Volume 03 Page 0016

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
1858 Nov'r 20	Schr. J.R. Pringle	4730	208½	22⅓	2⅝	1858 Dec'r 1	3320.67	2498.03
Dec'r 6	"	4720	208½	"	3	23	3730.10	2809.75
1859 Jan'y 1	"	4665	213	22 2/16	3⅛	1859 Feb'y 8	3964.84	3063.56
Feb'y 21	"	2750	122	23 5/16	3¼	April 13	2217.93	1681.66
		16865	755 2/2				$13233.54	$10053.00

Nett Amount of Sales as per Credit $10053.00
Plantation Expenses as per Debit "6784.74

Proceeds from Gowrie & East Hermitage $3268.26

E.E.

Gowrie 22d December 1859
Louis Manigault

rain. The Spring has been very Cool & on Sunday 24th April We had frost
Ther. 53°, killing some of the tender Sprouts of the Rice, without destroying the entire plant, yet backening the Crop much, & Causing it to look
yellow. On 8th April 1859 Mr Wm Capers pr, an Overseer of high rank
& standing who has managed two years for Gov'r Aiken on Jehossee
Island, & had much experience as Overseer near Georgetown &c, takes
Charge, at the rate of One Thousand Dollars per Annum, the highest
Salary We have year paid. Mr Capers has numerous enemies but even by these he is recognized as a Competent Manager of a Rice
Crop & a Capable & intelligent Man. He is a fine looking Man 44 Yrs of age & has with him a Wife and Six Children.

Gowrie (Savannah River) 3d May 1859