Lake Umbagog.
1907.
August 8
  Jonathon P. West, who was born on (?) B.
Hill in 1832 and has lived in Upton ever since,
tells me that he has never heard a Wolf howl
nor seen so much as the track of one in the forest.
Hollis I. Abbott assures me, however, that his father
Charles Abbott (son of Enoch Abbott who built the
mill near the mouth of Cambridge River) caught two
Wolves at the same time in a steel trap which he
and Metalluc, the Indian chief, had set near the
northern end of the lake. It was thought
that the animals were either playing with one another
or fighting over the bait, when they stepped into the
trap. One was caught by a hind foot, the other 
by a fore foot. This happened about 1835. Not
long afterwards and perhaps during that same year
three Wolves crossed the road together in plain view
of Charles Abbott as he was walking, one evening,
from the mill to the School house on Upton Hill.
Hollis Abbott remembers, also, that Thomas Wight,
another early settler, used to tell him of experiences
which he (Wight) had had trapping Wolves when
he first came to Upton. Mr. Abbott agrees with
Mr. West in thinking that most of the Wolves
must have disappeared from the region immediately
about the lake before 1840 and perhaps by 1836 or
1837. The very latest record of local occurence which
I have been able to obtain and in which I have full
confidence rests on the authority of Bennett Morse
who informs me that his father saw a Wolf in or near
Upton not long after the family had moved there
from Newry in 1843.
Wolves