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Selected Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts
Butler County, AL
Source: NARA Microfilm M1900:

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Alabama,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
Transcribed by Toni Carrier
 

 

PLANTER

FREEDPERSONS

 DATE

H. A Herbert

Hampton Payne

9-19-1865

P.T. Milner (saw mill)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ira Carter

Allen Watts
Ned Gordon
Alex Broughton
Green Broughton
Frank Gordon
Wesley Gordon
Henry Phillips
Shane(?) Cheatham
Joe Whittle
Rasmus Washington
Adam Carter
George Benson
Ben Bergamer

 

7-5-1865

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seth S. May

Fanny Williams

1-1-1866

James H. Dunklin

Marina Payne

12-29-1866

A.M. Reid

Betsey, "formerly the slave of  Thomas Shavers(?)"

12-30-1865

J. M. Reid

Allen May

1-5-1866

R.W. Carter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ben Womack Sr.

Ben Womack Jr.
Edmond Womack
Ishmael Womack
Anthony Womack
Henry Womack
Silla Womack
Matilda Womack
Sam Crenshaw
Isaac Lewis
Henry Sallin(?)
Elbert Sallin
Isaac Sallin
Lewis Sallin
Lucy Sallin
Ephraim Smith
Frank Palmore
Harriett Smith
Simon Womack

1-2-1866

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

W.E. Coleman

 

 

Aleck Coleman & Fanny his wife

Santee Coleman & Diley(?) his wife
Daniel Murson(?)

1-1-1866

 

 

W.E. Coleman

Sarah Murson

1-1-1866

Robert R. Reynolds

Cela Mursin & her daughter Nelly

1-10-1866

Hampton & Co.

Kit Pearce for Frank his minor child

1-9-1866

W.A. Powers & James H Jones

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Isaac Yeldell
Fanny Yeldell
William Yeldell
Pedro Yeldell
Andrew Yeldell
Alex Scott & his sons Tom & Lawrence
Abe Yeldell, Mary & Susan
Mose Yeldell, Eliza & Louisa
Henderson Powers & wife
Ceasar Grimes(?), wife & his children
Henry Yeldell, & wife
Isaac Powers
Martha & her children
Attesting R.A. Yeldell
Witness R. B. Paul

 

12-26-1865

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Berry Rhodes

 

 

 

 

Elmira Tate

Sally Tate
Sam Evans
Surry Cheatham
Jeff Seawright

1-10-1866

 

 

 

 

A. E. Seales

"Jim, who was formerly owned by Walter Tate" signed Jim Tate

 

P.H. Drake

John Drake "John a colored boy, formerly a  servant of P.H. Drake"

1-1-1866

Susan Hicks

Ella Broughton

1-10-1866

D.J. Ferguson

Richard Bogan

1-4-1866

 

Milly Womack "& her 2 small children, Ann, about 9 years old, & Willie, about 5 years old"

 


Witnesses
Wm. Davidson
F.M. Davidson

 
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