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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

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| No | Age    | Name - all |     |   |
|--- | ---    | ---        | --- | - |
| 1  | 17 yrs | x his mark |     |   |