346 A BRIEF MEMOIR 



LETTER. 

 Sir, 



There has been for some months past, a 

 notification in your paper, requesting a com- 

 munication upon the subject of the introduction 

 of cotton, into Georgia and Carohna. 



It has been intimated to me, that possibly, 

 this notification has originated in some one 

 desirous of correct information, in order that 

 it might enter into some more general work; 

 and, as I am at present, perhaps, the only 

 person alive, that recollects distinctly, the 

 introduction of the Sea Island cotton, I have 

 addressed this letter to you. 



It is knov^^n to many, that cotton w^as culti- 

 vated for domestic purposes, from Virginia to 

 Georgia, long anterior to the revolutionary 

 wax, Mr. Jefferson speaks of it in his notes 

 on Virginia Bartram speaks of it, in his travels, 

 as growing in Georgia ; and I have understood 

 that twenty-two acres were cultivated by a 

 Col. Dellegal, upon a small Island near Sa- 

 vannah, before the revolution. But this was 

 the green seed, or short staple cotton. Two 



