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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Head Quarters Sub District of Robeson
Lumberton Sept 14th AD 1865

This Indenture made and entered into on the 14th day of September AD 1865 between Owen Grantham of the county of Robeson of the first part and the undersigned freedman of the second part Witnesseth that the said Grantham pays to the said freedman 22 bushels of corn and one year old hog for his labor from April 27th AD 1865 to the 1st day of January AD 1866 with the usual rations of food and he the freedman is to have ever saturday 

Witness
Isaiah McCurren (clk) 

Owen Grantham
Jerry his x mark Grantham

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