The Roderick Kirkpatrick Shaw "Estate Division of Slaves" authorizes Gadsden County Commissioners Thomas Munroe, William F. Bull and Hudson Muse to divide the enslaved persons belonging to the estate of the late Roderick K. Shaw into three equal portions and distribute them to Shaw's two sons, Roderick Gosporo Shaw and James Kirkpatrick Shaw, and to John H. Smith, husband of R. K. Shaw's daughter, Jesse Shaw Smith.
