Cleruchy, in ancient Greece, body of Athenian citizens in a dependent country holding grants of land awarded by Athens.
Instead they formed alliances and created Roman settlements, with the choice tracts of land awarded to Romans.
The town was founded (1797) by Ebenezer Zane on land awarded him by the U.S. Congress for clearing a road (Zane's Trace) through the forest to Limestone (now Maysville), Ky.
Sizer says: "Even if they did not start the fires, they are responsible for massive and dramatic clearing of forests in the regions that have been burning, and to some extent for the conflicts with local communities that may be starting fires to stake their claim to land awarded in concessions to the companies".
These include parcels of land awarded during government resettlement programmes following Kenya's independence in 1963 together with privately acquired lands.
On November 1, 1783, the family moved to Lincoln County, near Knob Lick, and occupied land awarded to Shelby for his military service.
The land in dispute is a 250-acre sandbar, part of a 37,000-acre land grant awarded in 1973 by the government to about 80 families from the Punta Estero peninsula, about 85 miles south of the American border.
The land upon which Old Pine Church is located was originally part of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a land grant awarded by Charles II of England to seven of his supporters in 1649, and again in 1688 by official patent.
This they accomplished mainly by subjugating the remaining Indians under the encomienda system, which granted settlers the use of Indian labour on lands awarded by the crown.
Most shockingly, the town of Srebrenica, site of the July 1995 massacre of 7,000 Muslims – and an overwhelmingly Muslim town before almost all its male inhabitants were murdered – was included in the lands awarded to the Serbs.
