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Bound volume, 173 pages, approximately 20x32cm, consisting of chronological entries by William Massie recording the various agricultural activities of the Pharsalia, Tyro, and Level Green plantation lands, with additional notes regarding weather or other events. Entries tend to be brief, for example: "Finished cutting the wheat" (1828 June 26). Some entries indicate which area of the plantation was being farmed, such as Newground, Old Ground, or various fields. Crops include wheat, oats, tobacco, apples, barley, clover, hemp, sweet potatoes; others entries record the killing of hogs, shearing sheep, and birth of foals. This book does not seem to include entries with names or groups of enslaved people, although their labor is indirectly implied. Later in the book, Massie began arranging entries by "Crop Memorandum," "Weather Memorandum," and "Orchard Memorandum."

Bound volume, 406 pages, approximately 22x33cm, containing Crop Memorandum entries by William Massie for Pharsalia, Level Green, Montebello and Tyro plantations and orchards, arranged by location with chronological entries. The entries vary in length and detail. Crops mentioned include wheat, tobacco, corn, hay, rye, oats, apples, cherries, and various others; also there are entries about shearing sheep, killing hogs, smoking meat, cheese production, and other livestock. Some entries include details of how many "hands" were needed, indicating the labor of different enslaved people, and at times Massie lists names of enslaved laborers or their enslavers that he had hired to supplement the work of the "plantation hands." For example, a set of entries for 1850 July 6-8 tallies the different groups and calculates their efficiency, with the total of "harvest hands brought over: 104", indicating the combined numbers of days it took the workers to complete the harvesting. Massie's notes evaluate the work: "from the above it will be seen that Nelson Monroe did greatly better than either Wm S. Bands or James Monroe, but Nelson's help hands were greatly better than Bands' were, and James Monroe's help hands, and plantation hands, were all better than Bands', so upon the whole, Tyro did more than any." The first few pages contain "a list of dates when each of Wm Massie's wheat harvests has been commenced, from 1817 inclusive. Also the times when sown, the quantity made, the yield to the bushel sown, and the quality of the crop."

Bound volume, 226 pages, approximately 15x20cm, containing entries by William Massie about the various orchards and nurseries at Pharsalia. Notes record dates of planting, pruning, harvesting, and different yields. This volume does not appear to record names of enslaved people. Includes an index which lists the different crops represented: numerous types of apples, nectarines, cherries, plums, apricots, pears, grapes, blackberries, pearmains, cranberries, nuts, quinces, and others.

Bound volume, 117 pages, approximately 14x20 cm, with penciled annotation that it was William Massie's book for Pharsalia, Nelson Co., and a notation on the inside cover that it later belonged to Florence Massie Mortone, Lynchburg, Va. The volume contains manuscript daily logs for weather, including temperatures, from 1858 January 1 through 1860 December 31. There are some references to enslaved people but it is generally not very detailed in that regard. Some days include comments on activities on the plantation, such as crop harvesting, hog slaughter, or the travels of different family members, and sometimes other topics on Massie's mind, similar to a diary entry. For example: "O if the political horizon was as clear as the Heavenly, how happy we might all be, but in the latter, the potential gloom over hangs us. O Heavenly Father watch over us, direct us right, and preserve us from infuriated fanaticism North, and fire eating South" (1860 Dec. 29).

Matlala's color portraits of men and women are relaxed and casual, showing individuals and sometimes pairs of black South Africans outside and in their houses. There is one print of a wedding street celebration.