Further complicating headright matters, a headright
was earned for EVERY transportation into Virginia
either by the person coming in (if he/she paid for
their own transportation) or the sponsor (if
sponsored), by ship's captains who often paid for
passage hoping to sell the hearights for a profit
(meaning the named headright often got a "free ride"
because the headright was not expected to become an
indentured servant), by merchants or others in
Virginia or London (or wherever the ship picked up
passengers) as investments to be sold for a profit, in
addition to being traded among owners in Virginia.

My ancestor Francis Mason collected headrights for
himself and his family in 1613 (and perhaps shortly
thereafter), but did not convert them into land until
ca. 1640.

Many folks have failed to recognize (a) multiple
entries or (b) visits to Virginia, concluding that all
headrights represent "new immigrants." Any/every
passage was eligible for a headright in someone's
name.

And, there was the occasional land fraud issue, such
as someone trying to use the same names (or some of
the same names) to acquire land in more than one
county.

One also has to aware of re-patenting, which was a
common practice, often when a person acquired
additional land and wanted it all in one instrument.

Finally, headrights could be used for a land purchase
from another private landowner, after which the new
owner might "re-patent" the land in his own name,
sometimes adding additional land based upon other
headrights the purchaser had acquired elsewhere or
land previously patented.

Each OROGINAL land patent and deed must be carefully
studied to determine the particulars of each
transaction, and even that sometimes leaves unanswered
questions.

Joe Chandler Jr
Chandler Family Association



--- Tamara <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Not neccessarily,
>
>   The persons brought to Virginia as headrights
> received no land, only those who paid their own
> passage or those of others. The right to land due by
> importing headrights could be sold to another person
> before the patent was issued. Patents were often
> issued years and even decades after the names of
> headrights were submitted, and the headright did not
> necessarily reside on the land described in the
> patent.
>
>
>
>   Tamara Mitchell
>
>
> Anita Wills <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>   I am researching my Brunswick County line, and
> received an updated
> genealogy list from Paul Heinegg. Following is
> information on my Evans
> line beginning with Charles Evans. My Colonial
> Virginia ancestors
> resided throughout the Colony. My direct ancestor,
> Sarah was the
> daughter of Charles Evans (she is mentioned in his
> Will). After her
> fathers' death, Sarah sold his land, and moved to
> Amherst County with
> her husband Rawley Pinn. Thomas and Benjamin Evans
> fought in the
> Revolutionary War out of Amherst County, as did
> Rawley Pinn.
>
> I am interested in the Plantation owned by Charles
> Evans, and if he
> received a Headright to purchase land in Lunenburg.
> I see a patent for
> land, is that the same as a Headright?
>
>
> Anita Wills
>
> 8. Charles1 Evans, born say 1696, was sued for debt
> in Brunswick
> County court by Littlebury Epes in December 1735
> [Orders 1732-37, 68].
> He was called "Charles Evans a mulatto" in December
> 1746 in Lunenburg
> County when the court dismissed charges brought
> against him by Andrew
> Bresslar [Orders 1746-48, 81]. He received a patent
> on 20 August 1747
> for 120 acres on Stith's Creek in the part of
> Brunswick County which
> became Lunenburg County in 1748 and Mecklenburg
> County in 1765
> [Patents 28:135]. He was taxable in Lunenburg County
> in the list of
> Lewis Deloney in 1748, taxable in the list of Field
> Jefferson in 1751
> with his son Tom [Bell, Sunlight on the Southside,
> 68, 166] and
> taxable with Thomas and Major Evans in 1752 [Tax
> List 1748-52, 1]. He
> petitioned the Lunenburg County court in May 1753 to
> be exempt from
> personal taxes, but was rejected "for Reasons
> appearing to the Court"
> [Orders 1753-54, 113]. He was granted 38 acres in
> Lunenburg County in
> the fork of Miles Creek and Dockery's Creek on 23
> July 1753 [Patents
> 31:337]. He left a 22 March 1760 Brunswick County,
> Virginia will
> (signing), proved 27 October 1760, leaving his
> "mannor" plantation on
> the south side of Dockery's Creek to his son Major
> Evans, left an
> equal quantity to his son Charles Evans and left the
> residue of his
> land on the southside of Dockery's Creek to son Dick
> Evans on
> condition they give twenty pounds or 100 acres of
> land to his youngest
> son Erasmus. He left a bed and furniture to his
> daughters Sarah and
> Joice, but left only a shilling to his "undutiful"
> son Thomas [WB
> 3:375-6]. He died before June 1760 when a suit
> against him in
> Lunenburg County court abated by his death [Orders
> 1759-61, 136]. On
> 18 October 1764 Sarah and Richard Evans sold about
> 39 acres in the
> fork of Miles and Dockery's Creek in Mecklenburg
> County which was land
> they had been given by Charles Evans [DB 1:514]. And
> on the same date
> Sarah, Charles and Major Evans sold 120 acres on
> Stith's Creek in
> Lunenburg County adjoining Philip Morgan [DB 8:356].
> His children were
>
> 17 i. Thomas3, born say 1734.
>
> 18 ii. Major1, born say 1735.
>
> 19 iii. Charles2, born say 1737.
>
> 20 iv. Richard1, born say 1740.
>
> v. Sarah.
>
> vi. Joyce.
>
> 21 vii. Erasmus, born say 1745.
>
>
>
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