Based on the images provided, here is the transcription of the labor contract documents between E. W. Delegal and various freedpeople.
[Image 1 – Cover Sheet]
Liberty County Ga.
April 10. 1867.
Contract.
between
W. Delegal
and
Dick Cummings and other Col’d people.
State of Georgia
Liberty County } This agreement entered into this the 9th day of April in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Sixty Seven, between E. W. Delegal of County & State aforesaid of the one part & the Freedmen & women whose names are hereunto signed of the other part Witnesseth.
The Said E. W. Delegal, agrees to furnish the said Freedmen & women & their families with houses to live in and land to plant for this year. The said Freedmen & women on their part, agree to cultivate carefully and industriously: to conduct themselves with respect on the plantation, and not harbor or entertain anyone whom E. W. Delegal may forbid to go on the plantation.
It is further agreed by the parties to this instrument that the said E. W. Delegal shall receive from the laborers whose names are here unto signed at the rate of five hundred (500) pounds of good white clean seed cotton, ten bushels potatoes, eight bushels corn, and one hundred pounds of fodder per whole hand; according to the rating prefixed to their names. All which produce said E. W. Delegal is at liberty to take either from the first harvesting or at any other time he pleases either all at once or in any number of separate installments until the whole is paid
In presence of
[signature difficult to read]
[Vertical text on left margin:]
Examined & approved because after paying for allotment of labor, the rate created will be about one third to Employer.
A M McIver
Agt BR F & AL
Dorchester April 10th 1867.
[Signatures and Labor Shares:]
E. W. Delegal
1 Dick Cummins (his X mark)
1/4 Pollie Cummins (her X mark)
1/2 Rosa Cummins (her X mark)
1/2 Comie (?) Cummins (her X mark) —
1 Brister Walthour (his X mark)
3/4 Jane Walthour (her X mark)
1/2 Julia Walthour (her X mark)
1 Moris Owens (his X mark)
3/4 Eva Owens (her X mark)
1 Jim Maxwell (his X mark)
1/2 Sarah Maxwell (her X mark)
1/2 Robert Stevens (his X mark)
1/8 Persila Stevens (her X mark)
1 Albert Jenkins (his X mark)
1/2 Celia Jenkins (her X mark)
1/4 Hattie Louis (her X mark)
[Inverted text at bottom:]
E W Delegal Employer
Contract for 1867
“Georgia, United States records,” images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9GF-P7R6?view=explore : Feb 19, 2026), image 1090 of 1333; United States. National Archives and Records Administration (College Park, Maryland). Image Group Number: 004139689