In the first volume of Nell Marion Nugent's CAVALIERS AND PIONEERS she gives
the following explanation of what the qualifications were for a grant of 50
acres:

"for his own personal adventure and if he transported at his own cost one or
more persons he should, for each person whose passage he paid, be awarded
fifty acres of land."

Nothing is said about age.

In Philip Alexander Bruce's ECONOMIC HISTORY OF VIRGINIA vol 1 p. 512, he
says "Every shareholder who transported an emigrant, whether free or bond, to
the Colony, acquired thereby a claim to fifty acres if the person remained i
Virginia for a period of three years, or even if he had died after he was
taken on board ship on the outward voyage.  The shareholder secured an
additional tract of fifty acres in the second distribution of lands upon the
strength of the transportation of this person."

Hope this helps
Janelle

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