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.

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

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Item sets

Chew Family Papers