Plantations; The Right to Land

Question 1

Yeardley’s land

Answer 1

Allocated 2200 acres for his good and faithful service
Within the Charles City borough
Included Weynock marsh land and Queen’s Creek

Question 2

Artisans or tradesmen

Answer 2

Wanted to follow their trade rather than being employed in husbandry
Received a house with 4 acres of land
Annual payment of 4 pence

Question 3

Plantations by multitudes

Answer 3

Ancient adventurers associating themselves together

Question 4

New adventurers joined under one head

Answer 4

Specific plantations (e.g plantation of Christopher Lawne Gentleman)

Question 5

Plantations had to be

Answer 5

5 miles from districts

Question 6

Plantations couldn’t be placed

Answer 6

In areas that would weaken them
Could be united together into one territory

Question 7

Each plantation had to secure

Answer 7

A grant from the Company

Question 8

If the planter was a Company shareholder

Answer 8

Had to state how many shares they held

Question 9

Headright system

Answer 9

System of transporting people to the colony to work as an indentured servant on the land of the person transporting them

Question 10

Planters received

Answer 10

50 acres for every person they shipped to the colony
Servants to work on the land

Question 11

Indentured servants

Answer 11

Worked for 7 years then received their ‘freedom’
Received land on the frontier after being freed

Question 12

Register book

Answer 12

Meant the Company knew the names, ages etc of the people transported

Question 13

Headright continued after the Company

Answer 13

Privy Council ordered headright patents in 1634