Richard Leake plantation journal and business records, 1785-1802.

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Richard Leake plantation journal and business records, 1785-1802.

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This collection consists of a journal kept by Richard Leake, 1785-1802, which is a combination of plantation journal and store accounts. It also has copies of his tax returns. It contains information on planting Sea Island cotton and other crops, commodity prices, raising and marketing cattle, working and hiring-out of slaves. There are comments on the weather. This journal is a negative photocopy of the original in the collection of the Colonial Dames of America, Georgia Society, deposited at the Georgia Historical Society.

1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

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Leake, Richard, 1733-1802.

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Richard Leake (1733-1802) was born in Cork, Ireland. He was a surgeon in both the East and West Indies. He came to America and settled in New Jersey, moving first to North Carolina and then to Georgia in 1774. A Loyalist, Leake left Georgia during the Revolutionary War, but returned after the war and resumed his life as a planter. In 1784 he bought Jekyll Island, selling the island soon after its purchase. In 1785 he bought a plantation on the Little Ogeechee River in Chatham County; he sold the...