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A patriarch of many generations,- with a hair-coat of the glossiest black and purest white! The sight of it was enough to keep off the chill of the most searching north-easter. Among the few that are left, when threading my way through the forests of bitter oak towards Gayhead, I saw one whose like I am sure I never shall see again.
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In the 1838 travelogue “Sketches of Martha’s Vineyard,” in a passage titled “A Patriarch,” writer Samuel Devens wrote of a memorable encounter during his adventures through Tisbury and Chilmark on the way to Gay Head: “The goat race, like the Indian, is fast disappearing before the tide of civilization. Tisbury passed similar town laws in 1774, 1796, 1799, and 1844, to “prevent goats from runing at larg on the Commons in tisbury.” The state legislature finally passed an act in 1851, declaring, “All goats found going at large on the island of Martha’s Vineyard… shall be deemed in law and taken to be animals of a wild nature, and the same may be treated by any person accordingly.” To protect young trees, goats found in the wild could now be legally shot by hunters. These mischievous animals are still to be found in the same places, but their number is unknown.”Ī Massachusetts colonial law was passed in 1774 prohibiting colonists’ livestock, especially goats, from roaming at large on island of Chappaquiddick for part of the year, as they were eating the unfenced corn crops of the resident Wampanoag.
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James Freeman in his 1807 “Description of Duke’s County” noted that “Many goats were formerly kept on the island but they were of little profit to their owners, and have been greatly injurious to the present generation, by preventing the growth of trees on that vast plain of bitter oaks, which lies between Edgartown and Tisbury. When Governor Mayhew signed an agreement with the sachem Pahkepunnassoo for the rights to Chappaquiddick in 1663, Mayhew’s payment consisted of “one Good Goat Ram yearly or as much in Good pay as Good Goat Ram should be worth.” Simon Athearn, too, bought land in Tisbury about 1700 from Keteanummin, sachem of Takemmy, for “twenty pounds of sheep’s wool, one hat, two sheep, four goats, and four kidds, and one fat wether goat, one cheese, and one peck of Indian corn.” In 1726, the Falmouth ferryman set the ticket fee for one goat’s passage from Woods Hole to Holmes Hole at four pence, his lowest fare.īut goat husbandry was quickly eclipsed by other livestock - sheep, mostly, but also cattle and swine.