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Help me understand this tenancy
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CLAUDE RICHARDS <[log in to unmask]>
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Research and writing about Virginia genealogy and family history." <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:56:11 -0600
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In May 1686 William Fitzhugh advertised for french Protestants to come to his plantation with the following offer:
"...I will either sell them in fee at L17 sterling for every hundred acres, or else lease it to them for three lives paying 20 shillings p. annum for every hundred acres, and they may have the liberty of renewing one two or three lives at any time, paying for each life to be renewed one year's Rent ..."    Nan Netherton, "Fairfax County Virginia, A History,"  pp. 13-14.

What is the meaning of three lives and how does that relate to the payment of rent?

Thanks.

Claude Richards
 
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. Government is force; like fire it is a dangerous servant -- and a fearful master.” 

—George Washington

 		 	   		  
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