Tract. The area was about the size of a township, 92,700 acres (375 square kilometres) on the Bay of Quinte. Between 1820 and 1843, however, Loyalist settlers continued to arrive and the Mohawk Tract was whittled away. It was reduced to 18,000 acres (73 square kilometres) within a few decades.
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