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The following is a brief summary of the transfers of the several towns of the first purchases, so far as we have been able to obtain it.
LOUIVSILLE .- We have shown how Constable became the owner of the west half of this town.
James Constable, John McVickar, and Hezekiah B. Pierrepont, execu- tors of Wm. Constable, on the 15th of Dec. 1803, conveyed 2854 acres in a square at the S. W. corner to Gouverneur Morris, excepting parts previously sold.§
G. Morris, Jun., received the above by will from his father, and this is called the Morris Tract, at the village of Norfolk. At one period it was
* Deeds. b. 24, p. 309, Sec'. Office.
t Recital in a conveyance of Oct. 10, 1792. Deeds, b. 24, p. 437. Sec'. Office.
# ib. b. 26, p. 42.
§ Clerk's Office, Deeds, b. 2, p. 149.
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owned by Leray, and a part was afterwards purchased by Russell Attwater.
The remainder of the west half of the town was conveyed by Wm. C. to Eweretta Constable, Jan. 3, 1803, * James McVickar and Eweretta, his wife, conveyed the above to Wm. Stewart, Dec. 4, 1807, who recon- veyed it to McVickar, Dec. 5, 1807 .; The latter, Aug. 16, 1816, deeded lots, 58, 59, 60, 68, 69, 70, 78, 79, 80, 88, 89, 90, to Henry McVickar, # who by will conveyed it to Edward McVickar.
The remainder of the west half of Louisville became the property of the McVickar families. The southern half of No. 16, 17, and the whole of 26, 27, 36, 37, became the property of John Jay, who married a daughter of Wm. Constable. This is called the Jay Tract.
The east half of Louisville and Stockholm, were conveyed June 2, 1792, by Macomb to Wm. Edgar, Wm. Laight and John Lamb, in trust, to be divided as follows: To Edgar, 30,618 acres ; to Laight, 111,27 acres; to Lamb, 22,255 acres.§
Edgar sold his share April 3, 1795, to Nicholas Low, John Delafield and Josiah Ogden Hoffman, for $30,618. The latter, July 15, 1797, sold 5,103 acres to Elkanah Watson.
To divide their lands, the proprietors entered into a contract in August 1798, with Amos Lay, to survey it, and subdivide the lots by three quali- ties. Macomb also agreed with him, for a similar survey of the west half.
The survey having been made, and a deficiency being found, this was proportionally divided among the several proprietors, and they drew by lot for their tracts, Feb. 18, 1799.
Mr. Lay received for his survey and maps of Louisville, the sum of $500, and a further sum of $70, for cutting a road through the town.
In a communication of E. Watson, to the proprietors, accompanying the survey, was the remark that a road from Louisville to St. Regis, was expected to be completed in May or June, 1799.
Our space will not admit of a further account of the title of this town- ship.
STOCKHOLM .- The west half of this town was sold by Wm. Constable, to John Constable, Jan. 3, 1803,|| and the latter conveyed the same to Heze- kiah B. Pierrepont, Sept. 28, 1809.T
This was a deed in trust, for P. to settle and sell the lands, to raise $45,000, to pay C. The lands remaining unsold, to be divided equally
* Clerk's Office, b. 1, p. S6.
+ Clerk's Office, b. 1, p. 322, 323. # Clerk's Office, b. 4, p. 306.
§ Deeds, b. 24, p. 280, Secy's Office.
|| Clerk's Office, deeds, b. 1, p. 85.
T Clerk's Office, b. 2, p. 390.
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between them. By an agreement dated April 10, 1813,* C. withdraws the 4th quarter of the town, which agreement P. signs, P. conveys to D. Mc Cormick, the 3d quarter of town, April 14, 1813.t McC. conveys back the same April 15, 1813.
By a subsequent deed, John Constable, as heir of Wm. Constable, de- ceased, releases with the other heirs of Wm. C., all their interest to H. B. Pierrepont. This half of the town has mostly been settled under agents of Hezekiah B. Pierrepont, and his heirs. Henry E. Pierrepont, Esq., of Brooklyn, has at present the management of this estate, and of other ex- tensive tracts, in Franklin, St. Lawrence, Jefferson, Lewis and Oswego counties, which form a part of the Macomb purchases.
Of the eastern half of this town we have been unable to obtain the chain of title. Edward W. Laight, Samuel Reynolds, Wn. Onderdonk, Richard Gouverneur, Nicholas Low and others, were concerned in the carly transfers.
POTSDAM .- Macomb, by way of Edgar to Constable, as above. The latter by deed, dated Nov. 18, 1802,t conveyed to Garret Van Horne, David M. Clarkson, and their associates, " as joint tenants, and not as tenants in common," the town except 2 miles wide, on the N. W. side. G. Van Horne conveyed the above by deed of trust, on the 9th of April, 1821,§ excepting parts previously sold to Matthew Clarkson, to be con- veyed to the following proprietors, in separate parcels, and by separate deeds, viz: Levinus Clarkson, Hermon Le Ray, Nicholas Fish, John C. Clarkson, Garret Van Horne, Wm. Bayard, the executors of Jas. McEvers, deceased, Thos. S. Clarkson, Levinus Clarkson and G. Van Horne.
On April 10, 1821, M. Clarkson, as such trustee, executes conveyances of separate lots and parts of lots, in said town, to said persons.
All subsequent titles in this town (except the 2 mile strip) have been derived from the foregoing proprietors.
The strip by the side of Madrid, was divided into two tracts, of which the western is called the Ogden Tract, and the eastern the Le Roux Tract. The latter was sold to Charles Le Roux, by Constable, April 30, 1802. Le Roux died in 1810, and in his will directed that this should be sold by his executors, (John Doughty, Charles L. Ogden and Thos. L. Ogden,) as expeditiously as found convenient.
These executors deeded it June 26, 1811, | to David A., and Gouverneur Ogden, as joint tenants in fee simple. The latter by deed, Oct. 2, 1823,T conveyed to Joshua Waddington and Thomas L. Ogden, who, Nov. 1, 1824, ** conveyed to Waddington.
* Ib. b. 3, p. 488. || Clerk's Office, b. 3, p. 293, 6.
t Ib. b. 3, p. 490, 902.
[ Clerk's Office, b. 7, p. 442, &c.
# Ib. b. 1, p. 46.
** Ib. b. 8, p. 17, &c.
§ Ib. b. 7, p. 51, 76
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We have not the title of the western tract.
MADRID .- Macomb to Edgar, Oct. 24, 1793, as above. Edgar, by a con- veyance, dated June 12, 1794, sold to Win. Constable, the towns of Madrid and Potsdam, for five shillings, N. Y. currency .*
Constable sold to Abraham Ogden, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, David A. Ogden and Thomas L. Ogden, this town, June 6, 1796, for $60,000.+ This was further confirmed by a deed from Thomas Cooper, master in chan- cery, June 30, 1801, to John McVickar,; who by deed, dated July 10, 1801,§ conveyed to David A. and Thomas L. Ogden, as tenants in cons- mon. These brothers, April, 1803,| deeded an undivided third of the town, to Joshua Waddington.
On the 29th of June, 1811, these parties executed partition deeds of lands, previously contracted and mortgaged. T
CANTON and LISBON .- Macomb to Edgar, as above. Edgar to Alex- ander von Pfister, by deed June 12, 1794, for five shillings. This was doubtless in trust. In this was excepted a tract, of 9,600 acres, sold by Macomb to Jolin Tibbets, of Troy, Nov. 20, 1789, for £960 .**
Von Pfister conveyed, March 3, 1795, to Stephen Van Rensselaer, Josiah Ogden Hoffinan, and Richard Harrison, for £5,068, 16s.tt This is said to have been conveyed to them in payment for money loaned. On the 21st of January, 1805, Hoffman, by deed, released to Van Rens- selaer his interest in the two towns.
By an agreement between the parties, Harrison retained one-third of the eastern part of the tract (about 39,460 acres), and Van Rensselaer the remainder (78,932 acres).## Stephen Van Rensselaer, §§ by deed dated Sept. 13, 1836, conveyed all his estate in these towns to his son Henry Van Rensselaer,||| in whom the title of unsold portions is still vested.
. DE KALB .- Macomb to Ogden as above. The subsequent transfers we have not obtained. Wm. Cooper, of Cooperstown, subsequently purchased the town and commenced its first settlement. After his death it was divided up into a number of tracts, among his heirs.
OSWEGATCHIE was patented by 98 patents as above stated. Macomb to S. Ogden, May 3, 1792, with three other towns. Col. Ogden pur- chased the share of Robert Morris, as appears in a deed recorded in the secretary's office January, 1793, and conveyed to the others their shares
* Secy's Office, deeds, b. 26, p. 41. t Ib. deeds, b. 28, p. 391. # Clerk's Office, b. 1, p. 17. § Clerk's Office, b. 1, p. 20. || Ib. b. 1, p 78. TIb. b. 3, p. 191.
** Clerk's Office, deeds, b. 3, p. 100.
tt Secretary's Office.
## Clerk's Office, b. 1, p. 111.
§§ See note D, in this work.
I'll Clerk's Office, deeds, b. 25, p. 4S6, & c.
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in the townships of Hague and Cambray. On the 29th of Feb., 1808. S. Ogden conveyed by quit claim, this town to his son David B. Ogden .* On the 21st of January, 1847, the latter quit claimed to David C. Judson, Esq., of Ogdensburgh,t with whom are the original patents.
Nathan Ford and others purchased large tracts in this town. By a deed of Aug. 17, 1798, Ogden conveyed to Fordt an undivided half of . three certain tracts, one of which contained 10,000 acres, and lay south of land at the outlet of Black lake.
The lot of 500 acres, on which stands the village of Ogdensburgh, was sold by John Taylor, the patentee, June 13, 1789, to Alexander Macomb, for £25.§
HAGUE and CAMBRAY .- To S. Ogden as above ; May 3, 1792, endorsed in a release from Robert Morris for his proportion, and an acknowledg- ment signed by Gen. Knox of the receipt of his conveyance, dated May 23, and June 26, 1792.
The portion of the above which came to the share of General Knox, lay along the west side of Hague and Cambray, extending from the river to the rear line, and was two miles, forty-six chains and twenty-one links wide. This is known among early purchases as the Knox Tract, con- veyed May 23, 24, 1792.
It was supposed to contain 32,994 acres, but was afterwards found to embrace only 32,748 acres. To make up the deficiency of his 44,114 acres, lands in Oswegatchie were conveyed to Gen. Knox.
Henry Knor conveyed the above to Benjamin Walker, June 8, 1792, by warranty deed.
Walker, March 3, 1794, executed an agreement for the sale and ex- change of lands with Samuel Ogden, including the Knox tract, for the consideration of $16,497. Deeded as promised Dec. 2, 1794. A strip three chains, forty-one links, bounded on the north-east corner of the 60,641 acre tract, was conveyed by S. Ogden to David Ford, May 27, 1800. Ford exchanged lands Sept. 19, 1808, with Morris, by which the former receives a tract on the east border of the town.
S. Ogden, March 4, 1795, conveys 20,000 to John Delafield, for £6,000. This tract lay near the west border of the town. Feb. 12, 1796, D. sold to J. O. Hoffman for $10, one-sixth of this 20,000 acre strip. This strip : was subsequently owned by Messrs. Nicholas Low, John Delafield, | and
* Clerk's Office, decds, b. 2, p. 132.
+ Ib., B. A. 39, p 676, &c.
# Oneida Clerk's Office, book B., No. 7, of deeds, p. 49.
§ Secretary's Office, deeds, b. 24, p. 308.
Il Delafield was a great operator in financial matters, but was ultimalely unfortunate in his speculations. Seixas was a Jew, and lived in New-York.
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- Seixas, and the tract was still further divided by lines running from the St. Lawrence to the rear. Of these the first on the west was subse- quently conveyed to Philip Kearney. It was 64 chains, 71 links wide, and embraced 10,000 acres. A portion of this adjoining the town of Rossie, was sold to Mr. Parish. The next strip, 42 chains, 75 links wide, was purchased by Nicholas Low. It embraced 6666-66 acres. A tract, 18 chains, 71 links wide, next east of this, embracing half the above number of acres, became the property of Nicholas Gouverneur. A strip 52 chains, 80 links wide, embracing 8,000 acres, was sold to Hoffman and Ogden; and about 5,000 acres, or a strip 26 chains, 52 links wide, constituting the remainder of the Knox tract, was conveyed to Col. Samuel Ogden. Adjoining the Knox tract, and embracing 20,000 acres, was sold by Samuel Ogden to Wm. Constable, for £1,000, Feb. 24, 1794. (Sec'y office, b. mortgages 36, p. 341, &c.)
Win. Constable to Gouverneur Morris. Deed of the same 20,000 acre strip, November 17, 1798. (Clerk's office, b. No. 1, p. 39.) Gouverneur Morris acquired of Samuel Ogden, by purchase, a second tract, adjoining the last, embracing 60,641 acres, May 13, 1799. (Clerk's office, b. No. 2, p. 401.)
About 9,500 acres remained in these two towns, which Samuel Ogden and Wife conveyed to David B. Ogden, Feb. 29, 1808. (Clerk's office, b. No. 2, p. 132-3.)
David B. Ogden conveyed to Gouverneur Morris, July 1, 1808, all that was conveyed to him by Samuel Ogden. ( Clerk's office, b. No. 2, p. 151.)
Gouverneur Morris's title was subsequently sold to Edwin Dodge, David C. Judson, Augustus Chapman, Abraham Cooper, and others, but our space will not allow us to give the details.
THE GOSPEL AND SCHOOL LOTS were located near the centre of the town, and were usually numbers 55 and 56. The former have since been sold by the authority of the legislature, who, on the 21st of April, 1825, passed an act authorizing the freeholders and inhabitants of the several towns, at their annual town meeting, to vote directing the whole of the income of the gospel and school lots, to be appropriated to the schools in town.
The money received for the sale of these lands, has in most or all cases been invested, and the interest arising therefrom applied for the annual expenses of schools.
The literature lot in Canton, was given to the Lowville academy in Lewis county, and that of Potsdam, to the St. Lawrence academy, in that town.
The literature lots of Stockholm, Louisville, Lisbon, Oswegatchie,
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Hague, and Cambray, were sold by the surveyor general, in pursuance of an act of the legislature, in 1832, and the avails placed in the general literature fund of the state for the common benefit of the academies and colleges under the direction of the regents of the university.
By an act passed March 23, 1823, the literature lot in Madrid, was ap- propriated to Middlebury academy, in the county of Genesee, and to set- tle the boundaries, a law was passed on the 17th of March, 1824, by which the E., N. and W. bounds, as surveyed in 1797, were declared the bounds of the mile square, and the southern line so ran as to make 640 acres. Upon receiving a fee simple conveyance of this from the pro- prietors, the state released to them their claim to the remainder of the township.
By an act of March 4, 1830, the inhabitants of any of the towns of St. Lawrence county having gospel and school lots therein, were authorized to apply the rents and profits to the gospel and schools, or either, as the people assembled in town meeting might direct. The part applied to schools was to be paid to the school commissioners, and that to the gos- pel was to be distributed to the different Christian orders in the ratio of resident members in full communion with any regularly organized church. It is believed that in no instance were the funds applied to the latter use.
OLD MILITARY TRACT, IN CLINTON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES .- By the same act under which the "ten townships " were sold, (passed May 5, 1786). a provision was made for the laying out of a tract of land to pay for military services, rendered by persons in the revolutionary war. It was as follows:
" And whereas, by the art entitled, ' An act to prevent grants or loca- tions of the lands therein mentioned, passed the 25th day of July, 1782, a certain tract of land was set apart for the use of such of the inhabit- ants of this state, as had served in the army of the United States. And whereas from sundry circumstances, which have intervened since the passage of the said act, the lands intended to be granted, would be of little use to the inhabitants having so served; Therefore, Be it enacted, by the authority aforesaid, that the said commissioners shall be and are hereby authorized to direct the surveyor general to lay out the following tract of land, to wit: Beginning at a certain point, in the north bounds of Jessup's purchase, thirty miles distant from the north east corner of two certain tracts of land, granted to Philip Skeene, by letters patent, bearing date the sixthi day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-one, and running thence north, to the north bounds of the state; thence easterly along the same twenty miles, thence south to the north bounds of Jessup's purchase, aforesaid, continued easterly to the place of beginning. All which tract of land, shall on a map thereof, to be made by the surveyor general, be laid out [into townships of the ten miles square, and each township shall on the said map be numbered, and the commissioners shall therefrom, from time to time, devise sueli regulations, for laying out lots, of such dimensions as they shall think
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proper, for satisfying out of the said tract of lands such claims of all such persons who are or shall be entitled to grants of lands, by virtue of the tenth, eleventh and fourteenth, clanses of the act, entitled 'An act for granting certain lands promised to be given as bounty lands by the laws of this state, and for other purposes therein mentioned, or such of them as are still unsatisfied, as to the said commissioners shall appear best calculated to enable the persons holding such rights, to participate as equally as may be in the advantages derived from locating the said lands. to which they shall be respectively entitled. Provided, That all persons claiming such rights, and who have not already exhibted their claims, shall exhibit their respective claims to the said commissioners, on or before the first day of January next, or shall be precluded from the samne."
Four of the ten townships so set apart constitute the present towns of Burke, Chateaugay, Bellmont and Franklin, in Franklin county. The causes which led to this were as follows:
" The frontiers of New York, in 1779, being much exposed to lostile incursions of the Indian tribes, who were incited to this by the British, it became necessary to provide some efficient mode of defence, and the necessity of the state of New York's relying upon her internal resources, became greater, from the failure of the several states to furnish their re- spective quotas of troops, for the general defence. The state legisla- ture, therefore, proceeded to adopt the measures requisite to bring into the field a force sufficient for their purpose, and passed a law, on the 20th of March, 1781, providing for the enlistment of two regiments for the defence of the frontiers. The troops thus raised, were to be armed, subsisted, and paid by the United States, and to continue in service three years, unless sooner discharged.
The faith of the state was pledged to the officers and privates of these regiments, that at the end of their enlistment, they or their heirs, should receive lands in proportion to their rank. Noncommissioned officers and privates, were to receive five hundred acres, and officers as follows :
A major general, 5,500 acres; brigadier general, 4,250 acres; colonel, 2,500; lient. col. 2,250 acres ; major, 2,000 acres; captain and surgeon of regiment, 1,500 acres each; chaplain, 2,000 acres; each subaltern and surgeon's mate 1,000 acres. The lands were required to be settled within three years after the close of the war, or they would become for- feited and revert to the state.
In the following year Col. Lamb's regiment of artillery was raised, with the same privileges and bounties as the other regiments. Congress also granted lands to these soldiers, which were located in the state of Ohio. By a subsequent agreement between the state of New York and the United States, any soldier relinquishing his claim to his one hundred acres in Ohio, should draw a full right of 600 acres in New York, but failing to relinquish his right by neglect or otherwise, the 100 acres, over the 500, should revert to the state. This gave origin to the term States Hundred, once so much used on the military tract.
A very large tract of land, in the central part of the state, was sur- veyed out, to satisfy these claims, and the townships into which it was divided, were named after the most illustrious military characters of antiquity.
In May, 1784, commissioners were appointed to settle these claims, consisting of the governor, lieutenant governor, the speaker of assembly, secretary of state, treasurer and auditor.
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The Indian title to this tract was not then extinguished, and there was at the time, some doubt and uncertainty when this could be effected.
Some of the claimants becoming clamorous, an act was passed by the legislature, as above stated, authorizing the commissioners of the land office, to lay out several townships, where the Indian title had been ex- tinguished to satisfy these claimants, and accordingly these lands were located in the northern part of the state.
These lands were numbered from south to north, and back, to the number of twelve each, containing one hundred square miles. Numbers 1, 2, 11, and 12, are in Essex county ; numbers 3, 4, 5, and 6, in Clinton county, and numbers 7, 8, 9, and 10, in Franklin county. The value of these lands compared with those of western New York, becoming known to the speculators, who had bought up many of the soldier's rights, the final settlement of claims was deferred until the Indian titles in the center of the state were extinguished." *
By a resolution of the land commissioners, of June 19, 1786, the sur- veyor general was directed to lay out the tract, as indicated in the act.t
This was accordingly done, but no part of the tract was ever patented to military claimants, being sold like the other lands by the commissioners.
Townships number 6 and 7, the former now in Clinton, and the latter in Franklin counties, were patented by the state to James Caldwell, of Albany, on the 25th of Feb. 1785, with the usual conditions of patents.
On the 6th of March, 1785, Caldwell sold to Col. McGregor, of New York, for £500, currency, the above townships
On the 19th of December, 1795, Col. McGregor sold to John Lamb, William Bell, George Bowne, Joseph Pearsall, Henry Haydock, and Edmund Prior, merchants of New York, as tenants in common, but in different proportions, of the lands in townships 6 and 7. The tract was to be divided into lots, for which the purchasers agreed to ballot, accord- ing to their respective interest therein. The following is the list of the lots, that fell to the share of each, so far as relates to number 7, or the present towns of Chateaugay, Burke, and a small part of Bellmont. Col. McGregor drew numbers, 1, 2, 6, to 12, 14, to 21, 23, to 27, 30, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 50, 53, 54, 56, to 59, 61, to 65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 75, 78, to 81, 84, to 87, and 90.
John Lamb drew, 76, 71,3, 13, 22, 55, 82, 77.
William Bell, drew No.'s 43, 32, 66, 20, 75, 36, 52, 60, 313 89.
George Boune drew 4,73, and 33.
Joseph Pearsall, drew No.'s 34 and 40,
Henry Haydock, drew No. 88.
Edmund Prior, drew No. 5.
Thomas H. Brantingham, who owned a part of each of these town- ships drew lots number 51, 28 and 67, which were conveyed to Col. McGregor.
* See Clarke s History of Onondago for further facts. t Land office Minutes, vol. i, p 182.
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These lots subsequently passed through various hands, and townships number seven at present forms almost the entire settled portion of the military tract in Franklin county.
No. 8 was patented to Col. McGregor Feb. 25, 1795, who sold to se- veral parties, and the latter divided* it by ballot, as follows:
William Bell, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 7, 13, 14, 18, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 87, 88, 93, 94, 99, 43, 71, 72, 20, 26, 28; in all 25 lots.
B. Swartwout, Nos. 2, 12, 16 ,30, 53, 57, 66, 69, 78, 80, 92; in all 11 lots.
R. L. Bowne, Nos. 1, 2, 9, 33, 70, 90, 91, 96; in all 7 lots.
Leonard Gansevoort, Nos. 17, 21, 22, 45, 55, 56, 59. 60, 73, 79, 84; in all 11 lots.
Sir W. Poultney, Nos. 9, 15, 27, 41, 44, 46, 52, 58, 64, 68, 81, 82, 97, . 98, 100; in all 15 lots. His first agent was Col. R. Troop, present agent Joseph Fellows, of Geneva.
Edmund Prior, Nos. 62, 67, 74, 86; in all 4 lots.
Wm. Rhodes, Nos. 36, 51, 54, 76, 85; in all 5 lots.
Wm. Haydock, Nos. 32, 47; in all 2 lots.
Barent Staats, 20 lots, which he sold to the following individuals:
P. Van Rensselaer, Nos. 48, 49, 50, 61, 63, 65, 75, 77, 83, 82, 95 ; in all 11 lots. P. Van Loon and J. P. Douw, Nos. 6, 8, 11; in all 3 lots. A Van Schaak, No. 25. J. Plush, Nos. 10, 23, 31; in all 3 lots. M. Gre- gory, No. 19. J. Benson and D. B. Slingerland, No.24. A considerable number of the above lots have been sold for taxes, and many of the pre- sent owners hold their titles in this way from the state.
Township No. 9 was patented by the state as follows:
Lots Nos. 1 to 48, to Gerrit Smith, August 10, 1849; b. 34, p. 505 Lot No. 51, to Guy Meigs and Sam'l C. Wead, June 20, 1849; b. 36, p, 291. Lots No. 61 to 87, to Gerrit Smith, Aug. 10, 1849; b. 34, p. 505. Lots 91 to 113, also 116 to 126, also 129 to 180, also 182 to 201, also 202, and 205 to 215, 217 to 228, 231 to 270, 272, 275 to 287, 290 to 292, 295 to 304, 321 to 323, 325 to 329, 331, 334 to 342, 355 to 360, to the same, at the same date as the other purchases. Portions of the remainder have been sold to individuals, and a part is still owned by the state.
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