Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President, Henry B. Coleman Vice-Presidents, W. Ripley Nelson, George W. Jones, Alcon Chadwick, Albert

F. Egan, Jr., Mrs. Edith C. Andrews, Walter Beinecke, Jr. Honorary Vice Presidents, Miss Grace Brown Gardner, Mrs- William L. Mather Secretary, Albert G. Brock Treasurer, John N. Welch Councillors, Henry B. Coleman, Chairman; Mrs. H. Crowell Freeman, Mrs.

Charles Clark Coffin, terms expire 1972; Henry Mitchell Havemeyer, David

Worth, terms expire 1973; Mrs. Richard Swain, Bernard Grossman, terms expire 1974; Robert Metters, George A. Snell, terms expire 1975. Administrator, Leroy H. True Curator, Miss Dorothy Gardner Historian, Edouard A. Stackpole Honorary Curator, Mrs. William L. Mather Editor, 'Historic Nantucket", Edouard A. Stackpole; Assistant Editor, Mrs.

Merle Turner Orleans.

STAFF

Oldest House: Chairman, Mrs. J. Clinton Andrews Receptionists, Mrs. Charles Barr, Miss Adeline Cravott Hadweti House-Satler Memorial: Chairman, Alcon Chadwick Manager, Mrsi. Irving Soverino Receptionists, Miss Rosamond Duffy, Miss Marjorie Burgess, Miss Maud Jackson, Mrs. Oswell Small

1800 House: Receptionist, Mrs. John Kittila Old Gaol: Chairman, Albert G. Brock; Receptionist, Hugh MacVicar Whaling Museum: Chairman, W. Ripley Nelson Manager, Walter W. Lindquist; Receptionists, Mrs. Elizabeth Lindquist, Clarence H. Swift, Mrs. Sterling Yerxa, Mrs. Reginald Hussey, Mrs. Harold Killen, Mrs. Joan Gallagher, Jesse Dunham Peter Foulger Museum: Chairman and Director, Edouard A. Stackpole Receptionists, Mrs. Elizabeth B. Worth, Mrs. Clara Block, Everett Finlay Hose Cart House: Chairman, Charles Bartlett

Christian House: Chairman, Mrs. John A. Baldwin Receptionists, Mrs. Noreen Shea, Miss Eleanor Phinney, Mrs. Sarah Morris

Archaeology Dept.: Chairman, Paul C. Morris, Jr. Old Town Office: Ohairman, Hugh R. Chace Old Mill: Chairman, Richard F. Swain Receptionist, Miss Helen MacDonald Folger-Franklin Seat & Memorial Boulder: Chairman, Francis Sylvia

HISTORIC NANTUCKET

Published quarterly and devoted to the preservation of Nantucket's antiquity, its famed heritage and its illustrious past as a whaling port.

WrSrw CONTENTS

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff 2

Editorial 5

Administrator's Report Capital Fund Drive Report Whaling Museum Report, by W. Ripley Nelson A Young Whaleman Writes Home 6 8 9 13

When Nantucket Became Part of Massachusetts and Why, by E. A. Stackpole 15

The'Hussey-Sw^in Chair

22 The Swains in Australia 24 A Colonial Petition from Nantucket to Sir Jeffrey Amherst .... 25 Nantucket-Vineyard Relations, by Robert J. Leach 28 Legacies and Bequests 35

Historic Nantucket is published quarterly at Nantucket, Massachusetts, by the Nantucket Historical Association. It is sent to Association Members. Extra copies $.50 each. Membership dues are — Annual-Active $5.00 ; Sustaining $25.00 ; Life — one payment $100.00. Second-class postage paid at Nantucket, Massachusetts. Copyright 1972, Nantucket Historical Association Communications pertaining to the Publication should be addressed to the Editor, Historic Nantucket, Nantucket Hstorical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554.