. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . uce of all kinds. This explains the immense influx ofsleighs into Hudson which has been before mentioned, andwhich a few yeare afterwards became much greater, so thatin a single day, March 2, 1802, twenty-eight hundred ofthese vehicles entered the city from the interior. This ison the authority of the Hudson Balance, of a few days later =■ The fieh exported were principally herrings, which were curedboth by smoking and pickling. This was a source of very eonsid-orabl
. History of Columbia County, New York. With illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers . uce of all kinds. This explains the immense influx ofsleighs into Hudson which has been before mentioned, andwhich a few yeare afterwards became much greater, so thatin a single day, March 2, 1802, twenty-eight hundred ofthese vehicles entered the city from the interior. This ison the authority of the Hudson Balance, of a few days later =■ The fieh exported were principally herrings, which were curedboth by smoking and pickling. This was a source of very eonsid-orablo revenue to Hudson at that time, the fish being much moreplenty in the river then than at present. It is related that a singlefirm in Hudson sold and shipped one thousand barrels of the pickledfish in one day. Shad were also cured and shipped to some extent. f Slaughtering and packing were extensively carried on in Hudson ;the establishments for these purposes being located in the vicinity ofNorth bay. The large quantities of hides produced by these weremanufactured into leather by the numerous tanneries of the city. 1^. / /> John Van Ousen
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