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Documents relating to Ferryland: 1597 to 1726
7 December, 1676; [Captain] John Wyborn
"An Account of the Sack Ships
Trading to Newfoundland between Trepassey and Bay Bulls, 1676"
Great Britain, PRO, CO 1/38 (87),
236,232 [sic].
MHA 16-C-2-136. Transcribed by P.E. Pope.
Subjects: cod, fisheries, sack, ships, markets, census (1676).
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...Ferryland
| Ships' Names | Masters' Names | Places they
belong to | Tonnage | Guns | Men |
| PRISCILLA | George Mathews | Plimouth | 70 | 6 | 11 |
| HENRY | Joseph Parsons | Topsham | 40 | - | 7 |
| GOLDEN FLEECE | Richard Martin | Bideford | 40 | - | 8 |
| MERMAID | Edward Small | Bideford | 40 | - | 8 |
| MAYFLOWER | John Poe | Bideford | 40 | - | 7 |
| CORNELIA | James Bartlett | Plymouth | 70 | 4 | 10 |
| Ships' Names | Fish Bought
quintals | Price Reals | Whither Bound |
| PRISCILLA | 1148 | 25 | Alicante |
| HENRY | 560 | 25 | Nantes |
| GOLDEN FLEECE | 250
refuse | 13 | Barbados |
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MERMAID | 700 | 24 | Bilbao |
| MAYFLOWER | 600 | 27 | ------ |
| CORNELIA | 1200 | 25 | Viana |
Ships 6. Men 51.
Caplin Bay
| Ships' Names | Masters' Names | Places they
belong to | Tonnage | Guns | Men |
| BLESSING | Peter Jeffreys | Kinsale | 40 | 0 | 12 |
| Ships' Names | Fish Bought | Price Reals | Whither Bound |
| BLESSING | ---- | -- | Madeira |
Kept 1 boat. Killed 90 quintals at
28 reals. Made 1 hogshead train [oil] and 3 quintals corfish all
worth £65.19s.6d.
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