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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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31st Oct. 1803 . Paid Mr. Bondet on act thirty dollars —

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Each Every person subscribing shall engage to pay 20 Dollars in 4 annual payments of 5 Dol: the first payment to be made at the time of subscrbing and the subsequent payment on the 1st Sept. in each succeeding year.

Any person neglecting to pay his annual instalment __ months after it becomes due shall forfit the sum already paid and can but may be readmitted as a new member

Any subscriber may pay up the whole amount of his subscription wherever he pleases and get a certificate of the same from such person as the society shall approve whenveer there shall be twenty members that

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subscribers the society shall be considered as formed and the subscribers shall have power to approve officers and make regulations for the management of the society and the admission of our members

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