HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY. 169 



1733. 



Lot Thatcher, son of Major Thatcher, of Barnstable, was drowned 

 while on a whaliug-voyage, probably in a Barnstable vessel. A whale 

 was taken iu the Bay of Fnudy by a Captain Hussey, and brought into 



Boston in August. 



1736. 



In March whaling- vessels commanded by the following men cleared 

 from the port of Boston:* James Smalley and Daniel Smalley (for 

 Greenland). In April, Doty, Doane & Mayo (lor Greenland); Jenkins, 

 Myrick, Doane, Langstaff, Lombard, Dimock, Eider, Doaue, and Davis 

 (Davis's Straits). Jn May, Yeates (Davis's Straits). In August, a 

 whaling-schooner arrived at Nantucket from the northward with three 

 large whales, one of them "twelve- foot bone."f In the same month 

 Captain Langstaff returned from Davis's Straits to Cape Cod. While 

 in the straits he struck a large whale which stove his boat, breaking an 

 arm and a leg (iu two places) of one of the crew, and injuring less 

 seriously four others. A day or two after they fell iu with a Dutch sbip 

 which had a surgeon on board, who set the broken bones and dressed the 

 wounds. Captain Langstaff took two whales besides this troublesome 

 one, one before, and the other after the accident. In September, Dimock, 

 Barker, Dimock (No. 2), Myrick, Jenkins, Lombard, and Langstaff 



(No. 2), arrived home. 



1737. 



In February there cleared from the port of Boston for Davis's Straits, 

 Eider & Webster. Iu March, Eider (No. 2), Adams, Doaue, Lombard, 

 Mayo, Crowell, Davis, Strout, Crawford, Glargon, Smalley, Doty, Free- 

 man, and Mayo (No. 2). In April, Dimock, Bangs, Taylor, Gorham, Somes, 

 Daniel Gorham, West, Doane, (No. 2), Paddock, Snow, White, Under 

 wood, Smith, Small, Vickery, Small (No. 2), Higgins, Vickery (No. 2), 

 Bickiord, and Smith (No. 2)L In May, Black, Bust, Cudworth, and 

 Oakley— in all 40. 



Captain Athertou Hough arrived at East ham from a whaling-voyage 

 to Davis's Straits in August. There also entered at Boston from the 

 same locality — in August, Captains Paddock, Smalley, Isaac Smalley, 

 Somes, and Smith; iu September, Clift, Mayo, Lombard, Watts, Doty, 

 Eobert Mayo, Vickery, Bickiord, Bayly, § Ilangh, Mayo, Gorum, Bacon, 

 Snow, Eussell, Oakley, Taylor, and Dimock ; in October, Hussey and 

 White. (The Davis's Straits fleet from Massachusetts aloue iu this year 

 must have consisted of between 50 and 00 vessels.) 



*Bv>ston was the port of eutry for nearly i bo whole State. Vessels from Dartmouth 

 ami vicinity usually cleared from and entered at Newport, and Nantucket v< sscls, he- 

 fore that port was made oue of entry, cleared sometimes from Newport and sometimes 

 from Boston. The names of captains and not of vessels are given. 



t Referring to the length of the slabs. 



t A dozen whaling-vessels, says the Boston News-Letter, are fitting for Davis Straits 

 from Provincetown (1737). " So many people aregoing that not over a dozen or fourteen 

 men will be left." 



$ The spelling is as per report. 



