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Following their surveys, the explorers rushed back to James City and put in claims for the waterfront acreages, presenting one "headright" proof that someone had been imported into the colony by their agency for every fifty acres. Occasionally more land was granted than the claimant was entitled to on the basis of the headrights he presented.
When the state was young, she felt the need of attracting newcomers, and of rewarding those pioneers already within her borders. Year after year she issued land scrip Headrights, Bounties, Veteran Donations, Confederates; and to railroads, irrigation companies, colonies, and tillers of the soil galore.
The prescribing of bounds became a necessity to resolve existing, and to prevent future, uncertainties and disputes. This was to be the function of William Claiborne, surveyor-general, who reached Virginia in October, 1621. Headrights were another matter which entered the picture in these formative years.
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