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Rayner continues south on his journey by horseback, then stage, then steamboat, checking on his lands with hopes of selling some, describes good overseer and cotton crop on plantation in Arkansas, and solicits banker Duncan Cameron for…

From his new plantation in Alabama, Paul writes home to his father in North Carolina. The business negotiation of payment for 1674 acres of land in Greene County is discussed (mortgage, note, interest). A slave named Edmund has died, others are well,…

Paul writes from Mr. Ruffin's place in Marengo County, Alabama, to his father in Raleigh, that he has negotiated purchase of an 1100-acre plantation in Greene County, three miles from a landing, from a Col. Armistead, paying $17.50 per acre. The…