>The question of price of the land is shown in Figure 1, 'Original >Advertisement for New Purchase Application Program' , page iv. It reads: >"ADVERTISEMENT. The Land-Office will be opened on the Third Day of >April next, at Ten o'Clock in the Morning, to receive Applications >from all Persons inclinable to take up Lands in the New Purchase, >upon the Terms of Five Pounds Sterling per Hundred Acres, and One >Penny per Acre per Annum Quit-Rent. No Person will be allowed to >take up more than Three Hundred Acres, with the Special Licence of >the Proprietaries or the Governor. <snip> Very interesting.. I can't help but wonder what 5 pounds sterling was worth. For instance, I wonder how many pounds one would have to pay for a good horse or some other object of some value that most owned in that day. Has anyone got any idea? It would be nice to know (or at least have a feel for) whether they were getting the land dirt cheap at 5 pounds for 100 acres or was 5 pounds something usually only available to the relatively well-to do person of the time? In other words.. since it wasn't actually really "free" land, could it have been considered very "cheap" land? Phil Phil Knox <pknox@earthlink.net> My Web Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~pknox/ My genealogical database on WorldConnect: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=pknox NOTE: E-mail and attachments are automatically scanned by McAfee Antivirus software.