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Liberty, writes : ' In reply to your letter, I would say I killed that wolf, as 

 near as I could tell, in the fall of 1874, during one of the first tracking snows. 

 The wolf had killed, in the neighborhood of Jackson township, about 50 or 

 60 sheep before I shot him on Laurel Hill, between Tim Gray's and Red 

 Ross's. I received no bounty ; they told me there was none. The skin I 

 gave to preacher King, for two dollars on his salary. The wolf was killed 

 before I moved from Union in 1875.' W. C. Sechrist, Esq., of Canton, Pa.^ 

 a descendant of the Sechrists of Liberty, says that he opened an office in 

 Canton in 1881, that Kissinger brought the wolf skin to his office after that 

 date, and is positive that Mr. Kissinger is mistaken in his date. I got the 

 date 1885 from John Sechrist, of Blossburg, Pa., who was living a near 

 neighbor to Mr. Kissinger when he killed the wolf." — Cleveland, 1901. 



Wayne Co. — " The last wolf was taken by Wm. T. Teeple in north central 

 part of Lebanon township in 1848." — Kellew or Goodnough. "The last one 

 killed in this Co. was by Phineas Teeple more than 40 years ago." — Teeple 

 and Day, 1899. "A wolf was killed at Prompton, central Wayne Co., near 

 Honesdale in 1887, by Daniel Routan. It was run in from N. York State by 

 a hound." — Stevens. See Rhoads, Proc. Acad. N. Sci., Phila., 1897, p. 221. 



Wyoming Co. — O. B. Vose caught the last one in this Co. about 30 years 

 ago." — Robinson, 1900. 



York Co. — "Within ten years a wolf crossed the Susquehanna River from 

 York County " into Lancaster Co. — See Rupp's Hist. Lane, and York Cos., 

 1844. 



Records in N. y. — In the absence of any records dating even approxi- 

 mately the disappearance of this animal from N. J., I give a few historic 

 references. The reader is referred to my quotations regarding N. J. bounty 

 laws on wolves under the article on the cougar or panther. Mr. F. B. Lee^ 

 of Trenton, furnishes the following additional information in this matter. It 

 is taken from the Newark Daily Advertiser of 1843 or 1844 : " In June, 1682, 

 a bounty of 15 shillings per head on wolves was offered by each [N. J.] 

 county and 15 shillings additional were paid by the town in whose limits the 

 animals might be killed, excepting the towns in Somerset Co., where seven 

 shillings were paid. In 1693 these laws were repealed and it was left to the 

 discretion of each town to adopt such measures as might be necessary to ex- 

 terminate the wolves. General legislation however was again resorted to in 

 March, 1714, and the bounty was extended to panthers and red foxes." In 

 July, 1730, a repealer was passed against the red fox bounty, and the sum of 

 20 shillings was set on the head of every adult wolf, only 5 shillings for a 

 whelp, and for panthers 15 shillings. These bounties being found insufficient 

 were increased in 1751 to 60 shillings for wolves and 10 shillings for whelps. 

 From the manuscript account of my ancestor Ebenezer Hopkins, of Haddon- 

 field, county collector and treasurer of Gloucester Co., N. J., in the years 



