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This agreement entered into on the sixth of January 1866 between Hugh Thompson a citizen of Robeson County NC on one part and Elias Thompson freed man on the other. 

Hugh Thompson agrees to give Elias Thompson and his wife Eighty five Dollars in current money for their labor twelve months; the labor commencing at the above named date Jan 6th 1866, with proper rations of food for themselves and their children. Elias Thompson agrees that he and his wife Harriet will perform good and faithful labor at anything they may be required to do common to the farm. He further agrees that they will be obedient and attentive to to their business that they will not absent themselves at any time during the six days of labor in the week without permission that they will keep themselves decent and behave properly. He further agrees that any time lost By sickness that proper deduction be made from the above named wages. He further agrees that any failure on his part to come up to this contract will be a forfeiture of his wages.

Elias Thompson
his x mark

Hugh Thompson

Witness 
Wright Thompson
his x mark

Wesley Thompson