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The State of Mississippi
Holmes County 

The undersigned freedman Tom Lunsford and his wife Minny & son Tom, promise and agree to work and labor for M.R. Cartwright on his farm for and during the year 1866. We are to work and labor for him faithfully, do and perform his orders & directions in all things, give the usual attention to stock and house work, and conduct ourselves orderly upon his premises. 

The said M.R. Cartwright agrees to feed said laborers and to, on the 25th day of December 1866 pay to said Tom for labor of himself and family, two hundred & fifty dollars.

Witness our hand, & seals
This Jany 2nd, 1866.
Tom x Lundsford [seal}
M.R. Cartwright {seal}
John A Honsen Witness
T J Mines

Claims $170 & says 5 mos, run away from there in Aug