HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY. 169 



1733. 



Lot Thatcher, son of iMajor Thatcher, of Barnstable, was drowned 



while on a whaling- voyage, probably in a Barnstable vessel. A whale 



was taken in the Bay of Fuudy by a Captain Ilussey, and brought into 



Boston in August. 



17SG. 



In March whaling-vessels commanded by the following men cleared 

 from the port of Boston:* James Smalley and Daniel Smalley (for 

 Greenland). In April, Doty, Doane & Mayo (lor Greenland); Jenkins, 

 Myrick, Doane, Langstaff', Lombard, Dimock, liider, Doane, and Davis 

 (Davis's Straits). In May, Yeates (Davis's Straits). In August, a 

 whaling-schooner arrived at Nantucket from the northward with three 

 large w^hales, one of them "tw^elve-foot bone."t In the same month 

 Captain Langstaff returned from Davis's Straits to Cape Cod. While 

 in the straits he struck a large whale which stove his boat, breaking an 

 arm and a leg (in two places) of one of the crew, and injuring less 

 seriously four others. A day or two after they fell in with a Dutch shi^) 

 which had a surgeon on board, who set the broken bones and dressed the 

 wounds. Captain Langstaif took two whales besides this troublesome 

 one, one before, and the other alter the accident. In Sej)tember, Dimock, 

 Barker, Dimock (No. 2), M;^rick, Jeniiins, Lombard, and Langstaff 



(No. 2), arrived home. 



1737. 



In February there cleared from the port of Boston for Davis's Straits, 

 Rider & Webster. In March, Kider (No. 2), Adams, Doane, Lombard, 

 Mayo, Crowell, Davis, Strout, Crawford, Glargon, Smalley, Doty, Free- 

 man, and Mayo (No. 2). In April, Dimock, Bangs, Taylor, Gorham, Somes, 

 Daniel Gorham, West, Doane, (No. 2), Paddock, Snow, White, Under 

 wood. Smith, Small, Vickery, Smad (No. 2), Higjjins, Vickery (No. 2), 

 Bicklord, and Smith (No. 2)J. In May, Black, Bust, Cudworth, and 

 Oakley— in all 40. 



Captain Atherton Dough arrived at Eastham from a whaling-voyage 

 to Davis's Straits in August. There also entered at Boston Irom the 

 same locality — in August, Captains Paddock, Smalley, Isaac Su)alley, 

 Somes, and Smith; in September, Clift, Mayo, Lombard, Watts, Doty, 

 Robert Mayo, Vickery, Bicklord, Bayly, § Ilangh, Mayo, Gorum, Bacon, 

 Snow, liussell, Oakley, Taylor, and Dimock ; in October, Ilussey and 

 White. (The Davis's Straits fleet from Massachusetts alone in this year 

 must have consisted of between 50 and GO vessels.) 



* Bostou was tho port of entry for nearly ibe whole State. Vessels from Dartmouth 

 and vicinity usually cleared from and entered at Newport, and Nantucket vi ssels, be- 

 fore that port was made one of entry, cleared sometimes from Newport and sometimes 

 from Boston. The names of captains and not of vessels are given. 



t Referring to the length of the slabs. 



t A dozen whaling-vessels, says the Boston News-Letter, are fitting for Davis Straits 

 from Provincetown (1737). " So many people are going that not over a dozen or fourteen 

 men will be left." 



§ The spelling is as per report. 



