Volume 03 Page 0115

Memoranda

Mr Taylors Steam Mill opposite my Plantation occupied
7 Prime men, 10 Boys & Girls, a white miller & 5 men who
attend constantly rolling Rice & other wharf work & to attend
to his flats & flat his rice to Savannah 23 in all.

His Mill has a 22 horse power engine & 20 Pestles.
There is now a Schooner which conveys the Rice to Savannah
this must diminish the number having a white crew 1838 & 9

Mr Bagshaw who was 4 years overseer at Mr Geo Elliots Plantation
above me on Savannah Back River says it is a narrow
strip extending from the river to the highland, having but
60 acres of clay land next to the river & about 60 more
cleared of the lose black mould, found in all the
plantations on the Carolina shore of the river where
the tract extends a certain distance from the river
He says in the Middle of Mr Elliots tract three feet
below the surface you come to the sand precluding
a canal or dried ditch that the only way of
draining this property would be to run a bank
all along the centre & having a canal along the
line of the upper as well as the lower adjoining
Plantations with ditches running from the centre
bank, draining each field into the two canals

He thinks about 200 acres can thus be brought
into profitable culture. That the current of the
river sets close to this place & in the last 15 years
have washed away 30 feet of the outside Margin
that the river bank will have in part to be moved down,
He prefers Mr Elliot Guerard Plantation (just above it)
(altho being above it is perhaps more exposed to freshets)
This latter has much more clay soil being much more
located on the banks of the river &c