Don,

I think you meant to say crossing COLONY lines. Headrights were due only for importing someone into the Colony of Virginia (including oneself), from whence it mattered not , ecxept to say one could not claim a headright merely for moving from one county to the other within the Commonwealth. I have read of people riding ship out past Cape Henry and then returning and claiming themselves as a headright. Or going to Maryland and coming back and claiming themselves as a headright. It was a system fraught with corruption.  These examples two of the less flagrant ones.  Once the Northern Neck Proprietary finally got its boots on in 1690, the Virginia Land Office began offering land on the same terms as the NN Proprietary, which they called Treasury Warrants. This was a far easier and more equitable system to encourage settlement. They did not abolish the headright system and it remained in use for quite some time, but eventually died a slow death.

Craig Kilby

On Jan 18, 2010, at 2:35 PM, Donald E King wrote:

> Arthur King
> 		- do not know when or if he immigrated though there are 4 cases where someone got patents for transporting an Arthur - but they could be fictitious or crossing county lines

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