Virginia Land Grants: A Study of Conveyancing in Relation to Colonial PoliticsProbably the most useful monograph on the head-right system in Virginia. It provides an insight into how this system of land conveyance shaped the Commonwealth. |
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acres of land Acts P. C. adventurers aforesaid agents Alexander Culpeper Arlington Assembly Belvoir Berkeley Brent and Fitzhugh Bryan Fairfax Capt charter of 1688 Coll colony commission Commonwealth confirmed County Crown Culpeper's England fee rent fifty acres George Brent George Fairfax Governor Grant Books head right heires and assignes heires or assignes Hening hundred acres James James Citty Jenings John Journals H. B. King Lady Fairfax land grants land office Lawfull Leeds Castle Letters Patents Lord Arlington Lord Culpeper Lord Fairfax Lords of Trade Ludwell Ludwell's Majesty Majties manor Nicholas Spencer Northern Neck Northern Neck charter Northern Neck grant person planters Potomac Privy Council procuration proprietors quit rents Rappahannock recited record River Robert Bristow Robert Carter royal Seal seating shillings Spotswood surviving thereof Thomas Bryan Martin Thomas Lord Thomas Lord Culpeper Tract treasury right unto Virginia Company Virginia government Washington Westmoreland William Fairfax William Fitzhugh