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Subject: [RHEA-L] Explanation: QUIT RENT ROLLS
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 00:58:46 EDT

got this from another list, but thought the information was worth passing on.
Pat

QUIT RENT ROLLS

<< During the colonial period the land in Virginia belonged to the King with
the
exception of the Northern Neck, which belonged to the Proprietor (Lord
Fairfax
for many years). Although persons could claim the land, sell it, or keep it
and pass it on to their heirs, they could hold it only if they paid a small
annual quit-rent to the King (or to the Proprietor). If the quit-rent was
not
paid, the land was then reclaimed by the King (or the Proprietor), and could
then be granted to another. This system existed until the Revolution.
>>

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