Quit Rent Payments, Perquimans County, North Carolina, 1735
"QUITRENT. A fixed sum, payable in money or in kind (produce or
commodities), owed by a FREEHOLDER to his feudal superior in lieu of other
services. In colonial North Carolina quitrents were often minor sums collected
mainly to symbolize the authority of the Lords Proprietors or the Crown."
[Definition from: North Carolina Research: Genealogy and Local History,
2nd edition, p. 593]
Scanned by Harold Colson in April 2000.
Source: The State Records of North Carolina, Volume XXII, pp. 240, 251-254
