[Manuscript Draft of a Wealthy Texan's Will, Including Disposition of More Than Thirty of His Slaves upon His Death, and the Conveyance of Certain Slaves During His Lifetime]
Galveston County, Tx. August, 1860. [4]pp. on a single folio sheet. Original folds, small ink stain. A contemporary manuscript retained copy of Beden Stroud's will, executed in August 1860. Stroud, who died five years later in 1865, settled in Burr Oak Springs, Texas, with his brother, in 1844. Stroud died..... More