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his own management at Mount Vernon ; his black people ne- 

 ver felt the diains of bondage ; and his deeply fagacious plan 

 Iwas, by education and time, to render them capable of citi- 

 zenfliip and freedom. Great difficulty lie had to encounter in 

 the cultivation of his land, where tenantry is almofl unknown ; 

 but he performed much more than could have been cxpefted ; 

 and his lail aim, in correfponding with the Noble Lord al- 

 ready alluded to, was to create a free tenantry in America, 

 upon the moil liberal principles of unfettered meliorating Icafes, 

 with a rent to be eftimated according to the value of the fruita 

 of the earth. 



" His faltem accumuler donis et fungar inani munerc. ** 



Jcimiary i8co. — At Airneld, in the parifh of Cranfton, 

 county of Mid-Lothian, aged 76, Mr Thomas Rennie, 

 farmer there. 



Mr Rennie pofTeffed one of the Long-Niddry farms upon 

 the Scton eftate, for more than 40 years ^ and, among a num- 

 ber of eminent farmers in his neighbourhood, was dittinguifh- 

 ed for rural knowledge, and affiduous attention to the different 

 branches of operative hufbandry. When the York-Buildings 

 Company fold the eftate in 1779, and the tenants were gene- 

 nerally rem.oved to make room for a new fet of poffeffors, Mr 

 Rennie took a leafe of Airfield farm from Sir John Dalrymple, 

 Bart. ; which farm he rapidly improved in a fuperior ftyle. 



Mr George Ronaldson, farmer at Dodridge, inthecouQ- 

 ty of Eaft Lothian. 



At Weft Walton, county of Norfolk, Mr 1^. Coker, 

 farmer and grazier. 



At Inkborough, county of Worcefter, Henry Davis, a 

 labourer. He was born in 1699 ; and, during the long pe- 

 riod of his exiftence, had lived the quiet and peaceable life of 

 an ancient Englifn hufbandraan. He was particularly ftcilful in 

 the art of grafting trees ; and, at the age of 96, purfued his 

 occupation with vigour and aftivity. 



At Aihton, county of Suffolk, Mr Robert Poole, a re- 

 fpeftable farmer. 



At Blifthorpe, Nottinghamlhire, Mr Flint, farmer there. 



At Thirlefton, near Whtttingham, Northumberland, Mr 

 Ralph Bolour, an eminent farmer. 



At Yeaverin, Mr William Atkinson, a warm friend to 

 agricultural improvements. 



