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sparks & Clay articles 1811. to 1815.

articles between green Clay Marten Sparks (viz) [illegible] Said sparkes undertakes to do the Said Clays business as an Overseer where he now lives for the term of five years to commence the first day of next January to have under him the same hands to wit [[Peter]], [[Stephen]], [[Henry]], [[adam]], [[spencer]], [[Lender]], & [[Clary]] also [[Hannah]] to cook for the negroes & milk so that no time be lost on that account by the hands under him put in the crop & what time [[Hannah]] has to spare over cooking, & milking she is to spin one pound for sparkes & six for Clay &c Clay is to put 12 head of horses at least there & not over 24 or every six head Clay puts sparks is to put one & they are to be feed together out of the Crop there is to be no difference paid to them in Care nor feeding & all 6 run together in the pasture but none in the fields [illegible] [illegible] without the consent of both parties & these horses are to fare alike in all respects next new years day sparks is to [furnish?] one seventh part of as many sheep hogs & cattle as Clay hath on that plantation & in that proportion of vallue in to a general stock this stock is to be keep & feed out of the crop of corn hay fodder & oats the hogs are to be fattened yearly & then divided by weight so also the beeves as they are fattened or sold are to be divided Clay to have six parts Sparks one the wool of the sheep are to be divided in the same way any loss of sheep hogs or cattle are to be the loss of the general stock or fund Clay is to furnish as many as four work horses if necessary & an ox cart & sparks is to brake two yoaks of oxen out of the stock before they are thrown into a general fund & keep that many allways on sd place for the use of all the farm out of Clays stock there is to be no division of corn fodder hay oats but that part of the crop is to be appropriated to the support of the [illegible]

the Corn to bread black & white the balance to be stilld: & any oats Hay fodder over feeding the stock to be sold & the money divided according to each partys proportion. all the Rye & corn ever what is necessary for the usual seeding is to be stilled if possible, but if any corn cannot be stilled it is to be sold, & the money divided as aforesaid: all the grain got by tole at the horse mill is to be applyed as a part of the Crop & so divided Sparks is to have one seventh part of all the Crop of every description made for market to wit Tobacco, Hemp, flax, Cotton, whiskey, Brandy, cider, cider Royal, Sugar, & other things as aforesaid pears, & Perry. Sparks is to carry on the destillery there as heretofor until Said Clay shall build a mill & erect a destillery on tates creek: then all the grain is to be taken there to tates Cr. & stilled: while stilling at Spark's he is to have the stills supplyed with crops & would do all the planters part, with his hands, & also all fixing the stiller if one is hired is to be paid according to each mans proportion: when the destillery is set up at Tates creek Sparks is to take all his grain for stilling there & to cut & haul his proportion of wood & sell to the stillhouse, that is if Clay has more grain stilled there than Sparks raises, in that case, the partnership hogs at Spark's are to be sent to the Tates creek destillery annually to eat the slop in proportion to Clays other hogs & grain sent from other plantations. Clay is to have a house covered with shingles on the hill for Spark's family but Sparks is to do the other part with his friends: at the end of the said five years the stock of cattle

hogs & sheep are to be divided according to each [illegible] proportion the negro Men hereby put under Sparks are to assist in diging the mill rase at a leasure time from the Crop when the distillery shall be erected at Tates creek Clay is to find a miller to attend, the mill but such hands as will be necessary to still the grain that Sparks sends there are to be found out of Sparks hands put under him & if a stiller is hired to manage the Destillery at Tates creek Sparks is to pay his proportion of his hire while stilling his grain, when ever a Waggon is needed at Spark's plantation he is to have one the four Work horses are to be out of Clays part of part of horses, Should any of the negroes die in the Said five years Clay is to put [paper missing] their place [illegible] of that [illegible] shall die [and] the said Clay has the previledge of selling [[Peter]] & [[Spencer]] & putting another good hand in their places. October 2d 1810 _ Green Clay Martin Sparks Test Mary Clay