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- GLC#
- GLC10203.05-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- November 28, 1860
- Author/Creator
- McWillie, Abram A., 1815-1862Phillips, William J., fl. 1828-1896
- Title
- Bill of hire for nineteen enslaved people
- Place Written
- Wharton, Texas
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket ;
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Slavery & Anti-slavery
One document signed by Abram A. McWillie and William J. Phillips dated November 28, 1860. An agreement to hire nineteen enslaved people for the sum of two thousand dollars with a 12% interest rate. The enslaved people are named in the document "Marion, his wife & 2 children. Charles. Mahola & her three children, Jane, Harriet, Mary & daughter Eliza & her two boys, Aford, Dave. Ann & her infant." The agreement also states that they will provide a blanket, two suits of summer clothes and one of winter clothes, and hats and shoes as needed.
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