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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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1st March 1792

When the division of the Negroes be longing to my Father's Estate was final ly settled. The following fell to my share at Ogeechee.

Adam, Amy, Lydia — 3 G. Peter, Betty, Toby, Tony, [?] Peter, Doll 6 August, Phebe, Rachel, Cesar, John — 5 Pope, Phillis, Lucretia, Amy — 4 Sarah, Cuffee, Philly — 3 Gay, Jenah, Neptune — 3 Monday, Maria, July, Eve — 4 Tom, Hannah — 2 Nelly, Ovid, Chloe — 3 Cupid, Joe, Juno -— 3 Rhinah — 1

At Beaufort Flora, Abby, Ansel, Beck — 4 41

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46 Savannah 10th Dec 1793 purchased from [Jn.] Cunningham & Co. — twelve Negroes from the Island of Delos for two thousand nine hundred and twenty five Dollars — Sambeau, Martha, Jacob, Jemmy -- 4 Caleb, Lancaster, Nanny, Simon -- 4 Frank, Juba, Sampson, Sappho -- 4 Cash — 12.

Savannah 24.th March 1795 purchased at the sale of the Negroes of Alex McQueen Esq. thirteen Negroes for one thousand eight hundred and fifty five dollars — 1/2 Cash — 1.2 years Credit

January, Affy, Dick, Jenny, Min. da, January - Iogo ----- 6 Quasheba, Frank, Nelly, Hester Frank, Lucy, Bob -- 765 --- 7 13

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