An antiquarian friend has furnished us with the following list of stores places on board the schooner Lydia, Peter Pease, master, which vessel left Edgartown for Davis’ Straits, on a whaling cruise, in the year 1765: -

 

5 barrels beef, 6 bbls. pork, 4 bbls. flour, 2 bbls. rum, 1200 pounds bread, 60 lbs. butter, 100 lbs. rice, 4 lbs. tea, 4 lbs. chocolate, 15 lbs. coffee, 100 lbs. sugar, 50 lbs. hogsfat, 1 lbs. pepper, 20 lbs. candles, 3 small cheeses, 12 bushels corn, 14 bush. meal, 5 bush. beans, 55 gallons molasses; 28 irons, 12 lances, 3 codlines, 2 log-lines, 6 gimlets, 3 skeins twine, 3 skeins marling, 3 skeins housing, 4 bowls, 6 knives and forks, 1 platter, 2 brooms, 2 hour glasses, 1 lantern, 1 speaking trumpet, 6 tea cups and saucers, 1 large hammer, 1 pump hammer, 500 pump nails, 2 wine glasses, 600 board nails, 1500 shingle nails, 24 deck nails, 200 double ten nails, 30 spikes, 1 serving mallet, 50 pounds spun-yarn, 10 lbs. chalk, 4 pump bolts, 3 pump brakes, 6 upper pump boxes, 4 lower pump boxes, 1 pump hook, 3 pump spears, 1 draw bucket, 2 cedar pails, 1 hand pump, 1 smoothing plane, 1 fore plane, 1 drawing knife, 1 iron candlestick, 8 spare blocks, 1 cat block, 40 fathoms spare rigging, 600 fathoms tow line, 130 fathoms main warp, 70 fathoms lance wrap, 1 sounding lead, 1 deep-sea lead, 2 scrapers, 1 adze, 2 axes, 5 spades, 1 tunnel, 1 boat hook, 1 gouge, 12 sail needles, 18 yds. mending cloth, 1 pennant, 1 jack, 2 half minute glasses, 1 punch bowl, 1 1-2 lbs. powder and shot, 1 tap borer, 1 bung borer, 3 chisels, 1 hand saw, 314 foot boards, 230 feet boat boards.

 

Same vessel and master, left port of Edgartown, April 24, 1766, and returned Sept. 13, 1766, with 238 barrels of oil.