Sentences with 'parcels'
Example sentences and phrases with the word parcels and other words derived from it.
• « The Ordinance of 1785 called for the division of this land into rectangular parcels in order to prepare for the sale of land by the government. »
• « Surveyors would divide the land into townships of six square miles, and the townships would be subdivided into thirty-six parcels of 640 acres each, which could be further subdivided. »
• « Smaller parcels could then be made: a 640-acre section could be divided into 160-acre quarter sections, and then again into sixteen 40-acre sections. »
• « The Land Act of 1820 reduced the price of land to $1.25 per acre and allowed the sale of small parcels of eighty acres. »