Scope and Contents Original daybook and typed transcript. The daybook contains daily accounts of work undertaken (up to 1830, mostly by slaves), weather conditions, expenses, illnesses, holidays, burials and cultivation and planting records. There are also wage records and copies of poetry, song lyrics and other items. The transcript was prepared under the title of "Overseer's Day Book of a Small Plantation 1822-1917" by Lula May McNinch of Columbia, SC, in 1936 as part of W.P.A. Project 65-33-118, which was...