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Performer(s): Lena Bourne Fish; Location: East Jaffrey, NH

Includes draft of gift agreement to Duke University

Includes numerous names of enslaved people he sought to bequeath to different relatives and descendants. One segment says that Martha, Sam, Weber, and Patty can choose their master from among his children. Also contains segment: "I give and bequeath to John or Jack Miller, who married my daughter Sarah V. Judith, and went off with a strumpet, and left his wife in distress, which was the cause of her death, a head board with the inscription 'Here Lies the Body of Jack Miller, Who Was The Cause of The Death of His Wife." Another segment reads: "I give and bequeath to my grandson William T. Miller, who treated his grandfather and the ashes of his mother with so much contempt as to go off to his father, and refuse to return, saying that he would work up to his chin in mud first, To him I give ten feet square, to be picked out of the muddyest part of my farm." A codicil at the end of the document revokes that bequest and awards William T. Miller Sarah, an enslaved woman, and her two sons.