Past And Present Of Plattsburgh PDF Download

Excerpt from History of Plattsburgh, N. Y., From Its First Settlement to Jan. 1, 1876 In 1781, the Legislature of the State of New York, in order to encourage the raising of troops for the defense of the State, passed certain acts, offering boun ties of unappropriated lands to such officers and soldiers as should enlist within a time specified. These bounties were divided into rights of 500 acres each, and there was a provision in the act, that whenever any number of persons entitled collectively to sixty-one rights, or acres, should join in a location, the lands so located should be laid out in a township of seven miles square, and that the remaining 860 acres in such township should be reserved for gospel and school purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.