Records on Renting and Leasing of Abandoned Property
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content: Records of the Mississippi Freedmen's Department ("Pre–Bureau Records"), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1865
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content: Records of the Mississippi Freedmen's Department ("Pre–Bureau Records"), Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1863–1865 / Series 1: Office of the General Superintendent of Freedmen
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1914, Subseries 1.4
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content: Unbound records of renting and leasing of abandoned property for the period 1863–1865 are arranged by type of record. The records include reports of leased plantations giving the names of the lessees, the names of the plantations, the number of freedmen employed, and the number of acres under cultivation; lists or rolls of freedmen on plantations; reports of the examination of rolls of freedmen; bonds of planters; accounting records relating to payment of freedmen; applications to rent abandoned property; assignments of houses to officers of the Freedmen's Department; reports of rented property; reports of property occupied for military purposes; and reports of rents received.