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Answer to Trivia Question #2:

Number 2

Province Laws 1771/2 July 1771. Vol. 5 Page 164. An act for erecting the new plantation called No. 2 in the County of Berkshire into a town by the name of Partridgefield. Whereas; The erecting of the new Plantation called No 2 in the County of Berkshire into a town will greatly encourage and forward the further settlement thereof and remove many difficulties the inhabitants already settled their labor under. Sect 1; That the new Plantation called No 2 in the County of Berkshire bounding easterly partly on Worthington and partly on No. 6, westerly on Ashuelot Equivalent and partly on the new Township called Hartwood; northerly partly on the new township called No 4 and No 5, and southerly on said Hartwood, (being the township which was a committee of this court in the year 1762 sold at publick vendue to Elisha Jones Esqr in behalf of himself and others). A township containing the quantity of six miles square lying between Ashuelot Equivalent so called and the township called New Hingham to begin at the northeast corner of said Ashuelot Equivalent and from thence on the easterly side of said Equivalent southerly six miles, and from thence to extend 20 degrees south as to contain six miles square exclusive to grants already laid out to Elisha Jones, Esqr for 1460 pounds and have received of him twenty pounds and taken his bond together with Oliver Partridge Esqr for 1440 pounds.
Submitted in the name and by the order of the committee.

Passed June 11, 1762.


1400 pounds in 1760's=$1870.78 USD

1400 pounds in 1760's=371,591.12 pounds today. Or, $371,591.12 USD
Still a really good deal today. Back in 1762, it only had a couple rutted paths with 3 unsettled Provincial Grants.

We could sell Hinsdale and Peru for quite the profit.
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