People Named: F.R. Lyons, Edman [alt: Edmond] Andrews & wife, Thos. [alt: Thomas\ Cumming, Prince Cumming & family, Anthony Cumming, Belfast Way & family, Samuel McConnell & wife, Daniel Green
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Labor Contract 1867
F R Lyons Employer
A M McIver
Agt B R F & A L
{Copy}
State of Georgia, Liberty County } Agreement between F R Lyons of said County & state of the 1st part and the freedmen & women whose names are hee unto signed. The Agreement witnesseth that F R Lyons party of the first part is to control the plantation on which said Freedmen are to work requiring from each full hand two days faithful labour in every week until the entire crop is harvested and prepared for market, for which the said F R Lyons agrees to furnish each full hand four acres of high land and a proportion of swamp land for rice to cultivate for their own use and benefit. The said F R Lyons will furnish team and implements to cultivate his own land that he may plant, the Freedmen & women to furnish team and implements only for the land they may cultivate. The Freedmen & women further agree to feed and clothe themselves and pay their own doctor’s bills. This contract to expire as soon as the entire crop is harvested and prepared for market.
In presence of
W.J. Way
B.F. Allen
[below signed by mark]
Edman [alt: Edmond] Andrews & wife
Thos. [alt: Thomas\ Cumming
Prince Cumming & family
Anthony Cumming
Belfast Way & family
Samuel McConnell & wife
Daniel Green
Riceboro Jany 26 1867
Examined & approved
A.M. McIver
Agt B R F & A L
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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 F.R. Lyons & freedpeople; digital database, Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/62309/images/004139868_00327), U.S., Freedmen’s Bureau Records, 1865-1878 -> Records of the Field Offices -> M1903 > 83, image 196-7; citing National Archives Microfilm Publication M1903, Roll 83.