Re: "Bushing" cattle 1912 range rider diary

Historical Archaeology forum (histarch)

11/27 "Seventeenth Century Montauk was home to America's first cattle ranching system. Each spring, East Hampton Town colonists would drive cattle across the narrow Napeague strip to let them graze the rugged downs of Montauk. The herds were fenced in Naturally by the surrounding waters. Historic Third House at Theodore Roosevelt County Park originated as the home for these early cattle keepers." http://www.co.suffolk.ny.us/webtemp1.cfm?dept=10&id=888

There's said to be a book of brands that was kept there from the 17th century to around 1960 to register one's mark and adjudicate strays. It was in the State Museum collection it said on-line. In New England there were local little stone fenced in areas a "pound" which strays were taken to, and where one would go first to see if it had been found. I've seen a few marked in New Hampshire.

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Gail & Muriel Carbiener I want to thank everyone who responded to my inquiry of "Bushing Cattle." Sev...Nov 29 (5 days ago) Robert Keeler Hi, Gail, I've enjoyed the information exchange about "bushing" cattle and I ... Nov 30 (4 days ago) I also read that within Smithtown (after "Bull" Smith, a large statue of a bull exists there at the crossroads of now two highways and the Nissequogue River) in the village of Nissequogue, the first native American "reservation" may have been created with the remains of the Weckqueskeck, the local Algonquian speakers of modern Westchester and Bronx Counties, who shared a boundary with the Lenni Lenape to the west (and perhaps down the middle of Manhattan) who were "removed" there after the war conducted under the direction of Dutch Governor Kieft who was recalled by the Dutch West Indies company and government and replaced with the former Governor of Curacao, Peter Stuyvesant. Apparently as England had claims on Long Island as did the Dutch, a treaty was drawn up to relocate those left after a massacre in New Jersey, and its cited that they were relocated there. If you're ever out to what was once "New Village" now Centereach at the Lake Grove Village (1968) end out on Long Island, I hope you stop in at the "Good Steer" restaurant just west of the First Congregational Church, a Brookhaven Historic Site. The rumor was they got it for $1, though I've also read abandoned congregations become the responsibility of the Town of Brookhaven, the largest in area in the State of New York.