Herring runs & Yarmouth's Long Pond Fishing Co.
Michael Anderson COURTESY PHOTO / HSOY A recently discovered ledger book of the Long Pond Fishing Company of Yarmouth, for the years of 1891, 1892, and 1893, sheds some new information about one of the region's working herring and alewive fisheries. The company was incorporated March 3, 1842 by the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives, and then approved by the Governor to Zeno Kelley, Howes Berry, Eliakim Studley, and their associates and successors. Shortly after, on Sept. 30, 1842, a deed with several people selling for $5.00 to the Long Pond Fishing Company. “The privilege ...
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