This is a miscellaneous accounts book covering several areas and transactions. It contains the names of yearly and weekly renters and the rents paid, an inventory of movable articles on the plantation, information on increases and decreases in the number of cattle, mules and horses, a detailed list of the cattle and their names, the plantation's day book for the month of January 1866, detailed accounts with George McClean & Co. and Nightengale & Co., book keeping records of all accounts listing debits and credits between Newton Plantation and Michael Thomas Greaves for the sale and purchase of a number of items as well as delivery records for rum, sugar and molasses.
