Volume 04 Page 0018

List of Negroes at Gowrie and HERMITAGE This 22d April 1860

	John
	Nancy	(Hunt)
	George	Driver
	Betty
	Minda
	Nat
	Martha
	Julia
	Charles	(Trunk Minder)
	Juna
	Jack	(Short)
	Louisa
	Mendoza
x	Rebecca
	Tommy
	Catherine
	Hector	(Post Boy)
	Joaney	(Plantation Cook
	Tyrah
	How-qua
	Betsey	(Old, Carpenter's Cook)
	Jack	(Savage) Chief Carpenter
	Amey
	John	(Izard) Carpenter, Brick Layer
	Clary
	Sarey Ann
	Primus
	Lucy	With Overseer
	Billy	Carpenter
	Jenny
	Minty
	Dolly
	Scotland
x	Fortune	Sold Savannah May 1860 for $1200 as he was always running off (Run away again April 1860)
	Abel
	Binah	(Currie )
	Nancy	(Hunt)
	George	Carpenter Run away 26th Oct's 1860 returned 25th Jan'y 1861

	Simon	Runaway 2d January 1861 returned 25th " 1861
	Polly	& Moses
	Lydia
	Dolly	In House
x	London	In House Drowned in River June 1860
	Captain	In House
	Nanny	Gowrie

Martha, Age 22 Yrs a
fine Mulatto Woman given me
by my Father, to act as Nurse &c,
for our Child
Ran away in Charleston May 1861, Caught four months after, no longer with me.

We purchased in July 1860 for $500
of Mr James R. Pringle of Charleston So. Ca.
a Driver named "John " who is at present
the only Driver on the Plantation,
both George and Ralph, our former
Drivers being broken. Driver John is
44 Years of age. Mr. Capers Our Overseer
tells me he has had much trouble with
the Negroes the past Summer and several
Runaways. Two are now out since Oct'r
25th 1860 and not a word has been heard
of them. December 1860

Several Children died suddenly the past
Summer at the Camp x

N.B. I gave blankets to every Man
Woman and Child on the plantation
Dec'r 1860.

x On 25th January 1861 all our Runaways
(5 in number) were brought in through fear
of the dogs. Our children were poisoned
at the Camp by Old Betsey.