Post by spence on Apr 3, 2023 15:43:24 GMT -7
RyanAK, here are a few more items related to fishing from 18th-century newspapers. There are a couple more from Edward Pole. Notice that one of those is from a store in New Jersey. Mr. Pole was a hustler, also had a pub on the outskirts of Philadelphia. He had his finger in many pies.
Do you understand what the “stave” reels and “wheels” were all about?
The Pennsylvania Gazette
April 21, 1748
Philadelphia,
Lately imported from Carolina, and to be sold by Nathaniel Allen, jun. in Front street, near Market street, A parcel of choice reed, fitting for fishing rods or stay makers.
The South-Carolina GAZETTE
May 25, 1752
CHARLES-TOWN
Also pigtail tobacco, a variety of fishing tackle, as solid rods with loops, silk lines, boxes of ditto, Davis's trout hooks, artificial flies, &c. ——Brass kettles, painted, sugar boxes,
The South-Carolina GAZETTE
October 29, 1753
CHARLES-TOWN
BREMAR & NEYLE, have just imported,… silk, cotton and hemp Lines, fishing Hooks, ditto Rods , brass Wheels and artificial Files.
The Pennsylvania Gazette
August 30, 1764
Just imported in the Philadelphia Packet, Captain Budden, from London... fiddles for children, 3 and 4 joint hazel, dogwood and bambus fishing rods, best Kirby hooks untied, best round and common hooks , 3 and 4 joint solid rods, 6, 8 and 10 stave reels of fishing lines, flies on gut, best and common hair lines, ditto with Kirby hooks , best silk ditto, common and best Kirby hooks tied, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 20d nails;
The Pennsylvania Gazette
February 7, 1765
...three Cord Seine Twine, common and Kirby Fish hooks , Hemp and Flax Fishing Lines, Ditto fixed with common and Kirby Hooks , Ditto on Hair Links, Silk and Hemp mounted Deepseas,
The Pennsylvania Gazette
April 18, 1765
Where may be had of JONATHAN ZANE junior, on low terms for ready money only, Sadlery of various kinds, Kirby and common fish hooks , a great variety flax, and hemp fishing lines, brass and lead weights, and fall mackerel at 32s a barrel.
THE SOUTH-CAROLINA GAZETTE
July 28, 1766
CHARLES-TOWN
...large hunting horns, smallest size round trimmed swan shot, and FF gun-powder, Kirby's hooks , hanks of silk lines and fishing reels compleat,
THE SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE; AND COUNTRY JOURNAL
April 18, 1769
CHARLES-TOWN
JAMES M'CALL, Has imported in the Friendship,
….tending and spying glasses, bag and other fishing rods, some with 11 joints, artificial flies, tackle books, Kirby's hooks, hemp, cotton, and silk lines, floats and reels, paper of all sorts,
The Pennsylvania Packet
May 20, 1778
FISHING TACKLE, Of all sorts, for use of either sea or river, made and sold, wholesale and retail, by EDWARD POLE , At Burlington, in the State of New Jersey, viz.
HOLLOW and solid fishing rods, of every kind; best kerby and common fish hooks, of all sizes; 6, 8, 10 and 12 stave pocket reels; hair, silk and hemp, fly, angling and trolling lines, of every kind; together with every other article in the Fishing way, making a compleat assortment.
All orders with the cash, post paid, will be thankfully received and duly executed; and as the goods are light, they may be sent by post to most parts of the Continent.
The Pennsylvania Packet
November 28, 1778
FISHING TACKLE of all sorts, for use of either SEA or RIVER, made and sold by EDWARD POLE , (for cash only) in Market street, near the Court house, Philadelphia, RED cedar, dogwood and other fishing rods, of various sorts and sizes, either plain or ringed; hair, silk and hemp lines, either for fly, trolling, layout or bottom fishing, all ready fitted; deepseas for sea or river, compleat; trimmers for pike fishing; a variety of cork floats, with either goose or swan quills; silk worms gut; weed or Indian grass; leads of various patterns; best kerby and common fish hooks of all sizes, either loose or ready hung on silk, hair or Indian grass; casting, minew, landing and scoop nets, &c. &c. &c.
Any gentlemen going on parties of pleasure in the fishing way, either to Black Point, sea river, or any other place, may be compleatly furnished with any kind of tackle, at a very short notice.
N.B. As he has a general assortment of the very best kind of Fishing Tackle, he flatters himself he is able to serve the public with better Tackle and on as low terms as any other in the city.
To be sold, a large frame building with eight sash windows, forty feet long, situate in Penn street, near Messrs. Willing and Morris. Also a silversmith’s large glass case.
Gentlemen fitting out privateers may be furnished with the following articles, viz. muskets, musket and pistol balls, ladles and worms; rammer, spunge and ladle heads; flintstocks [linstocks], dressed sheepskins, priming wires and bitts, tomkins, cartridge formers, musket and pistol flints, deepsea and hand leads and lines, cutlasses, pikes, lances, best kind of horn lanthorns, log lines, log reels, budge barrels, cartridge boxes, powder horns, &c. &.c
N.B. Ready money for muskets, pistols, or any other articles in the privateer way.
He also makes white rope of all kinds, as bed cords, bed lacings, plow lines, halter traces, well ropes, hay ropes, &c. which he sells on the lowest terms, wholesale and retail.
A light covered waggon, and geers compleat for two horses, to be sold.
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More to follow.
Spence
Do you understand what the “stave” reels and “wheels” were all about?
The Pennsylvania Gazette
April 21, 1748
Philadelphia,
Lately imported from Carolina, and to be sold by Nathaniel Allen, jun. in Front street, near Market street, A parcel of choice reed, fitting for fishing rods or stay makers.
The South-Carolina GAZETTE
May 25, 1752
CHARLES-TOWN
Also pigtail tobacco, a variety of fishing tackle, as solid rods with loops, silk lines, boxes of ditto, Davis's trout hooks, artificial flies, &c. ——Brass kettles, painted, sugar boxes,
The South-Carolina GAZETTE
October 29, 1753
CHARLES-TOWN
BREMAR & NEYLE, have just imported,… silk, cotton and hemp Lines, fishing Hooks, ditto Rods , brass Wheels and artificial Files.
The Pennsylvania Gazette
August 30, 1764
Just imported in the Philadelphia Packet, Captain Budden, from London... fiddles for children, 3 and 4 joint hazel, dogwood and bambus fishing rods, best Kirby hooks untied, best round and common hooks , 3 and 4 joint solid rods, 6, 8 and 10 stave reels of fishing lines, flies on gut, best and common hair lines, ditto with Kirby hooks , best silk ditto, common and best Kirby hooks tied, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 20d nails;
The Pennsylvania Gazette
February 7, 1765
...three Cord Seine Twine, common and Kirby Fish hooks , Hemp and Flax Fishing Lines, Ditto fixed with common and Kirby Hooks , Ditto on Hair Links, Silk and Hemp mounted Deepseas,
The Pennsylvania Gazette
April 18, 1765
Where may be had of JONATHAN ZANE junior, on low terms for ready money only, Sadlery of various kinds, Kirby and common fish hooks , a great variety flax, and hemp fishing lines, brass and lead weights, and fall mackerel at 32s a barrel.
THE SOUTH-CAROLINA GAZETTE
July 28, 1766
CHARLES-TOWN
...large hunting horns, smallest size round trimmed swan shot, and FF gun-powder, Kirby's hooks , hanks of silk lines and fishing reels compleat,
THE SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE; AND COUNTRY JOURNAL
April 18, 1769
CHARLES-TOWN
JAMES M'CALL, Has imported in the Friendship,
….tending and spying glasses, bag and other fishing rods, some with 11 joints, artificial flies, tackle books, Kirby's hooks, hemp, cotton, and silk lines, floats and reels, paper of all sorts,
The Pennsylvania Packet
May 20, 1778
FISHING TACKLE, Of all sorts, for use of either sea or river, made and sold, wholesale and retail, by EDWARD POLE , At Burlington, in the State of New Jersey, viz.
HOLLOW and solid fishing rods, of every kind; best kerby and common fish hooks, of all sizes; 6, 8, 10 and 12 stave pocket reels; hair, silk and hemp, fly, angling and trolling lines, of every kind; together with every other article in the Fishing way, making a compleat assortment.
All orders with the cash, post paid, will be thankfully received and duly executed; and as the goods are light, they may be sent by post to most parts of the Continent.
The Pennsylvania Packet
November 28, 1778
FISHING TACKLE of all sorts, for use of either SEA or RIVER, made and sold by EDWARD POLE , (for cash only) in Market street, near the Court house, Philadelphia, RED cedar, dogwood and other fishing rods, of various sorts and sizes, either plain or ringed; hair, silk and hemp lines, either for fly, trolling, layout or bottom fishing, all ready fitted; deepseas for sea or river, compleat; trimmers for pike fishing; a variety of cork floats, with either goose or swan quills; silk worms gut; weed or Indian grass; leads of various patterns; best kerby and common fish hooks of all sizes, either loose or ready hung on silk, hair or Indian grass; casting, minew, landing and scoop nets, &c. &c. &c.
Any gentlemen going on parties of pleasure in the fishing way, either to Black Point, sea river, or any other place, may be compleatly furnished with any kind of tackle, at a very short notice.
N.B. As he has a general assortment of the very best kind of Fishing Tackle, he flatters himself he is able to serve the public with better Tackle and on as low terms as any other in the city.
To be sold, a large frame building with eight sash windows, forty feet long, situate in Penn street, near Messrs. Willing and Morris. Also a silversmith’s large glass case.
Gentlemen fitting out privateers may be furnished with the following articles, viz. muskets, musket and pistol balls, ladles and worms; rammer, spunge and ladle heads; flintstocks [linstocks], dressed sheepskins, priming wires and bitts, tomkins, cartridge formers, musket and pistol flints, deepsea and hand leads and lines, cutlasses, pikes, lances, best kind of horn lanthorns, log lines, log reels, budge barrels, cartridge boxes, powder horns, &c. &.c
N.B. Ready money for muskets, pistols, or any other articles in the privateer way.
He also makes white rope of all kinds, as bed cords, bed lacings, plow lines, halter traces, well ropes, hay ropes, &c. which he sells on the lowest terms, wholesale and retail.
A light covered waggon, and geers compleat for two horses, to be sold.
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More to follow.
Spence