The tanners and curriers, with the proper vats, etc., tanned and dressed the skins as well for upper as for lower leather to the full amount of the consumption of the estate, and the shoemakers made them into shoes for the negroes.

A professed shoemaker was hired for three or four months in the year to come and make up the shoes for the white part of the family.
The blacksmiths did all the iron work required by the establishment, as making and repairing ploughs, harrows, teeth, chains, bolts, etc.

The spinners, weavers, and knitters made all the coarse cloths and stockings used by the negroes, and some of fine texture worn by the white family, nearly all worn by the children of it.

The distiller made every fall a good deal of apple, peach, and persimmon brandy.

The art of distilling from grain was not then among us, and but few public distilleries.