FOX HUNTING. I7 



CHAPTER IV. 



HUNTING IN DELAWARE COUNTY. 



Delaware and Chester Counties, originally 

 and up to 1789 comprising one county, are prob- 

 ably the oldest and best-hunted counties in Penn- 

 sylvania. The memory of living man cannot go 

 back to a time when hounds for hunting the red 

 fox were not kept within their limits. 



Those living within a few years past, and 

 some of whom were born as far back as 1795, have 

 told us of fox hunts they witnessed when boys, 

 in Middletown, Aston, and Concord townships : 

 when Charley Pennell, Nicholas and Joseph Fair- 

 lamb, Squire Baldwin, and Anthony Baker were 

 noted hunters, and later, we learn of hunts from 

 the Black Horse and Anvil taverns, the former in 

 Middletown, and the latter in the part of Upper 

 Providence township which is now Media, num- 

 bering among its hunting landlords George 

 Litzenberg and Charley Wells, and of the stifif 

 rides made more daring by the bracers that had 

 been taken before the start. Our own respected 

 and beloved President, Mr. H. E. Sauliner, tells 

 of his riding in hunts from the Anvil early in the 

 thirties; and J. Howard Lewis, our genial and 

 popular Vice-President, hunted from that house 

 in about 1837, the tavern name being afterwards 



