. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . with its slack workthey would sail off, a large crew of them, down South toNew Orleans, where they labored at loading cotton uponvessels for Europe. Thus between fishing and stevedoring these industriousmen soon gained a footing in their new country. The first family to be established here was that ofManuel Antoine; and after his others, including those ofJoseph F. Martin, Joseph F. Enos, and Joseph Jason,came to set up their hearthstones among the New Eng-enders who had been here for two centuries. To these earliest ones must be a
. A narrative history of the town of Cohasset, Massachusetts . with its slack workthey would sail off, a large crew of them, down South toNew Orleans, where they labored at loading cotton uponvessels for Europe. Thus between fishing and stevedoring these industriousmen soon gained a footing in their new country. The first family to be established here was that ofManuel Antoine; and after his others, including those ofJoseph F. Martin, Joseph F. Enos, and Joseph Jason,came to set up their hearthstones among the New Eng-enders who had been here for two centuries. To these earliest ones must be added John Morgan, THE FISHING INDUSTRY. 427 Joseph F. Ennice, Frank Thomas, Frank Silvia, and GeorgeM. Ennice. It did not take many years for the morecapable of these Portuguese to become skippers of fishingschooners. The following are some who came to bear the title ofcaptain in the later years of our fisheries : — Manuel P. Valine. John F. Smith (Ferara). Manuel F. Antoine. Manuel S. S. Enos. Antoine F. Martin. Joseph E. Drawn by Daniel Tower. Map showing Wharves Used at the Close of our Fishing Days. 1. Alfred Whittington. 2. Abram Hall. 3. Harry Doane. (Stone Wharf.) 4. Ephraim Snow,formerly 5. C. H. Willard. (Coal.) 6. James Collier. 7. Caleb Nichols. 8. Caleb Lothrop. 9. J. Oakes Lawrence. (Doane Wharf.) 10. John Bates. 11. A. H. Tower. 12. Laban Souther. 13 and 14. Tower Government, since 1856. The increase of Portuguese families has continued fromthe beginning with more rapidity than that of the NewEngland descendants, so that now the number of them isestimated at about four hundred persons. 428 HIS TOR Y OF COHASSE T. Intermarriages have taken place with the descendantsof the original English pioneers and with the descendantsof Irish newcomers, so that in many cases the dark eyesand skin of the Southern race have become part of thecommon stock. At about the time when these people from the Azoreswere coming here
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