634 REPOET OF OOMMISSIONEB 07 FISH AND FI8HEKIE8. [16] 



There were from three to four thousaud shad eaiight there annually. 

 They caught no rock or striped bass, sturgeon, or herring there or at 

 other fisheries in this vicinity. 



(2) The Terrytowu fishery. This was owned by Jonathan Terry, 

 William Dodge, Edmund Dodge, Samuel Wells, and John Taylor, and 

 was of about the same value as that at Standing Stone. 



(3) The Wyalusing fishery, owned by Johu HoUenback, Benjamin 

 Stalford, Joseph Stalford, and John Stalford. This fishery was worth 

 about $250 a year, with a "catch " of from two to three thousand shad. 



(4) The next was the "land" fishery at the head of Ingham's Island. 

 Joseph Ingham owned this, and it was worth about $200 a year. 



(5) Next was the Brown Town fishery, owned by Humphrey Brown, 

 Allen Brown, and Samuel Brown, and was worth about $150 per annum. 



(G) The next and last was called the "Bend fishery," and was located 

 near the line between Bradford and Wyoming Counties. James Quick 

 and James Anderson owned this, and it was worth about $150 a year. 



The stoppage to the emigration of shad to this vicinity was a great 

 loss to the people. For nearly two months every year the people for 

 from 15 to 20 miles from the river, were bountifully supplied. 



10. State7nent of George F. Horton, Wyalusing, March 3, 1881. 



I spent many a pleasant day in my boyhood with the men who ran 

 the shad fishery in the Susquehanna, near where I now live. This fish- 

 ery was about two miles above the mouth of the Wyalusing Creek, at 

 the place we now call Terrytown; formerly all was Wyalusing along 

 here. There were other fisheries above and below us, but this the only 

 one I have any personal knowledge of. The proprietors were Jonathan 

 Terry, esq., Maj. John Horton, sr., Maj. John Taylor, Edmuud Dodge, 

 Maj. Justus Gaylord, Gilbert Merritt, William Crawford, and William 

 Wigton. Year after year, for a long time, these men operated this fish- 

 ery, generally taking the month of May and a part of June of each year, 

 always regaling themselves with a little good old rye, and having a fine 

 sociable every night when counting off and distributing the shad caught 

 during the day. Occasionally they sent substitutes, but the fishery 

 never changed proprietors. Some seasons they caught largely; others 

 not so many. I well recollect one draught or haul when they caught 

 600, but ordinarily 20 to 50 at one drawing of the seine was considered 

 good. The average per day, according to the best of my recollection, 

 would be about 150. 



People came from the eastern part of the county, then just settling, 

 up to Wyalusing, as far or nearly as far as from Montrose, to buy shad. 

 The trade was quit© large. Some of the time maple sugar was quite a 

 commodity, brought down to exchange for shad. 



Very few of any other kind of fish except shad were ever caught. 

 Occasionally a striped bass, large pickerel, carp, suutish, mullet, sucker, 



