Town
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
This word is used differently in different parts of the United States. In Pennsylvania and some others of the middle states, it signifies, a village ora city. Insome of the north-eastern states it denotes a subdivision of a county called in other places a township.