Betsy Love Allen (after 1782 – July 1837) was a Chickasaw merchant and planter who ran a trading post on the Natchez Trace and maintained a large cattle plantation. Born into a wealthy and influential family, she owned property in her own right under Chickasaw law. When an attorney attempted to seize one of her children's slaves to pay off a debt that her husband owed, a trial ensued. The verdict, that Allen was in effect a feme sole, under Chickasaw law, and not subject to coverture, established the legal precedent for the State of Mississippi to pass the first Married Women's Property Act in the United States.