-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Drake [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 12:49 PM
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Subject: FW: [VA-ROOTS] Receiving Land for Importing People (servants AND
others)
Hi, Janet. Janet is correct. My comments, however, have been directed to
the matter of servitude coupled with headrights, and not concerned with any
other recipients of land, be those men of affluence, those shipped here as
criminals, or the more than several children who were snatched off the
streets, loaded on board and sold here to a "master".
I found humorous the ingenious methods to evade the law of that day. Many
were the seamen and ships' masters who claimed headrights for all and each
of their transoceanic trips. Indeed, one sailor claimed 14 rights; that,
though he worked for the ships' owners throughout those trips. Then too,
the headright of a paternal ancestor of my own appears three times as a
right for a patent, the last appearance being 3 years after his death.
Paul
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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 11:57 AM
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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!
----- Original Message -----
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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