Add to ORKGby-boat nThe private boat-keepers here spoken of, or bye boat-keepers, as they otherwise were called, are described as per- sons who, not being willing or able to buy a share in a fishing ship, hired servants in the west of England, and carried them as passengers to Newfoundland, where they employed them in private boats to catch and cure fish; and after the season was over, they brought them back to England, or permitted them to take service with the planters...PRINTED ITEM DNE-citG.M.Story January 1964Used I and SupUsed I and Sup2Used