44 MAMMALS OF PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY. 



The Virginia deer was not intended by it, that animal still being found in 

 Phila. Co. during Kalm's stay. It should be remembered that the occur- 

 rence probably happened in the latter part of the 17th century, before Penn's 

 arrival in America. 



Potter Co. — "About 1870 one was brought through our town [Canton, 

 Bradford Co.] which was killed in Potter Co., Pa. The first settlers found 

 them all through Northern Pa." — Dr. J. E. Cleveland (first letter of Oct. 30, 

 1899). " I was living in Union [township] at the time I saw the elk in ques- 

 tion. They [the 2 hunters] passed through Canton as there was no other 

 way leading to Bradford Co. I call to mind the barn where they fed their 

 team and other circumstances, that fix the date as being in the fall of 1862 

 or '63. I saw the hunters when they were on their way to Potter Co., a 

 father and son. They had two deer hounds with them. The old man told 

 me that he had formerly killed a number of elk, and that he had been in- 

 formed that signs of elk had been seen, where he had formerly hunted, in 

 Potter Co. In about two weeks they returned with a dead bull elk in their 

 sleigh. If I learned their names at the time, I have forgotten them." "J. 

 M. Whitcomb of Union [township] says that he visited a hunter's lodge in 

 [the Black Forest] Potter county owned by two brothers named Wilcox from 

 Bradford county. They had a dead elk in camp. This was in the early 

 sixties." — Dr. J. E. Cleveland (second letter of Feb. 8, 1901). "I am glad 

 to be able to produce a witness to corroborate my previous statements re- 

 garding the elk I saw brought through Union, Pa. Alonzo Thomas, aged 77 

 years, whose Post office address is Alba, Bradford Co., Pa., informs me that 

 Sheffield Wilcox, late of Albany, Brad. Co., Pa., told him that the last bull 

 elk heard of on his hunting ground he [Wilcox] killed in Potter county, Pa., 

 in 1862 or '63. Mr. Thomas says that the direct route from the ' Black 

 Forest ' of Potter Co. to Mr. Wilcox's home in Albany would be through 

 Liberty, Union and Canton. Mr. Thomas has probably killed more game 

 than any other man now living in this vicinity. He hunted for elk in Potter 

 Co. with Mr. Wilcox sixty years ago. Mr. Thomas lives about five miles 

 from Canton, is a well-to-do farmer and highly respected. In looking over 

 the history of Bradford Co. I find that Sheffield Wilcox, Sr., with a large 

 family, located in Albany Twp. in 1801. Sheffield Wilcox, Jr., was the 

 hunter." — Dr. J. E. Cleveland (3d letter of Feb. 19, 1901). 



" The last Elk taken in this county was killed on the head waters of the 

 West Branch of Pine Creek, somewhere about 1845 o^^ '46- In 1852 I was 

 in a camp for some time, occupied by Mr. John Jordan, on a branch of the 

 First Fork of the Sinnemahoning. Mr. Jordan described graphically the hunt. 

 There were several engaged in it, but the exact date, if told, I do not remem- 

 ber. They had practically disappeared at that time, and the discovery of 

 this one raised a furor amongst the hunters, of whom Mr. Jordan was one. 



