Mrs. Emily Woolfolk contract with employees at West Oak plantation in Iberville Parish, La., April 12, 1864
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Mrs. Emily Woolfolk
Parish of Iberville
April 12, 1864
State of Louisiana
Parish of Iberville April 12, 1864
We the undersigned employees, hereby bind ourselves for the year ending 1st January 1865 to Mrs. Emily Woolfolk, Proprietress of West Oaks Plantation, for the purpose of laboring in the cultivation of said plantation, working exclusively under Gen Banks' order No. 23 for the purpose of working the different plantations of the State of Louisiana.
I Mrs. Emily Woolfolk for my part promise to the herein named employees, on the expiration of the year one fourteenth part of the net proceeds of the crop, and bestow on them the treatment prescribed in the above General orders.
1[st] Class Jim Pendleton 3rd Class
Basil Butler 2nd Class Jim Broadman
Louis Merric Luke Waters Joe Waters
Tom Butler Jordan [Matthews?] George Harris
Washington Wilson Jim Scott Miley Waters
Polk Hill Jack Hawkins Cumby Scott
Francis Hawkins Bill Alexander Tom [Merric?]
Neally Hawkins Ben Scott
Bill Hill Charles Wilson
Alex Scott William Harris
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Approved
[?] Prvost Marshal
April 29, [18]64
George Wilson Peter Waters
Richard Wilson
Nace Scott
Joe Hill
Patrick Hawkins
Ambrose Scott
Collin Freelock
2nd Class 3rd [class]
Caroline Scott Clara Scott
Mary Butler Fannie Scott
Eliza West Letty Hawkins
Annie Scott Rose Scott
Susan Hawkins Adeline Waters
Lidiann Scott Ellen Hawkins
Delphia Gray Bridget
Eliza Butler Henny Butler
Martha Hawkins Louisa Scott
Agnes Butler Clara Scott
Lucy Ann Scott Matilda Hawkins
Betsy Harris Betsy Hill
Louisa Harris Margaret Waters
Biby Hawkins Emiline Butler
Ellen Harris Sarah Butler
Sarah Ann Hill Mary Scott
Jane Wilson Charlotte Pendleton
Christina Butler Amanda Hawkins
This done & passed at the day and place aforesaid in the presence of Isaac Erwin &
J N Maynard competent witnesses who
have signed in duplicate.
Witness
Isaac Erwin Emily Woolfolk
Jn Maynard