16/34 (New Haven, 1846), reprinted in J.A.Turner, ed., _Cotton Planter's Manual_, pp. M.B.Hammond, _The Cotton Industry_, pp. 25, 26.] Miller, who now married Mrs.Greene, promptly entered into partnership with Whitney not only to manufacture gins but also to monopolize the business of operating them, charging one-third of the cotton as toll. They even ventured into the buying and selling of the staple on a large scale. Miller wrote Whitney in 1797, for example, that he was trying to raise money for the purchase of thirty or forty thousand pounds of seed cotton at the prevailing price of three cents, and was projecting a trade in the lint to far-off Tennessee.[15] By this time the partners had as many as thirty gins in operation at various points in Georgia; but misfortune had already begun to pursue them. |