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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.

Transcription Notes:
Most likely Britton Boddie, per Google search (father of a Thomas Boddie of North Carolina who was born 1868) -- Beth