Charles Michael Kelly and Wife, to J.S.  Benbow, Dr.

   1830:  July 14th to Sept. 9th.
1.  To the rent of house and
   ground on Castle Kelly
   plantation, for eight weeks,
   at 6s. 8d. per week. 3l. 13 4
2.  Richard Kelly and Wife.  Same.
3.  Elenor Mercer.  Same.
4.  John Ried and Wife.  Same.
5.  Mary Ann Christie.  Same.
6.  Venus Owen (or such like name).  Same.

FROM THE REV.  J. HUTCHINS.

Savanna-la-Mar, Sept. 17, 1838.

I now, according to promise in my last, send you a few out of the many cases I am almost hourly troubled with.  Some of our would-be great men are, I am sorry to say, harassing the poor free labourers shamefully; and should it prove, as I think in some cases it must, of serious injury to the absentee proprietors, I shall publish the cases of grievance brought me, together with the names of the estates, owners, attorneys, overseers, &c., and leave all parties to form their own opinion on the subject.

Amelia Martin, to Retrieve Estate, Dr.
1838:  August 29. 
To house and ground, rent at
5s. per week, from 1st August
to date 4_l._ 0 0
[A]Alliac Davis, ground
rent at
10d. per week 3 0
[A]William Davis; ditto
ditto 0 3 4
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4_l._ 6 4
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Thos.  Tats, Esq. is Attorney, and Mr. Comry
        Overseer,

[Footnote A:  Boys from 9 to 11, her sons.]

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Louisa Patter, to Retrieve Estate, Dr.
1838:  Aug. 28. 
To house and ground from 1st
Aug. to date 1_l._ 0 0

She states she has been sickly so long, that she has no ground in cultivation, and cannot help herself, and has only what yams her friends give her.

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Susan James, to Albany Estate, Dr.
1838:  Aug. 28. 
To house and ground rent at
5s. per week, from 1st August,
to date 1l. 0 0
Thos.  Hewett, ground rent 0 13 4
Elizabeth James, ditto 0 13 4
Mary Dunn, ditto 0 10 0
Letitia, ditto[A] 0 6 8
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3l. 3 4
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[Footnote A:  These are a mother and four children in one house, and with but one ground, they tell me.]
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Richard Warren, to Albany Estate, Dr.
1838:  Aug. 28. 
To house and ground rent to
   date 1l. 0 0
   Wife 0 15 4
   Child[B] 0 10 0
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                            2l. 5 4
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[Footnote B:  The child is quite young, and in daily attendance at one of my schools.]