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State North Carolina Edgecombe County District [[?]] This indenture made between James R Bishop of the first part and Lishmond Battle a collared man of the Second part for labor from 2nd of March to the end of the year 1866 and I am to pay him seventy five Dollars and two suits of Clothes and said Lishmond Battle are subject to loose 30 cents per day for every day he looses and 20 cents a day I Boarde him when is when is not laboring for me. This 6th of March 1866 [[5 columned table]] | No | Age | Name - all | | | |--- | --- | --- | --- | - | | 1 | 17 yrs | x his mark | | |