[Excerpt from "The Virginia Chronicle", 15 Jun 1793] 
[excerpted 13 Jun 2006, Mark Murphy]

Taken UP in my PASTURE,
A Brindle STEER,
about four years old, crop slit and under keel the right ear, and under Latch,
or under keel the left at length.  The owner may have the said steer, on proving
his property, payin, charges, and applying to
ANTHONY MURPHY
Norfolk, June 3d, 2793 [sic-1793]