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When old New York was young (1902)

Hemstreet, Charles, b. 1866 · New York : C. Scribner · leaf 214

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fish within the said pond therein, or by anyother engine, machine, arts, ways, or means whatso-ever, other than by angling with angle-rod, hookand line only, he shall pay a fine of forty shillings. So that put an end to any newfangled andwholesale way of catching fish in the CollectPond. The swamp… … AROUND THK COLLKCT POND tation as is usual in wet and marshy soil. Itwas a patch of ground useless and dangerousalike to man and beast. There was a certain Anthony Rutgers,who held a lease on the greater part of thisswamp, and about 1730 he suggested that hecould make this land profitable if he…

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