 day	at Gowrie midday

John (carpenter Boy) started from Charleston 10th Nov 1840
& got 1st night to Parkers ferry, 2nd to Blue House, the
3d night day to Coosawhatchie, 4th Purrisburg, 5th morg Gowrie