Contract Between C. C. Braden & Eit Green, Love Green, et.al.

Freedmen's Bureau Labor Records

Sharecropper Contracts

Labor Contracts

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Braden, C. C.

State Archives of Florida, Series L346

1867-01-24

Green, Eit

Green, Love

Parish, Lizette

Parish, Rachal

Taylor, Charles

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State of Florida Jefferson County This agreement made and entered into this fourth day of January A. D. 1867, between Mrs. Clarkey Braden of the first part and the following freed men and freed women of the second part, all of the state and county aforesaid. Witnesseth that the said party of the second part for the consideration hereinafter mentioned do hereby covenant and agree to labor for the party of the first part from the date of these presents until the first day of January A. D. 1868, that during said time the party of the second part agree to labor upon the plantation now owned by the party of the first part to the best of their knowledge, skill, and ability performing the customary labors of plantation laborers, such as tilling the soil, splitting rails, making fence, repairing and building houses, preparing the crop for market, taking care of stock, etc.; that they will labor from daylight till dark, with the customary allowance of time for breakfast and dinner; and that they the party of the same party of the second part will hold themselves responsible for any property purloined to the detriment of the party of the first part from the plantation named above entrusted to their care; and should any stock or farming utensils be injured or destroyed by the party of the second part willfully or maliciously or from neglect, they bind themselves to pay to the party of the first part the full value of such stock or farming utensils so injured or destroyed. It is further agreed that the party of the second part shall not at any time leave the plantation except with permission of the party of the first

part, [her agent], or representative, the party of [the second] part agree to pay all legal [missing fragment] by the party of the first part, her agent or representative, and that all time lost by the said party of the second part shall be deducted from their wages at the rate of seventy-five cents per day for all such lost time to be divided at the same ratio of crops. In case of the violations of these articles or any of them without good cause, the party of the second part so offending shall be discharged and forfeit so much of what might be due him or her as a board of arbitration shall determine. In consideration whereof the party of the first part for herself, her executors, and administrators doth hereby covenant and agree to furnish the laborers included in this agreement with houses to live in during the continuance of this agreement, also will give to them the following rations from week viz. : 3 ½ [?] lbs. Of salt pork or 5 lbs. of fresh beef and one peck of meal, and one third of all the corn fodder, peas, cotton and potatoes raised and housed on the said plantation the present year. In testimony whereof we hereunto set our hands and affix our seals this the 24th day of January A.D. 1867. C. Braden [seal] Lot Edwards [his X mark] [seal] Eit Green [his X mark] [seal] Love Green [her X mark] [seal] Lizette Parish [her X mark] [seal] [Crossed out] Rachel Raul [her X mark] [seal] Rachel Parish [seal] [Scratched out] Charles Taylor [his X mark] [seal] Signed, sealed, ad delivered in presence of P. G. Duval Clarkey [Braden] agrees to pay Charles Taylor $10.00 per month from this 16th day of Feb. until The first of January 1868. Witness Annie Bond [seal]

George Hale & Mahala Tompson [their x mark] [seal] Witness Annie Braden All differences which cannot be mutually settled on to be submitted to a Board of Arbitration composed of two reliable citizens and the agent of the B. R. F. & A. L., whose decision shall be final. By order of Col. J. T. Sprague A.B. Grumwell Bt. Capt. & S. A. Com. B.R.F. & A.L.

No. 161 Mrs. C. Braden & Freedmen Portions of Crop Approved March 25, 1867 A.B. Grumwell Bt. Capt. & S.A. Com. B.R.F. & A.L.