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the same night. Willis Claiborne and my-self dined together at his house. Col C?invited me to dine with him on new years day but I don?t know whether I shall go or not. The Negroes are dancing and enjoying them selves.? [Letter reference].
The cotton ginning was progressing, with the help of the new gin. Samuel had baled ten bags averaging 300 pounds each, expecting to make a total of 50 or 55 bales. The new gin could do two to three bales per day. The women were ?taking the yellow cotton from the white.? [Reference].
Sea Song
1859
On February 19, 1859, Sarah had just arrived at Clifton, along with Andrew Jr. and her sister Marion.224 She wrote to Andrew III, telling him that they had brought down 20 more Negroes, and that Samuel was building cabins for them. New plans were being made. ?We expect to remain here until the last of May, and hope your Pa will then be able to employ an overseer, and that will enable Sam to go up with us and to retain until fall. Pa has promised to give Sam the Kentucky mines, and with them to purchase a place for him on the Hiwassy River, in east Tenn. if he likes it, and to establish a stock and grain farm there. This will determined on in the summer then Sam says he will expect you to resign and to come there to his mountain home and live with him.? [Sarah Jackson to Andrew Jackson III, Clifton Febry 19th, 1859],
Andrew Jr. had expected the new house at the Russ place to be completed the previous fall. Sarah stated in this letter that it was not near finished. ?Your Pa thinks it will be completed in one month, but I think there will not be sufficient time in three months...I like the building very much, it presents a very [pretty] fine appearance from the Bay, and I think it will be very comfortable and convenient, and the large balconies will make it cool - if it is not too expensive for the means that can be counted on, I see no fault with it.? She then commented on a sale that Andrew Jr. hoped to make on a trip to Memphis, but it is not clear what was for sale. In any event, a ?great deal depends upon it.? [Sarah Jackson to Andrew Jackson III, Clifton February 19*, 1859]
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Marquis James, Life of Jackson, p. 892.
224 This was Mrs. Marion Adams, sister of Sarah , who lived at the Hermitage until her death in 1877.