Holtzendorf(f) Family
Berne Plantation, Camden County, Georgia

Berne Plantation Ledger; Louis Anderson Holtzendorff

This ledger was brought to the Bryan-Lang Historical Archives in Camden County, Georgia in hopes that they would purchase it for their collection. Unfortunately, at the time, there weren't any funds available to purchase the ledger book and it is unknown where the original is today. However, someone at the archives had enough foresight to make Xerox copies of the ledger which can be found at the archives today.

The ledger was "titled" with Louis Anderson Holtzendorff's name, suggesting he was the author of this ledger which was a collection of dates for planting and harvesting, as well as some recipes for blackberry wine and medicines, for example, one was a "Cure for Dysentery". Even the names of some of Louis' children, with dates, are listed in this ledger.

I did not have time to read the entire ledger, it's not very big, but, it's a Xerox copy of handwritten pages from the 19^th century; therefore, I merely scanned the pages looking for the names of the enslaved. And, scattered throughout the many listings for "planting cotton" were remarks like "Fannie sick", "Betty sick" and "Israel sick". Therefore, it would be wise for someone to transcribe the entire ledger and extract every instance of a name and the dates.

A side note, it's possible this Israel, was later known as Israel Littlfield after Emancipation and their daughter, Mary, married the man known after Emancipation as Tony Nightingale. Also, Israel's wife, according to the 1870 Camden County, Georgia census, was Betty.

While thumbing through the pages, I was shocked to find a list titled "Births of Negros" starting in 1821!

Most of the listings have a complete birth date and some even have a death date/year, however, I'm not sure what was intended as the death date was written in between those named, thus, it could be the death date for the person above the date or below the date. I am going to assume that the death date was written above the person for whom it was intended, for example, Louisa was listed then Sarah and in between the two was a death date, I have attributed the death date to Sarah.

Also, while transcribing the list found on "page 22" I noticed that it was copied several times in this packet, however, turns out, someone actually rewrote the list a second time because the names are not in the same exact order, and where on one list a day of birth was missing, the second list recorded the day.

For posterity, I have merged the lists into one, matching the order found on "page 22" because on the latter copies, Minty was missing completely and Polly was listed twice.

There were only 26 people listed and any surnames are my own assumptions and not original to the document.

NAME	BORN			DIED			SURNAME
	D	Month	Year	D	Month	Year
Doll	0	OOO	1803	0	OOO	0
Louisa	17	November	1821	0	OOO	0
Sarah	22	July	1824	0	OOO	1868
Adam	1	August	1827	0	OOO	1862
Edward	15	January	1830	0	OOO	1862
Minty	27	July	1833	0	OOO	0
Bill	14	September	1836	0	OOO	0	Taylor?
Toney	15	February	1839	0	OOO	0	Nightingale
Ellen	28	December	1840	0	OOO	0
Hester	2	July	1841	0	OOO	0	Taylor?
Elizabeth	3	August	1842	0	OOO	0
Julia	5	February	1843	0	OOO	0
Nelson	18	November	1844	0	OOO	1863
Crockett	4	January	1845	0	OOO	0	Holtzendorf
Caroline	28	May	1847	0	OOO	0	King
Molly	8	June	1848	0	OOO	0
Jane	0	October	1850	0	OOO	0
Rhoda	5	June	1850	0	OOO	0	King
Mary	16	April	1856	0	OOO	0	King
Phebe	3	April	1853	0	OOO	0
Dianah	1	September	1853	0	OOO	0
Amanda	29	August	1856	0	OOO	0
Polly	9	September	1861	0	OOO	0
Maria	11	March	1859	0	OOO	0
Alise	0	July	1860	0	OOO	0
Nelly	25	October	1860	0	OOO	0	Nightingale (Tony's daughter?)

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