A letter from Ann Ball to her husband John Ball at Comingtee Plantation discussing John Ball's crop at Kensington Plantation, the improving health of their aunt, Ann Ball's father receiving an "unpleasant account" from his plantation and a visit from Ann Ball's mother.
Articles of agreement between John Ball Jr., executor of the estate of John Ball Sr., and Midway and Kensington Plantations overseer Britton Bunch. The agreement outlines John Ball Jr.'s agreement to pay Britton Bunch $200, to have the authority to discharge him, Britton Bunch's share of plantation cattle and crops, an agreement that John Ball Jr. will "let Britton Bunch have a boy to wait & a woman to cook & wash for him," Bunch's agreement to take care of the enslaved persons, especially when sick and with "moderation and humanity and on no occasion to beat them with sticks nor at any one time to inflict more than twenty stripes when necessary to correct them & then with switches.
