. Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society . a days workfor a female. They are soldto the country merchants fortwelve and a half cents astnng, always c o m m a n dcash, and constitute the sup-port of m a. n y poor andwort h y — Bar-ber and Howe. To procure the hardshell clams to obtain fromthem the black hearts tomake the valuable black vam-pum, necessitated a long, te-dious trip by rowboat fromNew Milford on the Hacken-sack River to Rockaway,Long Island, via NewarkBay. When they returnedthe clams were placed on theground under the trees, andthe neighbors were
. Papers and proceedings of the Bergen County Historical Society . a days workfor a female. They are soldto the country merchants fortwelve and a half cents astnng, always c o m m a n dcash, and constitute the sup-port of m a. n y poor andwort h y — Bar-ber and Howe. To procure the hardshell clams to obtain fromthem the black hearts tomake the valuable black vam-pum, necessitated a long, te-dious trip by rowboat fromNew Milford on the Hacken-sack River to Rockaway,Long Island, via NewarkBay. When they returnedthe clams were placed on theground under the trees, andthe neighbors were invited totake all t h e flesh t h e ywanted, but to leave theshells. These, with the Rock-away sand, were carried bywagon six miles to Washington Market inNew York City was openedthe thrift of the Campbellswas shown when they madecontracts for all the empty clam shells. At stated timesthey went by boat to the market and with a small ham-mer the black hearts were skillfully broken from eachshell and placed in barrels. They would return with ten or. Campbells Black Wampum. Wampum Industry in Bergen County 31 twelve barrels at a time. They sold many of the blaek heartsto the farmers wives and daughters for miles around, whomade the wampum. The Campbells would purchase it fromthem direct or through the country store dealers, who ex-changed merchandise for it, and with whom the Campbellsmade contracts for all acquired, I went on many trips withmy father when a boy, said one of the descendants, oneplace being at Schraalenburgh to a general store kept by aman named Conklin. My father would often pay him in cashas high as $500 for the wampum taken in trade. As this is -. > -T ?f-^ ^y-r-/--- -y-i **:-*?
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