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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 

 17!)."). 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 eovenanl 

 were John James Dufour, Daniel Dufour, John Francis 

 Dufour, David Dufour, Aim6 Dufour, Daniel Vineenl 



Dufour (son of John 

 .lames). Jeane Marie 

 Dufour. Antoinette 

 Dufour, Susannah 

 Margarita Dufour, 

 Francis Louis de 

 Siebenthal, John 



Francis de Sieben- 

 thal, -lean Daniel 

 Mererod, and Philip 

 Bettens. The lands 

 at New Switzerland 

 were divided into 

 thirteen lots. t<> ac- 

 commodate the dif- 

 ferent members of the 

 colonj . The method 

 of division was as 

 follows: "The said 

 lands being on the 

 Ohio River, and be- 

 ing surveyed diag- 

 onally with the River, it is agreed that each lot 

 shall meet tie' River and its breadth upon the 

 River shall be as follows: The most western or 

 No. 1. (IT poles; No. 2, 65 poles; No. '■'>. 63 poles, 



Pig. 



Jean Daniel Mererod. (Sketch made 

 aboul 



