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THE EVOLUTION OF OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



the limits of the present county of Switzerland was 

 Heathcoat Picket, who established himself there in 

 1795. The objects of the grant, as stated in the act, 

 were "to plant the vine and make their principal busi- 

 ness its cultivation." The parties to the covenant 

 were John James Dufour, Daniel Dufour, John Francis 

 Dufour, David Dufour, Aime Dufour, Daniel Vincent 



Dufour (son of John 

 James), Jeane Marie 

 Dufour, Antoinette 

 Dufour, Susannah 

 Margarita Dufour, 

 Francis Louis de 

 Siebenthal, John 

 Francis de Sieben- 

 thal, Jean Daniel 

 Mererod, and Philip 

 Bettens. The lands 

 at New Switzerland 

 were divided into 

 thirteen lots, to ac- 

 commodate the dif- 

 ferent members of the 

 colony. The method 

 of division was as 

 follows: "The said 

 lands being on the 

 Ohio River, and be- 

 ing surveyed diag- 

 onally with the Eiver, it is agreed that each lot 

 shall meet the River and its breadth upon the 

 River shall be as follows: The most western or 

 No. 1, 67 poles; No. 2, 65 poles; No. 3, 63 poles, 



Fig. 7. Jean Dauiel Mererod. (Sketch made 

 about 1825.) 



