This collection consists of a journal kept by Richard Leake, 1785-1802, which is a combination of plantation journal and store accounts. It also has copies of his tax returns. It contains information on planting Sea Island cotton and other crops, commodity prices, raising and marketing cattle, working and hiring-out of slaves. There are comments on the weather.
This journal is a negative photocopy of the original in the collection of the Colonial Dames of America, Georgia Society, deposited at the Georgia Historical Society.