SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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attracting farmers, carpenters, and hunters to Virginia by paying their way and guaranteeing them work.
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motivating colonists to stay in Virginia by promising 50 acres of land to anyone who devoted ten years to plantation work.
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inviting colonists to bring servants and relatives to Virginia by discounting fares for every additional person brought from England.
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encouraging aristocrats to move to Virginia by giving 50 acres of land per person to individuals and groups who paid their own way.
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Detailed explanation-1: -For each new immigrant ("head"), the company granted a “headright” to survey and own 50 acres of land to the person who financed the trip. The headrights could be sold, so ship captains and could sail home with cash for investors rather than paper claims to land that they did not desire to own.
Detailed explanation-2: -The headright system encouraged settlement in English colonies by providing land to new colonists and those who arrived with them. In Virginia specifically, the headright system provided 50 acres of land to new settlers.
Detailed explanation-3: -After a few years, the company began granting land privately. The headright system was created to reward those who would pay to import much-needed laborers into the colony. A headright refers to both the grant of land itself as well as the actual person (“head”) through whom the land is claimed.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.