Each grant varied from sixteen arpents-an arpent being about five-sixths of an English acre-by fifty, to ten leagues by twelve.
"Lord Elgin"
John George Bourinot
The corn-lands here rent for about fifteen livres the arpent.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson
An arpent rents at from twenty to sixty livres.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson