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Wyatt had bought some town lots at the first land sale held at
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words. The cover page notes that the material was "principally extracted from his official reports" most of which would have been written when Wyatt served as
Protector from 1837 to 1839. Assuming Wyatt's (1840) wordlist in the Grey collection is complete, presumably Wyatt went through his papers and
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