Weldon Freedman's Records, MS

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Chickasaw, Mississippi, United States
Surname/tag: Weldon

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Census Records 1.2 Freedman's Bureau 2 Sources

Biography

Census Records

1860 Slave Schedule, Division 1, Chickasaw, Mississippi.^[1]

Gender	Age	Birth
Male	38	1822	Black
Female	25	1835	Black	Hariett Weldon
Male	7	1853	Black
Female	5	1855	Black
Male	2	1858	Black
Male	8	1852	Black
Female	8	1852	Black	Louise Weldon
Female	7	1853	Black
Male	7	1853	Black
Male	7	1853	Black
Male	6	1854	Black
Female	6	1854	Black
Male	5	1855	Black
Male	5	1855	Black
Female	4	1856	Black
Female	4	1856	Black
Male	3	1857	Black	James Weldon
Male	3	1857	Black
Male	1	1859	Black	William Weldon
Female	1	1859	Black	Sarah Weldon
Female	06/12	Jan 1860	Black	Winnie Weldon
Female	04/12	Mar 1860	Black	Margaret Wilson

Freedman's Bureau

• Freedman Bureau Contract, 14 Aug 1865,^[2]
• Employment contract: Samuel Weldon
• State of Misp., Chickasaw Couy

Articles of agreement entered in between Samuel Weldon of the first part and undersigned. Negro laborers of the second part, on the 14th day of August 1865. The said Samuel Weldon is to furnish houses food clothing fuel and medicines as heretofore in quality and kind for the balance of the year 1865. He is to give one tenth part of the corn and fodder and the necessary attention required, The undersigned laborers do contract and agree to obey he orders of the said Samuel Weldon or his agent and do their work faithfully all work required of them,, and lost time by sicken will not be charged to them,, They are not to leave the premises without leave from him or his agent,, Each of the undersigned laborers is to be held responsible for all tools and other things committed in their charge and agree to remain with the said Samuel Weldon on the terms above mentioned,, In testimony four agreement to the above contracted we have unto affixed our names or marks as presence of

• S.J. Weldon
• L Wilson
• James Young

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• Name Age
• Henry Weldon 48 X (1817)
• Hariett Weldon28 X (1837)
• Louis Weldon 12 X (1852)
• Lucy Weldon 10 X (1855)
• James Weldon 9 X (1856)
• William Weldon 7 X (1858)
• Sarah Weldon 4 X (1861)
• Winnie Weldon 4 X (1861)
• Darcus Weldon 1 X (1864)
• Henry Weldon 27 X (1838)
• Margaret Wilson 14 X (1861) - This girl being of family connection desires to remain until the end of the year 1865 for her (?) and clothes. X

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GBS4-5V6?cc=3161105&wc=81FF-JWL%3A1610406201%2C1610409601%2C1610359001 : 16 October 2019), Mississippi > Chickasaw > Division 1 > image 27 of 102; citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ The National Archives in Washington, DC; Washington, DC; Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Mississippi, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865-1869; NARA Series Number:: M826; NARA Reel Number:: 45; NARA Record Group Number:: 105; NARA Record Group Name:: Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1861 - 1880; Collection Title:: United States Freedmen's Bureau Labor Contracts Indenture and Apprenticeship Records 1865-1872-https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/3866718:62309?_phsrc=uHH4095&_phstart=successSource&gsfn=Samuel&gsln=Welton&ml_rpos=5&queryId=271dd19f20fa232cde03f8301d752919