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This Contract made this 12th day of March 1864 between Jno H. McClellan and Jno W Shipp Employer and Hartwell Owen 52 Virginia Owen 40 Sarah Agnes Owen 15 Anthony Owen 12 Jno Brown 7 Rose Brown 3 Catherine Tucker 40 Agnes Rivers 90 Rebecca Brown 40 [[strikethrough]] Mary Brown 19 [[/strikethrough]] William Brown 14 Tom Brown 5 Rubin Brown 1 [[strikethrough]] Malin da Moore 16 [[/strikethrough]] Freed Laborers Witnesseth: that said McClellan and Shipp agrees to employ said laborers on his plantation from the 12th day of March 1864. to the day of 1864. on the terms prescribed in the Code of Rules and Regulations for leasing abandoned property and hiring freed-men, and the said laborers agree to be diligent and faithful hands while in his employ; it being understood and agreed that this Contract is subject to the provisions of said code, by which all parties hereto agree to be governed. J. Hall McClellan J. W. Shipp In presence of } Jno Phillips Lt Col, 64th Regt } U.S. Infty Col'd and Supt Freedmen W. T. Hartwell Owen 52 Virginia Owen 40 Sarah Agnes Owen 15 Anthony Owen 12 Jno Brown 7 Rose Brown 3 Catherine Tucker 40 Agnes Rivers 90 Rebecca Brown 40 [[strikethrough]] Mary Brown 19 [[/strikethrough]] William Brown 14 Tom Brown 5 Rubin Brown 1 [[strikethrough]] Malinda Moore 16 [[/strikethrough]]