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Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830. Stephen Elliott papers, 1791- approximately 1947. Plantation records. gra00020. Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Botany Libraries, Harvard University.

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Notebook kept by Stephen Elliott recording the names of enslaved people owned by Elliott and his extended family who were given blankets; lists of tools given to carpenters, enslaved people, and overseers; enslaved people obtained at the settlement of the estate of Elliott's father, William Elliott, in 1792, and enslaved people purchased in Savannah, Georgia; and lists of enslaved people Elliott owned in Georgia and South Carolina. There are also records of day labor and contracting for carpentry work on his house, notes on experimental rotation of crops including wheat and corn and notes on his cotton harvest, as well as a list of flowers to be procured from London. Additionally includes instructions for crafting waterproof boots, and there are numbers and equations throughout the notebook that may be associated with accounting or farming.

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Ogeechee 22d. June 1800

Contacted with W. Stilwell to do all the carpenter work necessary to finish my house completely excepting the front piazza and balcony for 300 Doll:

At the same time contracted with the mason now at work to underpin solidly my home/ ex cept the back cill and the piazza which are to be supported by pillars/ to build parition walls under the body of the house ⁠— to plaster in a work manlike manner the rooms and [?paper?] ⁠— to rough coat one side of the foundation ⁠— to build it

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pillars to support my kitchen and a chimney to the kitchen with three fire places for the sum of four hundred and fifty Dollars ⁠—

Beaufort 24th August 1800 paid W. Stilwell & W. Hibb each five Dollars.

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Toney { 195 { 210

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19th Dec.

32 [?] 18 ft long 3 by 11 ⁠— 3 9 [?] 13 d° ⁠— d° 3 + 8 [?] 41 rafter 5 — 3 + 5 18.9 — 708 53 joists 13 to 16 — 3 + 9 to 3 - 12 1855 33 studs 14 + 4 4 + 1 — 484 76 d° ⁠— 12 4 + 4 1216/6231 26 - Rafters 15 - 3 + 8 — 487 4 joists 18 — 3 + 8 — — 144 4 — 18 — 3 + 11 — — 198 13 — 13 to 16 . 3 + 11 — 390/7450

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