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The term Ancient Planter was very much an honorific title. See Cavaliers and Pioneers, vol. I p. xxvii which states "Ancient Planters were to have immunities as well as rewards." They were exempted from their personal service to the war and any public charge. They received the first patents of land in the new world and were honored and revered their entire lives by the New Planters who came to VA after 1616. Elizabeth Tissot