Register of Contracts and Accounting Records of Capt. W. W. Willis, Superintendent of Freedmen
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872
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content: Records of the Field Offices for the State of Arkansas, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 / Series 3: Subordinate Field Offices / 3.11: Jacksonport (Upper White River District)
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M1901, File 3.11.6
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content: The two–volume register of contracts and accounting records of Capt. W. W. Willis, superintendent of freedmen, mouth of the White River and St. Charles, is dated May–June 1865, 1 (132) and 2 (133). Volume 1 (132) contains the register of contracts and a list of freedpeople in the camp. Volume 2 (133) shows not only the money received and expended by Willis, but also that it was credited to the freedmen.