. Molton family and kinsmen; Hooks, Hunter, Whitfield, Linn, Tuttle, Henley, Harris, Summerlin, Ware, Glover, Smith, Williams, Upmann and others. Reminiscences to the year 1857 . ime a two-room logcabin, where we lived the balance of that year, and Igathered my crop. I made no money and was not ableto rent the place another year, Mr. Gresham havinggone up on his price. So then I rented a small placeknown as the Compton place, four miles from We-tumpka, and there lived and ran a two-horse farm andbarely made expenses with my years work. HARD TIMES At the close of this years work, Major Boiling
. Molton family and kinsmen; Hooks, Hunter, Whitfield, Linn, Tuttle, Henley, Harris, Summerlin, Ware, Glover, Smith, Williams, Upmann and others. Reminiscences to the year 1857 . ime a two-room logcabin, where we lived the balance of that year, and Igathered my crop. I made no money and was not ableto rent the place another year, Mr. Gresham havinggone up on his price. So then I rented a small placeknown as the Compton place, four miles from We-tumpka, and there lived and ran a two-horse farm andbarely made expenses with my years work. HARD TIMES At the close of this years work, Major Boiling Hallheard that I was a good farmer for a young man andemployed me as superintendent of a large plantationthree miles above Montgomery, on the opposite side ofthe Alabama River. There I managed the plantationwith twenty-five mules and about fifty negro hands andwas the only white person on the place—made a veryfine crop, and Major Hall wanted me to remain, statingthat I had been the best superintendent he had everhad on the plantation, but it was a sickly place, andhaving chills and fever so much, I decided that I couldnot live there any longer. I then went to Montgomery. Hunter Harris
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