You could buy, sell or trade headrights like any other commodity.

Regards,
Steve Stevens





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From: Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history.
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of KAREN DALE
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Receiving Land for Importing People (servants
AND others)


And then there's Thomas Dale of Richmond Co. VA who got credit for importing
his own mother, though he was born here. I guess his father never got around
to it, so Thomas used the free floating headright himself?  Who knows!
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  From: Janet Hunter<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
  To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
  Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 10:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Receiving Land for Importing People (servants AND
others)



  Paul and others,

  This may be stating the obvious but I want to point out that both of
Paul's
  recent posts might seem to indicate that those listed as the transportees
all
  became/were servants.  And this simply isn't the case, as he  knows.
There
  were people of means (planters or adventurers,  wives and children of same
  who came later after the husband was  settled.) who came on their own,
with no
  need to become  indentured.   For example, some ended up on ship masters'
  lists, etc.,  the patent privileges for which were often then sold to
somebody else
  who  planned to actually live in VA.  Others probably made some deal so
that
  another could claim them.

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