Volume 03 Page 0017

Gowrie and East Hermitage

		To	$
1859 Oct'r		To Middleton & Co Factors Oct'r 1859 @ Oct'r 1860	$ 1653	91
1860 Jan'y	1	Overseers Wages for past year	1000
		Dr J. McP Gregorie	210
		A. McAlpin & Bro (Lumber)	144	87
		A. A. Solomons & Co., Medicines, &c	79	17
		Claghorn & Cunningham	153	81
		R. & J. Lacklison & Co.	50	20
		W. B. Giles & Co., lumber	33	55
		R. B. Donnoly	19	75
		W. H. Davis (Butcher)	12	50
		W. H. May, leather bands	10	50
		O. Johnson & Co, Shoes	52
May	5	V. R. G Ross, Grocer	58	04
		Nevitt Lathrop & Rogers	166	64
Jan'y	1	H. H. Linville (for Canal Rakes)	22
May	5	Charles Cannon, Grocer	37	88
Jan'y	13	Last instalment on Negroes @ $623.70	3950
			$7654	82

Upon Mr Capers taking Charge (8th April 1859) he found the plantation in a
great state of disorder & neglect. I told him I knew it, and that I had been
nearly all winter hoeing off the thin stubble, for I Could not get it
to burn, & I had only had time sufficient to rake out the ditches in a
rough way before the planting had overtaken us. He pointed out to
me that the ploughs had been skipping ground, & doing very bad work.
He immediately proposed throwing out fifty Acres of the worse volunteer
squares, planting twenty Acres in Cow peas & not planting the remaining thirty,
to which I agreed. The truth is on a plantation to attend to things
properly it required both Master & Overseer. Mr Capers has not made a large
Crop but he says it was much on [a/c] of the bad Condition in which he found the plantation & I believe him, & am satisfied thus far with him, feeling