USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Among these laws was a provision that any person who settled in Virginia or paid for the transportation expenses of another person who settled in Virginia should be entitled to receive fifty acres of land for each immigrant. The right to receive fifty acres per person, or per head, was called a headright.

Detailed explanation-2: -Headrights were granted to anyone who would pay for the transportation costs of a laborer or indentured servant. These land grants usually consisted of 50 acres for someone newly moving to the area and 100 acres for people previously living in the area.

Detailed explanation-3: -One example of this is a man named George Menefie. He purchased 60 enslaved people and received a total of 3, 000 acres in 1638. This changed in 1699, however, when it was decided that headrights could only be granted to free citizens. Transporting indentured laborers and slaves would no longer be a guarantor of land.

Detailed explanation-4: -*The Headright Property System in America began on this date in 1618. A headright refers to a legal grant of land given to settlers during the European colonization of the Americas.