Kiracofe is right.
Nee = "born" and is placed after the name of a married woman to introduce
her _maiden_ name, not the surname of her first husband. Ie Wayles not
Skelton.
He and Hardwick and others are also right that women were recognized as
having souls, and that they were persons not property. Indeed back in 1974
Edmund Morgan popularized the recognition that 17th century Virginia women
may have enjoyed greater autonomy than their English sisters.
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