Morris

Item

Name
Morris
Birth Date
September 10, 1850
Basil Manly Diary V (1847-1857) image 176, Sept. 10, 1850
"Tues Sept 10. This night, before 12 o'clock, my woman Mary, Larry's wife, was safely delivered of a child. The child proves to be a boy, and is named Morris."
Sex
Male
Freedom Status
Enslaved until the end of the Civil War when he made an arrangement with Manly to continue to work on his plantation
Basil Manly Diary VI (1858-1878) image 83, June 20, 1865
"This day, at the plantation made an arrangement with my negroes to work on my place, being declared freedmen & freedwomen, by the Yankees. The arrangement includes my house – servants at home. They are to have the productions of ten average acres of corn. The following is a copy of the contract, and the names of the signers.
“We, the undersigned, declared “freedmen & freedwomen’” by the U.S. military authorities, and residing on the plantation of B. Manly, near Foster’s ferry, Tusk. Co. Ala do hereby agree to continue to work on the said plantation, under the direction of said Manly or his agent; to use due diligence during the customary number of hours, daily; to take care of all the stock, implements, or other property on the place or committed to us severally; and to act faithfully as laborers and employees on said plantation in all respects, until the close of the present year, on pain of being dismissed there from by said Manly or his legal representative by his desire. And we do also hereby agree to receive as full compensation for said services, the food, clothing, house-room, fuel and medical attendance in actual sickness, of ourselves and families; and further, that we receive the productions of a lot of ten (10) acres of land, to be selected as an average of the crop of corn; to be divided raticebly among us at the close of the year.
As witness of our freely & voluntarily agreeing here unto we have affirmed our mark opposite to our names, to this paper, before witnesses, at the said plantation, this 20th day of June, A.D. 1865.
Winter, Wood, Peter, William, Archy, Andrew, George, Robert, Alick, John, Henderson, Edmond, Oliver, Levi, Judy, Rose, Patsey, Martha, Sabra, Rebecca, Priscilla, Lydia, Binkey, Ann, Old Sabra, Julia, Morris, Arthur

U, B. Manly as named in the preceding instrument, do hereby express my agreement to employ the persons whose names are thereunto attached, according to the terms thereof.
Given, under my hand, the day & date before written.
B. Manly"
Original Location
Tuscaloosa
Living Location
Tuscaloosa
Enslaver
Basil Manly (Second President of the University of Alabama 1837-1855)
Site pages
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Items with "Parent of: Morris"
Title Class
Larry/Larrey
Mary
Items with "Sibling of: Morris"
Title Class
Arthur
Binkey
Oliver
Unnamed Boy
William/Boysey