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unlike the fields, barns, and grainaries, could not be burned by the Penna- 

 niites. An old settler says: "When we came back to the valley we 

 found every thiog destroyed, and the only thing we could find to o::t 

 were two dead shad picked up on the river shore; these we cooked,- and 

 a more delicious meal was never partaken of by either of us." One of 

 the most bitter complaints made against the Pennamites, in 1784, was 

 that they had destroyed the seines. 



After the Kevolulionary war had ended, and the troubles between the 

 Pennsylvania claimants and the Connecticut settlers had been quieted, 

 the shad fisheries increased in numbers and value yearly, until about 

 the year 1830, when the dams and canal were finished and an end put 

 to the shad fisheries. 



EUN. 



It would appear, from the papers hereto attached, that the male fish 

 preceded the female fish by some eight to ten days in their ascent of the 

 river, and between the ascent of the former and that of the latter there 

 was generally a preceptible rise in the river, and immediately following 

 it came the large roe-weighted females in great schools. 



FISHERIES. 



Accompanying this report is a map of the Susquehanna Eiver from 

 the junction of the AVest Branch at Is^orthumberland to To wand a near 

 the iSTew York State line; upon this is noted the localities of the fisher- 

 ies with as much accuracy as was attainable from the accounts received 

 by us. Some have probably been omitted, especially in the stretch of 

 river from Danville to a point four miles above Bloomsburg, where we 

 were unsuccessful in our inquiries, but without doubt the most imj)ort- 

 ant on the river have been recorded by us. 



At Northumberland, or just below, was Humm el's fishery; between 

 Northumberland and Danville there were eight fisheries in order from 

 Northumberland up, as follows : 1. Line's Island lower fishery ; 2. Line's 

 Island middle fishery ; 3. Smith's fishery; 4. Line's Island upper fish- 

 ery ; 5. Scott's fishery; 6. Grant's fishery; 7. Carr's Island fishery.; 

 8. Rockafeller's. The next fishery of which we have a record was the 

 fishery of Samuel Webb, located about four miles above Bloomsburg. 

 Above this point about four miles, and six miles below Berwick, was 

 the fishery of Benjamin Boon ; the next was located just above the 

 town of Berwick, and about a mile and a half above Berwick was the 

 Tuckahoe fishery (this last is the same as the Nescopeck fishery men- 

 tioned in Pearce's history) ; the next was at Beach Haven. Between 

 this latter place and Nanticoke Dam there were three, viz, one at 

 Shickshinny; one just below the mouth of Hunlock's Creek, and one 

 called the "Dutch" fishery on Croup's farm. Above Nanticoke there 

 was one belonging to James Stewart, about opposite Jameson Harvey's 

 place; one at Fish Island; and one at Steele's Ferry, called the Mud 

 Bull. U. S. F. C, 81 23 July 7,18 83. 



