SETTING STEEL TRAPS 



Shanty Island. Me also built a shanty on 

 Fryes Island and one on Cornell's Uppr Island. 

 He followed the business until old age com- 

 pelled him to retire. In 1847 William Uncle 

 Bill Adams, with his parents, settled near He- 

 bron and five years later he went in the swamps 

 as a shanty boy with Ar. Folsom, handling furs. 

 Two years later he went into the trapping busi- 

 ness for himself and in "61" he answered the 

 call to the Colors and served his country up to 

 the close of the war. Returning home he went 

 into the swamps again hunting and trapping un- 

 til some time in the 90's, when he retired. In 

 1850, Isaac Cornell built a log cabin on Cor- 

 nell's Island for rail makers who were making 

 rails for him and a few years later an old Indian 

 lived in it and hunted game. In the early 50's 

 Hunter Rice and Harman Granger built a shanty 

 on a small ridge lying between Red Oak and 

 Bucks Ridge, known as Rice's Ridge, and for 

 many years it was used as a trapper's shanty. 

 /Aany years ago there were some deer hunters 



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