On the 30th of December last, a fat hog, hamstrung, and suppos'd to be lost out of a Drove, was found at a Plantation of mine, near Barret's Ferry, on Chickahominy; which, for the Owner's Benefit, I caus'd to be killed, and weigh'd, and the Ears preserv'd. The Owner upon describing the Ear-mark, and proving his Property of the said Hog, and paying for this Advertisement, shall have ample Satisfaction made him, at the Market Price, by
Ancestry & Genealogy of Alfred Leslie Worland, Rosella Johnston and Allied Colonial Families.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Virginia Gazette- January 1739
An advertisement from a January 1739 issue of the Virginia Gazette:
On the 30th of December last, a fat hog, hamstrung, and suppos'd to be lost out of a Drove, was found at a Plantation of mine, near Barret's Ferry, on Chickahominy; which, for the Owner's Benefit, I caus'd to be killed, and weigh'd, and the Ears preserv'd. The Owner upon describing the Ear-mark, and proving his Property of the said Hog, and paying for this Advertisement, shall have ample Satisfaction made him, at the Market Price, by
Henry Power
On the 30th of December last, a fat hog, hamstrung, and suppos'd to be lost out of a Drove, was found at a Plantation of mine, near Barret's Ferry, on Chickahominy; which, for the Owner's Benefit, I caus'd to be killed, and weigh'd, and the Ears preserv'd. The Owner upon describing the Ear-mark, and proving his Property of the said Hog, and paying for this Advertisement, shall have ample Satisfaction made him, at the Market Price, by
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