Their business experience was confined to household management and plantation activities, but these were enterprises of no mean proportions, and the successful handling of such matters by the women impelled the men, very frequently, to name in their wills their wives as executrices. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference
On like terms wives were appointed executrices. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
55 (including 9 executrices). From Wordnik.com. [The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Aouthern Avalon, 1750-1860] Reference
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