170 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



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Cleared from Boston for Davis's Straits in March, Stephen Snow, 

 Prince Snow, John Gorham, Benjamin Gorham, Strout, Elisha Mayo, 

 Robert Mayo, John Smalley, Elisha Smalley, Doane, and Hatch ; in 

 April, White and Howland. 



Entered at Boston from Davis's Straits, in Angust, Mayo, White, and 

 Smalley ; in September, Smalley (No. 2) ; in November, Bennett and 

 Gorham. The Davis's Straits fishery yielded excellent returns. 



.Joseph Chase also made a whaling voyage from Martha's ^'ineyard 

 in the sloop Diamond, 40 tons burden. 



1739. 



Cleared at Boston in April for Davis's Straits, Captain White. En- 

 tered at Boston from Davis's Straits, Small, Bobbins, Doty, Mayo, White, 

 and Smalley (August), Sears (September), and Gorham (November).* 

 James Claghorn in the sloop Leopard (40 tons), and Jos. Chase in the 

 sloop Diamond, also made whaling-voyages from Martha's Vineyard. 



1740. 



Cleared at Boston in March for Davis's Straits, Mayo. Sailed from Mar- 

 tha's Vineyard, sloop Leopard, Claghorn master. A whaleman on the 

 Banks having lowered for whales, his boat was attacked by a sperm 

 whale and stove into kindling-wood. The crew were rescued unharmed, 

 by another boat, to which also the whale immediately gave chase, but 

 by dint of hard rowing the fate of its predecessor was avoided. 



1741. 



The sloop , Capt. Solomon Sturgis, sailed from Barnstable, 



whaling. The sloop was captured by a Spanish privateer under com- 

 mand of Don Francisco Lewis. Sturgis and eight of his men were al- 

 lowed to leave, and the vessel with four men was carried away. The 

 sloop Leopard, Claghorn, made another voyage from Martha's Vine- 

 yard . 



1742. 



Sloop Humbird, John Harper master, made a voyage from Martha's 

 Vineyard. Sloop , Daniel Paddack master, sailed from Nan- 

 tucket and was lost. 



1744. 



A whaleman from Nantucket was captured by a French privateer. 

 Sloop Susannah, 55 tons burden, made a voyage from Martha's Vine- 

 yard. 



* At this very time the English papers were remarking the success of the Dutch in 

 the Greenland fishery, and saying, "It is surprising that such Instances of the prodig- 

 ious Advantage of the Greenland Fishery should not push the English to more vigorously 

 pursue it." See item in Boston News-Letter, dated Newcastle, July 23. 



