Register of Contracts — Brookhaven (Subassistant Commissioner)

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

The single–volume register of contracts, June 1865–October 1867 (100), is unarranged. The volume gives the name of the plantation owner, number of hands and their sex, location of the plantation, date of contract, and amount of pay. Also included is a list of discharges of black soldiers received for collecting of additional bounties, registers of complaints, a register of rations issued, and a register of cases to be tried. For another register of contracts from March to September 1865, see volume (227) in the single–volume register of payments to claimants (April–October 1868) described below.

Collection

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872

Archival grouping

Records of the Field Offices for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.2: Brookhaven (Subassistant Commissioner)

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