ARKANSAS HISTORICAL QUARTERLY, Volume 13 (Spring 1954), p. 102. TENANT AND LABOR CONTRACTS, CALHOUN COUNTY, 1869-1871 Edited By TED R. WORLEY The originals of the five tenant and labor contracts following are located in the John C. Barrow papers recently given to the archives of the Arkansas History Commission by Mrs. B. M. Magar, 2324 West 18th Street, Little Rock. The contracts, it will be noted, were made during the period of Congressional Reconstruction. John C. Barrow, born in Alabama in 1836, came to Monticello, Arkansas, in 1858. At Monticello his brother James W. Barrow maintained a school known as the Monticello Male and Female Academy. John C. Barrow established Hopeville Academy in 1859, in Calhoun County. During the Civil War he served in the 4th Arkansas infantry. After the war he lived at Hampton. Monticello, and Little Rock, engaging in planting and the practice of law. He died at Little Rock in 1919. * * * State of Arks County of Calhoun This contract entered into between Lewis C. Haines and J. C. Barrow for the year 1870 as follows: To wit: Lewis C. Haines of the first part agrees with J. C. Barrow of the second part to cultivate thirty acres of land, the balance in the bottom field that Mr. Pendergrass dont cultivate and the twelve acres between the houses and the balance in the east portion of the field north of Barrows residence. The said Haines hereby obligates himself to furnish hands enough to well cultivate said thirty acres gather the product of the same, and house it, haul the cotton to some near gin, and the said Haines further binds himself, if he don't well cultivate said land that the said Barrow is at liberty to hire hands at any common price to cultivate said land at the expence of the said Haines to come out of his part of the crop.           Contents  Words  Study Questions  Related Sites Next