[Footnote 25: The Roman overseer was usually a superior, and often a much indulged, slave.

The overseer was a very miserly fellow, and restricted his wife in what are considered the comforts of lifesuch as tea, sugar, &c. To make up for this, she set her wits to work, and, by the help of a slave, named Joe, used to take from the plantation whatever she could conveniently, and watch her opportunity during her husband's absence, and send Joe to sell them and buy for her such things as she directed.

I made no reply; I was already revolving in my mind a plan for taking them to another mill in town, whose overseer was a brother of one of papa's wardens.

Some overseers were former planters who had lost their property, some were planters' sons working for a start in life, some were English and German farmers who had brought their talents to what they hoped might prove the world's best market, but most of them were of the native yeomanry which abounded in virtually all parts of the South.

Overseers of St. L. Lamb's Key states that both the overseers and the mild rector were inventions.

On Sunday after workin' hard all de week dey would lay down to sleep and be so tired; soon ez yo' git sleep, de overseer would come an' wake you up an' make you go to church.

" The overseers of his many plantations, and his "master" carpenters, millers, and gardeners, were quite as great trials as his slaves.

This overseer was a nephew of Nowland, and there were about fifty slaves on his plantation.

The overseer was a man hired to look after the farm and whip the slaves.

The overseer was an Englishman; his name was Wilkins.

Those overseers who follow the business of overseeing for a livelihood, are generally the most unprincipled and abandoned of men.

The overseer and manager of the whole was Phidias, although there were other excellent architects and workmen, such as Callicrates and Ictinus, who built the Parthenon on the site of the old Hecatompedon, which had been destroyed by the Persians, and Coroebus, who began to build the Temple of Initiation at Eleusis, but who only lived to see the columns erected and the architraves placed upon them.

This overseer was a mulatto, who had been fifteen years the manager of a large plantation about seven miles distant from ours.

The overseers there were commonly not helpers in the proprietors' daily routine, but sole managers charged with a paramount duty of procuring the greatest possible revenues and transmitting them to meet the urban expenditures of their patrician employers.

white overseer from compelling the wife of one of the most excellent and exemplary of his master's slaves to live with himnor the white wife of another overseer, in her husband's temporary absence from the estate, from barbarously flogging three married slaves within a month of their confinement, their condition being the result of the profligacy of the said overseer, and probably compelled by the very same lash by which it was punished.

The overseers were the overlords of the manor; as Haynes dealt extensively in tobacco and trading in slaves, he was away from the plantation nearly all the time.

The white Overseers and Harvard College, were the only powers that undertook to give Mr. Fish possession of the property of the Indians.