Early Whaling Voyages: Outfit of a Vessel in 1765

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.…