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Common Pasture List, 1803 [#9] [complete]. [potential provenance: parent/grandparent etc. of Eleazer Mulford, child who wrote on back cover circa 1800’s]. Account book of the Montauk (N.Y.) Proprietors, listing the individual proprietors, their proportional rights and corresponding rates, or charges, in the common pasture for neat cattle (bovine animals, i.e. cows and oxen, not including horses, sheep, etc.); no pasturage time frame listed (likely June-November).