These contracts cite many names of aboriginal settlements and individuals, along with local officials and Chinese interpreters, and give today's researchers valuable pointers to the distribution of settlements on the plain, their social systems, and the extent of Han Chinese encroachment on their lands.
從這些充滿番社名、番人名，以及各社土官、漢人通事的契文中，人們得以了解平埔族各社的分佈情形，平埔族的社會制度，土地流失等主題的線索。