Oviatt-Brown Agreement

Richfield 3rd January 1842

It is the mutual understanding of the undersigned that Heman Oviatt is to purchase hides and calf skins of a good quality during the present year and that John Brown is to recieve them, clean and finish them in a neat and workmanlike manor rendering to said Oviatt all the leather made from the same in good order, or pay for any damage they may recieve while in his particular care, and that said Oviatt shall account with said Brown for nine twentyfifths of the wholesale value of all leather so delivered by applying towards cancelling the debt due from said Brown to said Oviatt and that OM Oviatt shall herinafter discontinue the business of danning upon shares and let said Brown have that kind of custom in their place until a different arrangement shall be made between them, and that said Brown shall render to said OM Oviatt every assistance, information, or other facility in his power to afford in the management of his tanary or any other branch of said OM Oviatt's business about which said Brown may be possessed of [?] information.

Heman Oviatt
John Brown
Orson M Oviatt