| 单词 | new hampshire grants |
| 释义 | > as lemmasNew Hampshire Grants 5. Chiefly U.S. The name given to a portion of land in the occupation of specified persons. New Hampshire Grants: now the State of Vermont. ΚΠ 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 321 Silver Mines lately discovered to be within the Grant of Monsieur Croizat. 1777 A. Hamilton Let. 29 July in Papers (1961) I. 295 They may be obliged to increase their attention to this matter by keeping a body of men somewhere about the grants. 1842 L. Munsell Let. 17 Aug. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) I. 133 There [were] only a few hunters just below the falls, or what is called Clark's grant. 1863 New Amer. Cycl. XVI. 73/2 The country west of the Connecticut was only known at that time [1760] by the name of ‘New Hampshire grants’. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) IV. xxv. 502 Men poured in from towns in the Grants. < as lemmas |
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