Pleasant Terrell compensated for injuries received while enslaved

This post is part of an ongoing project to record names of enslaved people of Greene County, Georgia I find in historical records.

Know all men by these presents, that the Georgia Rail Road Company of Richmond County and State of Georgia are held and firmly bound unto Pleasant Terrell, Freedman, and former slave of David S. Terrell of the County of Greene and State of for the true payment of $8.00 eight dollars per month for injury received while a slave and in the services of the Georgia Rail Road Company. Time of payment to commence on the first day of July 1865. And to thereafter monthly as above agreed until such time as the said Pleasant Terrell shall be able to support himself by his own labor using [blank space] and economy to support himself. The time when payment shall cease shall by decided by two physicians, one chosen by each party. For the true payment of which the Georgia Rail Road Company are held and firmly bound by these presents. Sealed with their seals and dated the seventh day of May 1867. The condition of the above obligation is such that if the Georgia Rail Road Company shall pay to the said Pleasant Terrell the sum of eight dollars per month, as above stipulated, then this obligation shall be void.

P. [Peter] W. Printup

Signed and sealed in presence of 
Jno. P. King, President 
Jas. Milligan, Treasurer

Reference

Greene County, Georgia, Deeds 1862–1871, image 356, FamilySearch.