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a heating stove & cooking - cow - sheep - pigs - oxen. He went to work & cut much [[?]] ready first. This Agent built the house was standing & give the $150 to by hardware &c- the Agent went to Washington that the house cost $400
He worked to hard when he got all the logs & got sick. When they built the house he thought he would be the first to break land & so he did- He put fence round house. For 2 yrs was sick from over work- From the money he earn he bought cow pigs- then he went on his claim. Before he went to the house that he wanted the cooking & heating stove- Agent said wait a while that the [[?]] was quite ready & then he told him to go work & buy himself a cooking & heating stove. He sold one of his ponies to get the heating &