The hire of boy Wilson.

$132.50  Twelve months after date we or either of us promise to pay Henry C.D. Mitchell one hundred and thirty two dollars and fifty cents for the hire negro boy Wilson said negro to be furnished three suits cloths two for summer one for winter two double sole pr shoes hat[?] & Blanket being for valu Rec’d given under our hands and seals this 2nd day Jany 1853   W.H. Proctor, G.H. Barnes, J.D. Rountree, Stephen Privett

Civil Action Papers, Wilson [County, North Carolina] Court Records 1856, http://www.familysearch.org.

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