History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine1623-1905With family genealogies . all filled withdwelling houses and stages for fishermen. After speaking of the quantities of fish and the market forthem which was made to the fishing vessels, he further states : To every shallop belong four fishermen ; a master or steers-man, a midshipman and a foremast man, and a shoreman, whowashes it out of the salt, and dries it upon hurdles pitchedbreast-high, and tends the cookerj. These often get in onevoyage eight or nine pounds a man for their shares. He then states that the fishermen usually
History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine1623-1905With family genealogies . all filled withdwelling houses and stages for fishermen. After speaking of the quantities of fish and the market forthem which was made to the fishing vessels, he further states : To every shallop belong four fishermen ; a master or steers-man, a midshipman and a foremast man, and a shoreman, whowashes it out of the salt, and dries it upon hurdles pitchedbreast-high, and tends the cookerj. These often get in onevoyage eight or nine pounds a man for their shares. He then states that the fishermen usually attended well tobusiness unless a walking tavern came along, meaning avessel with liquors aboard, when, he says, thej would abandontheir work and drink until wearied of it, sometimes a week ata time, going ashore and holding high carnival. He also tellsof being on our coast in 1638, in company with Capt. ThomasWannerton, who drank to him at parting a pint of kill-devil,alias rhum, at a draught, and further commenting on theCaptains characteristics says he was a grave and discreet NiCKERSON. THE FISHERIES. 6bl After colonization commenced, while the abundance affordedby the sea was a large means of sustenance to the settlers, itafforded for a long period but slight revenue to them. Themarket was controlled by English merchants and the colonistswere not equipped in any sense to cope with them. Theylacked capital and prestige to obtain a foothold in the exporttrade, and there were no great centers of population in Americato give them a trade at home. Massachusetts, of all the Colo-nies, had the greatest population, and she was also foremost inthe fishery interest. The English and French still came eachyear and fished from Labrador to Cape Cod as they had for-merly done. When Dunbar was settling Pemaquid and Townsend, in1729—30, the fishery interest was of enough consequence tocause him to introduce into his instruments of conveyance oflands to the settlers about Townsend
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