Item Details

coverage

1820-1835

creator

Jones, Calvin, 1775-1846

date

2019-10-09T20:01:55Z

2019-10-09T20:01:55Z

2019-10-09 (issued)

description

Index of topics followed by several pages of daily entries of work done on Calvin Jones's plantations between 1820 and 1834. There are only a few entries for each year. Initially, he wrote about his plantations in Wake Forest, N.C., and later about his plantations in Tennessee. The rest of the volume is devoted to daily entries or miscellaneous jottings on various topics. Headings include Plows, Plowing, Farming Enquiries, Miscellaneous Enquiries (sic) to be made in the American Farmer, and Hogs. Jones wrote on various farming techniques as well as his own research and observations. Under Spinning and Weaving, he noted the total production of "his slaves" (the people he enslaved) for the year and wrote that he would pay a woman $60 a year to supervise them. There is also a section on overseers in that describes in detail the faults of several of his overseers and also their good qualities. He wrote about agricultural experiments with corn, tips on growing cotton, and cotton machines and equipment. Towards the end of the volume, there is a list, in another handwriting, of enslaved people held captive on E. Polk's farm. E. Polk was probably Edwin Polk, husband of Calvin's daughter Octavia Jones.

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application/pdf

345 pages

diaries

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/95461

language

English

relation

Southern Historical Collection

Wilson Library

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Calvin Jones Papers (#921, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

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source

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/27889

subject

Jones, Calvin, 1775-1846

Plantations--North Carolina

Slavery--United States--History--19th century

Livestock farms

Corn

Cotton growing

title

Farm Journal, 1820-1835

type

Text