had been promoted to farm manager.

In 1745, when he was 16, Cook relocated 20 mi to Staithes, a fishing village, to be apprenticed as a shopboy to grocer and haberdasher William Sanderson. After 18 months, Cook, proving not suited for shop work, travelled to the nearby port town of Whitby and was introduced to Sanderson's friends John and Henry Walker. The Walkers were prominent local ship owners in the coal trade.

Cook was taken

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