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Plantations Savannah River

When Received	Conveyance	No. of bush, Rough Rice	No. of bbls. Clean Rice	No of Bus to the bbl.	Price	Date of Sales	Gross amount of Sales	Nett Amount of Sales
1856 Oct'r 29	Tern Catherine	5015	227	22¼	3⅞	Nov'r 10	5283.08	4201.79
Nov'r 6	" "	3888	175	22¾	3⅝	22	3732.74	2946.85
26	" "	5030	225	22½	3¾	1857 Jan'y 1	5301.25	4248.02
1857 Feb'y 2	Sch'r Black Squall	1657	73	23	3¾	M'ch 6	1603.97	1264.61
		15590	700				$15921.04	$12661.27

Nett Amount of Sales as per Credit $12661.27
Plantation Expenses as per Debit [$]9519.66
Proceeds from Gowrie & East Hermitage $3141.61

E.E.

Gowrie 17th December 1857
Louis Manigault

the plantation for the Summer. Venters made two great & fatal mistakes. He drew off his
"Sprout Water" too rapidly, prostrating his rice to the ground & again he kept his fields
dry too long, before he Could get at them to give first hoeing. His rice was all stunted, sickly
and grass took him. We have made one half a Crop. He says "he will do better another
year, that now he sees into it" and as is well known "Never Change an Overseer
if You Can help it" We try him once (but only once) more. We have purchased
19 Negroes, amongst them 13 prime field hands Costing in all $11,850. Also 771 Acres High Land
on Georgia Main, for Cholera Camps, Children's Summer residence, &c Costing $2195.
We have been blessed with health during the past year & now as hope ever bears us onward, I try to forget the past, looking forward with brighter expectations
for the Coming Season, that We may be blessed with "the kindly fruits of the Earth so that in
due time we may enjoy them"

Gowrie (Savannah River) 1st February 1857