Massachusetts
Ear Marks In
Town Records

 

Earmarks helped to locate owners of stray animals to know who to sue. If they couldn't find the owner they kept the animal to pay for the damage. For you, it becomes a census of the town residents.

 

 

Massachusetts Towns

Massachusetts Counties

Barnstable

Berkshire

Bristol

Dukes

Essex

 


Abington:
Abington Town Records 1712-1761.
A highlight of this volume is the illustrated earmarks on fiche 4.

Ashfield:
Ashfield Town Records 1750-1857. Volume 2.
Death dates as late as 1880 are found among the birth records below. Town records include ear marks, stray animals, perambulations, fence divisions, landowners, non-residents taxpayers, and other items. Fiches 12-15.

Charlmont:
Charlemont Town Records 1765-1826
. 102 + 458 pages. 
Vital Records & Earmarks 1765-1826, pp 1-51, Fiche 1.

Ipswich:
Ipswich Births, Marriages, Deaths, Intentions, Marks 1663-1733
.

Vol 1. 112 + 152 pp. {original records}.  Earmarks and Vital Records, 1663-1742, Vol 1:1-59, Fiches 8-11.

Uxbridge:
Uxbridge Book of Strays 1727-1775
. About 60 pages, Fiche 27.










































 

   
     
     
       
       
 
     
     

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