Few rallied under the same social banner, to converse 

 with old and valued friends of the jovialty of former days, 

 and of the exploits and fate of the absent, engaged in the 

 cause of their country during the mighty and unequal 

 conflict of arms. 



This establishment however, founded not long after 

 the settlement of Pennsylvania, has flourished in full vigor 

 in the romantic solitudes of the river Schuylkill, and 

 continues to flourish unnoticed and almost unknown, even 

 to the citizens of the capital at this day. 



It is now purposed to record, for the especial perusal of 

 those who may feel interested in the reci-eative amuse- 

 ments of our worthy forefathers, the primitive civilized 

 settlers, neighbours and friends of the aborigines — an ac- 

 count of the origin, design and prosperous career, of the 

 most ancient and highly respectable Social Society, ex- 

 isting in the United States. 



Unique in its nature and character, it is as unequalled 

 in its permanency, as it ever has been unsurpassed in the 

 success of its sportive citizens, and their general respec- 

 tability, as members of the community. 



"The Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State in 

 Schuylkill," is the present adopted charter name, receiv- 

 ed on the declaration of its Independence. 



It was founded by the name of" The Colony in Schyl- 

 kill,^^ in the year 1732, by a few of the original settlers, 

 many of them emigrants with Penn to the new woild, 

 residents in and near the young and thinly inhabited City 

 of Philadelphia. 



