Vevay 1819: Dufour and Sheets Sell Lots

The Dufours, of course, were the pivotal family in Switzerland County. Early on, Vincent Dufour entered a partnership with John Sheets, who was extremely prominent in Madison in neighboring Jefferson County. An 1819 publication comments on the apparently high value brought by the sale of lots for an addition to the two had made to Vevay.

The Portfolio  By Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall
 

The sale of lots adjoining the town of Vevay, Indiana, laid off by Dufour and Sheets, which commenced on Monday the 2d of November, closed on the Wednesday following. There were 10s lots sold (which amounted to I3| acres) for 15,865 [an illegible fraction] dolls.—about 1220 dollars per acre!

Philadelphia:
Published By Harrison Hall, 209, Chesnut Street.
And In London,
By John Miller and John Maxwell
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