This would be matrilineal, where the line of the mother was the relevant line, and not of the father: in order to be a king, one needed to have the royal mother and the father was irrelevant. The dynasty would be traced by the female line in this case (even if the kings were the rulers).
When the allstons returned to their plantation at the end of the civil war, they were unable to regain control of their property from the freed slaves because <span>new relationships would have to be established with their former slaves.</span>
in those days settlers and store owners picked thier goods up with wagons