Neal, the Miller: A Son of Liberty

"I fear you are undertaking too much, Neal. When a fellow lacks two years of his majority-" "You forget that I have been my own master more than a year. Father gave me my time before he died, and that in the presence of Governor Wentworth himself." "Why before him rather than 'Squire White?" "I don't know. My good friend Andrew McCleary attended to the business for me, and to-day I may make contracts as legally as two years hence." "Even with that advantage I do not see how it will be possible for you to build a grist-mill; or, if you should succeed in getting so far with the project, how you can procure the machinery. It is such an undertaking as Andrew McCleary himself would not venture."