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Clark Plantation Labor Contract, Mississippi

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Date: 1865 [unknown]
Location: Kemper, Mississippi, United Statesmap
Surnames/tags: Clark Black Heritage
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Background

This page is to record the persons who signed a Freedmen's Bureau Labor contract with D T Clark to work on the Clark Plantation in Kemper County Mississippi in 1865.[1] They were to be paid in bushels of corn:

  • Ben, Cezar (Cesar Clark), Lucas, Abram, Nero & Butler, 25 bushels of corn each
  • Albert, Henry, May, Caroline, Tiller, Tener, Eliza & Mary, 10 bushels of corn each
  • Beck (8) bushels
  • Ben, Jason?, Lucas, (6) bushels
  • Cezar (8)
  • Abram (8)
  • Mary (3)

Some of these persons may be the same persons named in Jasper "Redden" McCoy's probate Inventory in 1843 in Sumter County, South Carolina.[2]


Sources

  1. United States, Freedmen's...t Commissioner, 1865-1872: "United States, Freedmen's...t Commissioner, 1865-1872"
    Catalog: Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the state of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863-1869 Labor contracts of freedmen July 1865 (NARA Series M826, Roll 44)
    Image path: United States, Freedmen's Bureau, Records of the Assistant Commissioner, 1865-1872 > Mississippi > Roll 44, Labor contracts of freedmen, July 1865 > image 640 of 1266; citing multiple NARA microfilm publications; Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861 - 1880, RG 105; (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1969-1980).
    FamilySearch Image: 3Q9M-C9TD-R955-B (accessed 19 July 2023)
    • 1865 Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contract
  2. Miscellaneous estate records, 1784-1960: "South Carolina Probate Re...d Loose Papers, 1732-1964"
    Catalog: Miscellaneous estate records, 1784-1960 Bundles 114-115
    Image path: South Carolina Probate Records, Files and Loose Papers, 1732-1964 > Sumter > Probate Court, Estate records > 1784-1960 > Bundles 114-115 > image 305 of 363
    FamilySearch Image: 939L-FX9V-QR (accessed 19 July 2023)
    • 1843 probate inventory of Redden McCoy, loose probate papers, Bundle 115 Pkg 9




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