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Jan 5th 1866, Let all who may be concerned be known by these presents that I Adam Oates, do agree to cultivate for Mrs. Martha Oates, a garden, potato patches, corn patches pea patches & to get her fire wood, to attend to her stock, and to do all she may want me to do, for half the lint cotton I can make after attending to the above named things: and I am to cultivate in cotton, all the lands lying on the house side of the road, with the exception of her garden, potato patch pea patch &; and I Adam Oates do agree to return the tools that she furnished me, in as good order as they were when I got them, with the exception of the wear, and if I neglect to tend the said land from idleness or sickness, there must be some one hired to cultivate the said land and his hire to be paid out of my half of the lint cotton, and I Adam Oates, is to pay board; and if I fail to comply with the above named contract, or leave before the year is out, I forfeit