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they had the pleasure of hunting together, and on the 21st 

 the same gentlemen met, and elected Isaac Cox, John 

 Dunlap, Thomas Leiper, James Caldwell, Thomas Peters, 

 Joseph Ellis, General Wilkinson, Isaac Melchior and 

 Thomas Bond, Jr. members of the Club. 



Owing to the high price of every necessary for the sup- 

 port of huntsmen and dogs, thirty pounds (continental) 

 was assessed on each member, and the good old rules 

 of the Company were confirmed. 



The meetings of business were usually called in the 

 city, but the rendezvous for hunting, was established at 

 William Hugg's Inn, Gloucester Point Ferry, Nevv Jer- 

 sey, or at the Company's kennell, erected on the Banks 

 of Delaware, near the Point, which in 1778 contained a 

 select pack of twenty-two excellent dogs, in good order 

 for hunting, viz. 



Mingo, Piper, Drummer, Rover, Countess, Dido, 

 Slouch, Ringwood, Tippler, Driver, Tuneall, Bumper, 

 Sweetlips, Juno, Dutchess, Venus, Singwell, Doxy, 

 Droner, Toper, Bowler and Bellman. 



Besides ten fine six month old pups, put out to be rai- 

 sed at various places. 



The war now completely ended, independence atchiev- 

 ed, and peace firmly established, the old club was revived 

 with spirit and a renowned zest imparted to this warrior 

 sport, by the re-assemblage of old friends, after years of 

 unavoidable separation, again to partake of the extatic 

 pleasures of the chase. The old rules and regulations 



