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Office of Bureau of Freedmen for Robeson Cou. Lumberton Aug 29th This agreement Made and entered into, day and date above mentioned between Mrs. Caroline M. Ellis of Robeson Cou, of The one part with James Crawford Colored Freedmen of the other part. witnesseth that the said Caroline M. Ellis agrees to pay the said J. Crawford twenty five bushels of corn for his labor from April 27th 1865 to Jan 1866, and they said freedman on his part agrees to receive the above quantity of corn in full of all demands, and to render true and faithful services as he had been in the habit of doing in times past, Caroline M. Ellis James his X mark Crawford Witnessed and Approved James Sinclair Agt of Bureau