We were soon at Riverview, and I ordered Sam to ride out to the field where the men were working, and tell the overseer, Long, that I wished to see him.

In May, 1676, two days before Robert was awakened from his midnight slumbers by Drummond, the Indians had attacked his estate at the Falls, killed his overseer and one of his servants, and were going to carry fire and hatchet through the frontier.

Capt. H. employed an overseer, whose business it was to look after each slave in the field, and see that he performed his task.

"The next day after I left him at school I went to the largest mill and saw the overseer.

" Philemon Bliss, Esq, of Elyria, Ohio, who lived in Florida, in 1834-5, says, "It is common for owners of plantations and slaves, to hire overseers to take charge of them, while they themselves reside at a distance.

The little hoe-cake he gives them, takes but a mill of the wealth with which they fill his purse; and should his extravagance lighten it somewhat, he has only to order his brutal overseer to sellsoul and body some poor creature; perchance a husband, or a wife, or a child, and forward to him the proceeds of the sale.

He knew many overseers and book-keepers who were cruel driving men, and he should not be surprised if they lost a part, or all, of their laborers.

She exercised a rigid supervision over the estate; dismissed Colonel Esmond's English factor and employed a new one; built, improved, planted, grew tobacco, appointed a new overseer, and imported a new tutor for her boys.

It seems the overseer wished to chastise the negro for some offence, and the negro resisted and struck the overseer with a spade.

An owner of ninety-six slaves told Olmsted that such was the trouble and annoyance his negroes caused him, in spite of his having an overseer, and such the loneliness of his isolated life, that he was torn between a desire to sell out at once and a temptation to hold on for a while in the expectation of higher prices.

Where you find an overseer endeavoring in every way to overreach the apprentices, taking away the privileges which they enjoyed during slavery, and exacting from them the utmost minute and mite of labor, there you will find abundant complaints both against the master and the apprentice.

Instantly Williams sprang and caught him by the throat and held him writhing in his vise-like grasp, until he succeeded in getting possession of the cowhide, with which he gave the overseer such a flogging as slaves seldom get.

But on the smaller estates of olive-yard and vineyard their condition was better, and a humane owner who chose his overseers carefully might possibly reproduce something of the old feeling of participation in the life as well as the industry of the economic unit.

He was just stepping out of the door when he met the enraged overseer with his gun in his hand.

Rome, as a rule, did not wholly take away independence even from the subject communities, and imposed a fixed tribute on none; Carthage despatched her overseers everywhere, and loaded even the old-Phoenician cities with a heavy tribute, while her subject tribes were practically treated as state-slaves.

All the dogs here are going mad, if you believe the overseers; but I protest they seem to me very rational and collected.

She cussed the overseer out that time for whipping her.

But early habits had made him indolent and selfish, and he left the overseer to do as he liked.

" "Does the captain s'pose the people of the colony will attack us?" asked the wily overseer, with emphasis.

If you cultivate less than two hundred and forty jugera of olives you cannot get along with less than one overseer, while if you cultivate twice or more as much land you will not require two or three overseers.

" Rev. HORACE MOULTON, Marlboro', Massachusetts, who lived in Georgia several years, says of them, "The overseers are generally loose in their morals; it is the object of masters to employ those whom they think will get the most work out of their hands,hence those who whip and torment the slaves the most are in many instances called the best overseers.

Not driving to suit the overseer, he knocked him off with the butt of his whip.

But having a dainty aversion to the sight of pain, he summoned the overseer, and consigned him to his tender mercies.

Mr. B. requested the overseer to bring forward his complaints.

They caught our overseer as he was attempting to escape toward Waterproof.