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assistant to the Surgeon & as a farmer, Marley was a Store keeper; both these people wish to return to Settle, & of course will be found at the Secretary of States Office.

At Rose Hill we have cleared two hundred & ninety acres of ground, eighty of which are in gardens & occupied by the buildings, the rest will be in corn this winter, & I propose having about a hundred & fifty acres of it, in Maize, what was in maize, is now nearly got in, about thirty four acres, it stands the dry weather, better than the wheat. Our Crops have turned out better than we had reason to expect from the long drought, & we have no reason to suppose such dry seaons common.

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