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Agreement with Freedmen
This agreement made and entered into this 14 day of October A.D. 1865 by and between Gilbert Grubbs of Pike County and State of Mississippi of the first part and the persons hereinafter named and undersigned Freedmen of the same place, parties hereto of the second part Witnesseth 
The undersigned laborers on Gilbert Grubbs Plantation hereby agree to work on said Plantation the balance of the year 1865, in consideration of good and wholesome food clothing quarters medical attendance and such other conditions and privileges, as are required by General Order No. 34 Head Quarters Department of Mississippi March 23d 1865 and for the following consideration:
In Testimony Whereof, the said parties have affixed their names to this agreement at Holmesville State of Mississippi, on the day and date aforesaid.

[[5 columned table]]
|Name|Age|Sex|Class|Compensation|
|Elieth| 52| Male| 3 | They have crops of their own
|Salina| 40| Female| 3 | |

(Signed) Gilbert Grubbs

H.A. Ewing
Capt and Provost Martial
Freedmen