Day-to-day account of farming and estate keeping practices at Cliveden, 1799
Item
- Title
- Day-to-day account of farming and estate keeping practices at Cliveden, 1799
- Description
- Day-by-day account of the farming and estate management practices of Cliveden for June 1799, as well as a few days in May and July, recorded by Benjamin Chew, Jr. Over an area that includes a meadow, garden, orchard, and barn, the work includes mowing the estate with scythes, baling and moving hay, raking, weeding, moving "loads" of other presumably produce, amongst other tasks. There are a number of laborers mentioned consistently throughout the document, but it is not clear who is enslaved, a paid servant, or perhaps an indentured servant. They include a man repeatedly referred to as Black or Negro James, as well a few others such as Old Peggy, Fanny, and Polly, The last page lists four payments to Chew for labor, including the servant's name and the tasks they performed.
- Identifier
- 19227
- Type
- text
- Creator
- Chew, Benjamin, 1758-1844
- Date Created
- 1799
- Format
- manuscript
- Is Part Of
- Chew family papers (2050) | Box 68A | Folder 20
- Spatial Coverage
- Philadelphia (Pa.)
- Subject
- Slavery--United States--History |Chew family |Pennsylvania--History--1775-1865
- Extent
- 4 pages
- Language
- eng
- Rights
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- Item sets
- Chew Family Papers
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