Paul Ramshaw wrote:
In colonial New England in the 17th and 18th centuries a man came of
age at 21.
See http://www.genfiles.com/legal/legalage.htm for a discussion of
this point in modern English.
The principal authority that colonial lawyers looked to for a
discussion of the common law of
Gee, Ron, I was hoping for someone who was alive then to give me a
definitive answer... I guess in lieu of that we'll just have to go with
what we have now...
I hark for the 40's (in the last century, certainly not the 17th) and the
legal age in the US was pretty much universal at 21, so no
Jim,
I cannot help you with the American age, but if you are right, in that it
was the same as for England, then it was almost certainly 21years. Although
I am not as old as the date you are looking for it was 21years in England
even when I was a kid :-).
I have tried, without success, to
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