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Burlington Co. — "Zebulon Collins used to trap deer on 'The Plains.' 

 About as late as 1873 to 1875 deer were plenty on the east and west 'Plains ' 

 in the lower part of Burl. Co. Half Way and Cedar Bridge were head- 

 quarters for hunts. The old hunters with me were Judge Burr, of Vincen- 

 town, Miller Howard and Theodore Creamer, old residents of ' The Plains,' 

 also Zeb. Collins, Jos. Adams and Nick. Levy, all dead before this. "^Coffin 

 (extract from letters written in 1893 to Rhoads). " I saw a drove of 12, two 

 full antlered bucks among them, in 1878, at White Oak Cripple in Cumb. 

 Co. and this year I hunted for 2 days with John Pim for a guide and did not 

 find a trace or track. The woodchoppers . . . kill deer in June. No law 

 can restrict them. I saw two heads bought by a peddler in August, sold to 

 and mounted by a Trenton dealer. I saw no deer that had been killed [this 

 season] and heard of but three. I regard the story of 14 shot in Atlantic Co. 

 as a tavern keeper's yarn. I don't believe there are 50 deer in the counties 

 of Cumberland and Cape May." — James Levy, of Phila. (extracts from an 

 interview published in the Phila. Times, Dec, 1894). 



Cape May Co. — "The big pines around Tuckahoe used to be a sure find, 

 but I have not heard of one being seen there this year." — Levy, supra. 

 (1894.) " Attempts were made to [preserve] the deer and one of the last 

 parks to remain was that of Daniel Ludlam, of Dennisville, which was main- 

 tained until well into the present century." — Lee, historic account. 



Monmouth Co. — " Charles O'Hogen killed a buck deer, the first deer that 

 has been killed in Monmouth Co. in many years. The buck was tracked 

 early this morning (Nov. 10, 1896) on the outskirts of the Oceanville roads 

 and was shot at twice by gunners who sighted it in the Oceanville swamps. 

 The shots frightened the deer and he crossed the Solomon Maps pond and ran 

 to Oakhurst." O'Hogen shot the buck as it came running down the main 

 street of Oakhurst, passing within 10 feet of where he chanced to be standing 

 with a shot-gun in his hand. See Phila. Times, Nov. 11, 1896. 



Southern N.J. in general. — Deer range over lower half of Ocean and 

 upper portion of Atlantic Cos. — Pharo. Some remain in Burlington, Atlantic, 

 Cape May and Ocean Cos. Two only known to be killed in Burl, and 

 Ocean Cos. in 1898 out of 22 killed in South Jersey. Season closed from 

 1898 to 1901. — Van Note. Still found in upper Cape May Co. Also in 

 Cumberland and Atlantic Cos. Between 20 and 25 were killed in the fall of 

 1898. — Hand. In Monmouth, Burlington, Cumberland and Cape May 

 Counties (these then included Ocean and Atlantic Cos.) "multitudes are 

 killed. Ten or twelve are sometimes started in a single drive." — See 

 Doughty's Cabinet of N. History, 1832. Several were killed in the Tuckahoe 

 region in fall of 1901. — Rhoads. 



Historical notes furnished by F. B. Lee. — In Samuel Smith's Hist. Novo 

 Caesarea, 1765, p. 502 et seq., deer are recorded as very plentiful, generally 



