Documented Goats of the Schitt Family & Little Schitt’s Crossing

About the Register
The Caprine Register documents individually identifiable goats appearing in surviving Schitt family records, settlement documents, photographs, maps, ledgers, and associated archival materials.

Inclusion does not imply ownership. Early records demonstrate that the distinction between family goat, settlement goat, and goat merely present was not consistently observed.

GOA-0314 — Sadie — IDENTIFIED

Family goat associated with Little Schitt’s Crossing

Individually identified in surviving family records

Documented in connection with the settlement plot map

Responsible for loss of the map’s lower corner

Damage consistent with chewing

Surviving map retained in the Archives

GOA-0002 Unidentified Founding Goat — UNCLAIMED

GOA-0003 “Adrift” — UNIDENTIFIED / FATE UNKNOWN

GOA-0052 Mill Pond Goat — UNCLAIMED / RECOVERED

Little Schitt’s Crossing — Caprine Register

GOA-0031 — Unidentified Founding Goat
*UNK †UNK
• Present at Little Schitt’s Crossing by 1869
• Ownership uncertain
• Referenced indirectly in the Settlement Memorandum
• Disposition unknown

GOA-0032 — Unclaimed Goat No. 2
*UNK †UNK
• Recorded among three unclaimed goats at the 1869 settlement
• Repeatedly associated with the ford area
• Identity in later records uncertain

GOA-0033 — Unclaimed Goat No. 3
*UNK †UNK
• Recorded among three unclaimed goats at the 1869 settlement
• Further identification unavailable

Then comes our first goat with an actual historical event:

GOA-0041 — “Adrift”
*UNK †UNK
• Recorded missing during the Great Flood of 1872
• Dorcas L. Pile: “one goat missing, presumed adrift”
• Fate unknown
• Do not confuse with goat later recovered from mill pond

Cataloging Policy: Individual goats are entered only where surviving records permit reasonable differentiation from other livestock. Repeated references to an unidentified goat are not presumed to represent the same animal without supporting evidence.

IDENTIFIED — individual animal can reasonably be distinguished
UNIDENTIFIED — goat documented, identity unknown
UNCLAIMED — goat documented, owner unknown
PRESUMED — goat inferred from damaged/eaten records
DISPUTED — Archive cannot establish whether two references concern the same goat