Day-to-day account of farming and estate keeping practices at Cliveden, 1799

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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

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