704 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



C— WHALE-FISHERY from 1700 to 1750 : 



Shore whaling at Nantucket, 19. {]\'ote. — Late prosecution of this pursuit from 

 Southamption, 19. The first sperm -whale taken hy^ Nantucket men, 20. Whal- 

 ing out in the "deep," 20. Oil shipped from Nantucket to London in 1720, 20. 

 {Note. — Drift sperm whale on Nantucket ; hill of lading, 20.) Increase of the 

 business, 21. (Note. — Vessels registered from 1694 to 1714 ; Russian India Com- 

 pany ordered to fit out whalers ; statement of Greenland whaling ; Sweden, 21.) 

 Exports to England, 1730, 22. Culminating point of shore-whaling at Nantucket, 

 22. First recorded loss of a whaling vessel from Nantucket, 22. (Note. — Names of 

 the whale-boat captains at Nantucket and what they did in 1726 ; rescue of William 

 Walling by a Nantucket whaleman ; vessel of 118 tons burden built at Nantucket 

 in 1732; accidents from whaling; petition of Dinah CofiSn, 22.) Increase in the 

 business at Nantucket, 23. Indians employed, 23. Cape Cod and Long Island called 

 upon to supply the deficiency of men, 23. (Note. — Anecdote of Indian crew shore- 

 whaling ; Indian carried down by a foul line, 1744 ; imports of oil at London from 

 New England, 1729, 23.) Nontucket merchants thip oil to London, 24. Date of 

 Davis's Straits fishery, according to Macy, 24. Long Island. — Difliculties between 

 the Long Islanders and the New York government, 24. (Note. — Indian plot 

 at Nantucket, and fears for whaling fleet; Macy's date of Davis's Straits fishery 

 erroneous, 24.) Quarrels between the New York governors and the whalemen, 25. 

 Act for " Encouragement of whaling," 25. (Note. — Whale ashore at Nantucket ; 

 drift whales at Sufiolk County, New York, 25.) Quantity of oil brought iuto Long 

 Island and the fishing season, 26. Endeavor to monopolize the business, 26. 

 Samuel Mulford, of Easthampton, vs. the New York colonial government, 26. 

 Eastham. — Petition of the people of Eastham and vicinity for exclusive leave to 

 make available the waste of whales, 30. Falmouth Indians discharged from the 

 army to attend to the whale-fishery in 1724 and '25, 31. Renewed activity in 

 whaling from Cape Cod, 31. (Note. — Severe storm at Provincetown in 1728, 31.) 

 Boat's crew lost near Chatham, 32. Large whale killed at Provincetown, 32. 

 Accident to a Chatham crew, 32. HI success at Provincetown, 32. Accident, 32. 

 (Note. — A dozen whalers fit from Provincetown, 1737, 32.) French and Spanish 

 privateers, 33. Provincetown in luck, 33. (Note. — Accident at Truro ; gradual 

 recession of whales, 33.) Captain Roach's vessel seized by a French privateer, 34, 

 Salem, 34. Boston, 34. (iVbie.— Whale killed in Boston harbor ; whale warps and 

 blubber advertised ; price of whalebone quoted, 1723, 35.) Rhode Island. — Acts 

 of the assembly encouraging whaling, 35. According to Arnold, the first regularly- 

 equipped whaleman from Rhode Island arrives in 1733, 35. (Note. — Arnold prob- 

 ably in error; William Bennett arrives in 1723, 35.) Whaling at Martha's Vine- 

 yard, 35. Sailing of the Diamond, Leopard, Humbird, and Susannah, and result 

 of the experiments, 36. 



D.— WHALE-FISHERY from 1750 to 1784 : 



An eventful period for the fishery, 36. English bounties, 36. Concession of 

 bounties to the colonies a part of the scheme for the expulsion of the Acadians, 37. 

 Embargo on bank-fishermen, 38. (Note. — Colonists taxed to support a frigate on 

 the banks, 38.) Petition of John Norton, for Martha's Vineyard, and Abishai 



