Nathaniel Thomas, 1756-1838, of a family with a homestead in this region was a member of Captain Peleg Wadsworth’s company. Wadsworth, Harvard class of 1769, the year Henry Richmond built the homestead, was a teacher in a private school in Plymouth in 1769, served in the Revolution and was captured by the British during the period. He is the grandfather of the poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Mr. Lewis Wadsworth, Jr., a Boot Pond resident, is in the same Wadsworth family. The surrounding community also had a wider community beyond, economic and other forces of which had an impact on the lives of the people of the South Pond region. To increase our understanding of some of the influences of the people in this chronicle I have found a reading of Wm. T. Davis’s _Plymouth Memories of an Octogenarian_ to be a source of illumination. His dates are 1822-1907. Accurate and charmingly written by an aware mind it has many delightful and human passages as well. I am indebted to his granddaughter, Ruth Gardner Steinway, for lending me her copy. I have chosen various subjects that he had taken up, showing influences on the Plymouth community during most of the nineteenth century. We can follow such matters as fishing, shipping, transportation, stage coaches, postal service, railroads, and finally the anti-slavery movement. A way of life was followed then very different from our present technological society. We may look back upon whaling with some romantic nostalgia. Plymouth did have some whale fishery in the first half of the century, providing employment and adventure for some of the townspeople.[19] Whales were in Massachusetts Bay, but no serious efforts were made to engage in their capture. In 1821, however, a company was formed to prosecute this fishery. In this year the ship _Mayflower_ of 345 59-95 tons sailed for the Pacific, was absent for three years and landed between two and three thousand barrels of oil. She made two more Pacific voyages, landing about five thousand barrels. In 1822 another company was formed, built the bark _Fortune_ of 278 47-95 tons. She returned from the Pacific in 1825 with two thousand barrels. She made five voyages through 1840, the year of her last voyage. Other ships sailing in the whale fishery were the _Arabella_, of 404 26-95 tons, 1830; the _Levant_ of 332 34-95 tons, 1831; the _Triton_ of 314 49-95 tons, 1833, and the bark _Mary and Martha_ of 316 56-95 tons, 1838. All these sailed the Pacific. In 1833 the brig _Yeoman_, afterwards changed to a bark, was built in Plymouth. It made several voyages to the South Atlantic. The schooner _Marcaibo_, 93 53-95 tons, built in Plymouth, engaged in Atlantic fishery and was lost off Bermuda in 1846. The schooner _Exchange_ of 99 91-95 tons, made four voyages and was wrecked in West Indian waters. Two other vessels engaged in whale fishery were the schooner _Mercury_ of 74 34-95 tons and the schooner _Vesper_ of 95 53-95 tons.