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			7-5-1865
			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
			
Seth S. May		Fanny Williams			1-1-1866 

James H. Dunklin	Marina Payne			12-29-1866

A.M. Reid		Betsey, "formerly the slave of 	12-30-1865
			Thomas Shavers(?)" 

J. M. Reid		Allen May			1-5-1866

R.W. Carter		Ben Womack Sr.			1-2-1866
			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

W.E. Coleman		Aleck Coleman & Fanny his wife	1-1-1866
			Santee Coleman & Diley(?) his wife
			Daniel Murson(?)

W.E. Coleman		Sarah Murson			1-1-1866

Robert R. Reynolds	Cela Mursin & her 		1-10-1866
			daughter Nelly	

Hampton & Co. 		Kit Pearce for Frank, 		1-9-1866
			his minor child 	

W.A. Powers & James H Jones				12-26-1865
			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

Berry Rhodes		Elmira Tate			1-10-1866
			Sally Tate
			Sam Evans
			Surry Cheatham
			Jeff Seawright
			
A. E. Seales		"Jim, who was formerly owned by Walter Tate"
			signed Jim Tate

P.H. Drake		John Drake			1-1-1866
			"John a colored boy, formerly a 
			servant of P.H. Drake"

	

Susan Hicks		Ella Broughton			1-10-1866

D.J. Ferguson		Richard Bogan			1-4-1866
			Milly Womack "& her two small children, Ann,
			about nine years old, & Willie, about five
			years old"
Witnesses
Wm. Davidson
F.M. Davidson