ABSTRACT
Having, in the month of November 1818, contracted with Messrs Hurry and Gibson*,1 of Liverpool, to join them in a whale fishing concern, I removed, with my family from Whitby to this place, in May of the following year. For some time, Messrs H & G had been on the look-out for a good second-hand vessel; but not meeting with one suitable, for the Greenland Trade, it was at length resolved that a vessel should be built expressly for the purpose. Accordingly, proposals with different builders were obtained; and on the … of June, a contract, with Messr [sic] Mottershead and Hays,2 was executed, in which these gentlemen engaged to build us a ship for the fishing, in every respect complete for the fishery [Hull & Spars]3 and entirely to our own plan and dimensions; for which we were to pay them the sum of … £ p ton, register, together with an additional [blank space] £, for fastening the doubling with copper. [‘nails’ deleted]
