| 1. | The headright could be inherited by legal heirs.
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| 2. | It was settled by pioneers rewarded for military service with headright grants for land.
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| 3. | He moved his family to his headright land grant in present Navarro and Freestone counties in 1848.
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| 4. | All counties organized prior to 1802 were headright counties no surveys were ever made of those counties.
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| 5. | As did other colonies, Maryland used the headright system to encourage people to bring in new settlers.
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| 6. | Headright system-Each settler received a single headright ( grant of land ) for himself or herself.
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| 7. | Headright system-Each settler received a single headright ( grant of land ) for himself or herself.
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| 8. | So it was because of all these effects from the Headright that made the local economy largely rural.
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| 9. | Helen Woodward Slemp retained the rest of her headright land, which extended eastward from Utica to Lewis streets.
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| 10. | He received his own headright on March 2 after four citizens testified that Maverick had participated in the Texas Revolution.
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