People Named: W.E.W. Quarterman, Benjamin Bacon, Tenor Bacon, Sarah Bacon
[Begin Transcript]
State of Georgia, Liberty County } 1st Jany 1866
This memorandum of agreement between W.E.W. Quarterman of said State and County of the first part and the freedmen and women whose names are hereunto signed of the second part, this agreement witnesseth that W.E.W. Quarterman party of the first part is to control and direct the management of the plantation, on which said freedmen and women are to work, that said Freedmen and women are to keep up and repair the fences of said plantation to keep buildings in as good order as they are at present, to do all necessary work for carrying on the plantation successfully and they are to continue their labor on said plantation until the crop is harvested and that should said crop after arriving to maturity be wasted or destroyed that said freedmen and women are to be responsible for the same. The said freedmen and women further agree to feed clothe themselves and pay their doctor bills receiving at the end of the year or when the crop is harvested two thirds of all that may be made by them and that said Freedmen and women shall be entitled to half acre of ordinary land apiece for garden purposes. The said freedmen and women are to furnish their own hoes and the seed necessary for planting, and the said contract to be binding for the year 1866.
In presence of John E. Mann, L.B. Trask
Benjamin Bacon [signed by mark]
Tenor [alt: Tenah] Bacon [signed by mark]
Sarah Bacon [signed by mark]
[End Transcript]
Records of the U.S. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, Field Office Records for Georgia, Liberty County, Labor Contract between W.E.W. Quarterman & freedmen and women; digital database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62309/images/004139868_00375, U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Records, 1865-1878 -> Records of the Field Offices -> M1903 > 83, image 238; citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M1903, Roll 83.