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all the other ports combined, and probably the yield was about the same. 

 Among the captains were the following, sailing most of them to Davis 

 Straits and the Straits of Belleisle : Isaiah Eldredge (in sloop Tryall), 



Delano, Seth Hauiblin, Lazarus Spooner, Fortuuatus Sherman, 



Dillingham, and Joseph Tripp, of Dartmouth; James Fitch, 



Abishai Folger, Benjamin Jenkins, George Smith, Jethro Myrick, George 

 Russell, Samuel Long, Abraham Pease, William Worth, Richard Coffin, 

 and Benjamin Hussey, of Nantucket; Joshua Harding, of Cape Cod; 

 Thomas Wiccum,* of New London ; and Nailer Hatch, Cornelius Jen- 

 ney, Francis Chase, Nymphas Price, Robert Gardner, and Zadock Lew- 

 is, unknown. 



From 1770 to 1775 the state of the whale-fishery from Massachusetts 

 was nearly as follows :t 



To this estimate must be added for Providence, Newport, Warren, 

 Sag Harbor, New London, New York, about 50 vessels more, and the 

 proportion carried through would add 4,G00 tons of shipping, 450 men 

 to the number of seamen, 6,500 barrels of sperm and 1,200 of whale oil 

 to the above total. 

 The names of such of the captains as are known are as follows: 

 For 1771: Joshua Delano (sloop Defiance of Rochester), Eldridge, 

 Jenney, Peter Fitch, Uriah Bunker, Caleb Lombard, Richard Wheklen, 



* Wiggin. 



t " No less than 19 Sail of Vessels were cleared for a "Whaling Voyage from Rhode 

 Island the week before last." — Boston News-Letter, May 21, 1770. The sloop Marquis 

 of Granby, Pelatiah Russell, master, is reported in February, 1770, at Cape St. Nicholas 

 Mole with 170 barrels of oil, her crew of Iudians having run off with one boat and 

 craft. Tho sloop Deliverance, Marchaut, of Dartmouth, in two voyages this year took 

 360 barrels. John Claghorn, mate of a Dartmouth brig, was taken out of his boat by 

 a foul line and drowned — the fourth brother in a family of six who had lost his life in 

 this way. A Providence brig, a Newport schooner, and a Rhode Island sloop (these 

 accounts all seem to make a distinction between Rhode Island vessels and those from 

 Newport), all whalers, went ashore at Tarpaulin Cove, and a Warren schooner was 

 lost on Chatham bar. 



