West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New EditionJ. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 - 192 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 69
... , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming 4 honeft koneft men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
... , death of flaves and cattle , & c . & c . I have known many executors and adminiftra- tors , many attornies and guardians , ( feeming 4 honeft koneft men ) who made no remittances at all , IN THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS . 69.
الصفحة 71
... cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ; he should not ...
... cattle , mules , and other stock ; he should visit the boiling - house frequently ; ftand at the tack whole hours , at times , to fee how the boilers went on , and when they went wrong di- rect them and fet them right ; he should not ...
الصفحة 73
... cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to his wifhes ; he fwells up an ...
... cattle pastures , a number of the flaves , through hunger and severity , forced to run wild through the mountains and woods , and the late profperous and delightful plantation quite ruined , agreeable to his wifhes ; he fwells up an ...
الصفحة 74
... cattle , mules , and negroes occafionally to work on his own eftate , and returns them at leifure . Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep ftores ...
... cattle , mules , and negroes occafionally to work on his own eftate , and returns them at leifure . Some attornies write for larger quantities of ftores than is neceffary , and convert the overplus to their own use ; others keep ftores ...
الصفحة 75
... cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation fo that they never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we fhall make a better crop next year ; you will pleafe ...
... cattle materially , and cultivated and impoverished the plantation fo that they never will retrieve again ; and though we have made only an hundred hogf- heads this year , I hope we fhall make a better crop next year ; you will pleafe ...
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