�Timeline� excerpts from the 1956 book titled �Life and Labour in Newfoundland� by. C.R. Fay 1604-1907...page 15 �For over 300 years, say from 1604, when John Newman bought train oil from the fishing ships for sale to London, down to 1907 when the fishing establishments in NL were sold, the Newmans played a leading part in the trade: especially �to the Westward�, as the South Coast of NL was designated. Foundation years: 1679..Dartmouth House 1700..Newfoundland House, Newman & Co. 1735..Oporto House, Holdsworth, Olive & Newman 1782..London House, Newman, Hunt & Co. 1634-1763..... page 43...�The by-boat belonged to a merchant or fisherman in England, who employed a crew to operate his boat--the word �by� may refer to its being laid �by� for the winter, or to its being an �extra� to the fishing ship......At first the crews returned to their home base at the end of the fishing season, but increasingly they remained in the island and became resident fishermen. Thus in time this category disappeared� page 55...on Professor Innis....�the economist of the �Tie-in�--linking history with theory, politics with economics, men with things and things with one another. 1654-1764.. (1654..birth year of John Walcome)......page 74-75....�Geo. Davis to James Cook, March 14, 1764..Poole: � Sir, When I last had the pleasure to see you, I promised at my arrival her to make enquiry and inform you when Twillingate and Fogo was settled by the English. I did not get here till the 10th, having taken a tour in my way home and made it my business to find Mr. Thos. Tizzard who was the first person that ever drove a nail at Twillingate, or settled here as an Englishman, which was in the year 1732, he tells me that Fogo was settled 3 or 4 years sooner and that he has known that part of NL for 40 years, and that he never knew a French boat or ship to the southward of Cape John--which is 14 leagues NNW from Twillingate, and the nearest place that he ever knew a French boat was at a harbour 2 leagues north of St. John called D�luce. (? Fleur-de-lys Harbour.) Bonavista was settled as early as any part of the land and never any Frenchman yet fished there. Mr. Tizzard was born at Bonavista, whose uncle John Walcome was the first manchild bord there, who was 80 years old when he dy�ed, and has been dead upwards of 30 years.........� 1711...page 57...�Incidentally in 1711 the commander of a convoy reports that for some years past people residing in the northern bays of NL had supplemented their earnings and food supply by killing seals in spring.� 1760...page 56....�In the Poole Customs Records there are numerous references to seal skins and seal oil, seal skins being frequently grouped with other furs. Thus December 1, 1760, �S. Coward, Master of the �Sally� of this port, reported from NL, whose cargo consists of train oil (�train� because �trained� or �drawn� out of the whale or seal as the case might be), fish, furs and seal skins. She is a new sloop built in Newfoundland and never in England before.� (lghr questions: #1. Who, where and when was �Sally� built in NL.? #2. How many vessels of ocean going capacity were built in NL before 1760 and what were their names? 1789-1836...page 135...�Population of the Island c. 1789 winter inhabitants, say 18,000. Now (1806), 20, 000 plus. Servants down, planters up. The sexes are therefore more equal. By the planters, together with some 650 green men, chiefly from Ireland, the fishery is now carried on. England should welcome their increase. There are new outlets in whaling, as conducted by the Americans, and in the hitherto neglected herring fishery. (Esitmated pop. in 1836, 75,000. There was a marked increase after 1815) 1812.. Aug...page 18..�The Americans have formally declared war, but we flatter ourselves it will cease when they receive the news of the Orders in Council being revoked.� 1813...April �An order goes out by the Admiral to sell all the American prizes at St. John�s, and we think you may be able to purchase a good vessel or two for us there. On no account buy a low-built vessel, as they do not answer.� (lghr Question: What is the meaning of this phrase �as they do not answer�?) 1814...�We have disired between 60 and 70 youngsters to be sent from Waterford in the �Resolution�. Mr. Thorn wants 20, including a master of voyage, a mason, and 2 youngster coopers for St. Jervis; and if we don get English youngsters enough, some Irish will be wanated.�....... note: �The service rendered by Newman�s youngsters on board the �Shannon� in her action against the �Chesapeake� in Boston Harbour (1813) was rewarded by the grant to the firm of permission to fly henceforth the White Ensign from its establishments in Newfoundland. 1819...page 68...�In 1819 the first hundred tonner, the �Four Brothers�, built in 1819 by William Munden of Brigus.� 1835...page 42...�in the last week of April, 1835 they rowed through �the young ice� to Muddy Hole and Richards Harbour where: �I found that one of those scourges of the coast, a floating grog shop under the name of a �trading vessel�, had been sojourning in Muddy Hole last week and had kept �all hands� during the time of its stay in a state of intoxication. (lghr Question: What are the current place names in NL for Muddy Hole and Richards Harbour?) 1835...page 46-47...�In 18335 Carbonear and Harbour Grace petitioned similarly for Free Port status; and after examination of the competing claims the Treasury decided in favour of Harbour Grace, which accordingly became � a Free Port and a Free Warehousing Port,� with the necessary officers, as from July, 1836.�........�That the trade carried on between this Island and the West Indies is chiefly one of barter --The West Indies taking the lower qualities of fish, and return this colony receives their produce........the intercourse between Hamburt and NL has become extensive....� 1906...page 68..�The first iron-clad, the �Adventure�, built for Mr. Alick Harvey ---Capt. Henry Dawe. ===== quote from the end of a letter said to have been written on board HMS Elizabeth-Bonaventure on 27 April 1587...".....wherefore I shall desire you to continue a faithful rememberancer of us in your prayers, that our present service may take that good effect as God may be glorified, his church, our Queen and country preserved, and the enemy of the truth utterly vanquished, that we may have continual peace in Israel. Your loving friend, and faithful son in Christ Jesus, FRD" (FRD's favorite wife was Mary NEWMAN) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com