APPENDIX 



"A CALCULATION OF THE STATE OF THE COD AND WHALE 

 FISHERY, BELONGING TO MASSACHUSETTS IN 1763: 

 COPIED FROM A PAPER PUBLISHED IN 1764. 



300 vessels in the cod fishery caught 102,265 quintals of 



merchantable fish, at 12s 61,359.00 



and 137,794 quintals of West India fish, at 9s 62,007.06 



90 mackerel vessels, at 200 barrels each, are 



18,000 barrels at 18s 16,200.00 



Shad alewives and other pickled fish, 10,000 bbls. at 10s. 5,000.00 



12 bbls. of oil to each cod fishing vessel are 1,600, at 30s. 5,400.00 



15,000 hhds. for packing West India fish, at 6s 4,500.00 



West India fish from Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland in 



return for provisions, rum, sugar and molasses.... 10,000.00 

 180 sail of whale fishing vessels, the exportations to 



Great Britain amounting, in oil and bone, to 75,000.00 



To the West Indies and Continent in do 3,500.00 



Total 242,966.06" 



Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., VIII, pp. 202-203. 



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