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7 lines, in ink, with docketing on verso. On half-sheet of lined paper, 4¼x8.

"On or before the twenty-fifth of December next we or either of us promise to pay Eli Lockert or order forty-five dollars for the hire of a negro girl Rachel for the present year and give the girl two good & substantial summer and two good strong linsey winter suits of winter clothing one good thick blanket two pare of shoes and one pare of good stockings..." With Paid May 7 by D.M. Woods 1857 written perpendicular over the letter.