Marston's Mills - 1875
1875. Quail Shooting
(Oct. 19) [October 19, 1875] flushed three more bevies and had
good sport until dark. One of these
bevies was found in the field with the
wire fence, another at Parker's near
the pond and the last which we
started just at sunset, in the
fields near Goodspeed's garden
patch. The afternoon being lowery
we found the bevies out feeding
as early as 3 P.M. We got very
few points on the birds after the
bevies had scattered excepting on
the bevy at Parkers when the birds
lit among scrub oaks and lying
well, all gave a strong scent so that
a point was had on every bird.
All the quail killed were fine large
birds with the exception of one little
fellow about half grown which I killed
from a bevy of full sized birds. 
Started about a dozen grouse and
I killed three in four shots.
Met a Capt. Hodges whom Capt. Baxter
knew and who accompanied us
through the afternoon. He had
just come in from coot shooting
with two birds, a coot and a Colymbus septentrionalis. He reported
fowl of all kinds abundant in
the sound. Deer are apparently
not as numerous as usual on
the cape and few have been
killed in this town. The bag of
birds was as follows. W.B. [William Brewster] quail 11 - grouse
3. Buttrick, quail 7 - grouse 1. J.C.M. [James C. Melvin] quail 6
Total 24 quail - 4 grouse.