Affidavit and indenture totaling 2 pages from 28 July 1862 for Katurnah and Benjamin Senior's sale of land to a woman - Elizabeth Robinson. Affidavit measures 13.25" x 9" inches. Indenture measures 14.5" x 9.5" inches. This is the second record in our possession of a sale to Elizabeth Robinson.....
Handwritten indenture signed 7 February 1855 documenting the sale of land by Alfred and Charlotte Clark to Edmund Norton and James Reeve, a primary source artifact situated within the legal framework of Coverture, the Anglo legal doctrine that subsumed a married woman’s legal identity under that of her husband. The.....
Affidavit and indenture dated 24 August 1858 documenting the sale of land by John Slow and Jemima Monk Slow to Elizabeth Robinson, a two-page legal record that captures both the constraints and the exceptions embedded within the Anglo legal doctrine of coverture. Under coverture, a married woman could not independently.....
