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HISTORY OF coil ASSET. 



LIST OF VESSELS BUILT AT COHASSET FROM 1822 TO 1837 

 (^continued). 



It will be noticed that in the year 1833 Jonathan B. 

 Bates commenced to build a series of larger vessels than 

 ever had been built in our harbor. Besides the larger 

 schooners, he set up each year a frame for a square-rigged 

 two-master called a "brig." These were not very large, 

 it must be confessed, when compared with a modern thou- 

 sand-ton brig, but they measured up to two hundred tons 

 and made a deal of employment for our ship carpenters. 



Contracts were taken for men living in Boston and in 

 Yarmouth and as far away as Philadelphia. It would not 

 be a wild guess to imagine that some of these brigs be- 

 came whalers in the Pacific Ocean and freighters in foreign 

 seas. Occasionally another little fishing schooner was 



