Other emigrants such as Wolfe Tone did not compromise their principles in unfamiliar environments
observed that “few Ships, of late” had “arrived from any part of G. Britain or Ireland without a number of emigrants, and some of them, by report, very respectable & full handed farmers”.in the 18th century did not do so for financial motives.
The radical Philadelphia publisher Thomas Stephens dedicated his 1795 Proceedings of the United Irishmen to Pierce Butler Many revolutionary American planters, from Washington to Jefferson to Butler, were trained in surveying – the accurate measurement and inscription of land. Yet not being in situ had disadvantages. His wishes were ignored or postponed by an ambivalent Roswell King in 1803: “As for the plat of your land I am silent, have my hands full, shall attend to it when I possibly can.” Or the agent could be played off against the absent master.
Despite the difference in climate between Ireland and the American South, the agricultural design problem remained substantially the same – how to control the water level in a field by making banks and ditches, and how to vary it with channels and sluice gates when required. In 18th-century Ireland the improved farmland produced oats or wheat, in Maryland tobacco and in Georgia rice, cotton or indigo.
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