Learn about a married woman's right of dower in the Brooker exhibit!

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Check out how Hannah Welch relinquished her right of dower or “power of third” in this deed, in order for her husband to transfer this property. Learn more about dower, which was a married woman’s most significant property right, in the Rare Book Room with our current exhibit! #legalhistory #rarebooks #ephemera

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