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*It is stated that Capt. Archilaus Hammond afterwards of the Cy- rus, of Dunkirk but then of the Amelia of London killed the first sperm whale known to have been taken in the Pacific Ocean in 1787 or 1788. Tradition says that Capt. David Starbuck of the Harmony, of Dunkirk, brought the first cargo of sperm oil from that ocean. In his letters to his son Benjamin under date of 2 mon 18th, 1792, Mr. Rotch says of his letters: "By the 2d. & 3d, thou wilt find the Canton's safe arrival, the last one only to inform thee of the arrival of David Star- buck from Coast of Peru with 550 Bbls Sp. Oil."
tThe Columbia Gazette of Dec. 9, 1793 published the following: "New Bedford, Nov. 25. Arrived ship Edward, Micajah Gardner, from a Delago Bay whale cruise 1500 bbls whale oil. Capt. Gardner not hav- ing heard of a war, ran in for St. Helena to get information. Sent his Mate and five hands on shore to make enquiry; who were detained by the Governor; and an American Ship's boat, the Sea Horse, Albert Hus- sey, master, belonging to Cape Ann, was sent off with the following letter to decoy him into port:
"To Capt. Gardner of the Edward: Sir :- France is at war with all the world-the American Ambassador's head has been cut off at Paris, you have no port on earth to put into where you will not be taken- here you shall have generous terms, all your private property, and that of your crew, shall remain your own, the same as if you had never been taken: I have consulted the Lieut Governor, and we have agreed to give you these terms -- In witness whereof I hereunto sign, and give it under my hand, and the Seal of the Honorable United East India Company. Robert Brooke, Governor and Commander in Chief. St. Helena: 20th 1793.
(L. S.)
In answer to which Capt. Gardner sent word,-"he thanked him for his generous offer but rather doubted the truth of France being at war with all the world,"- Should not therefore throw himself on their mercy-and continued to stand off and on, hoping his boat would return-But next day by the same boat received a second letter as follows :- "I again inform you that France is at war with all the world; That the American States are in alliance with Great Britain; I therefore now treat with you as an American subject; I must re- peat my offer of yesterday and demand of you to enter our port im- mediately; Which if you refuse to comply with, I shall be obliged to make a representation of the case to the British Secretary of State, and to General Washington: After promising this if you continue obstinate and are taken on any foreign coast, you must undergo all the severity of treatment, by the Laws of Nations, in such cases made and provided. Given under my hand etc.
Capt. Gardner, doubting very much the Governor's candor, only replied to the letter: "I shall not enter your port but shape my course for America," which he accordingly did, leaving his mate and boats crew on the Island, and has safely arrived." (The Edward was one of the Rotch fleet sailing out of Dunkirk, France.)
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after the National Government was in operation. After an exam- ination the petition was granted. The ships referred to were prob- ably the Bedford and the Lydia .* Data showing when the French fishery was finally abandoned by Nantucketers is not available. Details are very meager, too, relative to the English whale fishery although Nantucket captains commanded ships for many years. The laws of Parliament, however, required that the ships should be English built and the crews essentially English.
Prior to 1790, the people of Nantucket, finding that sealing voyages had proved profitable to English fishermen, turned their attention to that industry, and for a while it was fairly successful, t but somehow it did not seem to appeal to Nantucket whalemen, and the field seemed to be quite abandoned to the sealers of New London and Sag Harbor.
The encouragement the French had given to Mr. Rotch and his associates was communicated in a considerable degree to the Nantucket fishery and that and the home market combined to make business on the Island quite satisfactory. Although Nantucket whalemen did not at first enjoy the voyages into the Pacific be- cause they kept them so much longer from home, the larger fares and the better price obtained for the oil were too important fac- tors to be overlooked.
The first Nantucket whaleship to round Capt Horn and bring a cargo of oil from the western coast of South America was the Beaver, Capt. Paul Worth .¿ This opened up a comparatively un- tried and prolific source of oil and Nantucket owners quickly availed themselves of the opening.
The number of vessels preparing for the business required more men to man them than were available. Mr. Macy says: "None of the natives left were capable of going to sea. It there- fore became necessary to resort to the continent for a considerable portion of each crew, whence there were brought some Indians
* Jefferson states, ii, 519, that only nine families of 33 persons all told, removed to Dunkirk, so that but very few of the captains had any home ties in France.
+Macy's Hist. p. 140.
¿Macy in his History (pp. 141-2) presents the following statement of the expense of fitting out the Beaver as given by the Captain: "Cap- tain Paul Worth, in a new ship of 240 tons burthen, called the Beaver sailed from Nantucket on a whaling voyage, in the Pacific ocean, in the year 1791.
The whole cost of the said ship, fitted for the voyage, together with the cargo, amounted to $10,212.
She carried 17 men, and manned 3 boats of 5 men each, which left 2 men, called shipkeepers, on board the ship when the boats were out in pursuit of whales.
The principal part of her cargo, when fitted for sea, consisted of 400 bbls. iron hooped casks (the remainder, about 1400 bbls. were wooden hooped), 40 bbls. salt provision, 312 tons of bread, 30 bushels of beans and peas, 1000 lbs. rice, 40 gallons molasses, 24 bbls. flour.
All the additional provisions during the voyage were 200 lbs. bread. The ship was out 17 months, and was the first ship belonging to the Island, that returned from the Pacific ocean.
Her returned cargo was 650 bbls. sperm oil, worth £30 per ton, 370 bbls. head matter, worth £60 per ton, and 250 bbls. whale oil, worth £15 per ton.
The ship was not coppered. There were four other ships belong- ing to Nantucket, whaling on the same coast that season."
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and a great many negroes. Many of the latter took up their residence here, and became the heads of families. They built a cluster of houses near the south part of the Town, which is called New Guinea. Their inebriety and want of economy, gen- erally kept them poor, although they made great voyages."*
It was about this time (1792) that New Bedford began to show increased activity in the whale fishery, and the cloud over Nantucket's supremacy in that business, "at first no bigger than a man's hand," began to show evidence of that maritime rivalry which was eventually to completely overshadow the Island's bus- iness. Boston, Providence, Gloucester, Sag Harbor also added vessels to the fleet with the customary result of over-production and reduced prices. Whalebone which, as Macy says,; prior to the Revolution brought, at times, a dollar a pound, was, at this time, slow in the market at ten cents, although it was long understood that Nantucket captains did not like to encumber their ships with bone. Of course, as the majority of Nantucket's cap- tains were sperm whalemen and the bone is a product of the right whale, the decline in the price of bone was not so serious a matter.
The French Revolution, and the subsequent wars between England and France, had a very depressing effect on the Amer- ican fishery, and yet the wealth of the people increased, though slowly. The continued troubles forced many Nantucket men en- gaged in whaling from European ports to sell or dismantle their vessels.
In 1798, came a new danger. Diplomatic relations be- tween the United States and France were in a serious condition. To the people of Nantucket whose ships were, many of them away on long voyages the situation was. especially grave. French privateers in the excess of their zeal captured American vessels and the two countries, that so short a time before had fought England to a stand-still, were nearly imbroiled in war between themselves. Four Nantucket ships fell victims to French war vessels-the Joanna, Coffin, captured with 2,000 barrels of oil; the Minerva, Fitch, with 1,500 barrels; the Active, Gardner, 3,000 barrels; the Ann, Coffin, then in the merchant service; the total value of vessels and cargoes being estimated at $130,000. Claims for the loss of these vessels and cargoes were among those assumed by the United States Government, and known as the French Spoliation Claims. It is one of the most discreditable events in the history of our Government that every attempt to adjust these claims, in the settlement of which with France the United States had received from that country the section of our country known as the Northwest Territory, had been thwarted either by one house of Congress or by Executive veto. As long after the event as 1846, the status of claims and owners were thus reported-the
* Page 138.
+Page 138.
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Joanna, one of the original owners still living, 75 years old and poor; claims never sold; Minerva, one of the original owners living, 68 years old and poor; master still alive, 78 years old, with small means and many dependents; one of the crew alive, poor, claims never sold; Active, . same owners as Minerva, with captain; captain died in 1844, aged 85, leaving a large family and grandchildren; claims never sold; Ann, captain left a large fam- ily. in slender circumstances; one of the underwriters died a few years prior to 1846, in the almshouse, who, at the time of the capture, stood high among Nantucket merchants; claims never sold .*
*The Nantucket Inquirer of April 9, 1836, published the following names of captured vessels with the awards allowed: Sloop Sophia, Smith, award $4,850; Schooner Mary, Folger, award $9,050; Sloop Union, Clisby, award $5,650; Brig Union, Stubbs, award $6,500, also Nan- tucket Warder May 20, 1846.
ABBREVIATIONS - Sh., Ship; Bk., Bark; Bg., Brig .; Sch., Schooner; SI., Sloop. 1788
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
CLASS
Ton- nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Sperm Whale Whale- Oil Oil bone
Fox. .
Bg.
Barzillai Folger Seth Folger
1789
Harmony . .
Sh.
Industry .
Sh.
172 Gilbert Folger
1789
There is no report of vessels from Nantucket or New Bedford for 1784, 5, 6, and 7, although doubt- less some sailed.
1789
Asia .
Sh.
Africa . . .
Sh.
Amazon. .
Bg.
Britannia .
Bg.
Woolwich B.
- 1790
770
Fox. .
Sh. Bg. Sh.
Obed Barnard Barzillai Folger Silas Jones
Woolwich B.
Sept. 11
1790
750
Harlequin .
Bg.
Industry
Sh. Bg.
Woolwich B. Sept. 1 Aug. 27
1790
951
Built 1778.
Minerva . .
Sh.
217 William Clisby 200 S. Coffin IT. Folger
Woolwich B. Woolwich B. Woolwich B. Woolwich B.
1790
1140
Mary Ann .
Sh.
Manilla .
Bg.
David Barnard
Aug. 27
1790
Nantucket .
Sh.
B. Folger
1790
920
. .
Sally . .
Sh.
194|Joseph Chase
Spy .
Sh.
William Fitch
Sh.
Barzillai Coleman Benjamin Clark
Sh.
Elijah Coffin William Barnard David Giles Peter Fosdick
Aug. 27
Aug. 27 Aug. 27 Sept. 1 Sept. 11 Sept. 1 Sept. 14
June 16,1790
Columbia
Favourite.
Benjamin Whippy 172 Gilbert Folger
June 15,1790
Leo. . .
1790
1160
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
403
REMARKS
-
1789-Continued
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
Ton- CLASS nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Sperm Whale| Whale- Oil Oil bone
REMARKS
Ranger
Sh.
William Swain Seth Folger
Sept. 1 Sept. 1
1790
1160
Rebecca
Sh.
Trial .
Bg.
George Chase
Sept. 11
May 17,1790
Venus .
Bg.
Obed Eldridge Robert Meader Baxter
Brazil
Oct. -
No report accessible for 1790
1791
1
Alliance
Sh.
Bartlett Coffin
Delago B.
Oct. -
Feb. 15,1794
Beaver . .
Sh.
Paul Worth
Pacific O.
Aug. -
Mar. 25, 1793
1100
200
Diana . .
Sh. Sh.
Timothy Long Obed Barnard Thomas Brock Seth Folger George Bunker
Brazil Brazil Pacific O.
.
Apr. 8,1793 Apr. 30,1793 Apr. 8,1793
700 800 800
500 240 400
Warren .
Sh.
Robert Meader
.
- 1793
Capt. Coffin died. Ship made a poor voyage. Built 1791. The first American whaler in the Pacific. Refused supplies in Lima and ordered off the coast by the Spaniards.
Built 1791.
Hector. ..
Sh.
Rebecca . .
Sh.
Pacific O. Pacific O.
.
Washington .
Sh.
Built 1791. First vessel to fly the American flag in a Spanish port.
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HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
Warren
Sh.
Sept. 20
Sept. 3
June 17, 1790 - 1791
Sh.
Favourite
1792
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
· NAME OF VESSEL
Ton- CLASS nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Oil
bone
Amazon .
Bg.
David Giles
Brazil
July 23,1793
650
Fox.
Sh.
Daniel Kelley
Woolwich B.
Nov. 1,1793
800
Hero. .
Sh.
Obed Eldridge
Woolwich B.
Oct. 16,1793
1300
Harmony .
Sh.
.
James Chase
Woolwich B.
Oct. 16,1793
800
Harlequin .
Sh.
Benj. Whippey .
Woolwich B.
Nov.
1,1793
800
Industry .
Sh.
172 Gilbert Folger
Brazil
May
3,1793
900
Juno .
Sh.
George Clark
Africa
Nov.
1793
600
Leo .
Bg.
217 William Clisby Seth Coffin
Brazil
June 6,1793
1200
Maria .
Sh.
- Hillman
Pacific O.
Mar. 27,1794
730|
90
Mary Ann.
Sh.
Tris. Folger
Brazil
Aug. - 1793
1100
Ranger .
Sh.
William Swain
Brazil
June 6,1793
1100
Built 1792.
Sally
Bg.
194
Woolwich B.
Oct. 16,1793
700
Sea Fox.
Sh.
Venus .
Bg.
James Brown 1
Woolwich B.
Nov. - 1793
500
1793
Amazon .
Beaver ..
Bg. Sh. Bg. Sh. Sh.
David Giles Paul Worth Joseph Wyer Alpheus Coffin Obed Barnard David Folger Thomas Brock 313 Obed Aldridge
Brazil Woolwich B. Brazil Coast Peru
Oct. 16 Aug. 5 Aug. 5 Sept. 15 July 13 Dec. 16 Aug. 17 Dec. 6
June 30,1794 May 16,1794 Sept. 16,1794 June 22,1794
Columbia .
Favourite
Favorite.
Sh.
Hector
Sh.
Hero
Sh.
405
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
Britannia .
.
1794
1795
550
Minerva .
Sh.
Brazil
July 23,1793
Sperm Whale Whale- Oil
REMARKS
406
1793-Continued
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
CLASS
Ton- nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Sperm Whale Whale- Oil Oil
bone
Industry
Sh.
172 William Fosdick
Brazil Brazil Brazil
Aug. 3 Oct. 10
May 16,1794 July 6,1794
Leo .
Bg.
217 William Clisby
Sept. 14
June 21, 1794
Maria .
Bg.
- Cash
Atlantic
July - 1793
100
Minerva
Sh.
200 Peter Myrick
Brazil
Aug. 9
July 14,1794
900
Manilla .
Sh.
Andrew Barnard Tris. Folger
.
Aug. 9 Dec. 12
May 21,1794
Polly .
Bg.
Starbuck
C. of Good H. Oct. -
1794
Clean
Ranger
Sh.
Gilbert Folger Seth Folger
Brazil
Aug. 17 Sept. 14
June 19,1794
Ruby .
Sh.
Isaiah Clark
Swallow .
Sch.
Latham Gardner
Falklands Brazil
May 17,1794 July 14,1794
400
Union .
Sh.
Grafton Gardner
Aug. 18
June - 1794
1280
The Union did not anchor once on the voyage, and the only land she. sighted was Cape Augustine on the way home. About.
1794
Boston Packet . Cato.
Sh. Sh. Sh.
Easty
- Swain
Commerce .
A. Gardner
Woolwich B. Delago B. Woolwich B.
Oct. - 1795
Jan. - 1796
Oct. - 1795|
Full Full
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
Washington Warren
Sh.
Solomon Smith Matt. Starbuck
Peru & Chili |July 10 Sept. 15
May 16,1795
700
Sh.
Pinkham
Bahamas
- 1793
Aug. 5
Rebecca
Sh.
Whaling and sealing.
Swan.
Sh.
- Swain
REMARKS
Lydia. .
Sh.
160 Zenas Coffin
Mary Ann
Sh.
1794-Continued
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
Ton- CLASS nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Sperm Whale Whale- Oil Oil
bone
Fox. .
Sh. Sh.
Joy Thomas Brock Grafton Gardner Fosdick
WoolwichB . Pacific O.
Oct. 3,1795
Full
Hector.
Sh.
Joanna .
Sh.
Minerva . ..
Sh.
200 William Myrick William Swain Gardner
Woolwich B.
Oct. 3,1795
Full
1795
Alliance. Beaver .
Sh. Sh.
V. Pease
Woolwich B. Brazil
Dec. 15,1796 - 1796
1100 1100
Long
Sh.
Paul Worth
Pacific O.
.
Caesar .
Sh.
S. Smith
C. of Good H. Aug. -
Jan. - 1797
Returned dismasted in October. Arrived early in 1797. Last reported with 1200 bbls. sperm. Put into Charleston, S. C. with loss of main-mast, cross-trees, quarter- rails and boards, and boats stove. Took 36 whales-saved 25. Last reported with 700 sperm.
Harlequin Union . .
Sh. Sh. Sh.
Clark
Barney
Pacific O Brazil Woolwich B.
Dec: -
May ---- 1797 1796
1100 900
7000
At Charleston, S. C. in distress. Oct., 1796.
407
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
Full
Ranger.
Sh.
Uniba .
Sh.
Delago B. Pacific O. Woolwich B. Brazil
Feb. - 1796
Aug. - 1796
1100 400
Full
Hudson .
Oct. 3,1795
1200
W. Easton
REMARKS
.
1796
.
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
Ton- CLASS nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Oil
bone
Alliance.
Sh.
Pease
Woolwich B.
Dec. 15,1796
Brothers
Sh. Sh.
256 L. Coffin
Brazil
Beaver .
--- Long
Brazil
1797
Cato.
Sh.
V. Swain
Brazil
Sh.
Folger
Brazi!
Sh.
David Giles .
Hero
Sh.
313
---- Aldridge
Woolwich B. Feb. 4
Leo
Sh.
217 William Cash
Lion.
Sh.
A. Barnard
Woolwich B.
Mars.
Sh.
D. Folger
Rebecca .
Sh.
S. Long
Brazil
Sh.
Uriah Bunker
Capt. Cash killed by first whale struck. Last reported with 700 bbls. whale. Last reported with 850 bbls. whale.
1797
Alliance.
Sh. Sh. Sh.
Hezekiah Barnard Pacific O Nathan Long
Woolwich B Amaziah Gardner Pacific O.
July 5
Oct. 18,1799 Dec. 30, 1798 Sept. 26,1799
1000
1200 200
Caesar .
Sh.
Solomon Swain
Diana .
Sh.
Swain
Eagle.
Sh. Sh.
- Clasby Obed Paddock
Pacific O. Pacific O. Delago B. Delago B.
.
Mar. 8,1799 Mar. 4,1799
Full Full
Fortitude.
Nearly full. Capt. Gardner, his mate and boat's crew were barbarously treated by the Spaniards at S. Mary's in January, 1799. Nearly full.
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HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
Beaver . .
Commerce.
July - 1797
Sperm Whale| Whale- Oil
REMARKS
1797-Continued
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL.
Ton- CLASS nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Sperm Oil
Whale Whale- Oil
bone
Sh.
Obed Aldridge" Alpheus Coffin
Delago B.
Mar. 18,1799
Nearly full.
Hope .
Sh.
David Giles
Dec. 29, 1799
Hector
Sh.
Benjamin Worth D. Folger
Peru
Nov. - 1799 Full
Mars .
Sh.
Ruby
Sh.
221 Andrew Myrick
Feb. 5,1800
1000
50
Renown
Sh.
Trial .
Sh.
Simeon Starbuck
Nov. - 1799 800
1798
Favourite.
Sh.
Leo.
Sh.
Thadeus Folger 217 Joseph Allen Edward Coffin .
Pacific O. Pacific O. South Seas Pacific O.
Aug. 20,1800 Dec. 9,1800
800
Phebe. .
Sh.
Ruby.
Sh.
. 221 Andrew Myrick
Dec. 14, 1800 Feb. 5,1800
1000
300 Full 50
1799
Industry .
Sh.
172
Sh.
Sh.
William Easton Uriah Bunker Levi Starbuck Simeon Long
Brazil Pacific O Pacific O Pacific O. Brazil
June 28, 1801 June 28,1801 June 28,1801 July 3,1800
900 Full
Full
Full
60 Full
Captain was killed by a whale Crew badly affected with scurvey Crew badly affected with scurvey
Sh.
Sh.
Full-60 bbls. of it-sperm.
*So many Nantucket captains commanded English and French whalers that one may occasionally be included in this list which is compiled prior to about 1835 from the marine lists of the newspapers of the time.
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HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
- 1799
1250
150
Pacific O Pacific O. Pacific O.
Dec. 25,1798
1200
1800
REMARKS
Sh.
410
1799-Continued
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
Ton- CLASS nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Sperm Oil
Whale| Whale- Oil bone
Phebe.
Sh. S1.
Jona Paddack William Joy
Apr. - Patagonia Pacific O.
July 17,1802
On whaling and sealing voyage. No report.
1800
Alliance.
Sh. S1.
Amaziah Gardner Woolwich B. Clasby
Aug. 18
Nov. -- 1801 Aug. 18,1800 Aug. 16,1800 Nov. - 1801
Full
Betsey .
Bluebell Sch. Sh.
Cato ..
Sh.
Long John Brown Thomas Barnar David Giles - Marshall 160 William Clark
Atlantic Atlantic Woolwich B. Brazil South Seas
Sept. 8 Aug. 27
June 28,1801 June 28,1801
Full Full Full
Hope .
Sh.
Julianna
S1.
Lydia.
Sh.
Brazil
Brazil
Apr. 29,1801
Fullį 64
Probably a schooner or sloop.
Last reported with 900 sperm.
Ranger .
Sh.
Perkins
Tryal .
Sh.
Coffin
Pacific O.
Condemned by the Spanish at Val- paraiso 1801.
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
Took one whale. Took two whales.
'Took one whale. One of the crew a disguised female; had been two voyages undetected
Sh. Sh.
Bahamas
May 27,1801
Full
Full
Mary Ann
Sh. Sh. Sh. Sh.
Paul Worth William Clisby Simeon Long David Harris Tris. Folger - Swain . William Joy
Brazil Brazil
Woolwich B.
Nov. 16,1801
Full
Ruby . .
Pacific O.
Pacific O.
Oct. 27,1801
Full
Sh.
July - 1802
1500
REMARKS
Prudence .
Oct. 27,1801 Full
Ranger
Sh.
Fame .
Aug. 17,1800 May 28,1801
1000
June 28,1801
June 28,1801
1801
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
ACLASS
Ton- nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Oil
Brothers .
Sh.
256
Folger
So. Atlantic
Aug. 12,1802
Diana .
Sh.
Fame.
Sh.
Barnard
Woolwich B. Brazil
Aug. 12,1802
John Jay
Sh.
217 William Clark
Brazil
July 17, 1802
Leo.
Sh.
217
Allen
Pacific O.
Aug. -
Feb. - 1803
1000
500
Lydia .
Sh.
160
Starbuck
Woolwich B.
Nov. 5,1802
Mars . .
Sh.
Swain .
Aug. 12, 1802
Renown . :
Sh.
Coffin
Union .
Sh.
Grafton Gardner
Brazil
Nov. 26,1802 July 17,1802
1400
1802
Alliance
Sh.
Atlas . .
Sh.
Amaziah Gardner 249 William Easton 187 David Harris Coffin
Brazil Pacific O. C. of Good H. C. de Verde
Sept. 16
June 30, 1803 Mar. 30, 1805 Jan. 2,1804 Aug. 12,1802|No
1800 600
300
Betsey . .
Sch.
Belvidere .
Sh.
Hezekiah Barnard Pacific O.
.
Jan. 2,1804
800
Commerce .
Sh.
Cato.
Sh.
Solomon Folger, Jr. Pacific O.
Brazil
Aug. 22
May 25,1804 Nov. 12,1804 Mar. 15,1804 Aug. 11,1803
1000
Hazard .
SI.
Harriet . .
Sh.
Philip Fosdick Uriah Bunker
So. Atlantic Atlantic Woolwich B. Pacific O.
Dec. -
Dec. 3,1803
1000
Hudson .
Sh.
"Most full." Had, also, some whale oil.
Sailed again Oct. 19, 1802.
Nearly full.
Criterion .
Sh.
229
- Joy
Hope.
Sh.
Obed Joy
Last reported with 40 sperm.
411
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
Boston . .
Sh.
.
Rep't
.
.
Nov. 5,1802
Industry .
Sh.
172 Obed Fitch
Full; probably about 1500 whale. Full; probably about 1800 whale.
Sperm Whale| Whale- Oil bone
REMARKS
1802-Continued
DATE .
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
CLASS
Ton- nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Sperm Whale| Whale- Oil Oil
bone
Industry .
Sh.
172 Gco. Russell, Jr. 217 William Clark
Brazil Woolwich B.
Sept. 13,1803 Nov. 5,1803
450 900
Lady Adams ..
Sh.
230
--- Fitch
Aug. 24
Last reported with 32,000 seal skins, bound for China.
Mary Ann. Minerva
Sh. Sh.
200
-- Jones
Woolwich B. Pacific O.
Nov. 9,1803 Aug. - 1804
900
Whaling and scaling; reported with 23,000 scal skins. Full.
Rebecca
Sh. Sh.
George Chasc Coffin
Brazil Pacific O.
Apr. - 1803
900
Sukey
Sh .. Sh.
William Joy David Whippey
Brazil Pacific O.
Sept. 13,1803 Sept. 1,1804 Apr. 20,1804
900
Bought from Boston 1802.
Union'
NOTE - Vessels sailing for the Pacific did not usually fill in that ocean, preferring to rourd Cape Horn on the return with a well-trimmed ship and fill with right whale. oil on the Coast of Brazil, hence many sperm whalers brought some right whale oil. Per contra some right whalers picked up a sperm whale outward or homeward bound. Probably the gross amounts would not, however, vary much from the returns.
1803
Alligator .
Sh.
Swain
Aurora .
Bg. Sh. Sch. S1.
Coffin Delago B. C. of Good H. Amaziah Gardner |Patagonia ---- Gardner
Mar. ~ 1804 Apr. 14,1804
1600
Alliance .
Betsey
Dove .
Eliza .
Bg.
- Paddock Peter Myrick
Patagonia Pacific O.
June - 1804 Oct. 31,1805
1000
Full-mostly elephant oil.
Reported at Barbadocs Feb. 17 1804 with 400 sperm.
Henry .
Sh.
*The Eliza Bunker, also sailed in July on a sealing voyage.
412
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
REMARKS
John Jay.
Sh.
Tris. Folger
Ranger .
Sh.
1803-Continued
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE"
NAME OF VESSEL
Ton- |CLASS nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
Oil
Hope. .
Sh.
Obed Joy
Brazil
July 20, 1804
Harlequin
Sh.
- Starbuck
. : :
Aug. 3,1804
Leo.
Bg.
217 Uriah Bunker
Patagonia
Feb. 24,1804
Lydia .
Sh.
160
- Ray
Nov. 28,1804
Margaret .
Sh.
Reuben Starbuck Pacific O.
Dec. 13,1805
1100
Neutrality.
Sh.
Brazil
Apr. 20,1804
Perseverance
Sh.
Coffin
Nov. 23,1804
Renown
Sh.
Alpheus Coffin
Pacific O.
Nov. 3,1805
1250
Ruby .
Sh.
221 Tris. Barnard
Pacific O.
Sept. - 1804
800
Swallow.
Bg. ISh.
Brazilj
May 5,1804
1000
Barzillai Hussey Three Nantucket whaling schooners (one com- manded by David Folger) are reported to have been seized by the French armed schooner Telegraphe, off Aux Cayes, carried into Jacmel and condemned; the crews were imprisoned in the fort, and six of them are said to have died. The ships Favorite, Coffin, sailed .in 1802 or 1803, arrived May 6, 1804.
HISTORY OF NANTUCKET
1804
Alliance. Alligator .
Sh.
Aurora .
340
Amaziah Gardner |Patagonia David Swain --- Hussey 187 William Perkins
Mar. 21 C. of Good H. Aug. - New Holland |Aug. 24 C. of Good H.
Apr. - 1805 Feb. 4,1806
750|
Full 317
Elephant oil.
Nov. - 1806
Full
Boston . .
Sh.
George Chase - Bunker
Brazil
Patagonia
Oct. 15
Full
Rebecca . .
Sh. Sh. Sh.
413
Sperm Whale| Whale- Oil bone
REMARKS
1804-Continued
DATE
RESULT OF VOYAGE
NAME OF VESSEL
CLASS
Ton- nage
CAPTAIN
WHALING GROUND
Sailed
Returned
bone
Belvidere .
Sh. Sh.
Richard G. Swain Pacific O. - Eldridge
Pacific O.
- 1806 Feb. 15,1806
Criterion .
Sh.
229
-Joy
Atlantic
Jan. - July 23
Jan. 23,1806
Full
Eliza .
Bg.
Chase
Eagle
Bg.
David Folger
June 7 C. of Good H. Aug. - Patagonia C. de Verde
Apr. - 1805
90
Fame.
Sch.
Timothy Folger
C. de Verde
May 29
Fame.
Sh.
Obed Wyer David Worth
South Seas
June 1
- 1806
Henry . .
Sh.
Peter Myrick
Pacific O.
1806
Industry .
Sh.
172 Geo. Russell, Jr. 217 William Clark
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