2pp, 9 x 14 1/2 in. folds, tape repairs to areas of separation including central horizontal fold, toning, occasional spotting/smudging.

Manuscript will in which Reuben Dodson bequeaths approx. 6 enslaved persons by name to each of his children and wife. He also states, "At the decease of my wife or when she may direct the following named negroes to be sold among my children at the highest bidders. Jno. and his wife, Mariah Henrietta and Sarah, their children, and Emaline and her children, Mandy Ned and Rose to be sold on twelve months credit."

South Carolina native Reuben Dodson (1804-1860) was a pastor who served at the Northport (Alabama) Baptist Church at the time that this will was drafted.