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Clara Callahan <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:24:15 -0800
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In colonial Virginia was it common for females who could not write to use the first letter of their maiden names as their mark on legal documents?

  For example, If a piece of land was sold by a man named Gunther to a man named Jones and if the witnesses were named John Doe and Joseph Doe and if Gunther's wife relinquished dower and made her mark "D," would it be reasonable to think that her maiden name might be Doe?

  Clara

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