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.
(March 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The Chaptico were a group of Native Americans who lived along the Western shore of Chesapeake Bay in what is today Maryland. They were loosely dominated by the Patuxent in the pre-colonial time. The Chaptico spoke an Algonquian language. Maryland: A Colonial History p. 22.