DCHP-3

Moravian Grant

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a grant of land made to the Moravian Brethren in 1792 (25,000 acres on the Thames River near Lake St. Clair).

Quotations

1827
He always stood high in the estimation of his neighbours, as an honest man, and one to whom the public of that day was much indebted for opening Road of about 70 or 80 miles, through a wilderness, from Oxford to the Moravian Grant.