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Mr. Charles Peterson of New Haven, in a letter to Mr. H. W. Hubbell says : 

 "I have before me the Connecticut Journal, dated at New Haven, July 17, 1799, which 

 announces the arrival here of the ship Neptune, Capt. Daniel Green, six months from Canton- 

 sailed October, 1796. The Neptune had been gone two years and eight months. Her voyage was 

 around Cape Horn to Mas-a-Fuera, where she caught a load of seal skins and took them to Canton 

 and loaded there for New Haven. She left a part of her crew on Mas-a Fuera under Dr. Fovbes, 

 who caught another cargo of skins, and the ship immediately returned for them and the skins and 

 went on to China, making the same voyage as her first one, and the richest voyage ever made out 

 of this port. The log-book of the second voyage, is now at our historical society." 



1797. 



Barclay, ship, Capt. Griffen Barney, sailed from New Bedford, Mass., August 25, 1797, for 

 Pacific Ocean, whaling and sealing; arrived home June 26, 1799, with 700 barrels sperm and 500 

 barrels whale oil ; had also taken 21,000 fur-seal skins and sold them iu Canton. Mr. F. C. Sanford, 

 of Nantucket, says: " The Barclay was built at New Bedford by William Botch, of Nantucket, in 

 1793. When Mr. Rotch returned from London to Nantucket, in 1795, this vessel brought him to 

 Boston. She had a remarkable career, and was broken up in New Bedford in 1864. She was 

 once taken by the Spaniards and retaken by Porter (see Farragut's Life by his son)." 



Betsey, brig, 100 tons, Capt. Edmund Fanning, of New York, sailed from Stonington, Conn., 

 June 13, 1797, on a sealing voyage to coast of Chili. A full cargo of 100,000 fur-seal skins were 

 procured on the island of Mas-a-Fuera and taken to China, where they were exchanged for teas 

 and other commodities, with which the vessel, now altered to a ship, arrived in New York April 

 26, 1799. The owners realized from the voyage a net profit of $52,300. 



Maryland, ship, Captain Liscomb, sailed from New Bedford August 25, 1797, for the Pacific 

 Ocean. The captain, mate, and beat's crew were captured and abused by Spaniards at Saint 

 Mary's, but were released. The vessel when homeward bound was captured by a French priva- 

 teer but released after losing 2,000 seal skins. Arrived home 1799, with 20,000 seal skins and 800 

 barrels sperm oil. 



A ship, from Hudson, New York, was sealing at Falkland Islands in 1797, in command of Capt. 

 David Bunker, also a North River sloop as tender, commanded by Capt. Prince Bunker. 



Garland, brig, Capt. Bazilla North, was at the Falkland Islands in 1797, on a sealing voyage. 



1798. 



Hetty, brig, of New York, Captain Robertson, was on a sealing voyage at Patagonia in 1798. 



1799. 



Concord, ship, 171 tons, owned by Dudley L. Richardson and others, sailed from Salem, Mass., 

 in August, 1799, on a sealing voyage to Mas-a-Fuera and other islands. She proceeded to China, 

 exchanged her cargo of fur-seal skins for Chinese goods, and arrived home July 17, 1802, one hun- 

 dred and forty-five days from Canton. The account of the voyage was as follows : 



Ship cost $7,500, outfits$6,180 $13,680 



Expenses of voyage and crew 11,462 



Total expenses 25,142 



Vessel and cargo sold at auction at Salem, July 28, 1802, net $67, 794.56. 



Minerva, ship, Capt. Mayhew Folger, of Nantucket, sailed from Salem in October, 1799, and 

 arrived home May 3, 1802, one hundred and fifty-three days from Canton. Felt's Annals of Salem, 

 under date of May 10, 1802, says : "The ship Minerva, belonging to Clifford Crowinshield and 



