"A Book for Recording Marks for the Respective Inhabitants of the Town of Massena"
Massena, NY: 1812. Softcover. Dates: 1812-1829. Small 4to. 12 pp. Stitched. Primary source material for the study of animals as property in rural America at the turn of the 19th-century. This small but fascinating manuscript is of a type that is rarely encountered. It describes the distinctive markings of animals..... More