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[[left margin]] tried in County Court (Newton) March 1867. [[/left margin]]

The State of Mississippi
Newton County

This agreement entered into between Samuel Scarborough and John Freedman and family the Said Samuel Scarborough has agreed to take the Said John Freedman and family in as croper 
The Said Scarborough agrees to give the Said Freedman and family half of all that is made on the plantation The Said John Freedman agrees to bear half of the expenses of the plantation and furnish a mule and find the Same This January 1st 1866
Samuel Scarborough
John his mark Freedman

Witnesses
B.J. Stewart
J.W. Stewart

Transcription Notes:
1 word can't understand MISSISSIPPI. This old-fashioned way of writing a double "S" makes it look like "fs", but is to be typed as "ss".