In a message dated 12/11/2004 11:58:52 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> To hold during the natural lives of the said William Bowling, Anne,
> his wife, and Samuel Bowling, his son, or longest liver...paying on 5 Dec.
> 500 pounds of Tobacco...also every year, first day of Febraury one fat hen,
> capon, or pullet and delivering it at the dwelling house of George Taylor...
>        George Taylor
> Witnesses:  Matthew Hubbard, William Isbell   Recorded Orange County 28th
> November 1751
>
> What say you? Adult? Or minor?

It does not sound like either. It sounds to me as if it was to give all three
of the Bowlings lifetime rights no matter who lived the longest of the three
without having to draw up a new contract if one of them died.

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