The contract reads......
Office of William Lewis
Commission Merchant
No. 4 Tabers Wharf
New Bedford, March 27, 1876
This is to certify that I Owen H. Tilton of Tisbury have this day agreed to go as Master of Bark Tropic Bird for a two year whaling voyage in the Atlantic Ocean for the one fourteenth Lay. Should I get one thousand barrels of Sperm Oil in thirty months then I am to have the one twelfth lay of the whole cargo and I agree to take one one sixteenth or one eight[inserted] of said ???? at rates ??? as paid(r) I.H. Bartlett & Sons.
William Lewis
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