Please refresh my mind on the ages needed in the 1700 era to: to be to be on the PP tax List --- Tithables List --- Land Tax list ETC When a child was given a guardian, when is he/she of age to get a settlement from that guardian. to be in the military -- to sign an oath of allegience -- etc Thanks much, Carol

Forgive me, I know this is [kinda] off subject.. but I have a question that has long bothered me... When a father / husband died the children were given guardian's why? The mother doesn't seem to have control over her children... For example... my 10th gr grandfahter, Lawrence LITCHFIELD "Lawrence died 1649-50 at Scituate..on his death bed he left his youngest son, Josiah to the care of John Allen and wife.." That is just one case I have found... the poor wife seem'd not to have much to say regarding her own children... I could understand this if the mother was deceased, it seems so sad to me that the children would be moved out of her home into someone elses.. She looses her husband and then her children?? Thanks for helping me out with this Wilma Fleming Haynes gencon@harborside.com