. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. irst settled, deer and wolves abounded. Among tlic deerhunters was one Webberly West, who died just previous to the war of the is said in the course of his life to have killed many hundred. Wolves were caughtin pits covered by brush, with meat on the top as a decoy. Snapping turtles were for-merly numerous in the creek, and proved destructive to ducks ; they would catch themwith their claws, tear them in pieces, and devour them. Some of the turtles weighed20 or 3U pounds, and were much valued by the settlers
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey: past and present:. irst settled, deer and wolves abounded. Among tlic deerhunters was one Webberly West, who died just previous to the war of the is said in the course of his life to have killed many hundred. Wolves were caughtin pits covered by brush, with meat on the top as a decoy. Snapping turtles were for-merly numerous in the creek, and proved destructive to ducks ; they would catch themwith their claws, tear them in pieces, and devour them. Some of the turtles weighed20 or 3U pounds, and were much valued by the settlers as an article of food. Theywere so abundant tiiat in two hours a person could catch a bushel-basket full. Theylaid their eggs in the sand, perhaps 30 or 40 in one spot; which the foxes destroyed ingreat numbers. The Indians used to catch large quantities of clams on the seashoreTheir method of cooking was to dig |)its, heat them with wood, and then put in theclams and cover them with seaweed and brush to confine the heat. They were consid-ered a great luxury. •sj^i. View of the dipt. Huddy Mansion, Colts i\cck. Colts Neck, originally called Calls Neck from a resident of thatname, is 5 miles from Freliold. on a neck of land formed by twobranches of Swimming river. It contains 3 stores, a church, and2G dwellings. On Widow Tillotsons land, about a mile N. fromthis place, in a clay bank beside a brook, is a cave formerly dividedinto several rooms! The mouth being now broken in, it is destroyedas an object of curiosity. It can only be entered when the streamis low. The above engraving represents the dwelling in which resided MONMOUTH COUNTY. 355 the brave Capt. Joshua Hucldy, of revolutionary memory, nowowned by Thomas G. Haight, Esq., and standing in the central partoi* Colts Neck, a few rods back from the main road. Huddy dis-tinguished himself on various occasions in the war, and became anobject of terror to the tories. In the summer of 1780, a party ofabout GO refugees, comman
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