Southwold Cattle Marks

[note – this transcription came from a photocopy of unknown origin, but obviously from municipal records of Southwold Township.  It appears to be a record of branding or marking cattle to prove ownership.  The value of this list is that it provides names from an early date in Southwold township]

Joseph Spitler – a crop off the right ear

Johnson Teetzel – s half crop under the side of the left ear

Robert Clark – a slit on the left ear and half penny [word illegible]

William Clark – a crop on the left ear; half penny on the right on the top side of the ear

Daniel McIntyre – a slit on the right ear

Samuel Smith – a crop off the left and a half crop of the under side of the right ear

Jesse Crandell – a crop of the right ear and a hole in the same

David Gilbert – a crop of the left ear and a hole in the same

Samuel Berdan – a crop of the right ear and a slit in the left with a hole through the above slit

Charles Hannah – a square crop of the left ear

Henry Stringer – a slit on the left ear and a half penny under the same

Jacob Lemons – a swallow fork on the right ear and a half crop on the under side of the left

Hugh Sharon – a crop off from the left ear and a slit on the right and a half penny under the same

R. D. Drake – a crop from off the left ear and a hole in the right

Philo Wood – two slits on the right ear

Henry Hamilton – a swallow fork in the left ear and a half penny on the under side of the right

James Vanvelsor – a crop of the right ear & a half penny under same & a swallow fork on the left

Abram King – three slits on the upper side of the right ear

John P. Welter – a square crop of the left ear

John Boughner – a slit in both ears

Obediah Griffin – a crop of the right ear and a slit in the same; a swallow fork on the left

Anthony Sutton – two holes in the right ear

Samuel Knight – a slit on the under side of the right ear

Andrew Hamm – a half penny on the under side of the right and a hole on the left

John Fletcher – a crop of the right ear and a half penny on the under side of the left

Amos Barnes – a swallow fork on the left ear

Richard Hughs – a hole on the right ear

John Bowlsby [Bowlby] – two holes abreast on the right ear

George Thomas – a half penny on the under side of both ears

Thomas Millard – a square crop of the right ear and a half crop of the under side of the left ear

James Dodd – a top cut of the left ear & a half penny under slit on the right ear & half penny under

Jacob Wade – a half penny under side of both ears

Thomas Brady – a slit on both ears

Peter Greaves – a slit in the right ear

Henry Berdan – two holes in the right ear; a slit in the left

John Dougherty [Daugharty] – two half pennies on the underside of the right ear; one half penny on the upper side of the left; and also a slit in the left

John Lawrence – a crop of the right ear and a half penny on the top of the left ear

John Hamilton – a swallow fork on the right ear

Isaac Wallace – a swallow fork on the right ear and a slit on the under side of the same

Jacob Gilbert – a crop of the left ear and a half penny on the under side of the same

Asa P. Jones – a crop of the right ear and a round hole through each

Henry Williams – a diamond hole in the left ear and a piece from the right ear

William Taylor – a diamond hole through the left ear and a square crop from the right

Richard Nicolls – two round holes in the left ear

Nathaniel Vail – a half penny under side each ear and a crop from the left ear

William Francis – a crop of the right ear and a slit in the same

David Gilbert, Jr. – a half moon on the under side of the left ear

Amos Johnston – a slit and half crop from the right ear and a swallow fork on the left ear

Elisha Best – a half penny out of the under side of the right ear

John Brown – a swallow fork from of the right ear and a slit in the left

Harding Mills – a hole out of the right ear and a half penny out of the lower part of the left ear, and a half penny out of the top part of the right

Martin Marr – swallow fork in the right ear and a round hole in the left

Richard Coldridge – top cut in the right ear and a slit in the same; a slit in the under side of the left ear

Daniel McNay – a diamond hole in the right ear