FOREST COMMISSIONER S REPORT. 



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The following table exhibits the sales which were made as 

 mere business transactions, for consideration in money; (exclu- 

 sive of small lots for the personal use of actual settlers,) the 

 time when the contracts were completed ; and final conveyances 

 made; and the average price per acre, of the sales completed 

 in each year, from 1785 (which was the first) to 1812; with 

 the amount, of this description, conveyed from that time to 

 1820. 



AGGREGATE OF ANNUAE SALES, EXCLUSIVE OF FREE GRANTS, 



ETC. 



Date. 



Acres conveyed. 



Amount of consideration. Average price per acre. 



$13,967 20 



66,820 48 



17 ,052 34 



87 ,400 00 



29,529 98 



9,219 77 



9,237 36 



15 ,551 35 



604 28 



272 ,024 84 



61 ,253 96 



36,022 72 



17 ,577 24 



12,979 04 



717 62 



42 ,272 06 



6,175 00 



35 ,745 10 



11 ,499 50 



60,011 61 



21 ,503 17 



34 ,962 84 



$4 ,803 66 



600 00 



17 ,755 50 



20,804 43 



17,780 



49i^ 

 58i- 

 32i- 

 52 

 39 

 24i 

 19i 

 20 

 32 

 12i 

 19 

 32i 

 16i 

 27 

 lU 

 24 

 26* 

 24 

 23 

 23 

 31 

 50i 

 16? 

 $3 10 

 31 

 58i 



25i 



923,871 14 



22i 



28 ,407 



acres sold to actual settlers, generally about 100 acres 



to each settler. 

 in 131 islands from Penobscot to Passaq'dy. 



*Sold by lottery. 



tThe amount of consideration for these lands is conjectural; being supposed to be 

 probably equal to the average of the preceding sales, exclusive of the large tracts sold 

 to Wm. Bingham, viz for about 23^ per acre. 



The account of sales in the foregoing table, except the lands 

 sold by lottery- and those conveyed from 1812 to 1820, is con- 

 densed from a detailed account furnished some years since by 

 the land agent of Massachusetts. The quantity stated as con- 



