Nov 22, 2014 | Sample Documents
Below is a transcription and sample page image for an undated register of labor contracts made in Livingston, AL. The names in the register are the names of employers who entered into contracts with Freedmen. This document is helpful because it records the names of...
Oct 30, 2014 | Sample Documents
Sub Office Duncans Plantation Office Sub Asst Com Columbia July 7 1868 Jim Wadkins (fmc) on Jordans Plant. Sir Jane McNele (fw) complains that you have her children and will not give them up. You will deliver them to her when she applies or sends for them and have...
Oct 4, 2014 | Sample Documents
Mr. A Miller Aug 18 Sir, You will let the bearer Mark(?) have his wife Charlot and her two children Poley and William (colored) to take to the plantation of Mr. Stokes. You will furnish them with provisions enough to last until January 1866. I shall expect you to do...
Aug 30, 2014 | Sample Documents
The register of marriages for Cape Girardeau, Missouri records the name, residence and age for each bride and groom. You can view the entire register on FamilySearch. Source Citation “Missouri, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872,”...
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