• According to the Census of 1850, Josiah III owns the following livestock:
He also has:
His sawmill produces 50,000 feet of board timber.
• Josiah Collins maintains a daily record of tasks assigned to slaves, who work the perpetual cycle of planting fields, tending, harvesting and storing crops, and preparing fields for replanting. Jobs differ for men and women, boys and girls, and children under ten. Working with a black crew leader, the youngest members of the slave community pick chintz bugs from plants and catch the plantation's supply of fish. Women and men are equally engaged in harvesting trees, hauling wood, building coal kilns, digging ditches, and killing hogs.
• Peter and Elsie Littlejohn, along with fourteen other slaves, are accused of attempting to poison the overseer, Joseph Newberry. Consequently, they are sold to a slave trader. The couple's son-in-law, blacksmith Diamond Reeves, runs away but is caught and returns to Somerset Place.