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William Bull and Sarah Wells Stone House AssociationScope and Content
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hardy pioneers. They saw
every where a virgin forest.
You follow the plow and rid
the mower and reaper over
the identical fields in which
your fathers wrestled with
logs and rocks and plowed
among stumps. Imagine
those fields covered as thick
as they could stand with
stumps, and interspersed with
boulders and you have the
conditions under which the
second generation even of
your ancestors, literally ate
their bread in the sweat of
their faces. And probably they
had no other ways of earning
a living than by raising grain
the first necessity of a prim-
itive community, from these
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rough fields. "And herein
is that saying true; one sow-
eth and another reapeth.
Other men labored and ye
have entered into their labors."
Besides we urge you
to come here because we like
to see as large a crowd here
as possible. These woods
have not yet been filled to
the utmost of their capacity.
So today [written as day] you should forget
every thing but that you are
Buels and the greatest and
vainest of you should be
willing merely to count ~~count~~
one, in swelling the number
of them.
But I am not a
censor, only a secretary, and
here in brief are the minutes