People Named: C.S. McKinne, Washington Winn (estate), E.L. Winn (estate), Bob Quarterman, Joseph Bacon, Simon Quarterman, Scipio King, Samson [alt: Sampson] Proctor, John Lambert, Nanny Broughton, John Harris, Phillis Lambert, Mary Lambert
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Labor Contract on shares
⅓ Crop for Employer
⅔ Crop for Employees
C.S. McKinne Employer
Jany 21st 1867
A.M. McIver
Agt B R F & A L
Riceboro, Liberty Co, Ga
(Copy)
Georgia, Liberty County } Memorandum of Agreement between C.S. McKinne Administrator on Est[ate]s of Washington Winn and E.L. Winn of said County and State of the first part and the Freedmen and Women whose names are hereunto annexed of the 2nd part.
This Agreement witnesseth that the said freedmen and women do agree and bind themselves that when the crop shall have been harvested to give to the said C.S. McKinne one (⅓) third of everything made by them during the regular working hours of the six days of the week, viz. Rice, potatoes, slips, peas, Ground Peas, turnips, cotton, corn, sugar cane, fodder & hay.
- It is further agreed by the said freedmen and women that they work under Bob Quarterman foreman and that they in no instance leave the plantation during the working days of the week without permissions of said C.S. McKinne or the foreman; in violation of this agreement three (3) times the offending party to forfeit his earnings and be dismissed from the plantation at the option of said C.S. McKinne – * unless they have absented themselves to procure food or from providential cause, he agreeing to give his consent to leave as long as necessary for such purpose or from each cause.
- It is further agreed by the said Freedmen and Freedwomen that in the harvesting of the cotton crop each and every days picking be weighed and locked up in their respective houses, and that it be not touched or divided until the whole shall have been harvested and in the absence of the said C.S. McKinne to cotton to be weighed daily by the foreman.
- It is further agreed by the said Freedmen & women that they at all times keep the fences ditches drains and bridges in good order.
- The said freedmen and women further agree to feed and clothe themselves pay their own doctor bills and furnish their own seed and agricultural implements.
- The said Freedmen and women further agree that if any thing be stolen from the said C.S. McKinne or any of the said freedmen or women the person or persons so offending shall restore the same fourfold and for the 2nd offense shall forfeit everything and be dismissed from the plantation. Parents and guardians are responsible for the conduct of their children.
- It is further agreed by the Freedmen & women that all repairs and improvements shall belong to and not be removed from the plantation.
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9th. It is further agreed by C.S. McKinne, Admr, to allow each family one (1) task of land for garden purposes said one task to be located in the same place.
- It is further agreed by both parties that C.S. McKinne is to superintend the planting on his place.
- It is further agreed by both parties that this Contract is binding until the 1st Day of January 1868.
*Par[t] 2 so amended as that Saturday is claimed by the Freedmen so altogether at their disposal.
Par[t] 8th Stricken out
Examined & approved
Interlineation in original
Parenthesis in this copy
To Par[t] 2 & appended
At & below * by
A.M. McIver
Agt B R F & A L
Riceboro, January 21, 1867
C.S. McKinne, Admr
[all below signed by mark]
Bob Quarterman and daughter ?Sallie
Joseph Bacon and for wife
Simon Quarterman and for wife
Scipio King and for wife
Samson [alt: Sampson] Proctor and for wife
John Lambert
Nanny Broughton
John Harris and for wife
Phillis Lambert
Mary Lambert
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Records of the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, Field Office Records for Georgia, Liberty County, Labor Contract between C.S. McKinne & freed people; digital database, Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62309/images/004139868_00317), U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Records, 1865-1878 -> Records of the Field Offices -> M1903 > 83, image 188-191; citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M1903, Roll 83.