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Canada and the United States

Lori D. Ginzberg. Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. xiv, 222. Cloth 49.95, paper $19.95.

In August 1846, Democratic Representative Alpheus S. Greene presented one of three petitions demanding that women be given the right to vote in New York elections to the state constitutional convention in Albany. The petition that he sponsored was signed by Eleanor Vincent, Lydia Williams, Anna Bishop, Lydia Osborn, her sister Susan Ormsby, and her sister-in-law Amy Ormsby. All were quite ordinary women who lived in close proximity to each other in Jefferson County, in the northern part of the state. Native born and literate, they belonged to land-owning families of varying degrees of affluence. All but one were married, and four were married to farmers. The youngest of them was thirty-one, the oldest was in her mid-to-late fifties. Their formal request for voting rights provoked little if any response either in Albany or in Jefferson County.

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