ocured to be sent this Spring by different Proprietors, who
without an immediate drawing for the respective Townships cannot
know to what Township to send their settlers, it is proposed that
there should be a drawing for these Townships without loss of
time, and also for the lots in the Townships of Gage and Sunbury,
in the presence of two Magistrates of this City, which said lots
Capt. Spry will undertake to make as equal a division of as the
nature of the thing will allow.

"The Division of the Townships among the Proprietors is proposed
to be as follows, viz:--

"The Townships of Gage, Burton and Sunbury, containing 100,000
Acres each, to be divided among twenty Proprietors to each
Township, which will be 5,000 acres to each Proprietor.

"The Township of Conway, containing 50,000 acres, being
conveniently situated for the Fishery, to be divided among all the
Proprietors in equal lots and drawn for, which will be about 735
acres to each.

"The tract northwest of Maugerville of 20,000 acres (granted
separately) and that of 20,000 acres adjoining, granted with the
Township of Sunbury, to be made one Township of 40,000 acres and
to be called New-Town, and divided among eight Proprietors, which
will be 5,000 acres to each Proprietor, the same as in the other
Townships.

"By this method of dividing the townships all the lots will have a
sufficient breadth upon the River, and the worst lot there can
possibly be among them, will be of more value to any one
Proprietor than the five best lots of the several Townships laid
out as they are at present."

Signed W. SPRY.

A meeting was immediately held at the house of George Burns,
innholder, in New York, and it was unanimously decided by the
proprietors of the townships and their agents, to annul the former
division of lands and adopt the proposals of Capt. Spry. In accordance
with this decision the proprietors or their representatives, held a
meeting on Wednesday the 20th of April, 1768, and in the presence of
Dirck Brinckerhoff and Elias Desbrosses, justices of the peace and
aldermen of the City and County of New York, made a drawing of the
townships in the manner proposed, the result of which appears below.

[Illustration: Map of the River St John in the province of Nova Scotia.
Exhibiting The Grants to Officers &c. in 1765 with other
patents.
From the Survey of Mr Chas Morris and other surveyors.]

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