Scope and Contents This daybook served as the general accounts ledger, journal, and notebook for miscellaneous information relating to the management of the various plantation holdings of Francis Surget in Mississippi and Arkansas. It contains data on incomes from cotton crops, the purchase and management of enslaved persons, debts incurred by the Surget family, money loaned by Francis Surget to various debtors, land holdings and land purchases, the weather, and the estate of William Surget, apparently the...