This list includes vessels registered at Mattapoisett which separated from Rochester, MA in 1857 to form the town of Mattapoisett, MA.
*In addition to these 201 voyages, a 1795 voyage from Rochester, MA returned with 600 barrels of whale oil. It is unclear if this voyage sailed from Mattapoisett or Sippican. Two recorded whaling trips are listed, and as trips, they are not included in the voyages tally. Please note that records for voyages in the 1700s and early 1800s are not complete and initially bone results were not necessarily recorded.
Vessel IDs "AS####" and voyage IDs "AV#####" are from the whalinghistory.org database. These voyages are a subset of the American Offshore Whaling Voyages database made available at whalinghistory.org
American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database, https://whalinghistory.org, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. and New Bedford Whaling Museum. Accessed 2018-2019.
American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database, by New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
The core American Offshore Whaling databases are the work of Judith Lund and Tim Smith. The Whaling History website (https://whalinghistory.org) is a collaboration between Mystic Seaport and New Bedford Whaling Museum.
List of Whaling Voyages, Mattapoisett uses the American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database 2018-01-04 voyages database release and incorporates updates to select entries.
Essex Institute. Essex Institute Historical Collections. Salem, MA: Essex Institute. Vols. 33, 41; 1897, 1905. HathiTrust. Web. Accessed Feb. 1-15, 2014. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000681568
Lund, Judith N., Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith. "American Offshore Whaling Voyages: a database." National Marine Digital Library. Hosted by the Mystic Seaport Museum, c. 2001-2010. Web. Accessed November 15-30, 2013. https://www.nmdl.org/
Lund, Judith N., Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith. American Offshore Whaling Voyages: 1667 to 1927. New Bedford, MA: Old Dartmouth Historical Society - New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2010.
Mendell, Charles S., Jr. " Shipbuilders of Mattapoisett." Old Dartmouth Historical Sketches. Number 66 (1937).
New Bedford Free Public Library, National Archives in Waltham, and the New Bedford Whaling Museum / Kendall Institute. "Whaling Collection Archives." New Bedford Free Public Library. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Free Public Library Archives Department and the City of New Bedford Management Information Systems Department, n.d. Web. Accessed March - April 2014: https://www.newbedford-ma.gov/Library/Whaling/Whaling.html (2019: no longer hosting database.)
New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford Free Public Library and New Bedford Port Society; Judith N. Lund (advisory curator). "Crew List Database Project." New Bedford Whaling Museum. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2012. Accessed April - May 2014.
Mattapoisett Data Stories, 2014 used information from the Crew List Database Project. Information from the Crew List Database Project, New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2012, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Please consult respective source databases/publishers regarding copyright.
Wood, Edward F. R., Jr. comp. with Judith Navas Lund. The Ports of Old Rochester: Shipbuilding at Mattapoisett and Marion. New Bedford, MA: New Bedford Whaling Museum/Quadequina Publishers, 2004.
2014 version included 199 voyages and 2 trips for a total of 201 with 63,241 barrels sperm oil, 46,565 barrels whale oil, 265,396 lbs bone / baleen.
Information from the American Offshore Whaling Voyages: A Database, https://whalinghistory.org, by New Bedford Whaling Museum and Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Please consult respective source databases/publishers regarding copyright.
Published 2014, Mattapoisett Historical Society. Updated 2019, Mattapoisett Museum.
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