Original sentence: During the late 1700s, Patrick Cassidy, a native of Newry, Ireland and an American soldier in the American Revolutionary War, purchased a several-dozen-acre parcel of land in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania
Edited sentence: During the late 1700s, Patrick Cassidy, a native of Newry, Ireland and an American soldier in the American Revolutionary War, purchased three hundred acres of land in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania