Sixty-five "Ladies of Fayette County Tennessee" ask that "the personal estates of females be placed upon a similar basis as their Real estate, & so protected & secured that it cannot be sold, & taken from them without their consent & in a manner prescribed by law." They lament that under current laws "the competent estates descended to them from the estates of their deceased fathers which often in one or two years after marriage, are totally wasted & taken from the wife & children, reducing them to want & suffering, in consequence of the disipation or improvident management of thoughtless husbands." The petitioners further note "that with our peculiar southern institutions & customs it is in most cases a much greater privation & inconvenience to the married ladies to be deprived of their slaves than of their land."
Result: Tabled.
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
