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This will stuck out to me more then the others. After reading a few, I am sitting here thinking about how their wills were written, compared to how wills are written today. ''' They were literally leaving everything they owned to someone.''' A dozen napkins? Nowadays if that was left to you, I feel it would be more of an insult and/or a cruel joke. It really just shows you how much stock they put into what they owned. - Matt | This will stuck out to me more then the others. After reading a few, I am sitting here thinking about how their wills were written, compared to how wills are written today. ''' They were literally leaving everything they owned to someone.''' A dozen napkins? Nowadays if that was left to you, I feel it would be more of an insult and/or a cruel joke. It really just shows you how much stock they put into what they owned. - Matt | ||
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| + | For these women in mid-eighteenth century Massachusetts, they would rely on their wills to exercise some remote sense of legal power. I think that could by why they were so detailed when leaving literally all they owned. --Ellen | ||
== Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg == | == Suzanne Lebsock, The Free Women of Petersburg == | ||
