 did not exist (at least in the south) during the colonial period.
Only one difference is of consequence to genealogists. Females were judged to have reached the age of discretion for purposes of bequeathing a personal estate at 12 years. That is, an unmarried female aged 12 or more could make a will, while a male had to be 14. (At the same age, females had the right to reject a marriage – although so rare as to be inconsequential, common law permitted a girl to be given in marriage as early as the age of 7.)