172 KErOKT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



1750. 



I'jijj^lily vossols, of an avt'in^c of 7;") tons burdcMi, pursued llio busi- 

 ness Irom NanturUot Uiis year. Oi tli;'sc, throe, conunaiuled respect- 

 ively by (Miristoplier ('onin, Teleij: Collin LM, and Nathan Da.ugett, wore 

 lost, and six others, undei- (-aptains lleniy ColUn, .Jonathan Collin lid, 

 Seth llnssey, Nathaniel ('oleinaii IM, NVilliani Barnard, and Josiah 

 (lorhain, were eaplnred by lh(^ I'^rench. (One of those captured was 

 said [o have had <»IK> barr(>ls of oil on board.) The returninjj: vessels 

 broufiht in 1L\(M)0 barrels of oil, vahu-d at .CIS per ton, jCl'7,(iO(). In 

 September, Captain Sniilh entered at lloston IVoni Davis Straits, 



('apt. Nathaniel Woodbury, in a^ whalinjj-.sloop from Nantucket, was 

 ca|)tnred by the I'rench privateer Keveni;e, about tlu> middle ot Au<;ust, 

 east of the C.rand Uaidv. lie had no oil on board at the time, and his 

 vessel was restored to him with tlu^ warning' that another privateer was 

 cruisin^ij in that vicinity. W'ootlbnry immediately nuide the best of his 

 way to Nantucket, arrivin<;- there eaily in September. 



Two whalin,:;- sloops were eapt ui(>d this year by a i)rivat(H'r brii»- Crom 

 Mississip[>i, and the slooi) Industry, Isaiah Midred.m', master,* was cap- 

 tured by a h'rench privateer. 



A whaling-vessel from Nantucket was captured by a French privateer 

 sloop of 113 f^nns, but released titter the Frenchman had put on board of 



her t lie crew of sloop , Luce master, which they had taken lull 



of oil a lew days before, and burned. .Vnother i)rivateer, mounting? 14 

 };uns, toi>k stneral whalemen ; one of tlii-m was ransomed for $-U)0, and 

 the crews of all put. on board of her and landed at Newport. Sloop 

 Polly ((»."» tons), of Martha's \'ineyard, ownetl by dohn N\)rton, estp and 

 others, made a voyai^c liom (hat i»ort. The sloops Coodluck, Dolphin, 

 and Success, owned by dos. ( 'onklinu, John l>\)ster, and others, are said 

 to have sailed from Sag Harbor, in this pursuit, to Disco Island. 



Ten vessels, of from 70 to iW tons burden each, cleared from jNIassa- 

 chusetts for the St. Lawrence (ishery. Names of ca[»tains engaged in 

 the fishery, .so far as ar(> now known, t dohn Clasby, Seth Folger, 



.Icnkins, Dunham, Allen, Pease, Thomas 



Cibbs, dolin Akin, Kphraim Delano, Thomas Nye, Shearman. 



* I'rohiihly iVom 1 >,irl iiumiI h. 



t From llu> Iol; of llio iJotscy. Soo Riclvotson's History of Ntnv Uodford. 



