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A headright refers to a legal grant of land given to settlers during the period of European colonization in the Americas. A "headright" includes both the grant of land and the owner (the head) that claims the land. The person who has a right to the land is the one who paid to transport people to a colony. [1]
Osage headright. An Osage headright is a type of headright in the United States. There are 2,229 Osage headrights, one for each member of the Osage Nation enrolled in 1906. Osage headrights entitle the owner to a quarterly share of the Osage Mineral Estate. Osage headrights are known for motivating some of the killers in the Osage Indian ...
The Osage Nation ( / หoสseษชdส / OH-sayj) ( Osage: ๐๐ป ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐ผ๐ฐอโ, romanized: Ni Okaลกkฤ , lit. 'People of the Middle Waters') is a Midwestern American tribe of the Great Plains. The tribe developed in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 700 B.C. along with other groups of its language family.
Lord proprietor. A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century. The plural of the term is "lords proprietors" or "lords proprietary".
Anthony Johnson ( c. 1600 โ 1670) was an Angolan-born man who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted land by the colony. [1] He later became a tobacco farmer in Maryland. He attained great wealth after completing his term as ...
Georgia Land Lotteries. The Land Lottery display at New Echota, former capital of the Cherokee nation. The Georgia land lotteries were an early nineteenth century system of land redistribution in Georgia. Under this system, various categories of persons (depending upon the specific lottery year) could register for a chance to win lots of land ...
Sir Edwin Sandys, 1776 mezzotint by Valentine Green. Sir Edwin Sandys ( / หsรฆndz / SANDZ; 9 December 1561 โ October 1629) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1589 and 1626. He was also one of the founders of the proprietary Virginia Company of London, which in 1606 established the first ...
Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit (1990) explores a fictional version of the murders. Dennis McAuliffe Jr.'s book The Deaths of Sybil Bolton (1994) was the first book to utilize the FBI files on the case for background research. It is an investigation into the death of the author's Osage grandmother who died during the murders.