Connecticut Western Reserve Lands (1785-1786) arrangements were enacted in the Legislature for the sale of the Western Reserve Lands, which included a provision that there should be reserved in each township: 500 acres for the gospel, 500 acres for schools and 240 acres:
<To be granted in fee simple to the first gospel minister who shall settle in such town.> 1785CT001
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Endnotes:
1785CT001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Connecticut, 1785-1786. Allen Nevins, The American States During and After the Revolution: 1770-1789 (New York: MacMillan, 1924), p. 426. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1987), p. 254.