Samuel Mulford, Alongshore Whaler 7 



red men led, in time, to an increase of the pay 

 given to a point where the white community as a 

 whole deemed it necessary to enact a law for the 

 regulation of the matter. The act declared that 

 "whosoever shall hire an Indyan to go a-Whaling, 

 shall not give him for his Hire above one Truck- 

 ing Cloath Coat, for each Whale, hee and his 

 Company shall Kill, or halfe the Blubber with- 

 out the Whale Bone." 



Samuel Mulford was not only trained by a 

 father who was noted for his sense of justice, but 

 he grew up in a community that would provide 

 by law that Indians might receive a "lay" of half 

 the blubber of the whales they helped the white 

 men to take. 



The details of the training of Samuel Mulford 

 in the actual work of a whaler are not recorded, 

 but it is not to be doubted that he learned to 

 hurl the harpoon and use the lance as soon as 

 he had the strength to do so, and that he became 

 an expert in "saving" whales. Further than 

 that, it is certain that he became a leader in the 

 community, as his father, "Goodman" John, had 

 been. As a whaler of skill and a foremost citizen 



