c:. /^^^ fi-<^tZZL^ 

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Oct. 24, 1SG4. Ilau a loiii' talK uo-day with Joseph Stone; urother of 

 Gideon and Levi stone. Ke was uorn at LJini)a{iO{^ and livod for thirty 

 years or laoro on Ivletalluo Point near the IJarrows. Loose, Bears, and 

 Deer -(Vere abundant then. He used to liunt ...oose v;itii Lietaliuc a pure 



Vibe, and the only mdiaii hnc/m to 



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;'hich, however, v:as frequently rusort- 

 .^t I ,^ntint, and fishing;. A fev? Oldtown 

 ^ ^ i t)\ jsrs, walhini_, the entire distance from 

 ./oarh, spendiiife; a season in then on 

 vj^ibn turning theu adrift. Caribou were 



] I^ f '^'^'^'^ abundant. The 



J ^. l<pn the I.. L . Observatory iiear ^^^^'i2i4Co^x>d ^ 



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fall in iimaense nxiiiioers spenaint-, 

 to brcied. T}U::y ustJd regularly to 

 j^^lih Arir., visitii;^ the south part of the 

 5:ie nitjht and flying bach boi-ore sun- 



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>,ers and other D-uchs ca.;;e in thousands. 



fscis of Duclis. Blach Duchs were less 



J V f T^-Clis was ai. 



ver 300 to 400 at a tiue. A favorite 

 about Great Island. 



ivr.Sineon Frost tells ne that he came to Upton in IS — . Th(3re 

 v/as then only a sviottod trail throu-^h the v/oods from Brown's in Grafton. 

 There ivere two or thrtje houses on Jpton hill th.(! lo'/.'est near where Steve 

 iiorse n5;7 lives, i'e caiao to assist in Abjo^t's mill and marrying Enoch 



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