Forward to those that missed the post on the Donegaleire List -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [DONEGALEIRE] Headrights from Orange Co., Va. from Ireland Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:18:13 -0600 From: hiflyte <hiflyte@telus.net> To: donegaleire@rootsweb.com References: <d08.302ea8ef.35269722@aol.com> For those interested, Followup to Janet's post Headright notes: Janets headright list of names made me do some research on what it was all about, the following are some to the sites I looked in for data. I did not make notes on the subject since it is readily available on the web as a reference. I had no one in North America at that time (that I know of) but still an interesting path and would be another source to look in for those very early immigrates to the British colonies prior to 1700s. -------------------------------------------------- Maryland State Archives http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/refserv/genealogy/html/land.html Data Base Search http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/speccol/sc4300/sc4341/html/search.html ---------------------------- Colony of Virginia http://www.lamartin.com/genealogy/nicholas_sessoms.htm ----------------------------- Then decided to check the LDS catalog for headright. The LDS list 31 matching titles http://tinyurl.com/35my7p -------------------------------------- Google hits: http://tinyurl.com/3xctyz --------------------------------------- Bob Cdn ======================================== JAICEFRIEL@aol.com wrote:<SNIP>...Thought this may help someone. Headrights were grants of 50 acres of land per "head" - or per white male over the age of 16 who transported himself to the colonies. They appear in the Court of Common Pleas in the county in which the land was granted. message ========================================= When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific text to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED ARCHIVES AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES: Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DONEGALEIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message