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Sizes, which they possess, as they do other Things, as distinct and private property: They have one Sawmill on their Land, which is private Property; and there is a Grist Mill belonging to white people about two or three Miles from the Center of their Buildings; they have some good Cattle, Cows and working Oxen, and about ₤800 a year com-ing in from Government; so that they seem to be in a promising way to live comfortably, being under having acknowledged the prior right of the Brothertown’s, they might cer-tainly have retained their whole Land, had not their own Imprudence rendered the above measure eligible.