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cinct or Barony throughout this Province. This is done to 

 prevent the Planters having any disputes about any of these 

 Beasts, each Planter claiming by these marks nothing but 

 what is justly his own, and if there be any Negroes, to see 

 them perform whatever Work the Planter requires to be 

 done; this being chiefly what the Overseer is employed in, 

 for which Service he is allowed every seventh Calf, seventh 

 Fole, and half of all the young Hogs that are bred during 

 his Stewardship, and likewise the seventh part of all sorts of 

 Grain and Tobacco that is produced on the said Plantation. 

 Whatever quantity of Corn, Rice or Tobacco he plants by 

 his own Industry, is all his own Property, the Master hav- 

 ing nothing to do with it. Thus in three or four Years time, 

 with good management, he has a sufficient Stock of Cattle, 

 Grain, Money, and all other E'ecessaries proper to purchase 

 a Plantation, by which means many are become as wealthy 

 and substantial Planters, as any in the Government. But I 

 must confess, that few are such good Proficients in this way 

 of Industry, notwithstanding there are such considerable ad- 

 vantages to be acquired thereby. But on the contrary, those 

 of ill behaviour, and such as have been negligent in their 

 Apprentiship, are not thus recommended, but generally get 

 their livelyhood by the sweat of their Brow, yet live after a 

 very loose and indolent manner; for if they work two Days 

 in the Week, they generally drink and are idle all the rest 

 (Provisions and Liquors being so very cheap) and are rather 

 greater Slaves when made free, than they were during their 

 Apprentiship, never making any advantage of their Time. 

 Thus, I hope I have satisfied the Reader as to this Point. 



I shall only mention one particular in regard to these Ser- 

 vants or Transports, which I had like to have omitted; 

 which is, that they run away from their Masters, to prevent 



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