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completed on a larger family home on the same property and this first known as the Great House. Later, it would come to be known as
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jumped to her death because she was being pursued by her "lover" and would rather die than welcome his attentions, and the two others were
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day his cattle broke through the fences between the farm and the Collins property. A week later, all his cattle were dead. Mordecai accused Quentin Collins of killing them with witchcraft.
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