20 January 1863: “400 lbs cotton – For the hire of Milly & Rose the present year we or either of us promise to deliver”

Item description: Contract, signed 20 January 1863, for the hire of two slaves, Milly and Rose, entered into by L.J. Ellinor and William Ellinor.

Item citation: From folder 40 in the William Francis Martin Papers, #493, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Item transcription:

400 lbs cotton-
For the hire of Milly & Rose the present year we or either of us promise to deliver to John H. Leary or order four hundred pounds of good merchantable gin’d cotton in a bale. The cotton to be delivered at Enfield on or before 24th Dec. We further bind ourselves to give said negroes two good suits clothes shoes & stockings, suitable for the [seasons?] Also hat & blanket or something equivalent to them & we further bind ourselves to deliver said negroes at Enfield on 24th Dec. next unavoidable accidents only excepted as witness our hand & seals the 20th January 1863

L.J. Ellinor {seal}
Wm. Ellinor {seal}

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