72 Weight, Early Records of the Wild Turkey. [j^ 



kahanah" "Turkies (Of Forty of Fifty Pound Weight)," and lists 

 them "among the Land-Fowl." 



Four years later in the next century, 1702, Holm finds 1 "of 

 birds and fowls, there are. . . . turkeys, . . . . " The same year, Rev. 

 Andreas Sandel tells a funny story of a fox mistaking a hidden man 

 for a turkey. 2 In a "Journey from Pennsylvania to Onondaga," 

 Conrad Weiser (1737) remarks' 3 the presence of turkeys along the 

 trip. Six years later, 1743, John Bartram on a similar journey on 4 

 "The 4th (July 1743), set out before day, and stopp'd at Marcus 

 Hulin's by Manatony ; then crossed Skuykill, and rode along the 

 west side over rich bottoms, after which we ascended the Flying 

 Hill, (so called from the great number of Wild Turkeys that used 

 to fly from them to the plains)." In 1748 (November), Kalm finds 5 

 " The wild Turkeys, .... were in flocks in the woods." In a " General 

 State of Pennsylvania between the years 1760 and 1770" 6 occurs 

 this significant statement : " wild turkeys, among the winged tribe, 

 were formerly very plentifull, but now scarce." In 1765 we find 

 that Samuel Smith's " Nova-Caesaria or New Jersey" holds that 7 

 "Of these birds there are great plenty: as the wild turkey,. ..." 

 During the Sullivan expedition, Lieutenant Wm. Barton when at 

 Tunkhannock, Pa., (July 3, 1779) finds 8 "This place very re- 

 markable for deer. . . . turkeys, several of which were taken by the 

 troops without firing a single gun, there being positive orders to the 

 contrary: otherwise might have killed many more during our halt." 

 In 1788, John Ettwein in his "Remarks upon the Traditions etc. 

 of the Indians of North America" says 9 "Of that hemp (wild 

 hemp) they made Twine to knit the Feathers of Turkeys, .... into 

 Blankets." In "Indian Names of Rivers, Streams, etc." by 

 Maurice C. Jones, Kenzua Cr. Kenjua Cr. (Kentschuak) is said to 



i Memoirs Hist. Soc. Penn. Vol. Ill, 1834, pp. 41, 117. 



* Penn. Mag. Hist, and Biog. Vol. XXX, p. 290. 



8 Penn. Hist. Soc. Colls. Phila. 1853, Vol. I, p. 22. 

 4 Observations Made by Mr. John Bartram, etc. London, 1754, p. 9. 

 « Kalm, Peter. Travels, etc. Transl. by J. R. Forster. Warrington, 1770, 

 Vol. I, p. 290. 



• Proud, R. ibid., Vol. II, p. 263. 



' Smith, Samuel. The History of the Colony of Nova-Caesaria or New Jersey. 

 Burlington, N. J., 1765. 2nd. edit. 1877, p. 511. 

 8 N. J. Hist. Soc. Proc. Vol. 2, p. 26. 

 » Bull. Hist. Soc. Penn. Vol. I, 1845-1847, p. 32. 



