Sarah Wilson

 

The name, "Sarah Wilson" appears on the Freedman's Bureau Records for St. Rosalie Plantation in 1867. It describes a Sarah with no dependents. $5 per month for rolling / 30 cents per day and 20 cents per watch (?) also two  suits of clothes. No age or other information provided.
 
 Further text from the document reads: That the laborers are to mark full Saturday from the time religious to put cane into mattress until finish planting and all able female and children over ten years of age if not at school, will be duty bound to turn out to work whenever called upon to do so. Women to be paid thirty cents/ per day and children twelve cents per day with food when at work, but no clothing. Should they refuse to go to work will pay a rent of two dollars per month for their lodging from the date of this contract until leaving the plantation. 

 

St. Rosalie Plantation, 1867, U.S. Freedmen's Bureau Records (1865-1878), Louisiana (M1905), Plantation Department, Roll 046, Labor Contracts, 1866-1868, Plaquemines Parish. 

The name, Sarah, appears on the Freedmen's Bureau Registers, age 30, Former [Enslaver], Dr. A. Danford [sic], Former Place, St. Rosalie, Present Employer, Mrs. A. Danford, Present Parish, Plaquemines. 

Freedmens Bureau Records, 1865-1878, Field Offices, Louisiana (M1905), Plantation Department, Roll 029, Registers, Roll 10.