Coffin Point Plantation journals, 1800-1816.

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Coffin, Ebenezer, 1765-1817. Coffin Point Plantation journals, 1800-1816.

Coffin Point Plantation journals, 1800-1816.

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Volumes relating to Ebenezer Coffin's Coffin Point Plantation kept by E.W. Rose and others. Volume 1 (1800-1801) includes a bill of scantling for a house, estimate for a cotton house, estimate for a negro house, and a memo of an agreement (1801) with [Job] Wade to construct a dwelling, stable, negro house, " &c." on St. Helena. Accounts for Job Wade and for St. Helena are for medicine, tools, negro cloth, blankets, rum, building materials, food, and other goods. Abstracted materials including a note about the last will (made in 1739) of John Stewart apparently collected to prove Coffin's title to Stewart's estate. Lists include stock, the number of acres cleared in various fields, acres planted, the names of Thomas Aston Coffin's slaves receiving blankets and cloth. Sailing instructions are for entering St. Helena Sound. Volume 2 (1813) kept by plantation manager E.W. Rose contains a list of workers and children [slaves], allowances for 1813, hogs, and cattle. Journal entries relate to cotton, rice, and vegetable production with occasional personal notes ("Went to Savannah"). Also includes births [slaves], accounts between "me" and Mr. Coffin, time lost by sickness (with slave names), tools given out, and weight of cotton picked. Volume 3 entries (1816 Feb.-April) concern work done by the carpenters in building the brig Pilgrim, food and other goods bought, and expenditures of E.C., Capn. Delano and S.W. Also included is a folded sheet (1816) containing the names of workers and the acres of land planted in cotton and corn.

3 v.

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