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State of Tennessee County of Hardeman We Jessee Blalock the employer and Spring Taylor the employee have this day made the following contract, To Wit, The aforesaid Jessee Blalock upon his part hereby binds himself to board the aforesaid employee Spring Taylor during the present year and is to furnish him with four acres of good average land whis is to be planted cultivated and gathered in the same manner as the said Jessee Blalock shall plant cultivate & gather his own. The aforesaid Spring Taylor upon his part hereby binds himself to live with the aforesaid Jessee Blalock upon his premises during the present year he is to furnish his own clothes pay his own Dr's bill and is to be obedient and will behave and is to work industriously and attentively, getting to his work as early as may be required. He is to perform all kinds of work usually done upon a plantation and any other which the said Jessee Blalock may wish to have done. He is not to leave the premises without obtaining proper permission from his employer In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals on this 1st day March 1866 Jessee Blalock Spring x Taylor Approved March 5th 1866 John D. Ussery agt R F and A L by Jas G W Fenwick ast Signed Sealed and Delivered in our presence the day and date above written Test W. W. Farley E. L. Cross