The familiar claim that Governor Thomas Jefferson offered sixty acres to anyone who planted corn conflicts with Stewart's account of the Virginia Land Law: the law preceded his governorship, concerned four hundred acres, and treated corn planting as only one way to prove settlement.
Do not replace one legend with an unverified correction. Confirm the statutory date, acreage, eligibility, and proof-of-settlement language in the underlying Virginia Land Law or authoritative legal history.
This is a useful model of how a true background condition—corn planting as evidence of settlement—can be compressed into a founder-centered bourbon origin story. Draft only after corroboration.
Created from visually verified printed p. 45 / PDF sheet 64 of LOCAL-076 and traced through EXT-586 / the linked Ready citation. Developing pending verification against the Virginia Land Law or authoritative legal history.
A familiar bourbon origin story appears to compress a more complicated land-settlement rule.
Atomic idea
The claim that Governor Thomas Jefferson offered sixty acres to anyone who planted corn conflicts with Stewart's account: the relevant Virginia Land Law predated his governorship, concerned four hundred acres, and treated corn planting as only one way to prove settlement.
Reasoning
Founder-centered origin stories can grow from a true background condition while changing the actor, scale, chronology, and legal mechanism. Separating those elements prevents a plausible legend from being repeated as a documented cause of bourbon's development.
Provenance
The complete LOCAL-076 Literature Note is 
Counterpoint and limit
Do not replace one legend with an unverified correction. The statutory date, acreage, eligibility rules, and proof-of-settlement language must be checked in the Virginia Land Law itself or authoritative legal history. Until then this note is a research control, not drafting-ready fact.
Connections
This note belongs with bourbon-origin and myth-correction research, especially the established rule that origin claims require contemporary evidence.