An article of agreement of Partnership entered into this seventh day of September (1852) between Hugh M. Cochran and Mrs. E. P. Watterman under the Name and firm of H. M. Cochran & Co. Witnesith that the said parties agree to invest and have invested a capital of Nineteen hundred dollars as follows Mrs E. P. Watterman furnishes Sixtine hundred dollars and said H. M. Cochran three hundred dollars said Cochran paying Mrs Watternman at the rate of six per cent interest per anum for the capital invested by her after deducting an equel amount as invested by said Cochran Mrs E. P. Watterman further agrees to Let and lease the house out house and appertenancies belonging to the same and soutable for transacting said business said firm at the rate of seventy dollars per year to be paid in quarterly Payments of seventeen dollars and fifty cents subject to such alterations as said H. M. Cochran may direct and said firm may agree upon the first of April 1853 also subject to an increase in the Amt of said property pending such improvements said Cochran further agrees to devote his whole time to the supertending of said business for which said Cochran is to receive from the said firm the sum of twenty dollars per month said Partnership to continue for the term of two years from this date subject to an invoice and of discontinuing said Partnership at the end of said term, said Cochran further agrees to Keep a Cash act of said business subject to the inspection of the parties interested in testimony where of we herewith set our hands and afix our seals
in presence of H. M. Cochran
Jesse Davis E. P. Waterman
F Waterman
and in adition if at the end of said term there is a disolution of the party Purchasing agrees to take the manufactore a tobacco at wholesale prices and other articles as per Invoice
in presence of H. M. Cochran
Jesse Davis E.P. Waterman
F. Waterman