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This agreement made this fourteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred Sixty-five between Jack Lee freedman, of  the town of Clinton, in the County of Sampson, and State of North Carolina of the first part, and R H Lee of said town, County and State of the second part- Witnesseth, that the said Jack Lee, freedman, has agreed to enter the service of the said R H Lee as teamster and laborer, and covenants and agrees, to and with the said R H Lee, that he will faithfully, honestly, and diligently apply himself and perform the duties of teamster and laborer for the said R H Lee, and faithfully obey all the reasonable wishes and commands of the said R H Lee, for and during the space of one year and three months from the first day of October inst, for the compensation of his board and seventy five dollars per annum, the money payable at the expiration of his term of service. And the said R H Lee covenants with the said Jack Lee, freedman, that he will receive him as teamster and laborer for the term of one year and three months aforesaid, and will pay him for his services, as such teamster and laborer, his board and seventy five dollars per annum, the money payable on the expiration of his term of service. In witness whereof, we have herewith set our hands