. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings. untry was first settled, deer and wolves abounded. Among the 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. Snapp
. Historical collections of the state of New Jersey : containing a general collection of the most interesting facts, traditions, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc., relating to its history and antiquities, with geographical descriptions of every township in the state. Illustrated by 120 engravings. untry was first settled, deer and wolves abounded. Among the 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 30 pounds, and were much valued by the settlers as an article of food. Theywere so abundant that 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 pits, 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 View of the Capt. Huddy Mansion, ColVs Neck. Colts Neck, originally called Calls Neck from a resident of thatname, is 5 miles from Freehold, on a neck of land formed by twobranches of Swimming river. It contains 3 stores, a church, and26 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. 365 the brave Capt. Joshua Huddy, of revolutionary memory, nowowned by Thomas G. Haight, Esq., and standing in the
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