I don't know how much, if any, significant labor is involved in making a
"corn hole," but it's a lot of work to make a tobacco hill, and 170,000
hills is a large number.

The plantation was called "Claibornes," and is described in the editor's
note thus: "This Custis plantation lay in King William County on the
neck of land the Pamunkey River forms just above Eltham. Containing an
estimated 3,080 acres, nearly half of which were marsh . . . "  So the
arable land was about l500+ acres.  According to GW's diary, this
plantation in 1759 produced 23,427 pounds of tobacco and 281 barrels of
corn.  (GW Diary, Fitzpatrick edition, vol 1, p 171)

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