Excerpt from Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. 6 In the older days, shipmasters became merchants, owning their own vessels, and buying and selling their own cargoes. Such men were -captains. Joseph Decker and Samuel C'lough, of Wiscasset, and Captain William L'add, of Minot. In like manner freight drivers became inland merchants, buying the freight they carried and selling to small store keepers in the interior. Mr. Waterman and. Mr...