Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York. 71st session, volume 5, document 129.

Title

Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York. 71st session, volume 5, document 129.

Creator

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly.

Date

1848

Subject

New York (State)--Politics and government

Type

text

Language

English

Place of Issue

Albany (N.Y.)

Genre

Statutes and codes

Location

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester

Call number

2

J87.67 .L55

Exhibition link

Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement

Label text

Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York. 67th session, vol. 3, document 96. (Albany, 1844). A petition to change the New York State law and allow women to retain ownership of the property they possessed before marriage, was first introduced in 1836. Yearly petitions presented to the Legislature were denied. In this 1844 report, the Judiciary Committee found against the proposal saying that such a law would make women too independent of their husbands and undermine marriage, morals, and the state itself. The bill was finally passed in 1848, making New York the first state to pass a married woman's property law.

Citation

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly., “Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York. 71st session, volume 5, document 129.,” RBSCP Exhibits, accessed April 18, 2024, https://rbscpexhibits.lib.rochester.edu/items/show/508.

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