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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… most advantagiously situated for carrying on the cod and whale Fishery and of late years has made a considerable …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… time, pains, and expense for the settling of a trade of whale-fishing in the adjacent seas, having endeavoured it …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… each other in any matter that concerns the King. A large whale is worth 80 l., all expenses paid. You may judge by …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… This place now suffers from the Governor's prohibition of whale-fishing. The season is over; and there is no oil, so …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… Council is incapacitated from doing its duty. A nice sperm whale was lately stranded here, which the Governor took into …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… End of Long Island, from whence the greatest quantity of whale oyle comes, and indeed ye people of ye East end of Long …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… from the Plantations the last year, and what quantity of whale blubber, oyl or fins from New England the two last … 106, pitch and tar 179 last, Rozen 47 cwt. 3 qrs. 25 lb. Whale fins Xtmas 17031704, 318 cwt. 1 qr. 20 lb. Xtmas, … 214 tuns, 3 hd. 42 gal.; 1705, 112 tuns, 1 hd. 40 gal. No Whale blubber. Signed, Charles d'Avenant, Inspector General …
Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies
… to enable him the better to proceed to ffish for wrecks, whale-fishing, and what else was granted him by patten from …