...shall Seitlftneht, be entitled to the-allouance granted to settlers by this " acl> un'ess tnev nave made a crop of corn in that country, or resided there at least one year since the tim« of their settlement. All persons who, since the said h'rst day of January, in the year one thousand...

...actual settlement, the other a village settlement: as to .both, without distinction, the law declared "that no family shall be entitled to the allowance...made a crop of corn in that country, or resided there nt least one year, since the time of their settlement.? In the case before the court, both the claims...

...actual settlement, the other a village settlement : as to both without distinction, the law declared "that no family shall be entitled to the allowance granted to settlers by this act, uijle.-s have made a crop of corn in that country, or resided thereat kast one year, since the time...

...public land in the back country, provided that "no family shall be entitled to the allowance granted by this act unless they have made a crop of corn in...least one year since the time of their settlement." Three years later Virginia passed a land law offering four hundred acres of land in Kentucky Territory...

...livelihood from diligently tended farmsteads. The law of 1776 contained the fairly dramatic clause "That no family shall be entitled to the allowance...least one year since the time of their settlement." Then the politically conscious legislators all but invalidated their law by providing for preemption...