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* Headrights were often bought & sold, so there is no way to know whether the person who claimed the headright on the patent was the same person who paid the transport costs.<ref name="Headrights (VA-NOTES)">{{cite web |first=Daphne |last=Gentry | title=Headrights (VA-NOTES) | website=Library of Virginia | url=https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/va4_headrights.htm | access-date=Jan 4, 2022}}</ref> There is also no way to know from the patent where a person landed or where they lived after arriving.
* In the original laying-out of the headright system in 1618, it was required that a headright stay in Virginia for 3 years, or die in Virginia within those 3 years, before a land patent could be procured.{{sfn|Harrison|1925|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XyZBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA16 16]}}
* By the time this part of Virginia had begun to be settled in the 1670s, the headright system seemed to be falling apart, so it's hard to know if this '3-year rule' was still being enforced.{{sfn|Harrison|1925|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=XyZBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA34 34]}}
* Either way, a patent wasn't necessarily obtained at the time of the importation, or at the end of the 3 years. It could've been claimed years later.<ref name="Headrights (VA-NOTES)" /> So, there is no way to know when a person arrived based on when their headright was listed in a land grant.
* It was possible to receive a headright for transporting a child, so there is no way to know how old a person was when they immigrated.<ref name="LibGuides at State Library of NC 2017">{{cite web | title=NC Land Grants before 1800: 1663-1775 | website=LibGuides at State Library of NC | date=Jun 28, 2017 | url=https://statelibrary.ncdcr.libguides.com/nclandrecords1800/1663-1775 | access-date=Jan 8, 2022}}</ref><noinclude>{{documentation |content=
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