Complex sentence: Elizabeth Hitchen, Hitchen's wife, gave her inheritance money to his husband in order to buy the Under City Marshal office for his plans, or we have the case of Elizabeth Fisher, who managed receiving in her husband's alehouse.
Split into simpler sentences: Elizabeth Hitchen, Hitchen's wife, gave her inheritance money to his husband in order to buy the Under City Marshal office for his plans. Moreover, women could be also active receivers, such as the case of Elizabeth Fisher, who managed receiving in her husband's alehouse.