Dear List Members, To add to Tammy Jones's query about minor children and land patents, I have a question about my ancestors, Thomas and Isabella Phillips, who family, who lived in Prince George Co. VA and registered their children's baptisms in the Bristol Parish Vestry Book. They emigrated to Craven Co., North Carolina in before 1743. 1743-1746. Could my ancestor John Philips [Phillips], son on Thomas and Isabella Phillips, have patented land or bought land by deed when he was 17-20 years old? From the records I have, it seems that he could, perhaps even when he was a minor. He was the oldest son and the oldest child in a large family, when his father died in 1743. Thank you. Mary Jane Phillips-Matz