Title	Labor Contract of Lucas Bosly
Record type	Labor contract
Creator	Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands
Date of creation	1865-09-15
Series	Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee, 1865-1872 T142
Description	Labor contract of Lucas Bosly.
Additional notes	Series T142, Reel 70, [Frame 6]
Excerpt from record	"Know all Men by These Presents, That Lucas T. Bosly, of the County of Rutherford, State of Tennessee, held and firmly bound to United States of America in the sum 75 cents [illegible], for the payment of which I bind myself Heirs, Executors and Administrators, firmly, by these presents, in this Contract: That I am to furnish the persons whose names are subjoined, (freed laborers,) Quarters, Fuel, substantial, and health Rations, and the amount set opposite their respective names per month, during the continuation of this Contract---the laborers to be paid in full before the final disposal of the crop which is to begathered by them on Lucas T Bosly plantation, in the county of Rutherford, State of Tennessee. [chart] This Contract is to commence with this date and close the 20th of December 1865. Given, in duplicate, at Chattanooga, this fifteenth day of September, 1865." [signature]
Geographic location	Rutherford County (Tenn.) Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Bosley, Lucas Samberson, Thom Walker, Silas Washington, Martin Hardin, Hawkins Moody, Isaac June, Yes Moldress, Ellick Patterson, Allen Mashal, Henry Yale, George Calhoun, John Horton, Henry Boun, Lie Yates, Washington Yates, Henderson Jackson, Henry Pool, Orange Jyce, Nay Prayer, Robert Holland, Robin Holland, Lewis Glass, John Sherman, Dick Words, John McCleran, James Butler, John Harris, Judge Washington, Martin Baker, W. Robinson, Abner Cline, Henry Anderson, W. Look, W. Derrie, Jessy
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence Agriculture Race relations Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Coverage	1860-1869
Contributing institution	National Archives and Records Administration
Medium	microfilm
Bibliographic citation	[Document title, date]. Records of the field offices for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872. Series T142, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Freedman's Bureau Records