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From: "Harlow Chandler" <>
Subject: RE: [PLY/MA] Able to Bear Arms lists
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:37:41 -0400
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***-----Original Message-----
***From: Bill Churchill [mailto:]
***Sent: Monday, August 26, 2002 1:58 PM
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***Subject: [PLY/MA] Able to Bear Arms lists
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***I have an ancestor on an early Plymouth “Able to Bear Arms” listing.
***What was the qualification of being included on the list?

Male, able-bodied, between 16 and 60. These were people on the edge of a
wilderness they often believed to be populated with dangerous enemies,
exposed to attack from the sea, and not inclined to be overly punctilious
about social status when it was a question of defense. The able to bear
arms list is therefore almost a comlete listing of the adult male
population.

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