That is surely correct, and the circuit court had very wide jurisdiction to
vary ages in matters of taxes, etc., especially where young men were
orphans, where the Vestrymen had concurred in such variations, where men
already begun their livelihood, were married and had begun a family, owned
an expectancy in land, or such as Slaves they might have gained one way or
another.  I speak briefly of those matters in my book, "Now In Our Fourth
Century" and it should be available this afternoon and on my website.

Paul  

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I believe you are correct in that my ancestor could have been younger than
21 and that there those "rules" were not always followed.

Jeanine

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