That made Albany the family rallying point for a few years.

This enabled me to spend several winters at the Capital and to take an active part in the discussion of the Married Woman's Property Bill, then pending in the legislature.
William H.Seward, Governor of the State from 1839 to 1843, recommended the Bill, and his wife, a woman of rare intelligence, advocated it in society.

Together we had the opportunity of talking with many members, both of the Senate and the Assembly, in social circles, as well as in their committee rooms.

Bills were pending from 1836 until 1848, when the measure finally passed.
My second son was born in Albany, in March, 1844, under more favorable auspices than the first, as I knew, then, what to do with a baby.
Returning to Chelsea we commenced housekeeping, which afforded me another chapter of experience.

A new house, newly furnished, with beautiful views of Boston Bay, was all I could desire.