Hello List - at Lauren's request I send the following: The information cited below has helped in my research in early 1700s - 1800s court records in all colonial states. 1) "Virginia court records abound in instances where fathers named their children 'of age' . . . At 14 a male could marry, sign contracts, . . ." SOURCE: Misconceptions Concerning 'Legal' Ages. Edgar MacDonald. Virginia Historical Society, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy. Vol. 25. Number 3. August, 1957,52 In addition, information from Edgar MacDonald's Jan. 19. 2000, talk at the Library of Virginia, "Legal Ages: Some Reconsiderations" may be available on the Library of Virginia's website http://www.lva.lib.va.us/ 2) "Age 14 for males." SOURCE: "Table 6-3, Ages of Legal Action" Arlene Eakle and Johni Cerny, Editors, The SOURCE A Guidebook of American Genealogy, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1984), 186 Charlotte A 7th Generation Leverett Researcher