He was a 22-year-old who owned a 60-year-old slave... most likely he was "set up" for success by his parents.
who knows
She was probably his "au pair," don't ya think? Wonder if he bought her a red petticoat.
Or she was the only one he could afford and he needed her to attend to the house, cooking ad such, while he worked in the fields himself. He could have been a yeoman farmer not necessarily the offspring of a planter. Did he also have a wife? Did he aquire more slaves before emancipation?