I have never heard of "quit dues," only "quit rents,"
but there may be such a thing. A few -- Ancient
Planters -- were exempt even from quit rents.
Moreover, laws change from time to time.
To provide an accurate answer to a particular time and
transaction/s, one needs to know WHERE and WHEN the
transaction occurred and what the law was at that
place and time.
(1) The original terms for acquiring land were set
forth in a 1618 directive from the Court of the
Virginia Company in London to the Council in Virginia,
which is well summarized in the Introduction to the
first volume of "Cavaliers and Pioneers." Even there,
one finds that the terms for issuing patents differs
among several classes of settlers, not the 50A per
head generalization that is often stated.
(2) The Library of Virginia offers the follwing:
http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/land/lonnabout.htm#patents.
(3) The following article is a good survey of 18th
century Virgnia land law:
"What Genealogists should know about 18th Century
Virginia Law"
By Mr. John P. Alcock
President, Friends of the Virginia State Archives
Presented November 17, 1999
At the Library of Virginia.
(3) The Virginia General Assembly also used hearights
as inducements to settle in newly opened lands WITHIN
THE COLONY -- perhaps the first occasion being the
opening of York County to settlement in 1640. Anyone
willing to move there could receive 50A for each head
of household and those within his household. These
inducements were repeated many times over and even
between colonies, as NC did to induce people to move
to the Albemarle Region beginning ca. 1663 and South
Carolina did to induce people to settle in the "back
country" at least as early as 1730.
So, again, the short answer to your question is that
"it depends" upon the TIME and PLACE.
jc
--- Debra Jackson/Harold Forsythe
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Isn't there some uncertainty about "quit dues" for
> discharged indentured
> servants? I thought at first it was believed that
> they were given land and
> then it was demonstrated that ex-servants were
> provided rental land to
> commence planting. It was certainly in the interest
> of the Crown to see
> everyone employed gainfully in Virginia, since the
> tobacco tax was such a
> large share of the Crown's independent (of
> Parliament) income.
>
> Harold S. Forsythe
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tamara" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 7:36 AM
> Subject: Re: Information on Brunswick County
> Genealogy
>
>
> > 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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