Volume 03 Page 0060

I can lib in de Chimney" which they for the first time appeared to
consider true. General Garrison and I now left the Settlement &
proceeded along the (North & South Canal) Bank towards the center of
the Plantation looked as of old and tolerably good condition. Proceeding in front of General Harrison and followed by some
of his "Foremen" (none other than our former Negroes "Driver John" "George" Cooper "Big Hector" and "Charles" the Trunk Minder) I imagined myself
for the moment a Planter once more as if followed by Overseer
and Driver. The weather was most beautiful, not a cloud on the
Horizon and so clear and pure the atmosphere that the Presbyterian
Church Steeple in Savannah loomed up as if one half its distance.
I wished my horse with me to ride over the entire Tract as of
yore. But these were only passing momentary thoughts; & soon
dispelled by the sad reality of affairs. Proceeding onwards we finally
reached a spot where the freshet water was flowing across the
bank, but with feet already soaked nothing of this kind impeded
our course.

[Hand-drawn survey of Argyle Island to Georgia depicting the Savannah Middle River, Savannah Back River, canals, land tracts including East Hermitage Tract, Gowrie Tract, and the Estate of James Potter.]

390 Acres South of Canal
Property of
Charles Manigault Esqr