His small tract comprised only about a dozen arpents on the heights above the village; and as he had no one to help him the work of clearing it moved slowly.
Before the close of French dominion in Canada it had acquired a dozen estates, comprising almost a million arpents of land.
Its nearest neighbour, Bellechasse, contained two hundred and twenty-seven persons, living upon three hundred and twenty arpents of cultivable land.
This area, of fifty lineal arpents in frontage by one hundred in depth, was granted to Le Moyne by M.
Nevertheless, Hebert was able by unremitting industry to get the entire twelve arpents into cultivable shape within four or five years.
Seigneurs stipulated that their lands would be forfeited unless so many arpents were put under crop each year.
Duralde's survey of the Illinois country (1770) assigned to each inhabitant a lot, measuring from one to four arpents wide, and forty arpents deep.
To each was assigned, moreover, sixty arpents of land beyond the limits of the village, with the perpetual rent of half a sou for each arpent.
He also set apart a common, two hundred arpentsin extent, for the use of the settlers, on condition of the payment by each of five sous a year.
He reserved four hundred and twenty arpents for his own personal domain, and on this he began to clear the ground and erect buildings.
Hundreds and hundreds of arpents of heath and moor form extensive deserts.
The district-mill, as well as the windmill, with six arpents adjoining, are leased at 600 livres per annum.
At the moment of his death," says the Duc de Luynes, "he had just added twenty-five arpents to it which he had begun to enclose with a covered terrace.
At Villiers, and at Dame-Marie, where there were four farming companies and a number of special cultures, eight hundred arpents remain untilled.
Irrigation is here carried to such an extent, that every two or three arpents can be inundated by its own canal.
Dechofour has there a house, 30 arpents [acres] of land under cultivation and a Mill, begun by the Sr.
Thus for a farm of 100 acres, with two arpents of frontage, a habitant might pay $1.
The rent amounted to about one cent an acre, and some twenty cents or a live capon for each of the two or three arpents of frontage which a farm would have.
More than this the seigneur often reserved the right to take such a site to the extent of six arpents for his own use without any compensation to the habitant.
La Salle had been required to construct a mill, since his concession was larger than the military fiefs of 200 arpents granted to the other petty seigneurs.
Maisonneuve, and sixty arpents and more granted through the Seigneurs, out of which she had put thirty-two under cultivation and on which she had placed a granary, went in great part to support her community of pious lay associates.
But de Maisonneuve accepted the offer only on the condition that in exchange Mademoiselle Mance should receive for the hospital 100 arpents of the domain of the seigneurs.
In case the Company desired a fort on the mountain, it required five arpents around it, etc.
These early grants were only of thirty arpents and to ensure as great protection as possible against Iroquois attacks, they were clustered around the fort and the brewery.
Thus the receiver of 100 arpents only paid fifty sous and fifty pints of wheat.
Governor Zenon Trudeau granted to Hezekiah Lord a concession of 1,000 arpents of land on Belle Fontaine or Cold Water cr.
In December came the land, a thousandarpents in his Spanish grant.
Bring a hundred more American families and we will give you ten thousand arpents of land," said the Governor.
He dined with the Governor at Government House and was presented with a thousandarpents of land, to be located wherever he pleased, "in the district of the Femme Osage.
Along the St. Lawrence and the Richelieu the settlements lay close and compact; the habitants' whitewashed cottages lined the river banks only a few arpents apart.
In our known hemisphere there are about fifty thousand million arpents to cultivate, some passable, some sterile.
We are only about a thousand million featherless bipeds in this continent; that makes fifty arpents apiece: be just; give me my fifty arpents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arpents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
