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  • Their business experience was confined to household management and plantation activities, but these were enterprises of no mean proportions, and the successful handling of such matters by the women impelled the men, very frequently, to name in their wills their wives as executrices.

    Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

  • His testamentary executors [executrices] organised this solemnity magnificently.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Colliges par luy mesme, et imprimee per l'original south son maine propre in francois remanent in les maines de Dorothy Faulconberge, & Lucy Jones, files & executrices del 'dit judge.

    Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733

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