Title	Monthly Report of Operations and Conditions, September 1867
Record type	Report
Creator	Nelson, J. K.
Date of creation	1867-10-07
Series	Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, 1865-1869 M999
Description	This report of the operations and conditions of the Freedmen’s Bureau concerns the Nashville subdistrict of which Rutherford County and Murfreesboro was a part of. This record captures superintendent of Rutherford and Cannon Counties, J. K. Nelson’s report. Half a page long, this report covers many topics. Nelson comments on the amount of bounty money and money for rations distributed. Nelson also notes his role in settling a business debt between an individual and a company. The remainder of Nelson’s report discusses landlords’ enforcement of crop liens, noting that such stringent enforcement will cause freedmen considerable problems. Nelson notes that many men “without means” buy land at high prices and then rent it to African Americans for rents in the form of crop liens, in which a portion of the crop will be seized by the landlord to pay the rent. Nelson closes by remarking that entire crops will often be just enough to pay the rent, and not much more.
Additional notes	Series M999, Reel 18, [Frame 496]
Geographic location	Rutherford County (Tenn.)
Names that occur in the record	Nelson, J. K.
Subject (LC)	African Americans--Tennessee African Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--19th century Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee--Rutherford County Rutherford County (Tenn.) United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands--Records and correspondence
Coverage	1860-1869
Contributing institution	National Archives and Records Administration
Medium	Microfilm
Bibliographic citation	[Document title, date]. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869. Series M999, [Reel number, Frame number/s]. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Copyright status	Public domain
Collection name	Freedmen's Bureau Records