I shall raise about 5000 pounds in the seed from about eight acres of land, and the next year I expect to plant from fifty to one hundred acres."[4] [Footnote 3: Letter of Thomas Spaulding, Sapelo Island, Georgia, Jan.

20, 1844, to W.B.Scabrook, in J.A.Turner, ed., _The Cotton Planter's Manual_ (New York, 1857), pp.

280-286.] [Footnote 4: E.J.Donnell, _Chronological and Statistical History of Cotton_ (New York, 1872), p.

45.] The first success in South Carolina appears to have been attained by William Elliott, on Hilton Head near Beaufort, in 1790.

He bought five and a half bushels of seed in Charleston at 14s per bushel, and sold his crop at 10-1/2d per pound.