| Therefore, all persons so listed under the headright claim cannot be considered indentured servants. |
| One of these grants by Governor Wyatt is the earliest extant form of the headright franchise. |
| Under local laws, Johnson was at risk for losing some of his headright lands for violating the terms of indenture. |
| By 1846 we had moved past the line of settlement, to my father's headright on the Pedernales. |
| This headright system was later adopted in other colonies and continued in use for generations. |
| It is not conclusively proved, then, that a certain person came as a servant merely because he is listed as a headright. |
