Sarah Haney writes that before her husband's death, one William McDonald induced him to purchase a piece of land, using a slave "boy," Abram, as down payment. The price for the land was set at eleven hundred dollars; McDonald valued Abram at six hundred dollars. Sarah Haney maintains that her husband "in his lifetime had been for a long time sick & debilitated so much so that his sickness had almost entirely destroyed his bodily & mental powers" and therefore was "utterly incapable & unfit to transact even common business." She asks the court to declare the sale null and void and order McDonald to return Abram.
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Repository: Clark County Historical Association Archives, Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas
