The Carson family settled on a tract of land owned by the sons of Daniel Boone, who had purchased the land from the Spanish prior to the Louisiana Purchase.

Bates was introduced to the Sabbath doctrine by a tract written by Millerite preacher Thomas M. Preble, who in turn had been influenced by Rachel Oakes Preston, a young Seventh Day Baptist.

This tract was a printing of a letter that had been read in the House of Lords on 11 November 1647.

The firm's initial location was in Naples, but even before the construction of the planned factory had started, Darracq decided late in 1906 that Milan would be a more suitable location and accordingly a tract of land was acquired in the Milan suburb of Portello, where a new factory of was erected.

At the same time, Raeder worked to promote National Socialist ideology as opposed to the NSDAP in the Navy, ordering in September 1936 that all officers read a tract by Kriegsmarine Commander Siegfried Sorge called Der Marineoffizier about what it took to be a good officer., Sorge had claimed that one could not be a good naval officer without believing in National Socialist values.

Negotiations with England then began, from which Knox was excluded ; in particular his earlier tract The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, although it had been aimed at Mary Tudor, rendered him unacceptable to the female English monarch.

The tract it was built on had previously been the site of the old Masonic Widows and Orphans Home.

He received Neleus, who had been driven out of Iolcus by Pelias, and assigned to him a tract of land in the maritime part of Messenia, where the main city was Pylos ; in the same fashion he welcomed the exiled Lycus, son of Pandion, who revealed the rites of Demeter to Aphareus and his family.

Willoughby pointed out that much of the rest of the country had been explored and mapped except for this part of Florida, writing, "( w ) e have a tract of land one hundred and thirty miles long and seventy miles wide that is as much unknown to the white man as the heart of Africa.

From the Franciscan's letters it appears that the earl had studied a political tract by Grosseteste on the difference between a monarchy and a tyranny ; and that he embraced with enthusiasm the bishop's projects of ecclesiastical reform.

File: Edgar County Illinois 1823. png | Edgar County was created with its present borders, but had a large tract of unorganized territory temporarily attached to it.

The book had been intended in part as a satire, a tract against child labour, as well as a serious critique of the closed-minded approaches of many scientists of the day in their response to Charles Darwin's ideas on evolution, which Kingsley had been one of the first to praise.

tract, but for those cities that had not yet delineated census tracts, ‘‘ block areas ’’ ( called ‘‘ block numbering areas ’’ in later censuses ) were created to assign census block numbers.

He bought a large tract of land from the Pequannocke sachems ,-afterwards greatly enlarged by other purchases to the westward ,- and recalling the attractive region beyond ( Uncoa ), which he had personally seen on the second Pequot expedition, he also “ set down ” there, having purchased the territory embraced in the present town of Fairfield, to which he gave its name.

Prior to its construction, the tract of land had been used as a horse racing track and a fairground.

Milan Getting, Czechoslovak Consul for Pennsylvania and West Virginia, who also had become a shareholder, took it upon himself to write to the Agricultural Department of the University of Florida, inquiring about the above-mentioned tract south of Brooksville.

W. R. Hendricks, son of Glenn and Nancy Hendricks, had been given a large tract of land by his parents.

Moore, who had been a member of a George Rogers Clark 1778 Illinois campaign, ( he shared this distinction with several other of the early settlers ) established himself at the site of the spring, this tract remained in possession of the Moore family for over a century, until at least the 20th century.

Later in 1909, with the move complete, the former citizens left the old town site just as they had found it, a rolling tract of prairie.

The arrival of the automobile eventually transformed the area into a commuter suburb of Washington, D. C. By the 1950s, the area had sprouted a number of developer-conceived neighborhoods with tract houses for the middle-class.

Since there were no plantations left along the coastline, Reverend Rogers settled a tract of land between Ipswich and Newbury, where a land boom had developed.

These two towns had already established grants on this tract, so the newcomers were required to purchase them for £ 800.

Prior to settlement, the tract of land that became known as Rushford had been a favorite planting and camping ground for the Sioux and later Winnebago.

McMinn, who owned of river bottom land near Buchanan, had been trying for some time to buy the mill tract from David and Louisa Cloninger, but they could not agree on the price.

Further north, Broadway follows the old Bloomingdale Road as the main spine of the Upper West Side, passing the campus of Columbia University at 116th Street in Morningside Heights, in part on the tract that housed the Bloomingdale ( Lunatic ) Asylum from 1808 until it moved to Westchester County in 1894.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, population declined in the City of Syracuse while suburban communities generally grew, particularly with tract developments north of the city.

In 1786 James Wilkinson purchased the tract of land on the north side of the Kentucky River, which developed as downtown Frankfort.

This tract is located north of St. Florian, Alabama.

In 2000, the state of Arizona, Maricopa County, and the town of Cave Creek bought Spur Cross Ranch, a tract of Sonoran desert just north of Phoenix, for $ 21 million.

In 1928 Murphey bought a tract of land north of River Road between North Oracle Road and Sabino Canyon in a federal land auction.

Construction of Stone Canyon Preserve, one of the final residential tract developments in the north of the city, commenced in 2003 as part of a complicated agreement between Pomona College and the City of Claremont which resulted in the creation of the Wilderness Park.

The boundaries of the historic district exclude a large tract of open land to the north that the Wauregan company once owned.

The CDP includes, in addition to the original village, the tract of open land to the north, newer residential development to the south, and modern commercial properties along Route 12.

The first treaty affecting any part of what is now Habersham County was in 1804 and concerned a tract of land " four miles in width from the top of Currahee Mountain to the north ford of the Oconee River.

He built a sawmill and commissary on the tract north of Kinder, alongside the railroad, to enable him to ship logs to other states.

According to the 1882 act of sale, the land was bounded " east by Chambers, south by Noblet, west by the Amite River, north by Allen, and known as the Denham Springs tract.

While traveling north to St. Joseph to report the ship's loss to its underwriters, Whittacker was so struck by the beauty of the area and the natural harbor that he filed claim to a large tract of land around the mouth of the Galien River.

New Barbadoes Neck as the tract was known, consisted of and it extended from Newark Bay north to present day Rutherford, between the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers.

The portion of the town north and east of New York State Route 690 and south of the Seneca River is suburban in character, consisting primarily of single-family tract housing, some low-rise apartment buildings, park land, and some light industry.

In 1872, Father Jeremiah O ' Connell, a Roman Catholic missionary priest, purchased a tract known as the Caldwell farm, less than one mile ( 1. 6 km ) north of Garibaldi Station.

Soon after, William Cary purchased an additional north of North Bend Road adjacent to his original tract, and sold part of it to his nephew Robert Cary.

In 1887 the original fairgrounds south of town was found to lack adequate space and a larger tract of land was purchased north of the town, from Smith Kepner, in what is presently known as the Juniata County Fair Grounds.

So many visitors were attracted to the town that the Rose Inn was built in 1752 on an additional tract to the north.

Still, hoping to profit from this growth and the possible construction of a railroad through the area, bought land just north of the community ( where the current City sits ) and, after surveying, dividing the tract into lots, platted it, and persuaded the directors of the Southern Pacific Railroad to lay tracks across his property by offering the company a number of lots.

It originated in 1964 when Arkansas-based Spring Pines Corporation purchased a large tract of land two miles ( 3 km ) north of Spring Creek in the Charles Eisterwall Survey-patented in the mid-nineteenth century-and proceeded to build a subdivision.

Downey's tract was bounded by NE 8th Street on the south, 92nd Avenue NE on the west, NE 16th Street on the north, and 100th Avenue NE on the east.

To this were joined from time to time various estates scattered throughout Ross-shire, most notably the districts around Ullapool and Little Loch Broom on the coast of the Minch, the area in which Ben Wyvis is situated, and a tract to the north of Loch Fannich-which was acquired by the ancestors of Sir George Mackenzie ( 1630-1714 ), afterwards Viscount Tarbat ( 1685 ) and 1st Earl of Cromartie ( 1703 ).

Natchez Seminary soon relocated from its site in north Jackson to a tract of land in the southwest section of the city.

The 1837 Treaty of St. Peters with the Ojibwe was signed at St. Peters ( now Mendota ) which ceded to the United States government a vast tract of land in what today is north central Wisconsin and east central Minnesota, roughly bounded by the Prairie du Chien Line in the south, Mississippi River in the west, St. Croix and Chippewa River watersheds in the north, and a 25-mile parallel east of the Wisconsin River in the east.