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This contract made and entered into this 29th day of december 1865 between Joel A. Light & Tom & his wife (freedmen) all of Dyer County Tennessee. The Lydia Light agrees to furnish the land and horses & tools feed for horses and the provisions - and give them one third of the crop they may cultivate. The above named named parties Tom & his wife to pay their own doctors bills & furnish their own clothing & to do all necessary work on the farm repairing & taking care and feeding stock & the said Toms wife is to assist in doing work about the house & to milk & cook when nessary - [[necessary]] this contract to continue for one year from this date - Tom aged about 29 years Lydia aged about 24 years Witnesses J.D. Whitson I. H. Fowlkes Thomas his X mark Light Lydia her X mark Light