APPENDIX C. 



INCIDENTS OF THE FISHERIES. 



Monroe Conkling, of Orient, keeper of Little Gull Island light prior 

 to 1852, in connection with the Manwarings of Connecticut, used to take 

 considerable numbers of lobsters in pots set near the reefs off that island, 

 and smacks stopped there to receive the catch for market. His successors, 

 Sineus Conkling, Wm. Booth, Wallace Reeve, and others, continued the 

 business, which is still carried on to some extent. The late Capt. Henry 

 B, Gardiner, of East Marion, for several years made a regular trade of 

 taking lobsters in pots set in Gardiner'^ Bay, and carrying them to New 

 Haven for sale. Lobsters are also taken in L. I. Sound, oft' Arshamom- 

 oque. 



Fisher's Island from the earliest date has been noted as a fishing 



