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Contract For Labor
This Indenture made and entered into on the first [[Hept?]]January AD1866 between Lucy Watkins of the County of Edgecombe and State of North Carolina of the first part and the undersigned freed laborer of the second part Amos Hart Witnesseth that the said Laborer has agreed to work for the said Lucy Watkins from this date to the 1st day of January 1866 to do all kinds of Labor common to the farms of the country to work ten hours Per day to do his work faithfully and to be respectful in his deportment and further agrees that one half of his monthly pay shall be retained by the said Lucy Watkins till the end of each year, and that the amount so retained shall be forfeited by a violation of this contract and he further agrees that time lost by Idolness or absence without leaf shall not be paid for and the said Lucy Watkins has agreed that she will furnish the said Laborer with comfortable quarters sufficient rations, 4 Lbs of pork or bacon & 1 bush of meal per week and the amount of money per month which stands opposite his respective name that she will treat him kindly and encourage the establishment of schools for his children.

|No 1|age 26|Amos his x mark Hart|amount per month $10.00|her child I bord myself I Amos Hart pays $15.00 per year for housement

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s is crossed out in "name" at the very end, line 21