Trip No. 51

Schooner Vera

Sailed under Fishing License

Season or date of Payment 1907

(Trip No. 51)

Gorton-Pew Fisheries Co., Gloucester Mass.

Journal entries for January 1908 Ledger General

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Credit

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:

23.48

Trip No. 54

Schooner Ramona

Sailed under Fishing License.

Season or Date of Payment 1910-1911

(Trip No. 54)

W. WHITE,

1910

DEAR SIR: I hereby pay under protest the following Customs Duties and

Sub Collector, H. M. Customs, Bonne Bay.

DEAR SIR: I hereby pay under protest the following Customs Duties and Light

Dues for the following Fishing Schooners, viz:

1907-1908

(Trip No. 56)

Memorandum of Duty paid by A. Whitten on Sundry Goods Imported per Schooner

Smuggler

Imported per Schooner A. M. Parker, A. Hines, Master

Imported per Schooner Tattler, A. Geel Master Oct. 18, 1907

Imported per Schooner Senator Gardiner, A. Nelson Master Oct. 18, 1907

Imported per Schooner Valkarie, J. Morash Master, Oct. 18, 1900

I, John D. McLoud, of Gloucester, County of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being duly sworn, hereby make affidavit and state as follows:

I am at present Vessels Manager of the Gorton-Pew Vessels Company, of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

During the years 1906 to 1911, inclusive, I was bookkeeper for the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Company, a Gloucester corporation engaged in the business of producing and packing fish. The Company owned and operated a large number of fishing schooners which it sent to sea to engage in the herring, cod, mackerel, halibut and other fisheries. Much of this fishing was done on the Banks of Newfoundland and on the so-called Treaty Coast of Newfoundland. It was the practice to send a number of fishing schooners to Bay of Islands on the Newfoundland Treaty Coast during the herring season of each year to engage in the herring fishery. This fishery usually started in October and ended in the following January. During the spring, summer and early fall, it was the practice to send fishing schooners to the Banks of Newfoundland and to the Newfoundland Treaty Coast to engage in the cod and halibut fisheries.