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At Northumberland, or just below, was Hummel’s fishery; between 
Northumberland and Danville there were eight fisheries in order from 
Northumberland up, as follows: (1) Line’s Island lower fishery ; (2) Line’s 
Island middle fishery; (3) Smith’s fishery; (4) Line’s Island upper fish- 
ery; (5) Scott’s fishery; (6) Grant’s fishery; (7) Carr’s Island fishery; 
(8) Rockafeller’s. 
The next fishery of which we have record was the fishery of Samuel 
Webb, located about four miles above Bloomsburg. Above this point 
about four miles, and six miles below Berwick, was the fishery of Ben- 
jamin Boon; the next was located just above the town of Berwick, and 
about a mile and a half above Berwick was the Tuckahoe fishery (this 
last is the same as the Nescopeck fishery mentioned in Pearce’s history); 
the next was at Beach Haven. Between the latter place and Nanticoke 
dam there were three, viz: One at Shickshinny ; one just below the mouth 
of Hummel’s creek, and one called the “Dutch” fishery on Croup’s farm. 
Above Nanticoke there was one belonging to James Stewart, about 
opposite Jamison Harvey’s place; one at Fish Island; and one at 
Steele’s Ferry, called the Mud fishery. The next was on Fish’s Island, 
three-quarters of a mile below the Wilkes-Barre bridge; the next was 
Bowman’s fishery, a little above the bridge; the next was the Monacacy 
Island fishery; the next Casey’s; the next was on Wintermoot Island, 
this last landing on the left bank above the ferry at Beauchard’s; the 
next was at Scovel’s Island, opposite Lackawanna creek; this and the 
Falling Spring fishery next above belonged to parties living in Provi- 
dence, away up the Lackawanna. The next above was Harding’s in 
Exeter township; the next above was at Keeler’s in Wyoming county; 
the next was at Taylor’s (or Three Brothers) Island, this latter fishery 
-was no doubt the one referred to by P. M. Osterhout as being opposite 
McKune’s station on the Lehigh Valley railroad; the next was at Hunt’s 
Ferry five miles above Tunkhannock; the next was at Grist’s Bar, about 
a mile above Meshoppen; the next was at Whitcomb’s Island, a mile 
below Black Walnut Bottom; a half mile above this fishery was the 
Sterling Island fishery, and the next above was Black Walnut, and 
half a mile further up was the Chapin Island fishery; the next was at 
the bend at Skinner’s Eddy; the next was at Browntown, in Bradford 
county; the next was at Ingham’s Island; the next was at the mouth of 
Wyalusing creek; two miles further up was one at Terrytown; the next 
and last that there is any record of was at Standing Stone, about six 
miles below Towanda. Thus it will be seen that between Northumber- 
land and Towanda there were about forty permanent fisheries. 
Speaking of the money value of the fisheries, Mr. Wright says: 
“Our county records only go back to 1787. We spent a whole day 
in searching the first volumes, in hopes that we might find some entries 
of transfers of fishing rights, but our search was fruitless; we have, how- 
ever, found among the papers of Caleb Wright a bill of sale of a half 
interest in a fishery between Shickshinny and Nanticoke, called the 
