More than 200 years after Thomas Jefferson exalted the yeoman farmer, barns remain symbols of hard work, community and reverence for the land.

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There's this Jeffersonian notion of the yeoman farmer as the backbone of our country, and that we're somehow a nation of yeoman farmers.

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When his "novelty waned", Peter was entrusted to the care of James Fenn, a yeoman farmer at Axters End, who was given a generous allowance by the Crown.

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