180 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



Tahle showing returns of tchallng- 

 NoTE.— Where the tables are incomplete it is because 



Name of vessel. 



1784. 



Dintrict of Boston, Mass. 



Chance 



Friendship . 

 Fortune 



Nancv 



Nancy 



Peace and Plenty. 



Two or three small whaling-ves- 

 sels arrived in Boston in June, 1784, 

 clean. 



Sag Harbor, N. T. 



A ship and a brig sailed in nsj 

 for the Atlantic whale-tishery, but 

 made poor voyages, returning the 

 same year or early in 1785. 



New London, Conn. 

 Rising Sun 



Providence, B. I. 



Industry . 



1785. 



Sag Harbor, N. Y. 



America 

 Lucy 



Port of Boston, Mass. 



Betsy 



Constance. 

 Industry .. 



Lucy 



Nancy 



Nancy 



Peacock . . . 



Polly 



Speedwell. 



Wellfleet, Mass. 



Ranger.. 

 Sculi)ion 



Hingham, Mass. 



Nancy 



Plymouth, Mass. 



Hannah . 



Newburypoit, Mass. 



Chance. 



Dartmouth, Mass 



Hero 



1786. 



Boston, Mass. 



Betsy 



Constance. 



Class. 



Schooner 

 Sloop 

 Brig . 



..do . 



Schooner 

 ..do. 



Sloop 

 Brig . 



Brig 

 ..db 



Schooner 

 Brig 

 Schooner 

 . . do , 

 Sloop 

 Brig . 

 . . do 

 Sloop 

 Schooner 



Schooner 

 ..do . 



.do 



do .. 



Brig . 

 Sloop 



Schoonei 

 Brig .... 



Captain. 



Cook 



• House 



Kendrick 



John Rich 



Elisha Cobb .. 

 Peter Well . . . 

 Collins . 



Squires 



Swain. 



Parnal Cook 



John Wethereil . 

 Hezekiab Doane. 

 Solomon Clark... 



David Foster 



John Rich 



Jacob Higgins . . . 



Cottle 



Stephen Sears . . . 



Stephen King. 

 Daniel Covel.. 



Elisha Cobb 



Winslow Lewis - 



Barnabas Clark. 

 Joshua Delano.. 



Solomon Cook . . 

 John Witherell . 



Managing owner or 

 agent. 



B. Hunttinf 



