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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks), Chapter 10: trade. (search)
ng our men may be employed in harbor, or upon the Bank. If you send ships to fish on the Bank, and expect them not to return again to the plantation, &c. By this it appears that those vessels which had caught a cargo of fish on the Bank were expected to take them thence to London. Sept. 3, 1635, the General Court chose a committee of six for setting forward and managing a fishing trade. That fishing was profitable, we have the following early record: Thirty-five ships sailed this year (1622) from the west of England, and two from London, to fish on the New England coasts; and made profitable voyages. Through the instrumentality of our fishing interest, the General Court passed the following order. May 22, 1639: For further encouragement of men to set upon fishing, it is ordered, that such ships and vessels and other stock as shall be properly employed and adventured in taking, making, and transporting of fish according to the course of fishing voyages, and the fish itself, sha