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HISTORY OF CO H ASSET. 



attention of our fishermen, there were, nevertheless, 

 seven hundred and fifty quintals of cod taken, which 

 were valued at two thousand two hundred and fifty 

 dollars. 



When we remember that the codfishing at Cohasset 

 had dwindled to nearly nothing by the year 1840, so that 

 very few people remember its existence, while the enor- 

 mous sum of four thousand four hundred quintals was the 

 catch of one season upon record, we may feel sure that 



Codfishing off the Banks, 1780 and later. 



the years between 1737 and 1837 could tell some pretty 

 big fish stories for so small a town. 



Elisha Doane, who came here in 1786, had much 

 money invested in codfishing, and his old account books 

 tell some transactions that prove the magnitude of this 

 extinct enterprise of the town. 



The larger schooners went to the Grand Banks of New- 

 foundland, the Bay of Chaleur, and Prince Edward Island 



