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Mr Bagshaw says he gives as Christmas Holidays 3 entire week days
say a peck of small Rice extra, tobacco & molasses & Pork 3 lbs each
at harvest 3 lb Pork & Molasses each week alternatively & pork
once or twice during the summer when the work is hard in hoeing &c
Molasses & tobacco 2 or 3 times during the year to children Molasses
frequently with a little pork frequently when out at pine land.

1st Jany 1845 Mr McMillan King informs me that his father
purchased Mr Youngs Estate on Savannah River on 1st Jan 1838 for
$110.000 Contg 500 Acres Rice Land, 1000 Acres high Land on Georgia
shore & 190 Negroes, a fine Rice Mill Settlement good, flats, boats, &c
But the most agreeable feature of the purchase was that Mr King
sold out $60,000 of U.S. Bank Stock to pay it just before the Bank failed

Mr McMillan King who manages for his father says he has never
made more that 1050 Barrels of Rice off of this 500 Acres [which]
is a poor interest after paying the great Expenses. The Negroes
have now decreased perhaps now number 3 or 4 above the number
purchased

Mr Mc King says that the tract of 600 acres (the upper half of) Isla Island
[formerly] planted by Mr Hugh Rose, belongs now to the two [Miss]
of Savannah, who wish to sell it for $4 or 5.000. But there is a
3rd heir concerned in it, a Mrs Bennet in England, who thinks
it very valuable supposes it worth 3 or 4 times that sum.

It is probable that these two Miss will soon have
an order of the court for selling it. Mr McAlpin
last year told me that he would deem it a great bargain
at 10,000. Mr Hugh Rose in 1832 instructed his son
who wrote to me then offering this plantation for sale & valued
it this in his letter to me. viz: 520 acres cleared @ $80 = $41,600.00
(I think ) 200 acres not cleared @ 40 = $8000.00
$49,600

This without a mill or dwelling House but Barn & Negro Houses

7th April 1845 I this day (being 50 years of age) walked up to the High Ground
of Mr Guerard Estate, where I have a negro house for my Negro children
to reside in summer, built on a piece of Land which
Mr D Heyward bought from Mr McPherson for this purpose & permitted
me also to put a dwelling on it for the children which has proved
of great benefit as a retreat from the bad summer climate
of our rice fields for children. Mr Porcher who manages
Mr Guerards Estate says there are there 120 Negroes but
only about 45 workers & that this year he only plants 220 in Rice
besides 40 or 50 in dry culture. He informs me that The Tract
formerly owned by Mr Hugh Rose (just above alluded to) was
recently purchased by a Mr Winkler of Savannah for $5000
That Mr Bullocks Plantation just opposite it on the Georgia
shore has been recently purchased by a Mr Dillon for $4000
He Dillon has been keeping a grog shop in Savannah for several years
& made his money by trading with Negroes & has already
established a grog & trading shop on his new purchase.

Mr Jas Potter tells me this 11th April 1845 that Mr H Rose upwards of 20 years
ago purchased this place for $36,000 & paid $10,000 Cash But never could
make any thing on it to effect another payment & all his other property being mortgaged he abandoned
this place to the former owners in January 1837 without any further paymt