Tate, Jerry M. Agreement hiring a freeman
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02674.01 Author/Creator: Tate, Jerry M. Place Written: Pickens County, Alabama Type: Manuscript document Date: 22 March 1866 Pagination: 1 p. 22.6 x 18.3 cm Order a Copy
Signed '"J.M. Tate and B.F. Wells." Also signed by "George." Tate and Wells agree to to pay George, a freedman, $35.00 for his services. Possibly a clerical copy.
"... We J M Tate & B F Wells agree to pay George a freedman thirty-five Dollars (35) for his servises in the year of 1866 we will furnish three suits of cloths two summer suits & one winter, and furnish him with plenty of food, if he is sick or looses any time It will be deducted from his wages or leaves without a just cause before the first day of January eighteen hundred & sixty seven he forfeits his wages. If sick he Pays his doctor bills ...".
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