Upon the 10th day of February, 1672, it was agreed (by the inhabitants of East Chester,) " that the town wolfpits which Mr. Pincldni 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 decided byvote, 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 ihis ferocious animal was then very troublesome.

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

"Forasmuch as divers inhabitants of this colony have sufiered many grievous losses. in their stock, 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 this 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."^

The remains of a large wolf-pit are still to be seen in the Wina Vanderdoncks N. N., N. Y. His. Soc. 207. b Acts of Col. Assembly N. Y. p. 47.