Betsy Love Allen
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Betsy Love Allen is a member of the following lists: Chickasaw people, 1780s births and People from Pontotoc County, Mississippi.
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| Birthday |
30th November, 1781
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| Birthplace |
Chickasaw Nation, Mississippi
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| Died |
July, 1837
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| Place of Death |
Pontotoc County, Mississippi
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| Occupation Text |
Farmer, trader
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| Year(s) Active |
1803–1837
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Betsy Love Allen (after 1782 – July 1837) was a Chickasaw merchant and planter who ran a trading post on the Natchez Trace and maintained a large cattle plantation. Born into a wealthy and influential family, she owned property in her own right under Chickasaw law. When an attorney attempted to seize one of the people her children enslaved to pay off a debt that her husband owed, a trial ensued. The verdict—that Allen was in effect a feme soleunder Chickasaw law and not subject to coverture—established the legal precedent for the State of Mississippi to pass the first Married Women's Property Act in the United States.
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