Consists of thirteen pages of court documents related to the case of "James McCallum, Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Samuel Mosley, dec'd vs. James W. Nowlin." The case pertains to a dispute between two white enslavers over the sale of an enslaved woman named Nancy, with one party attempting to recover some of the money from the sale after claiming that Nancy was sick. Documents include a form authorizing acting justice of the peace James P. Dysart to receive written depositions from Jane Montgomery and Dr. B.W. Nowlin, as well as Nowlin's full deposition.

Nowlin's testimony claims that Nancy was in good health. He also describes Nancy as "unruly and disposed to inculcate bad principles in her children," including "high temper with a disposition to disobey commands," and notes that his mother, Mary Nowlin, intended to sell Nancy to someone outside of the neighborhood in order to intentionally separate her from her children. These descriptions, though given from Nowlin's perpective, provide documentation of methods enslaved people used to subvert the slavery system.