This essay argues that estate administration endowed women in colonial Newport, Rhode Island, with legal and economic powers that they successfully exercised as they settled decedents’ estates. It includes a case study of Ann Maylem, a widow who engaged in the unusual act of publishing a broadside during administration.

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