The Land here is
level, sandy and barren in general, except where it is mixed with Oyster shells
which renders it very fertile. Agriculture is in a very poor state. In short,
they know very little about farming. Tobacco and Indian corn is all they make
and some little wheat. All done by Negroes. The Tobacco is all worked with
Hoes, the Indian corn with Ploughs, but of a bad sort and without a Colter. The
furrow they make is not more than two inches deep and does little more than
kill the weeds. Land sells upon an average here, at about three Dollars pr.
acre. (Thirteen shillings and Sixpence Sterling.)
SOURCE: Nicholas
Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas
Cresswell 1774—1777, p. 18
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