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Documents relating to Ferryland: 1597 to 1726
27 September, 1698; [Commodore] John Norris
extract from "An Abstract of
the Planters and Boat-Keepers..."
Great Britain, PRO, Colonial Office,
CO 194/1 (125i), 262.
CNS microfilm. Transcribed by P.E. Pope.
Subjects: planters, cod, fisheries, servants, boats, census (1698).
An abstract of the planters and
boatkeepers [bye-boat men] and what voyages they have made this year
in Newfoundland, 1698.
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Names of the
Ports and Coves
from St. John's
to the Northward
and Southward | Caplin Bay | Ferryland |
| Number of Planters | 1 | 6 |
Number of Servants
They Keep | 5 | 42 |
| Number of Women | 1 | 5 |
| and Children | - | 5 |
What Quantity of Fish
the Inhabitants and
Servants make [quintals] | 200 | 1850 |
| What Number of Boats
the Inhabitants Keep | 1 | 9 |
Number of Inhabitants
designing to stay this
year in the Country
[over winter] | 6 | 43 |
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