Towns and Townships

[Joel S. Berson]

At 1/25/2009 02:34 PM, Carter Rila wrote:
>That said, though I am not as familiar with the New England usage,

In the first days of settlement, everything was a (new)
township.  And even when they divided, the new part (the second
church's area) was also called a township.

That said, I don't know whether the term "township" has any meaning
in today's New England.

Joel

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