Rice Fields, Mulberry Plantation Berkeley SC
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Freedmen’s Bureau labor contracts were some of the earliest records which listed former slaves with newly-chosen surnames.
These records, which predate the 1870 census by several years, can provide clues for breaking through the 1870 Brick Wall by connecting census records with surnames to plantation journals with first names only.
Lowcountry Africana Co-Administrator Alana Thevenet has transcribed labor contracts for Berkeley County, SC. Here you will find records for slaveholder surnames beginning with the letter “F.”
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Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Berkeley County, SC, 1866
Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
NARA Record Group 105
MC 1910, Reel 62, Target 3
TITLE OF CONTRACT:
E.M. & T.H. Freer with Freed people
DATE OF CONTRACT:
March 7, 1866
PLACES MENTIONED IN CONTRACT:
Berkeley County
South Carolina
SC
Goose Creek
Mr. Warings Plantation
NAMES OF FREEDPERSONS:
Stephen Hadleston, fullhand
James Holmes, fullhand
Caesar Sanders, fullhand
Billy Perry, fullhand
Henry Richardson, fullhand
Judy Sanders, fullhand
Affy Harelston, fullhand
Caroline Simons, fullhand
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Berkeley County, SC, 1866
Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
NARA Record Group 105
MC 1910, Reel 62, Target 3
TITLE OF CONTRACT:
F. Fritze with Freed people
DATE OF CONTRACT:
Jan. 10, 1866
PLACES MENTIONED IN CONTRACT:
Berkeley County
South Carolina
SC
Mount Holley
Goose Creek Parish
NAMES OF FREEDPERSONS:
Darit
Batsey
Jacob
Lissy
Freedmen’s Labor Contracts
Berkeley County, SC, 1868
Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1872
NARA Record Group 105
M1910, Reel 63, Target 2
TITLE OF CONTRACT:
P.H. Feidner with 2 freedmen
DATE OF CONTRACT:
Jan. 1, 1868
PLACES MENTIONED IN CONTRACT:
Berkeley County
South Carolina
SC
NAMES OF FREEDPERSONS
Jim Marschall
Mary Marschall
