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Subject:	Re: FW: QUERY: land patent terminology, late-eighteenth-century Virginia
From:	Jean Spradlin-Miller <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:36:41 -0400
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This is just a wild guess, but wouldn't the phrases "tomahawk rights" and "tomahawked his land" refer to one marking his property boundaries by marking trees with a tomahawk?  And I believe that "preemption rights" refers to one's occupying a property -- i.e., a squatter -- before another person paid for and occupied the same said property.

Please correct me if I'm wrong!

Jean Spradlin-Miller

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