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"As Henry Bull has the old Records of the Colony and has pub- lished considerable out of them I should suppose he would be likely to give some acct of their previous Collectors, and of their Navigation, or some of thy Newport friends, they in that Town having had much more Navigation than we here till of late years ours have much in- creased.
"There is somewhere in being a list of all the Vessel Sailing or owned from thence [Newport] Collatted by Joseph Lawrence which contains the tonnageof each and the owners names, am'tng if I recollect right to upwards of eleven thousand tons which is double what the 54 vessels before mentioned was estimated to contain on an average
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
I think 90 tons only. I was in hopes of finding a copy but I have looked over where I thought most likely to find it, but in vain. Per- haps a copy may be in the custom house where the most correct account may be expected to be found of all our Navigation since its establishment.
"1756 August 4th war against the French was declared in this Town. 1757, January 30th arrived the prise, Snow Desire, taken by Captain Esek Hopkins the 8th inst, making 5 mo. 4 days from the dec- laration to fit out, man and capture the prise, which was a valuable one, and began the privateering which was carried on and continued by a number during the war to the making many rich and some poor. The 10th of February 1769 the King's proclamation for a general Ces- sation of arms was publicly made by his Majesty officers and others in our public places.
"I find in our books only 84 vessels before the year 1760 with their names and mostly the masters. As to officers we have had no Custom House much to the dettryment of our concerns in navigation. Altho we sought it of the Commissioners sent out and set in Boston after the collectorship was put in John Robinson's hands, who was made one. Jabez Bowen, Wm. Russell and myself were appointed to go down to Boston and solicit the Commissioners for a collector and office but without any success.
"Our townspeople was very early engaged in the fishery for I recollect an entry in our town records where application was made for the Island of Starve Goat, for the purpose of drying of fish, and it was granted in early times, and within my own memory and knowl- edge that has been the case; beside Brother John, who was concerned in many vessels in that employ, as well as in the coasting, West India, European and India trades, but the particulars will be hard to get at as his books and papers were many of them burnt at Tockwotton when the Gin distillery and other buildings were burnt, as I have been informed. Otherwise his own transactions in Merchantile affairs might be better known. He built the largest ship for the India trade there before the distillery was built.
"Our first law for settling the fees of that [the collector's] office {at Newport] I think was in 1764, after Wanton was superceded, by I think John Robeson. My father's books shows eight vessels that he had the management of, viz. Sloop Dolphin, Obadiah Brown Master ; Sloop Mary Godfrey ; Schooner Ann, Samuel Gorton, Master; Sloop Pillican ; Sloop Mary Gould, John Hopkins, Master; Schooner Ann; Sloop Rainbow; Sloop Shearwater, John Hopkins. All West India vessels. Some to Surinam with horses, etc. From 1730 to 1748 I find 15 and from 1748 to 1760 I find about 60 vessels by my father Obadiah Brown book owned by him, Stephen Hopkins, Daniel Jencks, Nathan Angel and many other names, which may be mostly found by the books, the names of vessels, masters, and where they traded, may
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be found I expect by close inquiry, but some time will be required for it.
"Navil officers was very early appointed perhaps about 1600 or 1602, and continued by the Governor. Perhaps the books of that office may be found in Newport. Fort George was built at or before 1704, began I think by the Government, and I believe application was made for cannon to England.
"There is one vessel, or ship I think best to mention particularly ; she was owned by the company of S. Hopkins, D. Jencks and O. Brown about the year 1757, which was loaded with ship timber, chiefly which was floated down Pawtucket or Blackstone river and taken up in our East or Seconk river, and put on board the ships. Col. Edward Kinnicutt went in her to London, sold vessell and cargo and bought goods which set up 3 shops; Daniel Jencks, Obadiah Brown's, where I was brought up, and one for Col. Kinnicutt himself. Before this, shops of dry goods owned by people in Newport princi- paly, supplied our county. Of these John Hadwen, my great uncle Jos. Tillinghast which was kept by Nicholas his son, Peleg Thurston most largely and was kept in the house where James Angel our town Clerk afterward lived, John Wanton, Thomas Robinson, and Daniel Marsh one after the other sold the goods for Thurston and used to ship him occasionally lumber as remittance, tho principally money. "From thy friend,
MOSES BROWN."
After this letter there follows the subjoined note and list of vessels :
"As to privateers I expect others can better inform thee.
"Commodore Esek Hopkins brought away cannon from N. P. The town was full of sugars brought in by privateers and when the British troops landed on Rhode Island the sugars was removed into the coun- try generally.
"Account of vessels named in our books-
1746 Schooner 3 Sisters, by Stephen Hopkins, etc.
Brigantine Lydia, John Kilton, S. Hopkins, etc.
1749 Snow 2 Brothers, S. H., etc.
1747 Sloop Sarah
Sloop Batchilder
Sloop Warner
1749 Brigantine Staria Waterman
1745 Sloop Victory A. Brown
Brigantine Hannah
Schooner Ranger, John Kilton
Brigantine Hope, Esek Hopkins
1746 Desire 66
Hope, Rufus Hopkins
Schooner Ranger, James Mitchell
1747 Brigantine Hannah, Charles Field
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
1748 Brig Hannah, Eben'r Tyler Sloop Sally, Esek Hopkins Brig Hope, Jereme Jenkes
1753 Schooner Martha, fisher for macrial
Sloop Charlestown
1756 New Brigg not yet named Sloop Mary a fishing vessell Charming Molly
1733 No.1 Dolphin, Obadiah Brown
1736
3 (My fathers book) Schooner Ann, Saml Gorton
Sloop Mary and as early as 1734 and 33 66 Schooner Anna
Sloop Rainbow
66
Sloop Pillican
1737
Sloop Marigold and sloop Shearwater J. B. Hopkins
1730 Ship Pillikin
1750 Sloop Freelove, Joshua Brown and Thomas Kilton, Masters
1749 Brig. Arthur, Joseph Arnold, 2V. Thomas Manchester
1749 Schooner Smithfield
1750
Sloop Kinnicutt, James Mitchell & 52-3 & 54
1750 Sloop Defiance Simeon Hunt
1752 Sloop Nightingale, Asa Brown
1750 Snow Squiril, Joseph Turpin
Brigantine Warrin, Nehemiah Rhodes
Snow 2 Brothers, John Hopkins
Snow Volney, and in 1751 do Gid'n Manchester
Brigt Winscot, Joseph Owen, Master
" & 51 Sloop Sarah, Page Master
1751 Snow Providence
1751 Snow Dolphin, George Jackson
Snow Nipton, Jos. Wanton
1753
Sloop Charlestown, Nehemh Allen
1751
Brigt St. Eustatia, Smith & 1752
1751 & 2 Snow 2 Sisters
1752 Sloop Hanner, Joseph Sheldon
1754 Schooner Victory, Joseph Arnold
1753
Sloop Sammon. Job. Sweeting & 53 & 54
1752 Schooner
1752
Schooner Two Friends
1753 Schooner Martha
1753 Brigt. Grey Hound. Page
1753 Sloop Eagle. Kilton Master
1753
Sloop Amy, Chr. Hopkins
1754 Brigantine Brittania, Corlis Master and to 1754
1754
Sloop Speedwell
1751 Brig. Hope
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1753 to 5 Snow 3 Sisters, Chris. Hopkins
1754 Sloop Elizabeth, Benj Wright
do. Sloop Elizabeth, Benj A. Wright, and 1755
do. Sloop Volunteer, Daniel Tillinghast
1755
Snow Squiril, Paul Tew
1756
Brigt. Providence, Thomas Manchester
do.
Sloop Blacksnake. Sweeting
1759
Sloop Volunteer, John Godfrey
1750
Sloop Anna, Joseph Owens.
1750
Sloop Speedwell, Corlis.
do. Sloop Ester, L. Hull.
do. Sloop Deborah, Charles Read
1758 Brigt. Prudent Hannah, Paul Tew
1759 Sloop George, Page
do. Brigt. Brittania, N. Rhodes
do. Sloop Providence, building
do.
Brigt. Providence
do.
Ship Noble Galley, Simn Hunt
do. Sloop Speedwell, Silas Cook
1760
Newflood, George A. Page
1761
Brigt. Dolphin, Abram Page
1762
Sloop Speedwell, new
1762
Sloop Four Brothers
1758 Brigt. Chester, Samuel Angell.
1763
Mary Ann, Sloop
do.
Sloop Four Brothers
1764 Brig. George
1752 Brigantine Barberry, George Corlis, Surinam
1752
Providence Packett, Jeremiah Sprague
1753
Sloop Salinen, Job Sweeting Master
1752
Sloop Mary-Mack, Robert Lynden
1754
Good ship Caron, John Partridge
1758
Snow Friendship for London, Seth Crane Master
do.
Brig. Brittana, Nehemiah Rhodes, Hyspaniola
1755
Sent a load of lime to Boston to build the stone Chapell
1755
Sloop Amy, Thomas Lawrence for Boston
1754
Snow Squirrel, Wood Morris, Suranam
1742
bo't the Willmaning of 90 tons by O. B. of Nichs Power
1753
Sloop Charlestown. Nathl Sweeting, to Barbadoes four own- ers.
1759
Sloop Speedwell, Silas Cook for St. Marks. Eight owners taken.
1759
Sloop Speedwell for Amsterdam. Uriah Davis
1756 Sloop Deborah for Jamaica. James Warner M's. four owners Sloop Esther, Montichristo
1743
Obediah Brown bought Robt. Dean the sloop John
1754
Sloop Amy, Woodberry Morris for Boston
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
1748 Sloop Charming Sally for Gardyloup, Esek Hopkins, owners Hopkins, Jencks & O. Brown
1753 Sloop Humburd. Newfoundland, for Edward Kinnicutt
1754 Sloop Christopher Sheldon
do Snow Draggon for Jamaica
1754 There was a sloop Victory and a schooner Victory, first for So. Carolina, the last Jamaica
do.
Sloop Blackstone. Burges, Jamaica
1760
Sloop George, George Hopkins, Hyspaniola
do Sloop Pawtucket, Rufus Hopkins, Montichristo
do Brig. Seaflour, George Hopkins. South Carolina.
Up to the time of the Revolution Newport was not only the leading port in Narragansett Bay, but she was one of the most important on the American continent and was a close rival of both New York and Boston. She was occupied by the British forces from December 8, 1776, to October 25, 1779, and during these three years her commerce almost entirely ceased, while the property of her citizens was either destroyed or devastated. After the evacuation no immediate attempt was made to revive the old time commerce, because of the hazard in- volved, as the British fleet was still on the coast. When the end of the war came, in 1783, many of the merchants of Newport had invested their capital and transferred their ships elsewhere. More than a third of the population had gone away. The Jews, who were among the leading merchants, had almost all emigrated. Gradually, however, there was a revival of business, and while Newport never attained to her former rank, she was for many years a busy port, with some for- eign commerce, which continued until general economic conditions brought about its decay. Providence, however, after the Revolution became the leading port on Narragansett Bay, and the story of the evolution of the commerce of the community belongs principally there- after to her history.
While the Revolutionary struggle greatly harassed trade on Narra- gansett Bay, it by no means annihilated it and the Providence mer- chants, despite the presence of the British flect at the mouth of the bay, sent out some trading vessels and many privateers. Following ancient precedent, the General Assembly acted like the Legislature of an independent nation, and two weeks before the Declaration of In- dependence it passed an act "permitting commerce with all parts of the world except Great Britain or her dependencies and appointing two intendants, onc at Newport and one at Providence, to supervise the same".1 These intendants were virtually collectors of the rev-
1 Arnold's History of R. I., vol. 2, p. 378.
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enue. In 1784 intendants were appointed by the Assembly for Bristol and East Greenwich, but in 1787 the power of appointing intendants or their deputies was given to the governor. By act of the Assembly in 1789, Providence and Newport were made ports of delivery and entry and the other ports on the bay ports of delivery only.
When the war was over in 1783 the acts passed by the General As- sembly against commerce with Great Britain were repealed and trade with the mother country was slowly resumed. The articles of con- federation bound the States together very loosely, so that in many re- spects each was independent. This was especially so in regard to com- merce. The adoption of the constitution of the United States, March 4, 1789, changed this state of affairs and made possible what had been urgently needed-uniform commercial regulations for the whole coun- try. Rhode Island, however, did not finally accept the new national constitution until May 29, 1790, and thus for an interval of more than a year she was in reality a totally independent government. Judge Staples uses the term "Empire of Rhode Island" to express the status of the little commonwealth at this time. Many of her wisest citizens, however, were in a very unhappy frame of mind over this condition of affairs. The following extract from the instructions the citizens of Providence addressed to their representatives in the Gen- eral Assembly at this juncture, presents in very clear language the danger to the community in a commercial sense :
"Separated as we are from the States which compose the present union we stand perfectly alone, unconnected with any State or sov- ereignty on earth. As we can claim no right to the flag of the United States, our commerce and navigation are deprived of national protec- tion. The benefits of commercial treaties, formed by European na- tions with the United States, will no longer be extended to the citizens of Rhode Island. All trade with the new confederated States will probably soon be interdicted to the citizens of this State, except on the footing of foreigners, and of course on the payment of exorbitant duties. Subjected to these injurious restrictions and disadvantages our commerce and navigation, already extremely embarrassed, must be annihilated and the ports of the State of Rhode Island, which but a few years since were crowded with shipping, will afford shelter to only a few fishing craft."1
From the close of the war in 1783 up to the adoption of the consti- tution in 1790 Rhode Island imposed duties on imports coming from other States, as well as from foreign countries. The General Assembly passed an act in June, 1783, levying a duty of two per cent. ad valorem on all imports and a year later this was increased to two and a half
1Staples's Annals of Providence, p. 337.
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
per cent. This duty was collected on all goods imported from the West Indies or from abroad, and on articles manufactured abroad but imported from the other States. "Country produce", including flour, corn, lumber, oil, fish, tobacco and all kinds of raw materials and articles of "country manufacture" from ports in the other States, were admitted free of duty. In January, 1787, the import duty was raised to five per cent.
There is still in existence in the Providence custom house an old record, the "Book of Manifest", which contains the details of the business of the port from May 12, 1785, to July 20, 1789. According to this account, vessels arrived in Providence from Hyspaniola (Hayti), St. Croix (Santa Cruz), Gudaloup (Guadeloupe), Martinico (Martinique), Aux Cayes, Port au Prince, Cape Francois, St. Luce (St. Lucia), St. Estatia (St. Eustatia), St. Thomas, Trinidad and other ports in the West Indies, with cargoes of rum, molasses, coffee and spices; from Turk's Island with salt; from Surinam in Dutch Guiana and Demerara in British Guiana, with the same class of goods as from the West Indies; from Virginia with tobacco; fromn New York with flour and shingles; from New England ports with potash, lumber, fish and country produce. The majority of the vessels were from coastwise ports ; next in number were those from the West Indies and the coast of Guiana; while occasionally vessels arrived from Europe. Among the European arrivals were the brig Hope to Clark & Nightingale, from L'Orient, France, May 14, 1787, with a cargo of tea and other goods; the ship Warren to Brown & Francis, from the same port, on September 25, 1787, with a similar cargo; the ship Hope came in from Copenhagen to Brown & Benson and the brig Harriett from the same port to Welcome Arnold. Vessels also ar- rived from Dublin and St. Petersburg. According to this old record a large amount of merchandise was brought from Boston by "Land Transportation" during these years, and on thesc goods duties were paid as on those brought by water. Dexter Brown evidently was the principal carrier of goods by land and his chief rival was Moses Guild. Eventually they seem to have formed a partnership. The first entry of this overland trade with Boston is on May 17, 1775, as follows : "Goods imported by land, viz. Brought from Boston pr. Jonathan Fuller for Holroyd & Tillinghast sundry merchd as pr. Invs; whole value £234 19s. 11d. ; impost 2 1-2 per cent. £5 17s. 6d".
The Congress of the United States, in legislating for the eleven States that had come into the Union under the new constitution in 1789, was obliged to treat Nortli Carolina and Rhode Island as foreign countries, and the tariff act, passed April 30, 1789, imposed a duty on
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THE SEA TRADE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.
all goods, not of their own production, that these States should import into the Union. This would have operated with especial severity against Rhode Island, as she was at that time a commercial and not a producing community, and her people imported goods for the purpose of selling to their neighbors in the adjoining States. The fear that the result of these conditions would be disastrous to the commerce of the State prompted the citizens of Providence, August 27, 1789, to send a petition directly to Congress asking "that the vessels belonging to the citizens of this State may be admitted to entry in the ports of the United States, exempt from the payment of foreign tonnage in the same manner as vessels belonging to their own citizens; and that for- eign merchandise on importation by the citizens of this State, into the United States, by land or water, shall be subject only to the same duties and restrictions as by law required of their own citizens". This petition was presented to Congress by James Manning and Ben- jamin Bourne. Similar petitions were sent by Newport and Bristol, and in September the General Assembly sent an address to Congress expressing the same desire. In response to these appeals Rhode Island commerce was put for a limited time on the same footing as though she was a member of the union. "There were at this time 101 vessels, exclusive of river crafts, owned in Providence, amounting to nearly 10,000 tons, more than three-fourths of which were employed in for- eign trade and on whaling voyages. All this was liable to ruin if the existing policy of the State should long be maintained".1
The adoption of the constitution in 1790 removed these difficulties in the way of the enterprising merchants of Providence and for the first time gave them a free hand. Commerce consequently increased by leaps and bounds and was, as Judge Staples says, "the most direct road to affluence". The River Machine Company had been incorpo- rated by the General Assembly early in 1790, for the purpose of im- proving the channel of the river, and it was empowered in order to accomplish this object to collect two cents per ton on all vessels of over sixty tons entering the harbor. After the constitution came into force this corporation petitioned Congress for the continuation of the right to assess harbor dues, and in the memorial accompanying this petition the statements were made that "there is a greater number of vessels belonging to this port than to New York"; that "it is a place of more navigation than any of its size in the Union", and that the shipping owned in Providence, March, 1790, "consisted of 9 ships, 36 brigs, 45
1Arnold's History of R. I. vol. 2, p. 555.
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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
sloops and 20 schooners, being 110 sail in all and 10,590 tons burthen ; exelusive of river packets, boats and shallops".1
That eommeree was inereasing rapidly was manifested by the fact that a little more than a year later the shipping had increased by about 1,500 tons. The following list gives the names of the merchants who were then aetive. These are the same names, both of owners and ves- sels, that are found in the "Book of Manifest". This document, pub- lished in the Rhode Island Historical Society Quarterly for October, 1898, consequently shows at a glance the names of the mercantile eom- munity of Providence and the fleet at its command in 1791 :
LIST OF VESSELS, THEIR DESCRIPTION AND TONNAGE, BELONGING TO THE PORT OF PROVIDENCE THE 20TH DAY OF JUNE, 1791.
VESSEL DESCRIBED, FULL TONNAGE AND 95TH PART.
NAME.
1
BY WHOM OWNED. Messrs. Brown & Francis
Ship
958
14 Pres. Wash-
ton
2
do
348
Genl. Wash- ington
3
do
280
88
Warren
4
Messrs. Clark & Nightingale
do
230
28 Providence
6
Messrs. Brown & Benson
do
186
57
Hope
8
Mr. Cyprian Sterrey
do
161
24
Enterprize
do
137
19
Betsey
11
Messrs. Jos. & Wm. Russell
do
146
37
Tristam
12 Brown, Rogers & Brown
do
160
73
Union (sold)
13
Brown & Benson
Brig
163
66
Commerce
14
do
do
162
73
Rising Sun
15
Messrs Philip & Z. Allen
do
166
56
Abigail
16
do
do
117
90
Lydia
17
do
do
110
90
Nancy
18
Welcome Arnold
do
111
17
Rebeckah
19
do do
do
168
75
Harriott
21
Messrs. Brown & Benson
do
160
8
Harmony
22
Thos. Lloyd Halsey
do
141
77 Fanny
23
do
do
104
. . Sally
24
do
do
151
30
Harriott
25 William Holuroyd
do
129
72
Friendship
66
do
250
.
Hope
5
do
159
71 Lark
7
יו
do
208
.
Hamilton
9
10
3227
32
do
101
93
Neptune
20
NO.
66
'Staples's Annals of Providence, p. 352.
459
THE SEA TRADE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.
NO.
BY WHOM OWNED.
NAME.
26
John Corlis
Brig
130
Liberty
27
do
do
103
.
Sukey
28
Edward Thurber
do
161
21
Mary
29
Joseph & Wm. Russell
do
120
Ranger
30 James Graves
do
78
26
Betsey
31 Mowry Smith
do
90
33
Nancy
32
Messrs. Young & Brown
do
112
51
Betsey
33
Gideon Bailey
do
126
19
Sally
34
Messrs. Fenner & White
do
92
31 Clinton
35
Stephen Dexter
do
107
36
Betsey
36
do
do
139
. .
Dolphin
37
Messrs. Brown & Francis
do
80
86
Mercury
38
do
do
86
55
Sophia
39
Messrs. Clarke & Nightingale do
do
115
21
Polly
41
do
do
97
54
Chance
42
Joseph Martin
do
84
. .
Betsey
43
Messrs. Treadwell & Soule
do
140
Paramaribo
44
Messrs. Wards & Brothers
do
160
Tismigistus
45
Abijah Potter
do
130
Fame
46
Messrs. Brown & Francis
do
83
19
Friendship
4128
48
47 William Rhodes
Snow
141
Henry
48 John Hopkins
Polacre 101
Sarah
49
Thomas Arnold
Sloop
84
72
Smithfield
50
Joseph Hoyle
do
60
2
Gov. Fenner
51 Richard Jackson & Co.
do
80
36
Peace
52 Jonathan Tillinghast
do
88
72
Polly
53
John Mason
do
71
90
Harmony
54
Brown & Francis
do
65
70
Polly
55
do
do
79
31
Sally
56
do
do
27
53
Nancy
57
do
do
46
13
Delight
58
Clark & Nightingale
do
61
23
Polly
59
do
do
28
19
James
60
do
do
52
11
Humbird
61
do
do
62
48
Ant
62
Samuel Aborn
do
70
Charlotte
63 Philip & Zachary Allen
do
83
48
Susanah
64
Welcome Arnold
do
75
63
Samuel
65 Stephen Dexter
do
66
8
Three Friends
.
.
do
99
84
Prudent
40
VESSEL DESCRIBED, FULL TONNAGE AND 95TH PART.
460
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
VESSEL DESCRIBED. FULL TONNAGE AND 95TH PART.
NAME.
66 John Fitton
Sloop
64
77
Betsey
67
Thomas Lloyd Halsey
do
50
44
Hawk
68
Treadwell & Soule
do
62
53
Surrinam Pk't
69 John F. Shelden
do
79
27 Betsey
70
John Corlis
do
57
36
Lively
71
Welcome Arnold
do
101
27
Polly
72
Stephen Dexter
do
73
25
Sally
73
Peleg Hull
do
45
14
Nancy
74
Stephen Thurber
do
46
13
Delight
75
Samuel Currie
do
39
72
Prudence
76
Malachi Rhodes
do
31
74
Sally
77
John Updike
do
49
32
Nancy
78 Joseph Peck
do
29
14
Sally
79
Jeremiah Randall
do
26
58
Delight
80
Joseph Peck
do
25
43
Leopard
81
Christopher Capron
do
14
53
Fox
82
Samuel Butler
do
64
44
Polly
83
William Holuroyd
do
50
39
Fanny
84
John F. Sheldon
do
35
29
Joanna
85
Samuel Westcott
do
29
64
Clementina
86
John Field
do
38
51
Hannah
87
Thomas Carpenter
do
29
35
Polly
88
Rufus Waterman
do
56
60
Betsey
89
Christopher Godfrey
do
54
58
Polly
90
Joseph Rhodes
do
36
41
Betsey
91
Samuel Aborn
do
56
10
Nancy
92
Stephen Russell
do
23
25
Nancy
93
Joseph Rhodes
do
26
19
Sally
94
George Athern
do
64
44
Diamond
95
Elisha Brown
do
45
73
Hannah
96
Thomas Loyd Halsey
do
23
22
Maria
97
Isaac Brown
do
60
Hannah
98
James Graves
do
50
Toby
99
Fenner & White
do
60
Leopard
100
Benjamin Comstock
do
50
Nonesuch
2756
56
101
Joseph Rhodes
Schooner 66
89
Sally
102
Lewis Peck
do
65
57
Federal
103
William Peckham
do
72
45
Dean
104
Simon Smith
do
73
29
Betsey
105
Brown & Francis
do
60
10
Nancy
106
do
do
61
23
Delight
107
do
do
74
68
Betsey
NO.
BY WHOM OWNED.
461
THE SEA TRADE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT.
NO.
BY WHOM OWNED.
VESSEL DESCRIBED, FULL TONNAGE AND 95TH PART.
NAME.
108
Brown & Francis
Schooner 62
23
James
109
do
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