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I think it was still 21, but only if they weren't married at that point. Married women were legally minors, their husbands their legal guardian. (That's where the tradition of the bride's father giving her away to the groom comes from--passing her from one keeper to the next.)
I thought this would be easy to look up, but google was far too eager to talk about the actual Women's Rights Movement of the 1840's, and less about what the legal situation was like for women before then.
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