JOURNAL OF HENRY HAMILTON FLOYD
OF
CAMDEN COUNTY, GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 1852 - MAY 1853 October, 1852. Fri. 1st.
Clear and windy. I started on horseback near 2 P.M. for St. Marys and carried little Sammy on another horse, mounted before Quash. Got to St. Marys a little after dark. Satry. 2d. Clear. Sent my horse back. This is my son Harry's birthday. He is three years old. Sun. 3d. Clear. My daughter Susan is 12 years old today.
Mon. 4. Clear. Sent $2 as a subscription to the Savannah Courier. Tues. 5. Clear. Wed. 6. Clear. The steamer from Savannah late in the afternoon and brought the news of Mrs. Cunningham's death – poor Christine, her days have
been few, indeed. Mrs. Cunningham died in Sav'h last Sunday morning at ½ past 6. I got a letter from Capt. John Gallie inviting me to go to Europe in one of his ships which will leave Savannah in Dec'r (December) next. (forty second page) My boat arrived from Bellevieu (sic) in the morning and I started her and hands to Mr. Marsh's mill for lumber. Thurs. 7. Clear. Doing but little in town as the white pine lumber I
ordered from Savannah has not come. Fri. 8. Clear. Mrs. John DuFour had a daughter this morning at a qr. past 6. I was pafsing the house at the time and Mr. Dufour told me it was just born. I got white pine from Jacksonville E.F. Satry. 9. Cloudy and the wind nearly a gale from the S.E. Dr. Frederic
Judson's daughter, Isabella, arrived yesterday on the steamer Planter. Isa is from Bridgeport, Connecticut, and has come on a visit to her relatives and frieds. She is cousin to my children. Sun. 10. Clear and pleasant. I attended the Episcopal Church and Mr. Purdy preached. I got a letter from Mordina saying herself, Mother and Jimmy were sick; that Jimmy had bowel complaint and prolapsus. I asked Dr. Curtis to
accompany me and he consented to do so. Mon. 11. Clear. Wind N.E. Dr. Francis O. Curtis and myself left St. Marys in my small boat near 9 A.M. and reached Cabin Bluff near 4 P.M., having a hard head wind and tide nearly all the way. I met my horses at the bluff and rode here. I found all better than I expected. Dr. Delaroche and Sister Sarah were here on Satry. last to see Jimmy, and the Dr. relieved him of
prolapsus. Mordina got the fever in the afternoon late. The yellow fever is in Charleston and Savannah. (forty fourth page) Tues. 12. Clear and warm during the day and a shower during the night. Dr. Curtis left on horseback after breakfast for St. Marys, and Ned went to bring the horse back. Mordina's fever went off late in the afternoon. My hands finished digging ground nuts today. I had a few slips dug today and
they are of good size and bear plentifully. I began to make a small rocking chair today. Wed. 13. Cloudy and a heavy rain in the afternoon and after night. During the first rain there were four severe claps of thunder and two of them the severest we have had this year. Jimmy had fever today, and myself also. Thurs. 14. Clear and in the
afternoon, cool. Had my brother, Gen. Charles R. Floyd, lived 'till today he would be fifty-five years old. I sent Chance with a letter to Major David Bailey requesting to go to St. Marys on the Planter tomorrow and I will meet him at Cabin Bluff to go also if I am well enough. I wish to see Major Bailey about going to Charleston to attend the Regatta of Nov'r 17th and 18th. Mr. Fred Clark and of Mr. Ben Scott's sons came here this morning, and left before dinner. I sold
Mr. Clark 2 good sized beeves and 3 small ones for $32, 50/100. The cattle belong to the estate of Mrs. Julia K. Floyd. Fri. 15. Clear and nearly cold enough for frost. I intended going to St. Marys today in the Planter, but at 10 A.M. I had a severe ague which lasted 2 hours and afterwards a hot fever for 4 or 5 hours before it abated. Jimmy sick with fever also. I turned my horses in my field
yesterday having (forty-fourth page) finished gathering peas. Mother is not well today. Satry. 16. Clear and cool. I left early for Cabin Bluff where my small boat was sent last night and arrived here, St. Marys, before noon. I brought Venus with me to see one of her children. Sun. 17. Clear and pleasant. I had a chill this morning
which lasted on me for two hours, and afterwards a hot fever. Mon. 18. Clear. I am better today. Tues. 19. Clear. I had chill and fever again today. The boat came from Bellevue today and I heard the melancholy news of Everard Hamilton's death. He died of yellow fever in Savannah on the 13th inst. All better at Bellevue than when I left.
Wed. 20. Clear and pleasant. I had no fever today. Thurs. 21. Clear and quite cool. I sent the boat back to Bellevue. I heard yesterday by the boat that Mr. Sam'l A. Floyd had that morning an attack of chill and fever. I employed Mr. John Evans to repair my boat, and he commenced putting on the outriggers today. Fri.
22d. Clear and pleasant. Got most of the outriggers on my boat. They are 7 inches out. Satry. 23d. Clear and pleasant. Finished the outriggers and covering them with white pine boards. Sun. 24. Clear and pleasant. By the last Tuesday's steamer I wrote to Mr. Robertson, of
Charleston, entering my boat, Tho's F. Bryan, 43 feet long, for the coming regatta. I also entered the John J. Dufour, of St. Marys, for Major David Bailey. She is 35 ½ feet long. (forty fifth page) Mon. 25. Clear and pleasant. Heard from Bellevue that all were better except Sam'l A. Floyd Senr., who has been very sick for a week and requested by him to go out tomorrow in the Welaka. Tuesday,
26. Cloudy in the morning. Left St. Marys about 8 o'clock for Bellevue and reached there at 11 A.M. It rained soon after I got to Cabin Bluff and I got wet. I found Sam'l A. Floyd better. Wed. 27. Clear. Mother sick and Sam'l also. Thurs. 28. Clear. Mother has fever today. Fri.
29. Clear and warm. Mother very sick today. Near sunset I rode to Cabin Bluff and after dark I got on board the Steamer planter and reached here, St. Marys, near 9 P.M. Mr. Robert P. Burton, an old citizen of this County, and for a few years past of this place, died here yesterday. Something occurred here today which rendered me very unhappy. Satry.
30. Clear and pleasant. Mary D. Floyd sick today and I not very well, having lost several nights rest. Ned came from Bellevue today. Sun. 31st. Clear. I sent Ned to Bellevue to drive Mary's cow. I got the news of Mr. Dan'l Webster's death; he expired on the 24th. inst. | 
