378 BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 



eleven pounds, and were sold to one of our public innholders at a shil- 

 ling a pound. A solitary one was caught about 2 weeks before & 

 sold to the same innkeeper." 



1819, May 14. — '' Shad are this season taken in unusual numbers ; 

 they have been sold in Philadelphia as low as $1.50 per hundred, & at 

 the Potomac fisheries as low as $3." 



1820, April 21. — "At Alexandria shad is selling for $2.50 a hundred 

 and at Philadelphia they are selling for $3. In Wilkes Barre, notwith- 

 standing the scarcity of money, they are held at $18.75." 



1822, April 26. — ''We congratulate our friends on the prospect of soon 

 obtaining a supply of fresh shad ; about sixty were caught here ou 

 Wednesday (24th), and yesterday (25th) upwards of three hundred. We 

 learn that at Berwick they are caught in abundance." 



The above was all I could find in a file of 14 years, 1810-1824, bearing 



upon shad. In the Federalist, printed at the same time, nothing was 



found. 



H. W. 



Know all men by these presents that I, Silas Smith, of the township 

 of Newport, county of Luzerne, and State of Pennsylvania, have sold 

 unto Caleb Wright, of the District of Huntington, in the county and 

 State aforesaid, one equal half share of a fishery on the lower end of my 

 farm, for the consideration of twenty pounds ($53.33) lawful money of 

 Pennsylvania to me in hand paid, the receipt of which I hereby own 

 and acknowledge. I hereby bind myself, my heirs, executors, adminis- 

 trators, or assigns, and every of them, by these presents, to warrant and 

 forever defend unto him, the said Caleb Wright, his heirs, executors, 

 administrators, or assigns, the one-half of said fishery to the only proper 

 use and benefit of him, the said Caleb Wright, his heirs, executors, ad- 

 ministrators, or assigns. 



In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal, this four- 

 teenth day of May, in the year of oui- Lord one thousand eight hun- 

 dred and four — 1804. 



[SEAL.] " SILAS SMITH. 



Witness present : 

 Betsy Miller, 

 Makgery Smith. 



[From Miner's History of Wyoming, p. 141.] 



"The mouth of February, 1773, had so nearly exhausted the provis- 

 ions of the Wilkes Barre Settlement, that five persons were selected to 

 go to the Delaware, near Stroudsbui-g, for supplies. * * * The dis- 

 tance was fifty miles, through the wilderness, &c. * * * The men 

 took each an hundred pounds of flour, and welcome was their return to 

 their half-fam ished friends at Wilkes Barre. Never was an opening sprin g, 

 or the coming of the shad, looked for with more anxiety, or hailed with 



