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Photographer: Michael Herrick
Taken: November 10, 2009
Caption: Tenant Farmers
Additional Description: [ detail from the marker ]
“My farm was from its first settlement occupied by tenants. They have left not trees fit for rails; nor can I obtain a supply in the neighborhood. The stones they could not destroy, and they are the only materials I have for fence.”
Excerpt from a letter from John Jay to his friend Judge Richard Peters, dated November 21, 1810.
Submitted: November 21, 2009, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
Database Locator Identification Number: p86445
File Size: 0.060 Megabytes

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