The History of Pittsfield Berkshire County Massachusetts

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The History of Pittsfield Berkshire County Massachusetts
J E a Joseph Edward Adams Smith
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140 HISTORY OF PITTSFIELD.
i possible liberty was allowed to wandering cattle and hogs. That the latter "should not run at large, " was one of the town regula- tions most frequently and earnestly re-enacted. To restrain the former, forty shillings were voted in 1761 for a pound forty feet square, " to be built and kept by Zebediah Stiles, near his house, " on "West Street. Other votes, from time to time, directed the build- ing of pounds in other places. But the cattle and sheep of differ- ent
...owners were so herded together, or so liable to become inter- mixed, that special means for their identification were provided; the inhabitants being required annually "to bring into the clerk's office the artificial marks which they put upon their creatures, that they may be recorded. " A volume of these curious " earmarks " remains in the clerk's office, of which representations are given.
Wolves abounded to such a degree that unprotected pasturage was resorted to at great risk ; and, indeed, few folds were safe from their ravages.


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