44 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



were practically exterminated east of Lancaster. Of 

 course, they were plentiful still in the Blue Mountains 

 and in the Lehigh and Pocono regions until a century 

 later. But by the date of Penn's demise they were 

 known no more, except as rare stragglers, in the fertile 

 farming regions in what is now Montgomery, Chester, 

 Lancaster and York Counties. A wolf was killed in 

 Bucks County in 1800, in Chester County in 1816, and 

 one was seen in York County in 1834, according to S. 

 N. Rhoads. At the time of the French and Indian War, 

 when the, chain of forts along the Blue Mountains were 

 attacked by redmen in 1755, wolves were present in 

 large companies. While there is no record or tradi- 

 tion extant of their having molested human beings, 

 they proved a source of complaint as considerable as 

 the redmen. Wolves and panthers, as well as the In- 

 dians, pillaged the farms at the base of the Blue 

 Mountains, carrying off much stock. Twenty years 

 later they were still numerous along the Blue A foun- 

 tains, and women whose husbands had gone to the 

 front in the Revolutionary War complained that there 

 was no one to guard stock and children from packs of 

 hungry wolves. One woman — Mrs. Barbara Schwartz, 

 wife of a Revolutonary soldier — shot three wolves 

 which had attacked her watch dog, the shooting occur- 

 ring in her front yard near the present town of 

 Shubert. After the war the returned soldiers formed 

 hunting parties, so that by the close of the eighteenth 

 century these savage animals were seldom seen east 

 of the Blue Mountains. Until the middle of the nine- 



