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agrees to furnish the said Laborer Abram Bellamy with a house for his family the present year & Land for a garden Potatoe patch & corn patch & two pigs this fall and is to have the [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] privelidge of Raising two pigs and chickens 

Abram Bellamy is to have one peck of meat per week, meat already weigh out to him 

Nelvena & Annie to have 6 qts of meal & 3 lbs of meat per week [[underlined]] each [[/underlined]], 

[[table]]
[[four columns]]
[[name]] | Age | $ | cts

Abram X [[insertion]] his mark for himself & children [[/insertion]] Bellamy | 45 | 10 | 00

Abram Bellamys son Allen X Bellamy | 20 | 10 | 00

 " " [[ditto for Abram, ditto for Bellamy]] Daughter | Malvina X Bellamy | 14 | 3 | 00

 " [[ditto for Daughter]] | Annie X Bellamy | 12 | 2 | 00
[[/table]]

Contract for Labor 
[[between??]]
Jeremiah Odom & Freedmen

January 1, 1866

[[signature]] Jeremiah Odom [[/signature]]
Abram his X mark Bellamy

Witness
[[signature]] Thos S Maner [[/signature]]

Approved
[[signature]] William F. Cox [[/signature]]
Lt. VRC and Asst Supt. Freedmens Bureau
Sub Dist. Tarboro N.C.