Receipt for Hire of Slaves and Wagons at State Salt Works

Receipt for Hire of Slaves and Wagons at State Salt Works

Receipt for John Carlock acknowledging payment of 160,000 lbs of salt for "the hire of twenty-seven negroes and five wagons and teams for eight months at the State salt works in Jordan's Saline." Another receipt from 1865, not included here, records another 15,229 pounds paid to Carlock for the hire of "wagons, teams & hands."

A. H. Abney

Records of the Texas Military Board, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, 2-10/304

Published here by W. Caleb McDaniel.

July 1, 1865

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