Title: Colonial Women ***
Headings: Colonial Women
Colonial Women
Colonial Women

Content: Spinning, weaving, knitting and making clothes
Laundry: Washing and ironing clothes
Tending the sick: Including collecting herbs and making remedies
Childcare
Caring for Livestock: Farm or plantation life required Colonial women to feed the animals, milk the cows, gather eggs etc


The work and tasks undertaken would vary according to the status of the woman. The Legal Rights of Colonial Women
The legal rights of Colonial women were few. Men dominated society and women were subservient to the men in her family such as her father and bothers. Divorce was practically unknown as Colonial America was essentially a divorce-free society: Colonial Women did not have the right to vote
Colonial Women did not have the right to hold and form of public office
Colonial Women did not have the right to serve on juries
The rights of unmarried women and widows. Widows and unmarried women could: Make a will
Buy or sell property
Act as a guardian
Had the right to sue or be sued
A widow received a one-third interest in the personal property of her deceased husband (one-half if there were no children)
The rights of married women.