This is to witness that I have this day hired from Stephen F
Austin judge of this Colony an African negro man named John
belonging to the heirs of Richard Barret deced for the term of
three months for which I obligate myself to pay to said heirs or their
representative twenty five bushels of corn to be delivered on the
Brasos River next fall.
St Felipe de Austin April 12, 1824
Sylvanus Castleman.