ABSTRACTS OF
1749-1762
Submitted by Joseph Horned
Brief explanation: How were Land Patents issued in
the 1600's?
From the Library of Virginia's "VA Notes" on Headrights:
"In order to encourage
immigration into the colony, the Virginia Company, meeting in a Quarter Court
held on 18 November 1618, passed a body of laws called Orders and Constitutions
which came to be considered "the Great Charter of privileges, orders and
laws" of the colony. Among these laws was a provision that any person who
settled in Virginia or paid for the transportation expenses of another person
who settled in Virginia should be entitled to receive fifty acres of land for
each immigrant. The right to receive fifty acres per person, or per head, was
called a headright. The practice was continued under the royal government of
Virginia after the dissolution of the Virginia Company, and the Privy Council
ordered on 22 July 1634 that patents for headrights be issued."
William Willie (Wyllie), clk. 67 Acs. Lunenburgh Co., on S.
side of Miles Cr., adj. Morgan & Presley; 12 July 1750, p. 166. 10
Shill.
Robert Kennon, 575 acs. Lunenburg Co. on the N. side of
Miles’s Cr.; adj. Morgan in a Great Bottom, Presley (on Jumping Br.)
& Charles Evans; 29 May 1760, p. 797.
Source: Cavaliers and Pioneers
Marion Nell Nugent, 1934
Published by the Library of Virginia
