Your age does not make you an adult. In this case, Age is a numerical label which defines the amount of years one has spent on earth. Society expect one to act a certain way by a certain time of their life that would consider them an adult. Society says, one is considered an adult at the age of 18.
Historian, Perry Hall Improvement Association. Hundreds of years ago, northeastern Baltimore County was explored by nomadic Indians who came south from present-day Pennsylvania to hunt for game in the bountiful Chesapeake Bay region.
Born on November 9, 1731, in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, Benjamin Banneker was the son of an ex-slave named Robert and his wife, Mary Banneky. Mary was the daughter of an Englishwoman named Molly Welsh, a former indentured servant, and her husband, Bannka, an ex-slave whom she freed and who asserted that he came from tribal royalty in West Africa.