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hereunto affix their hands & Seals the day & year above written [[signature]] R H Gatlin [[/signature]] {Seal} Britton his X mark Boddie {Seal} Robert his X mark Thorp {Seal} State of North Carolina } Edgecombe County } April 6th 1866. This day personally appeared before me C. C. Bonner a Justice of the Peace for aforesaid County the parties to the above contract who acknowledge that they have Signed it. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my name officially — [[signature]] C C Bonner [[/signature]] J.P.
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Most likely Britton Boddie, per Google search (father of a Thomas Boddie of North Carolina who was born 1868) -- Beth