In North Carolina’s proprietary interval (1663-1729), the first technique of buying land used to be by way of headright. A loose individual used to be allowed to assert a distinct quantity of land for every individual, together with himself/herself, that he/she transported into the colony for the aim of cost. whereas the volume of land connected to a headright diverse during the period, the commonest volume used to be fifty acres.A headright access encompasses a huge volume of knowledge: the identify of the individual claiming the headright(s), the acreage of the declare and its normal actual position, and the variety of and names of the members being transported into the colony for cost. The entries usually describe the relationships among the grantee and the members. typically the headright access is the one surviving record recording an individual’s presence within the colony. Names indexed in North Carolina Headrights: a listing of Names, 1663–1744 are spelled precisely as they seem within the unique resource material—no standardization of spelling or names has been attempted.The headright entries during this quantity have been compiled from a number of assets, together with Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers, Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and delivers, 1623–1666, vol. 1; Mattie Erma Edwards Parker, William S. fee, Jr., and Robert J. Cain, eds., The Colonial documents of North Carolina [Second Series], vols. 2–4, 7; and J. R. B. Hathaway, editor, The North Carolina historic and Genealogical sign up, vols. 1–3. extra entries have been compiled from numerous manuscripts collections within the country data, workplace of documents and background, Raleigh. those collections comprise Secretary of kingdom documents, Colonial court docket documents, Beaufort County Deeds (1695–1729), and County courtroom mins for Chowan, Edgecombe, Onslow, Pasquotank, and Perquimans Counties.