A Different Kind of Fish Story: From the Dewey Genealogy [In Weygant's book, Zelotes Dewey is #1399, son of Asaph Dewey and Penelope Sackett]: 6672. ZELOTES DEWEY, son of Asaph, b. (???), 1785, at Richmond, Mass.; d. Dec. 30, 1843, at Deerfield, N. Y., where he was one of the first settlers, made a clearing and built a log house; was a man of indomitable courage and perseverance; was obliged to travel ninety-six miles to Albany to market his produce, the trip occupying three days. Wolves were plenty and furious in the woods surrounding his home, sometimes attacking and killing his cattle and sheep. On one occasion, as he was returning from the then small village of Utica, traveling by way of marked trees, which was the only road, Page 669 a pack of wolves followed him, being attracted by the smell of fish, of which he had purchased a quantity that day. To save his own life and that of his horses became his one thought. As the wolves came nearer he threw out some of the fish and then drove on as fast as possible, thus placing a greater distance between them. After devouring the fish the wolves followed on again, when he would throw out more, and so reached home in safety, but without the barrel of fish with which he started. ...