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Title	Sharecropping Contract
Description	Handwritten contract between Virginia Williams and Bob Sherman, for 450 pounds of baled cotton in exchange for rented land.
Digital ID#	20-247.jpg
Physical ID	20-247
Object Type	Document
Creator	Williams, Campbell.
Contributors	Sherman, Bob.; Allen, T. W.
Subject	Sharecropping--Mississippi. Contracts--Mississippi.
Geographic location	Simpson County (Miss.)
Date (original)	1896-02-03
Time period	1890-1899
Original Collection	Williams (Daniel) Papers
Publisher	Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Rights	Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Format (original)	19.7 x 12.6 cm. document
Format (digital)	200 dpi jpeg image
Repository	Manuscripts Division, Special Collections Department, Mississippi State University Libraries.
Location of Original	Williams (Daniel) Papers/Box 1/Sharecropping agreements and notes 1890s
Related materials	A digitization project sponsored by the Consortium for the History of Agricultural and Rural Mississippi (CHARM).
Language	en
Contact information	For more information send email to sp_coll@library.msstate.edu or call 662-325-7679.
facet format	document
Transcript	On or before October the first 1896 I promise to pay C.A. Williams, agent for Mrs. V.J. Williams, as order Four Hundred and fifty pounds of lent cotton ready baled for market, and delivered at Georgetown Copiah County Miss, for rent on the following lands to wit: Fourteen acres, more or less, in what is know [sic] as the Stewart Banks place & five acres, more or less, on "cotton seed creek". Witness my signature this the 3rd day of Feb 1896 T.W. Allen Witness Bob Sherman X his mark
Collection Title	Daniel Williams family papers

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