The Settlement of Estates includes information from the early 1860s to the late 1880s, and most of the information given is from after the Civil War. It largely includes the accounts of white landowners recording transactions, including enslavers hiring out enslaved people to other enslavers. The money from such hires would go to the enslaver and not the enslaved person doing the labor. However, the language of such hires is sometimes vague, and could include the hiring of free workers or sharecroppers. Even after the Civil War and emancipation, white plantation owners' settlement records include such ambiguity, specifying the hiring of freedmen while the hiring of other individuals is not specified as “freedmen” or otherwise.
In the IAS Book 4, Charles Lunsford is the executer for the appraisement of Thomas Lunsford. Charles was most likely Thomas Lunsford's son but this record does not list their relationship. There are multiple entries involving the hiring out of enslaved individuals that included Charles hiring out Everett in 1861 and 1862 three times for a value of $100.00, $6.00, and $100.00