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and bo on". This decreasing width offsel the increas- 

 ing lengths towards the east. The 2,500 acres were 

 in this manner divided into thirteen equal portions of 

 ■•i trifle over L92 acres each. The firsl lot, on the 

 west, fell to Francis Louis de Siebenthal, No. 2 to 

 Philip Bettens, No. 3 to Jean Daniel Mererod, and 

 No. 4 to John Francis de Siebenthal. The remain- 

 ing nine were allotted to the Dufours. 



It was provided thai "in order to indemnify the 

 family of the Dufours of the cost and trouble they 

 have been at (at leas! John James Dufour) by travel- 

 ing '" the United States to choose a convenient place 

 of settlement, and presenting a petition to Congress, 

 '• shall be given him or familj the sum of $100 for 

 each lot. to be paid before the Lsi of January, L812 

 diminishing si* per cenl unto the daj of payment, 

 "l"»" the sum thai shall have been paid before thai 

 ,im ''- As Becuritj of the said covenanl each of as 

 engages the whole of his property, presenl and here- 

 after, and in witness pul his name and seal this 20th 

 of January, L803, al First Vineyard [Kentucky]." 



11 appears to have been in 1803 thai the first 

 settlement was made by tin- colon; at New Switzer- 



land. John Francis [>ufour is looked upon as the 

 r, ' ;i1 founder and leader of this colony, although he 

 did in. i remove there until 1809. II.- was a man of 

 great enterprise and ability, and he I. -ft an indelible 

 impress apon the people and institutions "i Vevay as 



