Would you have to be 21 to be a Teste. to a Deed in 1811? Could you Teste at age 16? Good news my John Fleming Bowles b.1790 is a 25 point DNA match to Elijah Bowles b1751. Leathel, Elijah Boles of Barren Co. to Clabon Boles, 1811. $300, Peters Creek, John Middleton....Teste: Johiors (sic) Burr, Jacke Bowles, Wm Bowles. ( Note: Johiors (sic) Burr is John Byars)