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Preferred Citation

Employment Contract between Cornelia Brooks and F. C. Twyman, Special Collections Research Center, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Scope and Contents

Contract between Cornelia Brooks and F.C. Twyman for hiring her son Frank for "the whole of the present year...Twyman agrees to give him for his services his necessary board tgether with one suit of summer & one suit of winter clothes & one pair of winter shoes and she the said Cornelia Brooks (coloured woman) binds herself to live with & work diligently and faithfully for said Twyman during the year - to do necessary housework, cooking...to do what she can to promote the general interest of said Twyman...on the following terms..."  Notarized with stamp by B. Herndon, Greene County [Virginia].  January 9, 1867.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• African Americans--Virginia--History--19th century
• Contract labor--Virginia
• Contracts
• Greene County (Va.)--History--19th century
• Legal documents