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draw ((v.)) Hist. 
v. receive a grant of land from the government.
- 1767 The lots in Gage Town are drawn, Moses and William Hazen Nos. 53, 54, Mr. Simonds No. 12, none of them either the best or worst in the Township.
- 1873 (1883) Near the close of the last century my Father, with his family, followed an elder brother to Canada, where he drew some 2,500 acres of land from the Government for his services in the army, besides his pension.
- 1902 He went to Colonel Talbot's and drew one hundred acres of land, about eight miles north of this city.
- 1767 The lots in Gage Town are drawn, Moses and William Hazen Nos. 53, 54, Mr. Simonds No. 12, none of them either the best or worst in the Township.