James Story [Captain HMS ANTELOPE]; 1 September, 1681


An Account of Fishing and Sack Ships in Ferryland and Caplin Bay, 1681

An Extract from "An Account of what fishing Ships, Sack Ships, Planters and Boatkeepers from Trepassey to Bonavista and from thence to Fair Island, the northward part of Newfoundland"

Great Britain, PRO, Colonial Office, CO 1/47 (52i), 113-121v.
MHA 16-D-1-006. Transcribed by P.E. Pope.


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Ferryland

Masters' Names Ships' names From Whence Whither Bound Boats Servants Quintals
Thomas Toper RUBY Barnstaple   08 40  
John Pope junior DIAMOND Barnstaple   02 10  
Richard Dormis TORRINGTON Barnstaple   03 19  
John Bass JOHN Topsham Straights
[Mediterranean]
  07 800
Richard Summers BONETO Plymouth   08 40  
John Salmon PELLICAN Plymouth   03 19  
John Whitefield EXPEDITION Barnstaple   04 20  
Benjamin Stafford EXPEDITION Topsham Straights
[Mediterranean]
01 07 900

Caplin Bay

Masters' Names Ships' names From Whence Whither Bound Boats Servants Quintals
John Loveing ELIZABETH Barnstaple   07 39  
Richard Webber RAINBOW Barnstaple   02 11  
John Clay ELIZABETH Falmouth Straights
[Mediterranean]
  08 1200
Benjamin Hickes KATHERINE London Straights
[Mediterranean]
  14 2000