Until someone older or wiser (that would be most of you on the latter count) corrects me, I am assuming that Mary is renouncing her dower rights to a piece of property that has been conveyed to George Smith. Women had so few separate rights, I like that they at least had the dower rights... Elizabeth lotswife wrote: > > I have a list of court summary judgments for some of my ancestors and have > noticed several in which "Mary, wife of Samuel Jones, renunciation to George > Smith." > > No property is listed. No amounts of money are noted. The dates are between > 1735 and 1815. What is this about, please? Could somebody explain? > > Thank you, > > Caroline > > ==== SCCHARLE Mailing List ==== > Another 'MUST' for South Carolina genealogical research > South Carolina Department of Archives and History > http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/