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Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee, 1865-1872
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| Title | Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee, 1865-1872 |
| Record type | Field office record, TN: labor contract
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| Creator | Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
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| Date of creation | 1865-09-15 |
| Description | Freedmen labor contract of Lucas Bosly. The reel is organized by county, therefore page 6 of 20 indicated the sixth page in the Rutherford County section on the roll. |
| Additional notes | National Archives. RG105, T142, Roll 70, Page 6;Walker Library MTSU call No.: MFM 468 |
| Excerpt from record | Know all Men by These Presents, That Lucas T. Bosly, of the County of Rutherford, State of Tennessee, held and firmly bound to United States of America in the sum 75 cents [unreadable], for the payment of which I bind myself Heirs, Executors and Administrators, firmly, by these presents, in this Contract: That I am to furnish the persons whose names are subjoined, (freed laborers,) Quarters, Fuel, substantial, and health Rations, and the amount set opposite their respective names per month, during the continuation of this Contract---the laborers to be paid in full before the final disposal of the crop which is to begathered by them on Lucas T Bosly plantation, in the county of Rutherford, State of Tennessee. [chart] This Contract is to commence with this date and close the 20th of December 1865. Given, in duplicate, at Chattanooga, this fifteenth day of September, 1865. [signature] |
| Geographic location | Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Tennessee
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| Names that occur in the record | Bosley, Lucas
Samberson, Thom
Walker, Silas
Washington, Martin
Hardin, Hawkins
Moody, Isaac
June, Yes
Moldress, Ellick
Patterson, Allen
Mashal, Henry
Yale, George
Calhoun, John
Horton, Henry
Boun, Lie
Yates, Washington
Yates, Henderson
Jackson, Henry
Pool, Orange
Jyce, Nay
Prayer, Robert
Holland, Robin
Holland, Lewis
Glass, John
Sherman, Dick
Words, John
McCleran, James
Butler, John
Harris, Judge
Washington, Martin
Baker, W.
Robinson, Abner
Cline, Henry
Anderson, W.
Look, W.
Derrie, Jessy
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| Subject (LC) | African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century
Agriculture
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County.
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Agriculture
Race relations
Rutherford County (Tenn.)
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| Coverage | 1860-1869 |
| Medium | Microfilm
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| Copyright status | Public domain; |
| Collection name | Stones River Battlefield Historic Landscape |
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