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therein, equal to one-fourth of a township, 

 granted to P. P. M. de la Valtrie and his asso- 

 ciates ; which grant is now the property of the 

 heirs of the said M. de la Valtrie, and the widow 

 of William Vondenvelden, Esq. This town- 

 ship has twelve ranges of concessions, but is 

 only thirteen lots wide*. No part of it has 



crown and clergy reservations, is given in the appendix, a re- 

 cital of the same individually is thereby rendered unnecessary. 

 The reader will please to refer to it for whatever concerns any 

 original township grant. In the description, where individuals 

 may be named, they are the actual proprietors of large tracts, 

 either by purchase or otherwise. 



* To avoid repeating the dimensions of townships and their 

 subdivisions, the same is here given precisely. The most 

 exact content of ten miles square, the usual dimensions of an 

 inland townshipy as prescribed by the warrants of survey, is 

 ^ixty-one thousand acres, exclusive of the usual allowance of 

 five acres on every hundred for highways. This quantity is 

 contained in a tract of ten miles and five chains in length; by 

 ten miles, three chains, and fifty links, in perpendicular breadth ; 

 or such other length and breadth as may be equivalent thereto. 

 A rectangular township of this admeasurement contains eleven 

 concessions or ranges of lots, each lot being seventy-three 

 chains and five links long, and twenty-eight chains seventy-five 

 links broad. Each range is divided into twenty-eight lots, so 

 that each township contains three hundred and eight lots of two 

 hundred acres, with the allowance for highways. Of these lots 

 two hundred and twenty are granted to settlers, and the remain- 

 ing eighty-eight reserved for the crown and protestant clergy. 

 In like manner it may be observed, that the quantity nearest to 

 the content of nine miles broad by twelve miles deep, the usual 

 dimensions of a river township, is sixty-seven thousand two 

 hundred acres, exclusive of the allowance for highways. These 

 are contained in a tract of seven hundred and twenty-eight 

 chains broad, by nine hundred and sixty-nine chains and sixty 



