[ENSLAVEMENT]. Manuscript will bequeathing enslaved persons to decedent's wife and children. 1832.

Manuscript last will and testament of Charles Reach, Bibb County, Alabama. 3 November 1832.

3 pages, on bifolium, 7 1/2 x 12 3/4 in. Docketed twice on verso.

In this document, Charles Reach writes that he wishes his wife, Milley Reach, "to live on my plantation where I now live and have all the proceeds of said land to Raise her children on, also I wish my negroe [sic] women (viz) Liz Sary and Edy to live with my wife during widowhood and their labor to aid in supporting her children til [sic] the youngest comes of age...I Desire that my negro boys and all property that can be spared to be sold at my decease and the money put to Interest"

He mentions one enslaved male by name in an earlier portion of the document where he outlines the property bequeathed to his son-in-law Thomas Spier, including "one feather Bed and furniture at thirty dollars and one bedstead at two dollars four earthen plates at fifty cents one pewter bason [sic] at one dollar and one hundred and fifty dollars which I gave him in the price of a Negro Boy which he bought of me named Alexander."

A "Charles Reach" is listed in the 1830 census for Bibb County as enslaving 7 people as part of his estate.

Property from the James Milgram, M.D., Collection of Ephemeral Americana and Historical Documents

This lot is located in Cincinnati.