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State of Tennessee Hardeman County
Witnesseth: I have this day hired a negro girl answering to the name of JuLettie from her father Stephen Fentress to live with me this year, on the following conditions. I am to feed her & give her three dresses, too under dresses one pr Shoes and one pr stockings  I promise to treat her humanely and see that she is well cared for, and at the end of the year (twenty fifth of December) I am to give her twenty five (25.) dollars in money or pay it to her father. And we - Stephen & Lettie promise [[strikethrough]] promise [[/strikethrough]] that Lettie is to be an obedient servant and act as becoming a negro. She JuLettie is to pay her own doctors bill. She is not to give