Osage headrights is a specific and distinct topic. This article is about the general topic of headrights. A headright refers to a legal grant of land...

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...

an Osage headright for $20,050. He later acquired a further another one-fourth of a headright in 1928 for $11,250. He purchased the headright from O.V...

became wealthy through returns from leasing fees generated by their Osage headrights. However, during the 1920s and what was known as the Reign of Terror,...

rights to its reservation. Each tribal member had what were known as headrights to the mineral rights on communal land. When valuable oil was found on...

both English and Osage. By the 1900s, Mollie was wealthy from her Osage headright, but deemed incompetent due to federal laws regulating Native Americans...

Mollie Kyle's family in a criminal conspiracy to gain control of their headrights. He was convicted in federal court for ordering the murder of Henry Roan...

tobacco, however, fueled the need for more workers. Starting in 1618, the headright system tried to solve this by granting colonists farmland for their help...

Kile). Burkhart later plotted to kill her to inherit the Kyle family's headrights and oil money, which was worth $7 million at the time ($166 million in...

deposits were discovered beneath their land. After the Osage are awarded headrights in court to the profits from oil deposits found on their land, the Osage...

land under the headright system by buying the contracts of five indentured servants, one of whom was his son, Richard Johnson. The headright system worked...

cost of transporting these colonists would have resulted in a 2000 acre headright at 50 acres a head. However, Garland never arrived in Jamestown because...

passage. The wealthier men who paid their way received land grants known as headrights, to encourage settlement. The French and Spanish established colonies...

English landed gentry, who paid their way received land grants known as headrights to encourage settlement. The Spanish and French established settlements...

hundred of each) to Virginia. By 1617, the Virginia Company instituted the headright system, bestowing 50 acres of land to anyone who sponsored an indentured...

mineral rights were owned by members of the Osage Nation under a system of headrights. By 1905, the discovery of the grand Glenn Pool Oil Reserve (located approximately...

with certainty because Pierce patented land on June 22, 1635, claiming headright for the transportation of 40 individuals, including Thomas Rolfe. There...

Rock History Date Event 1838 March 16, Anavato and Maria Martinez issued headright grant ownership 1841 James Robinson, Texas politician, acquires property...

Ernest develops a romance with Mollie Kyle, an Osage whose family owns oil headrights. They marry in an Osage ceremony with Catholic elements and raise three...

County seat. The commission purchased a 60-acre tract of Daniel Monroe's headright on the Little River in 1846 and named the new community Cameron after...

house of William Scott for the purpose of conveying titles for Mexican headrights. He was joined by the land commissioner, Baron von Bastrop, and Austin's...

settlers of any religion except atheists. The Lords also had a generous headright system whereby they granted 150 acres of land to each member of a family...

Lodge Treaty, Joseph Chandler received a 320-acre headright under the treaty’s provisions. This headright was located about thirty miles northeast of Fort...

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Alexander Spotswood, taking advantage of the headright system, had bought land in present-day Spotsylvania and encouraged German...

to stay in Texas and became a citizen of Mexico in 1835, applied for a headright[clarification needed] in David G. Burnet's colony, and sent for his family...

royal colony in 1624. In order to stimulate migration to the colony, the headright system was used. Under this system, those who funded an emigrant's transportation...

toleration. To try to gain settlers, Maryland used what is known as the headright system, which originated in Jamestown. Settlers were given 50 acres (20 ha)...

included the commissioning of a general assembly and the ancient planter/headright system. Part of the purpose was to encourage settlers to come to Virginia...

received oil and other mineral royalties as payments based on these "headrights". The Burbank Oil Field was discovered in May 1920 with the Marland Oil...

place on the Osage Indian Reservation as whites tried to get control of headrights to oil royalties Osage River, a tributary of the Missouri River, entirely...