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LANDS.    53

Table of the Principal Tracts
Which have been granted in small parcels by the State, under the Commissioners of the Land Office.

Name of Tract.

County.

No. of
Lots.

Remarks.

7

West of Perou Bay.

77

383

Named from Egbert Bensop.

13

233

Part of Niagara Mile Strip.

Surveyed by Geo. Webster, 1803.

1 Unappropriated lands remaining at close of Revolu-

254

62

4

7

Part of Hardensburgh Patent.

Gospel and Schools for Chenango Twenty Towns,
f Laid out in 1788 by Jas. Clinton, J. Hathorn, and J.
1 Cantine.

49,710 acres to A. Hammond and others.

Patented separately. See table preceding this.

Given to the Vermont sufferers.

91

205

Chenango Twenty Towns............

Madison, Chenango, Oneida

144

25

79

19

248

Unappropriated lands remaining after Revolution.

100

33

Mile Square Reservation.

Unappropriated lands remaining after Revolution.

48

117

108

To Walter Livingston, M. West, and W. Morris.
In quarters. •

Gore, Old Military, and Refugee

68

Gores, others in great number.

Robert Morris and Alexander Macomb.

62

234

Islands in great number.

160

93

33

<121

House, out, and water lots.

38

173

Small tracts upon Military Class rights.

5

Military Tract........................

Cayuga,Cortland, Onondaga,
Oswego, Schuyler, Seneca,
Tompkins and Wayne.

I-"

f Twenty eight townships—1,680,000 acres to soldiers of
( the Revolution.

/Ten townships, 640,000 acres set apart to soldiers,

( not conveyed.

Nine townships, mostly of modern grant.
Reserved in Massachusetts cession.

107

140

133

52

j- Reserved by State in previous grants.

304

State, Middle, Rear, and River Lots.
Named from Paradox Lake.

428

130

131,420 acres to Canada and Nova Scotia refugees.

West, East, and Residence Tracts, Canoga Reservation.

Eish Creek, Oneida, Castleton, Oneida Creek, Otsequet,
Pagan Purchase, and Wood Creek Tracts of the pur¬
chases of 1798,1802,1815,1824,1826,1829,1830,1834,
1840,1842.

See page 478, note 4.

Various, including lands at Eort Covington and Ho-
gansburgh Village.

Various purchases, including E. Hill Tract of fifty
and W. Hill Tract of forty-two lots.

Reservations, Indian:

256

86

Washington.

Including plats of Salina, Geddes, Liverpool, Syrar

cuse, &c.

Sold at auction in 1~ miles and mile squares,, but bid
in by a small number. Cambray, De Kalb, and
Hague, each 92,720 acres: Lisbon, Louisville, and
Stockholm, each a little less, were conveyed to Alex.
Macomb, Dec. 17, 1787.

sq.

each

111

162

33

17

52

22

61,440 acres to Robert Harper and others.

Watkins and Flint’s Purchase.....

Chemung Schuyler & Tioga

58

174

White Face Mountain Tract.........

Essex and Clinton.

Tables of many small grants, tracts, and purchases will be found in the descriptions of the counties in which such lands are
located.


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