1828 Pennsylvania Centre County Lamar Twp Sharecropper Article Of Agreement RARE

This is the oldest surviving sharecropper agreement that exists on the market today. Extremely rare.

The document reads: Agreed the twenty first of July eighteen hundred and twenty eight between John G? Haighley of the township of Lamarr and the County of Centre and State of Pennsylvania of the one part and Philip Rishel [the words "farmer in the name" crossed out] of the same place of the other part as follows the said John G? Heaghley doth let unto the said Philip Rishel [the word “farmer” crossed out] his heirs and assigns two fields situated in the township aforesaid and now occupied by the said Haighley it being a part of his farm for the term of one year from [blank space for commencement date to be inserted] for the yearly rent of one third of all the grain raised on the said fields of said farm to be paid to the said Heighley in the bushel and to be left at any mill in the neighborhood which he shall direct [uncertain word, perhaps “and”?] (PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR THE REST)