176 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Riebard Coffin, Paul Rawson, Benjamin Church, John Squires, Tristram 

 Gardner, Francis Barnard, Thomas Manter, Benjamin Paperdy (?), 

 George Russell, David Swain, Cornelius Marchaut, William Pease, 

 Robert W^er, Jonathan Barnard, David Clark, and John Winslow. 



For 177:2: , (sloop Defiance, of Rochester), Peter Wells, John 



Howland, Thomas Pain, Thatcher Rich, Elisha Doane, Jonathan Doane 

 (Dartmouth), Thomas Ryder (Cape Cod), Jeremiah Bickford, William 



Mooros, Benjamin Coffin (Nantucket), Joseph Smith, Elisha Cobb, S 



Swett, Thonsas Groose, Jonathan Moores, David Swain, Stephen Sears, 



Obed Bunker, Bunker (of Nantucket, in sloop Fancy), Paul 



Cook, Barnabas At wood, Jcnney, Obed Nye. Two vessels from 



Marblehead were whaling during part of the season. Two sloops from 

 Nantucket, with about 150 barrels of oil each, were captured by a Span- 

 ish brig and sloop off Matanzas, The sloops Pluto, of Acushnet, John 

 Winslow master, and King of Prussia, of Nantucket, Paul Rawson 

 master, were found in September bottom up, and it is supposed that the 

 crews had perished. Brig Leviathan, Lathrop master, sailed from Rhode 

 Island for Brazil Banks. 



For 1773: John Delano (in sloop Neptune, of Dartmouth), Obed Nye, 

 Matthew Price, Hugh Cathcart, Joseph Gardner, William Roberts, 

 Francis Chase, Wyatt, Barlow, Paul Cook, Joseph Cart- 

 wright, Edmund Cottle, Nathaniel Coleman, Samuel Manter, Oliver 

 Price, Matthew Price (in sloop Dolphin), Ephraim Pease, Marshall 

 Jenkins, Benjamin Starbuck, Richard Cothn, Benjamin Foswick, Obed 

 Hussey, Jonathan Doane, George Shockley, Isaiah Eldridge, Silas But- 

 ler. In August a schooner, Worth master, arrived in New York, 



having taken with her consort (name or port not given) 380 barrels of 

 whale-oil and between 7,000 and 8,000 pounds of bone. Sloop A, of 

 Providence, Abishai Luce master, was damaged in a gale December 4, 

 and lost two men. 



For 1774 and 177.5* (in brig No Duty on Tea, of Dartmouth) : 



Swain, Jonathan Mitchell, William Swain, Robert VVyer, George Allen 

 (in command, the captain having been caught by a foul line while fast 

 to a whale and drowned), Benjamin Jenney, Abishai Luce (see 1773), 

 Michael Ilathaway, Caleb Lombard, Benjamin Hussey, Benjamin Berry, 

 Eleazer Hopkins, Luther Burgess, John Bassett, Francis Butler, John 

 Squires, Benjamin Allen (Nantucket), Daniel Snow, Edward Wing, 

 Abel Easterbrooks (Warren), Benjamin Coffin (Nantucket), William 



Ramsdell (ditto), Meader (ditto). A whaling-sloop, owned by 



Gideon Almy, of Tiverton, and auottjer, owned in Boston, were captured 

 by a French frigate off Hispaniola, carried into Port au Prince and con- 

 demned. 



* From the "No Duty on Tea's" log of a voyage to the Western Islands. On June 

 10, 1774, the sloop Rochester, commanded by David Squires, and owned by Nathaniel 

 Macy, and the schooner Lowden, commanded by Peleg Swain, and owned by John 

 Ramsdell, sailed from Nantucket on a wbaliDg-voyage. They struck on Great Point 

 Rip and were lost, the crews very narrowly escaping drowning. 



