For their part, developers prefer selling larger tracts at a time.

It was a livelihood he combined with community fund raising by selling poems, tracts and even his own portrait.

They sold large tracts of land in what is now the state of Mississippi to political insiders at very low prices in 1794.

Hermann's trustees decided to sell tracts of land with the agreement that they be planted as vineyards.

Capt. Evered in turn sold tracts of the land to European families.

Land grants to the railroads meant they could sell tracts for family farms (80 to 200 acres) at low prices with extended credit.

Knox was forced to sell large tracts of land in Maine to satisfy some of his creditors.

Under the existing law, the Government sells valuable tracts of Federal land to mining companies for only a few dollars an acre.

The petition failed, and Budd continued selling tracts to new settlers, as did his descendants.

The developers sold tracts of land surrounding the canals to recover their investment and show a profit.