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Sarah Arnold's will.

Bill and receipt for payment to Ryall for labor, offset by a credit for soap. Receipt number 37.

34. State of the Detachments at New York of the Foreign Regiments in Canada for the Muster from 25 Decem. 1781 to the 24 June 1782... Enclosed in W[illiam] Porter ALS to the Earl of Shelburne, August 5, 1782.

"Brechin Castle Estates Journal." Overseer's report for a sugarcane plantation, detailing information on slaves, plantation production, livestock, articles received and delivered, a white worker, and general observations on slave health, weather, and sugar cane cultivation. Accounts for the 55 enslaved men, women, boys, girls, and children, and details the location and type of their labor. Includes a note about retaining some rum "for Estates use – for the slaves." Details number of acres of sugarcane and plantains under cultivation. Comments on illnesses, including dysentery, sores, and fevers, and mentions one elderly man who is believed to be faking sickness. "Teddy has been since June last in the hospital the Doctor Can see nothing the matter with him but Laziness to move about, and this I am obliged to Indulge him with on consequence of his old age."