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Gowrie and East Hermitage

		to	$
1855 Oct'r		To Middleton Factors Oct'r 1855 @ Octr 1856	$1994	42
1856 Jan'y	1	Overseer's Wages for past year	700
[1856 Jan'y]	[1]	A. A. Solomons (Medicines)	30	57
[1856 Jan'y]	[1]	W. H. May & Co. (Belting &c)	43	54
[1856 Jan'y]	31	Dr W. G. Bullock	14
[1856 Jan'y]	[31]	A. McAlpin & Bro. (Lumber)	217	09
1856 Feb'y	1	R. & J. Lackison	272	77
[1856 Feb'y]	[1]	Dr. J. McP. Gregorie	58
[1856] May		J. M. Eason & Bro. (improving Thresher)	900
			$4230	39

Remarks
Considering the immense losses We have experience during the
past three years, the Cholera having swept off in 1852 and 1854 many
of our very best hands, a destructive freshet visiting us in August
1852, just in the midst of harvest (damaging to a great degree not
only stranding Crop, by rendering the grain soft, of a dingy Colour &
almost unfit for market, but Causing also a vast quantity of Volunteer & light rice in the Crop of 1853,) In thinking also of the ever
memorable Hurricane of 8th September 1854, full moon & wind N.E., the salt
water direct from the Ocean submerged the plantations on Savannah River,
such a thing not having happened for fifty years, the Consequence being
that We, on Savannah River, made only ¼ of a Crop, ourselves 8000 Bushels
instead of four times that amount, most of the Crop Cut & in a small