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a careful perusal of the original deed of Mayhew to 

 ten purchasers and an examination of the map, it 

 would seem that somehow or other Masquetuck and 

 Nashayte had changed places or rather names (another 

 Bunker Hill affair). 



Teamsters. 



Whenever the services of teamsters or carmen are 

 required, they can generally be found in the vicinity 

 of Main Street, or upon the arrival of the steamers 

 at Steamboat Wharf. The regular prices charged are 

 as follows: for taking a trunk to any part of the town, 

 twenty-five cents; a ton of coal, fifty cents; for a box 

 weighing not over one hundred pounds, from the 

 steamboat landing to any place of business, fifteen 

 cents. Appended is a list of teamsters: — 



John S. Appleton, Hiram lieed. Thos. E. Coffin, 

 Frederick Crocker, Henry Crocker, Charles Crocker, 

 Wm. C. Mooers, Henry Mooers, James McCleave, 

 Sidney Thurston, Samuel Thurston, Kichard Thurston. 



Telegraphic Facilities. 

 Considering the fact that there is as yet no cable be- 

 tween the island and the main, very fair facilities are 

 afforded for the transmission of telegraphic messages- 

 In 1879 the Western Union Telegraph Company ap- 

 pointed Mr. C. C. Crosby their agent here to receive 

 messages and forward them on the steamers that left 

 twice a day for Oak Bluffs, where there was a cable 

 which connected with the mainland, so that the only 

 time actually lost in the sending of messages was that 



