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Notes for Taylor EADDY

TAYLOR EADDY
by
Vanik S. Eaddy

Taylor Eaddy was the forth son of Edward Drake Eaddy and Mary (Bartell)
Eaddy. He owned an antebellum plantation which was named "The Oaks". It
became his responsibility to administer the estate of his father. He was
too old for service in the Civil War and thus stayed behind to manage the
family plantation. Taylor Eaddy was known to have been a physically
strong specimen of a man and was equally so in moral and spiritual
values. He forbade dancing, drinking, or other cavorting on his
property. Taylor Eaddy was known as an eloquent public speaker and was
capable of forceful delivery which frequently persuaded others to his
point of view.

SHARECROPPER AGREEMENT

The traumatic change in lifestyle of the Eaddy Family during and after
the Civil War is dramatized in the document below. It is an agreement
between Taylor Eaddy and five former slaves who had remained on the
plantation. The date of this agreement was July 11, 1865. Conditions in
the community at this time in history were implied in the terms of the
agreement.

South Carolina
Williamsburg District

This agreement entered into between Taylor Eaddy of the one part and the
freed men and women and hired white laborers whose names are hereunto
signed of the other part. Witnesseth -- that the latter consent and
agree with the former to industriously cultivate his land on his
plantation in the District and State aforesaid in the manner and
according to the task system of labor as usual on cotton and corn lands,
helping fence and enclose in good order and they will in all respect
conform themselves to such reasonable regulations and rules on said
plantation as may be prescribed by the said Taylor Eaddy or his agent.
The said Taylor Eaddy shall have the right to direct at all times by
himself or his agent the nature and extent of the cultivation. The freed
men and women and hired laborers promise to behave themselves with
propriety, to avoid drunkenness and all gross immorality and they are
forbidden to have or carry guns, pistols, or weapons of war. All animals
entrusted to their care shall be carefully tended and prudently worked
and cared for. The kind of work to be done and its faithful performance
to be at all times ordered and arranged by the said Taylor Eaddy or his
agent.

In return for these services the said Taylor Eaddy agrees to furnish the
usual allowance of subsistence to the said freed men and women and their
families on the said plantation until the said growing crop shall be
gathered and housed. After taking from the bulk of the crop (before
division) seventy-five bushels of corn for one horse and sixty bushels
for each mule worked in the said crop and also the fodder which are set
aside to the said Taylor Eaddy the remainder of the crops, to wit: Corn,
potatoes, and rice, shall be divided into equal parts, one of which part
shall be set apart to the said Taylor Eaddy as his share and the
remaining part to the said freed men and women and the hired laborers as
their share thereof. The said freed men and women shall not absent
themselves from the said plantation without permission nor shall they
introduce strangers or stock of any kind on the plantation nor make use
of anything belonging to the said Taylor Eaddy without permission of
himself or agent. On leaving said plantation laborers shall give up
hoes, axes, and all agricultural implements furnished.

Signed in presence of:

G. C. McCown
G. F. Hanna
July 11, 1865

Taylor Eaddy
Jim X his mark
Hannah X her mark
Handy X his mark
Martha X her mark
Sara X her mark

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