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The overseer indicates the cotton and oat crop is growing well, corn not so well. Potatoes have been planted. The plantation has 180 hogs and just received 75 barrels of pork in supplies.

The overseer and slaves are preparing fields and planting cotton crop, expecting to plant 800 acres. He indicates one slave is ill, and the mosquitoes are bad.

The overseer describes planting corn, sowing oats and cotton seed, not whipping runaway Milton until he is back to health after his journey, slave Martha giving birth to a son, general health of slaves, and summer clothing ready for slaves.

The overseer indicates cotton has not been shipped due to back orders at the landing, corn land is ready for planting, and the runaway slave Milton has not been heard from and is probably on his way to North Carolina.