Ministerial Lands
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ministerial-lands-256-15547787
title:
Ministerial Lands
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The Ministerial Lands were tracts of land in the Northwest Territory, later Ohio, that the Congress donated for the support of clergy. In the contracts that the Congress wrote for purchases of large tracts of land in the Northwest Territory in the 1780s by the Ohio Company of Associates and John Cleve Symmes, tracts of land were set aside for support of religion. This was before the passage of the Bill of Rights. These land purchases were divided into townships six miles square arranged on a che
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministerial_Lands
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2021-07-16T09:25:26Z
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