Upon the ioth day of February, 1672, in was agreed (by the inhabitants of East Chester,) "that the town wolf-pits which Mr. Pinckini and John Hoyt hath made, shall be, and is also illegal in the glan (glen.) where they are situated, and that the inhabitants do see to fill them up." Seven years later it was decidfcd by vote, that the inhabitants pay ten shillings for every wolf that is killed within the limits of East Chester, for the year ensuing. These orders show conclusively that this ferocious animal was then very troublesome.

So common and mischievous were wolves, (at this early period.) throughout the country, that we find the provincial assembly compelled to issue the following order for their distraction, entitled an act for destroying wolves within the colony, --

" Forasmuch as divers inhabitants of this colony have suffered many grievous losses in their stocks, both of sheep and neat cattle, for the prevention of which, and encouragement of those who shall destroy wolves in the said colony, and that the breed of wolves within the colony may be wholly rooted out and extinguished, be it enacted, &c, that in the County of West Chester, twenty shillings for a grown wolf killed by a Christian, and ten shillings for such a wolf killed by an Indian, and half that sum respectively for a whelp."6

Att a Court of Sessions held at West Chester, for the County of West Chester, Sept. 7, 1692, by their Majestie's authority, present the Hon. Caleb Heatcott, one of their Majestie's Councell for the Province of