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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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