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372 pages, Hardcover
First published September 19, 2023
"You asked about the prior owners. According to the Registry of Deeds, it was an Engish major who first built the house after the French and Indian Wars. Found his gravestone in an overgrown orchard high up on the hill out back--soft marble and already barely legible--never imagined I would have my own cemetery. Next transfer of title to the Major's daughters during the Revolution. They are my immediate predecessors if one ignores the sheep, and the venerable Alice any Mary Osgood seemed to have run the place until they packed up and moved away. No one knows when or wherefore--much of the county was abandoned in the '20s and '30s, and when they eventually sent a Land Agent up here, he found it empty. The next owner, in absentia, was a nephew in London, who sat on it until his death. It was his son who sold it to me, though other than clearing out the ovine massacre, no one has laid a finger on the place since the sisters were here--so Trevors assures me and I've got no reason to dispute him."