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The ISAF has tracked shark attacks in the U.S. as far back as the early 1800s – long before the 1916 shark attacks along the New Jersey coast inspired the "Jaws" novel and movie.

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New York state archives. New York in the revolution V. 1-10. Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New-York; procured in Holland, England and France, by John Romeyn Brodhead, ...