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- Collection:
- Julia King Collection
- Title:
- Letter from B. E. Hand to Roswell King, 1837
- Date of Original:
- 1837-01-06
- Subject:
- Enslaved persons--Georgia
Slaves--Georgia
Slavery--Georgia
Slaveholders--Georgia
Cotton trade
Rice trade
King family
Maxwell family - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- correspondence
personal correspondence
family papers - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Letter dated in Savannah on January 6, 1837. From B. [Bayard] E. Hand to Roswell King. Discusses accounts, then reports that on the Gibbon's Estate there were "almost 500 negroes" who made an average crop of 1700 barrels of rice and 60 to 70 bags of cotton. Col. Maxwell was the general superintendent over the property and supervised the town property and collected rents, for which he received $2500 per year and a house. He had two managers, one for the rice and one for the cotton plantation, who made $1000 and $400. Hand reported that Mary was well and improving and had asked if Hand had seen "Father," to which Hand replied that he had sent her message in a letter. Eliza [Eliza Barrington King Hand] continued to mend. Reference to "the stranger without a name." Also Account for Roswell King Jr dated at Savannah on December 321, 1831.
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/midm_jkic_320-107
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/midm_jkic_320-107#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/midm_jkic_320-107/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Midway Museum (Midway, Ga.)
- Rights: