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== Women’s Estates, Mass, 1664, NY 1747-1759 == | == Women’s Estates, Mass, 1664, NY 1747-1759 == | ||
Comparing these women's wills to the men's in the previous articles, it is obvious that there is a clear distinction. The women commonly left their property to their daughters first and then their sons. I think the women tended to be biased towards the females of their family because they wanted them to receive as much as possible for they would not get to own very much of their own throughout their life. The boys on the other hand would have many rights and own real property of their own. I liked the fact that the women were trying to give the daughters as much as they could after their death.- Amy Van Ness | Comparing these women's wills to the men's in the previous articles, it is obvious that there is a clear distinction. The women commonly left their property to their daughters first and then their sons. I think the women tended to be biased towards the females of their family because they wanted them to receive as much as possible for they would not get to own very much of their own throughout their life. The boys on the other hand would have many rights and own real property of their own. I liked the fact that the women were trying to give the daughters as much as they could after their death.- Amy Van Ness | ||
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| + | I found the wills of women to be rather interesting. After reading the previous articles I questioned whether women wrote them or not, seeing as their property was that of their husbands. Women did give to their daughers first and then their sons, but what I found different about women's wills was they were more personal. Women wanted to make sure their children and in some cases grandchildren were taken care of down to the slightest detail of giving a daughter "a set of gold buttons "to the value of a Pistole.""(p. 89). They took care of the smallest details and thought about the family more than themselves. -Megan W. | ||
== Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg == | == Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg == | ||
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 | ||
