A lengthy lawsuit ensued because the land actually was part of a Creek headright belonging to Herbert's daughter, Helen, then a minor.
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It determined that only Osage who are headright holders can vote for the members of the Mineral Council, as if they were shareholders of a corporation.
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Becoming the first to plot the headright Spanish grants on February 10, 1823, he continued until Stephen F . Austin's death in 1836.
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On February 10, 1663, Benjamin Summers, a settler from Yorkshire or Hertfordshire, England, arrived from Northampton County, Virginia to claim his headright.
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In order to attract planters with capital to invest, the Lords Proprietor also gave the owner and master the one hundred and fifty acre headright for every slave imported to the Colony.
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Sandys also strongly supported the headright system, for his goal was a permanent colony which would enlarge English territory, relieve the nation's overpopulation, and expand the market for English goods.
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A 1992 US district court decision ruled that the Osage could vote in a process to reinstate the Osage National Council as city members of the Osage nation, rather than being required to vote by headright.
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Osage with a full headright ( those on the 1906 tribal roll ) received up to $ 15, 000 each annually in oil royalties, the equivalent of more than $ 150, 000 in 2010 dollars.
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In 1674 he is in court again, to document that he had worked off payment for his passage to Maryland, received title to his headright ( property given to colonists ), and sold that property.
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The Barker Dam and Reservoir is named for Eldred Barker ( 1775-1842 ), an early pioneer from Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, whose 1839 Headright Grant comprises 320 acres of the site which was first surveyed on September 22, 1842.
