The overseers of all the farms were in some sort under him, and received the law from his mouth.

The colonel himself seldom addressed an overseer, or allowed an overseer to address him.

Old master carried the keys of all store houses; measured out the allowance for each slave at the end of every month; superintended the storing of all goods brought to the plantation; dealt out the raw material to all the handicraftsmen; shipped the grain, tobacco, and all saleable produce of the plantation to market, and had the general oversight of the coopers' shop, wheelwrights' shop, blacksmiths' shop, and shoemakers' shop.
Besides the care of these, he often had business for the plantation which required him to be absent two and three days.
Thus largely employed, he had little time, and perhaps as little disposition, to interfere with the children individually.

What he was to Col.

Lloyd, he made Aunt Katy to him.