CHAPTER XX.
RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN.
After mother's death, I prosecuted to a successful issue a suit for the recovery of the house in which I was born.

It stood on Water street, near Market, and our lawyer, Walter Lowrie, afterwards supreme judge, was to have given us possession of the property on the 1st of July, 1845, which would add eight hundred dollars a year to the income of my sister and myself.

But on the 10th of April, the great fire swept away the building and left a lot bearing ground rent.

Property rose and we had a good offer for the lease.

Every one was willing to sell, but the purchasers concluded that both our husbands must sign the deed.