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to a considerable number of the people. At the commencement of 

 this period about two hundred Chebacco boats, measuring nearly 

 three thousand tons, and employing about six hundred men, were 

 engaged in it. These boats resorted to the ledges and shoal grounds 

 near the coast, where they found at different seasons, cod, hake and 

 pollock. This boat-fishing was chiefly carried on at Sandy Bay, 

 Annisquam, and the other coves on the outside of the Cape, but the 

 advantage of a good harbor for their large boats drew a few of the 

 people away from these localities, to settle at the Harbor, soon after 

 1800. An increase in the size of the boats soon took place, and by 

 the end of the period now under consideration several pink-stern 



MODEL OF " PINKEY " OF 1810. 



schooners, or jiggers, as the}' were sometimes called, were employed 

 in the business. This shore fishery for cod probabty reached its 

 maximum in 1832, when the amount of tonnage engaged in it was 

 6463 tons, the number of men emploj'ed 799, and the product offish 

 63,112 quintals, valued at $157,780; to which must be added the 

 bounty of $25,172, received from the general government. But 

 another fishery had now for a few 3*ears attracted the attention of the 

 fishermen ; and the shore-fishing for cod, except that carried on in 

 winter, declined from this time, till it came to be, as at the present 

 day, of insignficant account in the business of the town. 



Of the early history of the mackerel fishery in New England, as 

 well as that for cod, very little is known. Gov. Winthrop, standing 

 41 to and again " within sight of -Cape Ann, all of one day in June, 



