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landholders are the Honourable A.C. de Lot- 

 biniere, Saveuse de Beaujeu, Esq. and Mr. 

 John Nider. 



GoDMANCHESTER is Situated on the south 

 side of Lake St. Francis, in the county of Hunt- 

 ingdon, bounded in the rear by the River 

 Chateauguay, that separates it from Hinchin- 

 brook, and by a small part of the Province 

 Line, or the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, 

 which is the boundary between the British and 

 American dominions. This township was laid 

 out in the year 1785, and lands assigned therein 

 to officers and soldiers of disbanded Canadian 

 corps. It is divided into five ranges, and these 

 into lots differing a little from the usual dimen- 

 sions, being nineteen chains wide, and one hun- 

 dred and five in depth. The whole of it is 

 granted, though only a very small proportion is 

 yet settled upon, and which is about the margin 

 of the lake, where a few houses now and then 

 present themselves, at considerable distances 

 from each other ; on the bank of the Chateau- 

 guay, also, there are a few settlements. About 

 the front of the township the land is low and 

 flat, but the soil generally good, although in 

 some places wet ; further towards the interior, 

 and stretching onward to the Chateauguay, it 

 is greatly superior, being in every respect suit- 

 able for the cultivation of any sort of grain, 



