I have written about Mercer County’s old Liberty Township Estray Book three other times. [1] The book dates back to the mid-1800s and pertains to livestock in the township. The Liberty Estray Book has two purposes. The first part of the book describes the township estrays, i.e. found or missing livestock. The first entry is …
Category: Estray Book
Jun 28
Index of Liberty Township Estray Book, Earmarks I-Z
I have been writing about the Liberty Township Estray Book and indexing the registered Earmarks. The first part of the book deals with stray animals while the second half of the book contains the descriptions of livestock earmarks registered by the farmers of Liberty Township, Mercer County, Ohio. Earmarks were various cuts in an animal’s …
Jun 21
Index of Liberty Township Estray Book
Was your ancestor a livestock owner in Liberty Township in the mid-1800s? If so, he probably registered his livestock’s earmark brand with the clerk in this Mercer County, Ohio, township. I wrote about the Liberty Township Estray Book in last week’s blog post. The first part of this old book deals with stray animals while …
