"1780. Grundall Saltergate for lads eating, etc., L0 8 6
Then comes a gap of about eight years, several pages having been torn out.
"1789. Robt. Dobson for carriage of pork, L1 4 0
1792. Lads at Saltergate as they came home, 0 2 6
1793. A man coming to Pickering to bring news of
ship--be ashore, 0 8 0
This apparently means that a man was sent to Pickering to tell the owners
that the _Henrietta_ had arrived.
"1799. Piggs at Pickering, L125 9 8
1801. Do., 181 8 8
1802. Do., 208 4 6
1815. Old Tom's expenses, turnpikes at Pickering, 0 6 6
In 1785 when the _Henrietta_ made her annual voyage to the northern seas
she had on board William Scoresby who in five years' time was to become
captain of the vessel. He was the son of a small farmer at Cropton and was
born on the 3rd of May 1760. His parents wished him to keep to
agricultural pursuits and after a very brief education at the village
school he commenced this arduous form of labour at the age of nine. He
kept to this work until he was twenty when he could no longer resist his
longings for a broader sphere of work. To obtain this he went to Whitby
and apprenticed himself to a ship-owner. He acquired a thorough knowledge
of seamanship with great rapidity and in his second year of service at sea
detected an error in the reckoning which would otherwise have caused the
loss of the ship.
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