Michael Anderson
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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 to open a brook or outlet through our land in such a place as said company may think most proper, from Long Pond to Swan Pond (so-called) in Yarmouth, and also to have all the privileges necessary to improve and maintain the same for the purposes of carrying on the herring fishery,” the deed reads.