To place. Location. A place or locality.
1797. To locate [in virtue of a land warrant] means to particularize and describe correctly the place which is intended to be reserved for the sole use and possession of the [claimant].—Fra. Baily, F.R.S., ‘Journal of a Tour,’ p. 242 (Lond., 1856).
1826. There was a warned meeting of the inhabitants, and the object was to locate the town-house, a market, and first, second, and third streets.—T. Flint, ‘Recollections,’ p. 58.
1826. It was deemed expedient that I should locate myself at St. Charles, on the Missouri, a place central to the population of the state, and which has since been the seat of government.—Id., p. 120.
1829. Were you not well off where you were located before—had you not plenty of good land?—Basil Hall, ‘Travels in North America,’ iii. 131.
1830. A certain American establishment of the same kind, which is, as we yankees say, ‘located’ somewhere between the city of New-York and Sandy Hook.—N. Ames, ‘A Mariner’s Sketches,’ pp. 111–2
1832. Their business now was to fell trees and cut their logs for their future dwelling, and to locate it near a spring.—Watson, ‘Historic Tales of New York,’ p. 67.
1833. Every emigrant who means to locate, (this is a sound American word, and as indispensable in the vocabulary of a western man as are an axe and a rifle among his household furniture,) must, however poor, have some earnings in advance to purchase the spot upon which he is to live.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘A Winter in the Far West,’ i. 190 (Lond., 1835). (Italics in the original.)
1836. The word is described as “a new and somewhat barbarous, but exceedingly convenient yankeeism, which will probably work its way into good society in England, as its predecessor ‘lengthy,’ has already done.”—P. H. Nicklin, ‘A Pleasant Peregrination,’ p. 24 n. (Phila.).
1847. Where I shall now locate my plots, conspiracies, and other strange deeds, I know not.—J. K. Paulding, ‘American Comedies,’ p. 186.
1851. I have seldom taxed my judgment as severely on any subject as in judiciously locating a logging establishment.—John S. Springer, ‘Forest Life,’ p. 67.
1852. Let the brethren go and get farms, and locate themselves, and raise good fields of grain, that they can bring in the first fruits of the earth.—H. C. Kimball in the Mormon Tabernacle, Oct. 9: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ i. 160.
