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| | Clay County Archives - From Green to Governor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Peter had an interesting pioneer life, part of it in Clay County, Missouri, and he felt it worthy of record. |
 | | The transportation of the Burnett family’s furniture from Franklin County to Clay County was by "flat-boat" which had to be towed most of the way by men who walked on the river bank pulling a long rope attached to the boat. |
 | | In Clay County, the Burnetts had a large variety of wild foods, Peter listed fruits - raspberries, flberries, and wild plums, and an even larger variety of meats - deer, fl bear, squirrel, opossum and ‘coon plus quail, duck, goose, even swan, prairie chicken and turkey. |
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