Letter signed by Governor Benjamin Guerard from his home in Charleston (S.C.) is addressed to Mr. Charles K. Chitty and announces that any plantation owner who has not contributed one third of his rice crop as forage for the Army must contribute an equal amount of corn instead.
Volume (gathering of ten sheets) entitled "Observations on the Culture of Rice" is a copy of writings by "Mr. Butler of Santee in the year 1786" attributed to Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Loose sheets bearing the same title give instructions and advice concerning the planting and growing of rice crops in South Carolina.
