This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
State of Tennessee Dyer County I W.B. Ward bind myself to pay Tony Ward a Freedman the sum of one hundred and twenty five dollars to cut me nine cord of wood per week for twelve months. I also find myself to give the said Tony - I cut flour 20 bushels meal and 300 lbs of pork, and to pay Tony 75 cts per cord for all the wood he cuts over the 9 cords above mentioned. I Tony Ward a Freedman do find myself to fill the contract above mentioned. Tony his X mark Ward a Freedman W B Ward Attest N Lou Neal E L Ward M.W. Robertson