SETTING STEEL TRAPS 

 Shanty Island. He also built a shanty on 

 Pryes Island and one on Cornell's Upp®r Island. 

 Me followed the business until old age com- 

 pelled him to retire. In 1847 William-— Uncle 

 Dill— Adams, with his parents, settled near He- 

 bron and five years later he went in the swamps 

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

 Two years later he went into the trapping busi- 

 ness for himself and in "61" he answered the 

 cali 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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