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day, 2ll: Came to .Tamespoil. Munilay, % j:W: Started very <-;n ly in the morning, intending to go into (lardincr's Bay, 

 lint it was calm; so we caught, 11,000 tisli in Pecouic Bay ; sent them to .1. Applie's factory ; pleasant day. Tuesday, 

 2IM: Aii east storm; we made a harbor in Kirkle Harbor. Wednesday , 25th : Went out in Gardiner's Bay ; caught 

 31,750 fish; sent them to ,1. Applie's factory ; pleasant day. Tliursdaii, Mill : Caught in Gardiner's Bay 22..~.00 lish ; 

 sent them to J. Appbc's factory ; pleasant .day. Friday, 27/A : Went fishing in Gardiner's Bay ; canght none. Satur- 

 day, 28th: Went out in Gardiner's Bay ; caught 44,000 lish ; sent them to J. Applie's factory ; pleasant weather. Mon- 

 day, 30th: Went out in Peeonic I5:iy; caught 26,500 tisli ; sent them to J. Applie's factory ; pleasant day. 



July 1*', Tni-vday: Went in Pecnnic Bay ; canght 13,!iOO fish ; sent them to Applie's. ll'nlnrsday, '-!(/: Went out in 

 Peconic Bay ; caught -.'1,700 lish; landed them at Jamesport ; pleasant day. Th iirsdny, ''/: Wind east and stormy ; 

 did not lUli. Mniiilini, ~lli : Went out in Peconic Hay; caught :',!l,oou tub ; sent them to J. Applie's factory ; pleasant. 

 I'n, ilitii, Hlli : Went on I in IVeonic. Bay ; caught 33, 000 lish ; sent them to Jamesport in the Accordeon ; canght 23,000 

 more and carried them to the factory in the William Hatlield ; pleasant day. If'tdiH-sday, 'Mil : We canght 12,000 lish 

 and Ill-ought them to .1 aim-sport, in the, William Hat field ; the wind blew quite hard. Thursday, HIM : Went in Peconic 

 B:iy; caught, 22,000 fish; brought them to Jamesport ; pleasant weather. Friday, 11//J : Canght in Peconic Bay 32,000 

 tisli ; sent them to J. Applie's factory ; pleasant day. Suttirdity, I2lh : Canght in Peconic Bay 10,000 lish ; landed them 

 at Jamesport ; pleasant. Monday, 14th : Caught io Peconic Bay 20,000 fish ; lauded at Jamesport; pleasant. Tuesday, 

 lCi//i: Went down in Little Peconic Bay; caught 40,000 fish; lauded them at Clark's factory (.small works in Noyack 

 Bay); J. Applie could not take them; pleasant weather. If'ednesday, Vjth : We made one set in Noyack Bay and 

 tried to sell them to the factories, lint could not; so sent the Accordeon to Sag Harbor and sold them to the farmers ; 

 at night we went to Greenport. Tliiirxdai/, I'tli : Went down in Gardiner's Bay; caught 18,000 lish; landed them at 

 J. Applie's factory ; pleasant. Friday, \*th : Wind blew hard from the east, so we came to Jamcspoi t. Monday, 2I/ : 

 The wind east ; so we did not tish ; I took a horse and went down to the, Southold factory to see Mr. Brnndred, and 

 lie engaged to take, our fish, for we do not like to catch fish without, knowing where, we can dispose of them ; just at. 

 night we started down bay ; left the Accordeon at Jamesport ; we sailed all night, and in the morning anchored in 

 Orient Harbor. Tuesday, 22d : The wind continues to blow from the east; we got under way and brat down under 



I f Gardiner's Island: canghl liS.OOO fish; went to Brnndred's factory at Son (hold witli them. jrrd>nsd(i/t,'>:\d : Went 



out in Gardiner's Bay; canght. 22,000 lish ; landed them at factory: pleasant day. Thursday, ;lM!i : Caught in Gardi- 

 ner's Bay 8,000 tish ; factory; pleasant. Friday, 25th : Caught in Gardiner's Bay 26,500 fish ; factory; pleasant. Kitiir- 

 day, 26th: Came to Jamesport. Monday, 2Sth : Went down in Gardiner's Bay ; canght a large haul, and while clear- 

 ing up the seine drifted so near Crow Island Shoal that the seine canght on the rocks; we sa\ed only 'Jl.ooo lish ; tmo 

 the seine bad ; pleasant. Tuesday, 29(/i : Came to Jamesport with the seine and carted it up in the lot. ITcdntxilny, 

 '.',(\th : Worked on the seine. Thursday, 'Mat : Worked on the sloops and seine. 



Anynst 1st, Friday: Worked on the seine. We did not start out until Monday, 4tli : We carted the seine down to 

 the boats, and started down bay ; pleasant. Ti/enday, TI//I : Went out in Gardiner's Bay ; caught 7,000 lish ; sent them to 

 factory at Southold; pleasant. irediicxday, li/;'i : Canght in Gardiner's Bay 2 1,000 ii-h ; sent them to Soul hold ; pleas- 

 ant day. Thursday, 7th : Went below Gardiner's Island ; caught no fish ; at night came up to Greenpml ; pleasant. 

 Friday, 8tli : We hauled the William Hath'eld out on the ways and cleaned her bottom, corked, &c. Saturday, 9th : Had 

 the William Hatlield painted. Monday, llth : Went down in Gardiner's Bay, caught about 2,000 lish, and anchored at 

 night just east of Fire Place Point ; pleasant. Tuesday, 12th : We went below Gardiner's Island and info Fort Pond 

 Hay ; caught none, ; wind blew quite hard from the southwest ; went into Napeagne Harbor and threw the 2,000 fish 

 that we caught on Monday overboard, after which we. went on shore and walked over to the surf. Wednesday, \Mh : 

 We' went out of Napteagne and went west of Gardiner's Island, in Gardiner's Bay ; caught 88,000 lish ; put them in 

 both sloops and took them to the factory at Southold ; pleasant day. Thursday, 14M : Went out in Gardiner's Bay, 

 caught ls,000 fish and 6 worth of bl nelish ; wind blew quite hard. Friday, lG(/i : It rained in the morning; we went 

 to Jamesport and carted the seine in the lot. Saturday, 161 Ji : We worked on the seine, mending holes: the blnelish 

 bit oil' a great many single bars, and it makes a great- deal of mending. Monday, l*th : Started down bay early in the 

 nioruiug, but did not get into Gardiner's Bay until most night. Anchored in Orient Harbor ; pleasant day. Tuesday, 

 Wth : Went out in Gardiner's Bay ; caught 29,200 fish ; sent them to the Southold factory ; pleasant day. Wednrxdaii, 

 20/7i : Went below Gardiner's Island ; caught 2ii,.~>t>0 fish ; sent them to the factory at Sotithuld; pleasant. Thursday. 

 ~U-/ .- Went out in Gardiner's Bay; caught 44,000 fish; factory; pleasant. Friday, 22d : Canght in Gardiner's Bay 

 ::o. lion fish ; wind blew very hard. Went to Jamesport with the fish, ftntnrdiiy. 2:W : Attended to the lish ; laid the 

 William Hatlield on the shore to clean her bottom, and carted the seine out in the lot and mended il. Monday, 2~>th : 

 We went down bay ; went around a shoal of iish oft" Three-Mile- Harbor, which is on the south side of Gardiner's Bay, 

 and caught, the seiuc on the rocks, lost the lish, and tore the seine ; came to anchor, mended the holes, ami lay there 

 through the night ; pleasant day ; light wind southwest. Tm-sdfiy, -J.^/i : Caught in Gardiner's Bay 17,000 lish ; sent 

 them to the Soul bold factory; pleasant day. H'e'lnrsdaii, 27//i : Went below Gardiner's Island, then came up m Gar- 

 diner's Bay and caught 20,000 lish off Three Mile Harbor; pleasant day. Thursday, '2tilh : A. M. it, rained; p. ni. we 

 went out in Gardiner's Bay ; caught, a good haul of tish, but. the sharks made holes in the seine and let them all out 

 except 6,000. Friday, 2'Mli : Wind blew bard from the. northwest ; we went out. and lay under the lee of Earn Head, 

 thinking the wind might die out, but as it continued to blow \ve came up to Greenport and hauled the William Hat field 

 on the ways to .stop a leak. 



September lut, Monday: A windy day ; it rained in the morning; we did not fish. Tuesday, 2</ : Went out in the 

 morning, but the wind came on to blow hard from the northwest ; so we anchored under Long Beach, and lay there 

 all day and night. Wednesday, M : Went out in the morning below Gardiner's Island ; caught, about l. r >,000 lish ; staid 

 in Nape.igue through the night ; pleasant. Thursday, 4th : Got under way in the morning; looked below Gardiner's 



