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It was interesting to learn that women's deed of gifts and wills were quite different than men in Petersburg. Not only was it out of the ordinary for women to have wills but very interesting to read about what they willed and who they willed it to. Mary Bolling is interesting because she included some of her heirs but excluded others such as her grandson Thomas Shore. The idea that women played favorites and designated who got what instead of most men's wills dividing everything equally among their heirs. I can't help but think about my grandmother when I read this chapter in the book. As we went through her things after she passed, we found little notes with specific names on it willed to that person. These items were not actually in her will but they meant enough in her mind to give it to a specific person. Though the women in Petersburg were in a different time than my grandmother, it gives us a sense of women's thought process. The thought of who would most benefit from receiving that gift, who was grandma's favorite, or who asked first? Women showed their nurturing abilities by denoting some security for their children. Men's wills did not show these specific details. -Marsha Himes | It was interesting to learn that women's deed of gifts and wills were quite different than men in Petersburg. Not only was it out of the ordinary for women to have wills but very interesting to read about what they willed and who they willed it to. Mary Bolling is interesting because she included some of her heirs but excluded others such as her grandson Thomas Shore. The idea that women played favorites and designated who got what instead of most men's wills dividing everything equally among their heirs. I can't help but think about my grandmother when I read this chapter in the book. As we went through her things after she passed, we found little notes with specific names on it willed to that person. These items were not actually in her will but they meant enough in her mind to give it to a specific person. Though the women in Petersburg were in a different time than my grandmother, it gives us a sense of women's thought process. The thought of who would most benefit from receiving that gift, who was grandma's favorite, or who asked first? Women showed their nurturing abilities by denoting some security for their children. Men's wills did not show these specific details. -Marsha Himes | ||
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| + | On my other post I had remarked that I found it interesting that women wrote wills during the nineteenth century but through this article I found more interesting how light-hearted women were about wills. "It may have been that women, who looked at death with every pregnancy...had less trouble making preparations for their dying."(p. 134). This statement proved that although women seemed to have more trouble with finances in Petersburg they were willing to be prepared and to protect their assets for their heirs. Women are typically seen as being more caring and watchful over families and through the wills in this article I find it to be true over men. Men just wrote out property (moveable or not) and to whom, women gave thought to the process; was it due to the fact that they were more nurturing or prepared? Did women face death more often than men of the nineteenth century? -Megan W. | ||
