Footnotes
“Coverture,” in Bouvier, Law Dictionary [1843], 1:392; Salmon, Women and the Law of Property, 14–18.
Bouvier, John. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America, and of the Several States of the American Union; With References to the Civil and Other Systems of Foreign Law. 2nd ed. 2 vols. Philadelphia: T. and J. W. Johnson, 1843.
Salmon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
See, for example, Letter, Don Carlos Smith to Oliver Granger, 11 July 1841.
This becomes clear in a few cases where the property may have been purchased or transferred to Emma Smith or one of the Smith children, but JS then sold or transferred it.