Your query pertains to a land grant to a James Dalglish in Megantic County. A "gore" is a non-uniform piece of land which does not fit the standard pattern of land ownership. When land was surveyed into uniform partitions, for example, sections, ranges, townships, etc., errors in the surveyed lines usually resulted in some non-uniform partitions which are called "gores". These errors were not necessarily errors caused by blundering surveyors, but chiefly the result of trying to layout a grid pattern over a spherical-surface (the earth). The surveyors tried to layout as many uniform partitions as possible, and to throw all of the errors into a minimum number of gores. Gores are typically smaller partitions compared to the surrounding standardpartition. FYI, about 25 miles east of Megantic, but on the Maine side of the border, there is a town called Coburn Gore. See http://docs.unh.edu/towns/CoburnGoreMaineMapList.htm or more specifically http://docs.unh.edu/ME/arnl35se.jpg to download a scanned map of that area (this is a fairly large file to download). The use of the term "gore" was commonplace in that area in the 18th or 19th centuries. Regards, David Hosking, CLS, M.Eng., P.Eng. ----- Original Message ----- From: "julia sauter" <juliasauter@home.com> To: <QC-ETANGLO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2000 9:51 PM Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] alglelish query.............. > Does anyone know what all this means...................Thanks! > > Names of grantees: Dalglish, the rep. of James [Is this from land grants? > Township: Gore of Somerset [what on earth is a gore?] > Counties: Megantic > Acres: 100 > Date of letters-patent: December 22 1870 > Registered Letter: 14 Page: 217 > Page of the Printed list: 613 > > Where do I look this up?? > >