houses, also with store and out houses.  In nine months he had made and housed three crops of corn, of twenty-five bushels to the acre, each, or one crop every three months.  His highland rice, which was equal to any in Carolina, so ripe and heavy as some of it to be couched or leaned down, and no bird had ever troubled it, nor had any of his fields ever been hoed, or required hoeing, there being as yet no appearance of grass.  His cotton was of an excellent staple.  In seven months it had attained the height of thirteen feet; the stalks were ten inches in circumference, and had upwards of five hundred large boles on each stalk (not a worm nor red bug as yet to be seen).  His yams, cassava, and sweet potatoes, were incredibly large, and plentifully thick in the ground; one kind of sweet potato, lately introduced from Taheita (formerly Otaheita) Island in the Pacific, was of peculiar excellence; tasted like new flour and grew to an ordinary size in one month.  Those I ate at my son’s place had been planted five weeks, and were as big as our full grown Florida potatoes.  His sweet orange trees budded upon wild stalks cut off (which every where abound), about six months before had large tops, and the buds were swelling as if preparing to flower.  My son reported that his people had all enjoyed good health and had labored just as steadily as they formerly did in Florida and were well satisfied with their situation and the advantageous exchange of circumstances they had made.  They all enjoyed the friendship of the neighboring inhabitants and the entire confidence of the Haytian Government.”

“I remained with my son all January, 1838 and assisted him in making improvements of different kinds, amongst which was a new two-story house, and then left him to go to Port au Prince, where I obtained a favorable answer from the President of Hayti, to his petition, asking for leave to hold in fee simple, the same tract of land upon which he then lived as a tenant, paying rent to the Haytian Government, containing about thirty-five thousand acres, which was ordered to be surveyed to him, and valued, and not expected to exceed the sum of three thousand dollars, or about ten cents an acre.  After obtaining this land in fee for my son, I returned to Florida in February, in 1838.”—­See The African Repository, XIV, pp. 215-216.]

[Footnote 22:  Niles Register, LXVI, pp. 165, 386.]

[Footnote 23:  Niles Register, LXVII, p. 180.]

[Footnote 24:  The African Repository, XVI, p. 28.]

[Footnote 25:  Ibid., p. 29.]

[Footnote 26:  Letter of Mr. Stanbury Boyce.]

[Footnote 27:  St. Lucia and Trinidad were then considered unfavorable to the working of the new system.—­See The African Repository, XXVII, p. 196.]

[Footnote 28:  Niles Register, LXIII, p. 65.]

[Footnote 29:  Ibid., LXIII, p. 65.]

[Footnote 30:  Cromwell, The Negro in American History, pp. 43-44.]