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Joseph Merrick
Has certificate
5 yrs ago broke land.
Father has certificate & he is farming father's land - younger brother farming his claim & the brother has a claim to adjoining [[?]] first broken the younger brothers claim last summer.  The father living & the [[friend?]] broke his father and the brother broke his the year following

Broke - 7 acres - Agents  plow a week used his own oxen he had raised this [[?]]. His brother bought them when calves at the mission
Wheat - from Agent. Good - 
raised 80 bushels

1879-
The land is poor hilly - he put corn & wheat in - his own seed - poor crop -

1880.
Corn & wheat. pretty good crop

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