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Island: then went up in Gardiner's Bay ; caught 1!0,000 fish; sent them to factory ; pleasant day. Friday, Mh : Went 

 down iu Gardiner's Bay ; caught 12,000 fisli ; sent them to the factory and we mine lo Greenport ; pleasant. Satur- 

 day, 61k: Went down in Gardiner's Bay, off Plum Gut, but caught no fish; then came to Jamesport with the sloops; 

 it took us all day, as the wind was southwest; we carted the seine up in the lot. Monday, 8th : We worked on the 

 sloops and seine; in fact we spent the whole week tan-ing and hanging the seine, and working oil the fanu a part of 

 the time; did not go out fishing until Monday, 15//I : Wlien we went down bay; caught 5,000 fish; landed them 

 at the factory; pleasant day. Tuesday, 16th : Went out, in Gardiner's Bay; caught 15,000 fish; sent them to the 

 factory; pleasant. Wednesday, 17th: Caught in Gardiner's Bay 0,000 fish ; factory; fine day. Thursday, IStli : 

 Caught in Gardiner's Bay 15, Odd iish: took them to the factory at Southold ; pleasant. Friday, 19/7i : Went out in 

 Gardiner's Bay ; caught lli,5(HMish ; factory; line. Saturday, -Jdf/i . : Came to Jamesport with the sloops. Monday, 22d: 

 We went down bay ; caught none ; pleasant day. Tuesday, 2:W : \Ve went out very early in the morning ; went below 

 Gardiner's Island ; caught 30,000 fish ; sent them to Southold to the factory ; pleasaut. Wednesday, 24 /7c Wont out, hut 

 the wind (."line on to blow very hard ; so we went into Kapeagne Harbor and went beach-plum ruing. Thursday, 25tli : 

 A. M. the wind blew very hard from the east ; we went beach-plumming again ; at noon the wind slacked down, so 

 that we thought it would do to go out; went out east of Gardiner's Island aud went around a shoal of fish; the 

 seine caught on a rock, and we saved only 3,000 Iish and tore the seine, KO we went into Napeague and mended it. 

 Friday, 2(>/7i. : Went out below Gardiner's Island ; caught 10,5011 fish ; we did not get to the factory until most daylight 

 next morning; very calm day. Saturday, 27 Hi : Went to Jamesport ; pleasant. Monday, 29/7 : Went dowu bay; 

 caught none; very fine day. Tuesday, :'.d//i : We went out in Gardiner's Bay ; caught :l,dd tish ; sent them to factory; 

 pleasaut. 



October 1st, Wednesday: Wind east aud stormy; did not li.sh. Tliinsdai/, '(/ : Kast storm continues. Friday. 3d : 

 Went out in Gardiner's Bay ; caught 17,500 fish ; sent them to the factory at Southold ; pleasant day. Saturday, 4th : 

 Came to Jamesport : the wind blew quite strong from the southwest; did not go out again until IJ'ednesday, nth : 

 We started down b.-iy early in tlio morning; went down in Gardiner's Bay, but it was so late wo caught none; 

 pleasant. Thursday, 'Jth : Went down in Gardiner's Bay ; caiigln .!(;, 5on lish ; si nl them to Southold factory ; pleasant 

 day. Friday, Wth : An east storm : we lay in the basin ;it Grecnport. Saturday, Hlh: A.M. it rained: did not fish. 

 Monday, I'M : A storm from the east. Tuesday, Itth : Wind continues; did not tish. Wednesday, 15//I : Went- out in. 

 Gardiner's Bay; caught 4li,(il.in li.sh; sent them to Southold; pleasant, but blew quite har<l from the southwest iu 

 p. m. Thursday. Ifith : Went down in Gardiner's Bay ; caught 24,0011 Iish ; took them to the factory ; pleasant day. 

 Friday, 17 Hi : Went out in Gardiner's Bay: caught :;:', nun lish; .sent thenitotlie factory; v. e anchored under Gardi- 

 ner's Island ; tine. Saturday, l~lh : In the morning we went around cast of Gardiner's Island, but found no fish ; then 

 we went up to Southold with the William Hattichl, and reeled our seine on one of the haul-seine reels; got a team 

 and went home. Monday, 20th: Went to Southold, then went lo Greenport with the, William Hatfield; the wind 

 blew very hard from the northwest, so that wo could not tish ; mended s, inc. &<. Tuesday, 21*/ : Went out in Gardi- 

 ner's Bay; caught 63,000 fish at one set. ; sent them to Sotrfhold factory ; the wind came on to blow southwest. Wed- 

 nesday, 2%d: Started out of Greenport in the morning, but we had got no farther than Hay Beach when it commenced 

 to blow so hard from the northwest thai, we . eame back lo Greenport ; it was as much as we could do to get back; 

 some of the doable-end fish-boats (Kbode Island gangs) could not net back, but got under the land and anchored. 

 Thursday. '!'.'!: Wind con tinned at the northwest ; \\ e laid in Green purl. Friday. 24/71. : Went out in Gardiner's Bay ; 

 caught 51, (Hit) lish ; sent them to Southold factory; pleasant day. Salm-dny, ^.i/li : We. went out iu Gardiner's Bay; 

 caught 60,000 fish at one set ; the carry -away sloop did not get to us in lime, so we took them on the William Hatfield ; 

 it was calm all the p. m., so we did not arrive at Southold with them until cighr. o'clock in the evening. Monday, 27 III : 

 Went to Greenport ; it stormed, so we did not lish. Tuesday, '^III : A pleasant day, but some of my men have failed to 

 came; therefore, we cannot fish, ll'rdnrsday, 2W/i : Found two men in Greenport and went down below Gardiner's 

 Island; made one set just at night, aud as it was calm came to anchor cast of the island and lay there until morning. 

 Thursday. I'd//) : In the morning it blew quite hard from the northwest, but as soon as it slacked we got under way 

 aud soon found a nice red bunch; by the looks of it I should think it contained near liin.iiiiH; we set the seine around 

 it and commenced pursing, but we soon found il had caught on rocks and we could not purse it ; but as we were out 

 of the tide, we took a boat and pulled the seine up, clearing it, and saved a part of the fish saved, with the' few we 

 caught the day before, 40,500 lish ; took I hem to the factory, and as I was bothered to get men to make out a crew, 

 thought I would lay up. Friday, 31st : Went to the factories and had a settlement, and the next day went to James- 

 port and stowed boats and seines away. 



1864. 



As the business has increased iu importance, we have enlarged our capacity of catching and carrjiug the fish by 

 getting another carry-away sloop. Now we have the William Hatfield for I owing the boats and seine and for the fish- 

 ing-crew to live, in, and if necessary can carry a few fish on deck; the Aceordcon, which will carry about 45,000 fish; 

 and the Black Bird, which will carry about 40,000. We have fixed aud painted the sloops and boats, and started out 

 fishing in Peconic Bay May 31, when \\ e look 40,000 fish, and sent them to J. Applie's factory in the Aceordcon. 



June 13th : Sold &7.50 worth of fish to a smack; most of our fish are now sold to the factories. June 15th: Sold 

 J2G.75 worth of lish to ;i smack. 



October 18th : The wind 'ias slacked up so that we started out in the morning, and as soon as the gangs were by 

 Long Beach they began to drop off, and when we were just by Long Beach, looking oft' toward where the sun had 

 just risen, we could see fish breaking as far as the eye could reach. 1 never saw such a show of lish. We dropped 



