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Samuel Jackson to Sarah Jackson
Clifton Plantation
December 13th 1860
My dear Mother
Your truly welcome letter of date 2 6th ult was handed me by Pa few days since. The two letters you speak of to Pa was received some time a go. Pa is up at Sea Song busy packing up. he will not be able to break up there before Christmas but We expect to move from this place next week. I have almost every thing in readiness. Pa has engaged an overseer for the new place to take charge as soon as we go there. He is recommended very highly by a large planter for whom he overseered last year. Pa has engaged Corn & fodder on the place, but weat he will get in N. 0. As soon as we get established there he will move the rest right up to Tenn. This packing is a great undertaking. I have packed for you all of the nice glass jars which you will need next summer Every thing will be sent. Coffee, sugar, starch soap preserves &c Pa has concluded to take very near all of the hands to the Cotton farm, as it will be necessary to make a very large crop the first year. We will take Margret Ellen, Augustus [Cuthena] Byron, George Washington to the new place. I think he will only take John Fulton & his family Alfred and Sarah up to the Hermitage. Ma you write very desponding but I hope & think the Country will again be settled, all amicably arranged. it is the general opinion Cotton will command a better price next Fall than this. But Ma we are compelled to go some whear, we cant live here nor can we move to Tennessee, And I think the Country he has chosen is as good as any we can go to. We can make our