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also my brother and another boy, and sailed the 29th day of June, 1826. On the first clay out. 

 about sunset, we discovered a school of mackerel. We luffed to, threw bait, and called the school 

 alongside, and got some 5 or 6 barrels. That is the first fishing that ever I made jigging. Prom 

 this we proceeded to Cashe's Ledge and in some two or three weeks we got 150 barrels of mack- 

 erel ; after which the mackerel ceased biting, and there was ten days passed, and we never got 

 but two barrels of mackerel cruising from Cashe's Ledge to Mount Desert ; after which we fell in 

 with mackerel off Mount Desert and soon completed our cargo. We then proceeded for Boston. 

 We arrived in Boston the 2d day of August. We were gone just five weeks. We carried 

 altogether butts, that is, molasses hogsheads, and a vessel of any great size would have four tiers 

 of hogsheads. We took those barrels on deck to strike the mackerel in, to dress them in, and to 

 soak them in. We only carried twenty butts, and the remaining fish were salted and barreled 

 just as they do now. We arrived in Boston and packed our mackerel out. We had 238 barrels : 

 38 of No. 1, 23 of No. 3, and 177 of No. 2. These mackerel were sold for $4.25 for No. 1, $3.25 for 

 No. 2, and $2.25 for No. 3. Inspection cost us 92 cents a barrel. The inspector hired the butts. 

 After a day or two we packed out and the vessel came home. We were in a hurry to get out. 

 The wind came on from the northeast and kept us ten days, after which the wind hauled to the 

 southward, when we left for the fishing ground. The wind changing to the eastward we bore up 

 for Cape Ann and remained in the harbor of Gloucester for a week ; after which the wind 

 changed to the westward and we left the harbor. We arrived off Mount Desert and it came on a 

 storm and we landed in Cranberry Islands. We had got 26 barrels in getting so far on our 

 voyage. After leaving the harbor the next day we proceeded eastward. The 11th of September 

 we got 38 wash barrels, the 12th we got 45, the 13th of September (which was my birthday) we 

 got 51, on the 14th we got 28, and the next day 24. The wind then came on from the eastward 

 and we bore up and went to Cranberry Islands again, with 140 barrels of mackerel. When the 

 weather became good again we went out and found plenty of mackerel, and completed our cargo. 

 We proceeded to Boston, where we packed out 253 barrels. We had 177 barrels of No. 1, 8 barrels 

 of No. 3, and 68 barrels of No. 2. As we were going into Boston we hailed a mackerel schooner 

 that was coming out, and they said that mackerel were worth $3, $4, and $5. Our skipper 

 remarked that if they kept as high as that he wouldn't ask any more. He would get rich 

 enough. The crew made $105 to a share. 



Then we made another trip, the third, fishing between Cape Cod and Cape Ann, on what is 

 called Stellwagen Banks. During fall we got 225 barrels more that we packed. About 190 bar- 

 rels were No. 1, and the rest No. 2. The last day we were wide off shore from Marblehead, on the 

 20th of November, and caught 20 wash barrels. Then It began to snow and we came into Boston 

 Harbor. The next morning there was ice over the wash barrels. We went up then and quitted 

 the voyage. I made $200 for the three trips. That following winter and spring I engaged in the 

 shore fishery. 



Early in June I went to Boston and took the schooner Missouri, 33 tons. She wasn't very 

 big. This was my first trip as captain. After fishing about a month for codfish we abandoned 

 that and fitted for the mackerel fishery on the New England coast. We had two men beside my- 

 self, and two small boys, and got about 200 barrels of mackerel during the season. We closed up 

 our fishing about the middle of November. We jigged the mackerel and sometimes picked up a 

 few barrels with a gaff. When we fitted in the fall I bought a quarter of the vessel, for which 1 

 paid $100. The next spring I started codfishing in our bay about Cape Cod. About the 1st of 

 May we left off fishing there and fitted for the Gulf of Saint Lawrence cod fishery. We carried 45 

 hogsheads of salt. I don't know what time we left the Gulf. We wet all our salt. On our arrival 



