5th and 6th,

3 and 4

In the (jth range,

No. 30

ditto

ditto

In the 7th range,

No. 6

ditto

ditto

West of Genesee

river,

Indian lands opposite to No. 5, 8 & 9

in the 7th range,

Total,

1047*

• By advices received in March 1793 the inhabitants had increased to 7000, and settlers were daily going on the lands. In two years hence, the Geneseo lands may be estimated to contain 15,000. -- Edit.

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WESTERN NEW-YORK. 11]5

" Besides these settlers who actually occupy the Genesee tract, there is an establishment of quakers, called the Friends settlement, situated on the eastern ridge of the grant, and at the outlet of the Crooked lake, consisting of 260 persons, who are very industrious, and have already made considerable improvements, having completed an excellent grist and saw mill some time since. It is expected there will be double that number before a twelvemonth. To the northward of this settlement, 12 or 15 miles distant, at the north-west corner of the Seneca lake and about three miles from the boundary of the grant, is the town of Geneva, in the neighborhood of which there are many settlers, and so on northerly to lake Ontario, and in different directions for ^bout 30 miles. About 20 miles south from the Friends settlement, near the head of the Seneca lake, is the village of Culvers, and four miles further on is Catharines town. In the neighborhood of these villages there is a district of country bounded by the Pennsylvania line on the south and the heads of the Seneca and Cayuga lakes on the north, and running east from the Genesee southern boundary to Owega creek, in which there are near 600 families settled. Between the Seneca and Cayuga lakes, and particularly to the eastward of the latter, the country is settling very fast, and so on along the east branch of the Susquehanna, to its source at lake Ocsega.