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. Henry Mitchell Havemeyer, David

Worth, terms expire 1973; Mr.s Richard Swain, Bernard Grossman, terms expire 1974; Robert Metiers, George A. Snell, terms expire 1975; Mrs.

H. Crowe 11 Freeman, Mrs. Charles Clark Coffin, terms expire 1976. 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 Hadwen House-Satler Memorial: Chairman, Mrs. Charles Clark Coffin Receptionists: Mrsi. Irving T. Soverino: Miss Rosamond Duffy, Miss Marjorie Burgess, Miss Maud Jackson, Miss Helen Hull.

1800 House: Chairman, Mrs. H. Crowell Freeman, Receptionist: Mrs. John Kittila, Sr. Old Gaol: Chairman, Albert G. Brock; Receptionist, Laurence Ayers. Whaling Museum: Chairman, Hugh R. Chace, Manager, David Allan, Receptionists, Clarence H. Swift, Mrs. Reginald Hussey, Mrs. Harold Killen, Jesse Dunham, Mrs. Herbert Sandsbury, Abram Niles, Dorothy Hiller, Mary Lathrop, Peter Foulger Museum: Chairman and Director, Edouard A. Stackpole Receptionists: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Worth, Mrs. Clara Block, Mrs. Balfour Yerxa.

Christian House: Chairman, Mrs. John A. Baldwin Receptionists: Mrs. Noreen Shea, Mrs, Sarah Morris, Mrs. Joan Gallagher. Archaeology Dept.: Chairman, Paul C. Morris, Jr. Old Town Office: Chairman, Hugh R. Chace Old Mill: Chairman, Riohard F. Swain Receptionist: Hugh MacVicar. Folger-Franklin Seat & Memorial Boulder: Chairman, Francis Sylvia Friends Meeting House-Fair Street Museum: Chairman, Mrs. Harding U. Greene

HISTORIC NANTUCKET

Published quarterly and devoted to the preservation of Nantucket's antiquity, its famed heritage and its illustrious past as a whaling port. VOLUME 21 No. 1

CONTENTS

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

2 Editorial .. — 5 A Nantucketer's Influence on the Navy in the War of 1812 6 by Richard C. Maloney A Whaling Master's Adventuresome Life 11 Annual Meeting, 1972 18 Reports Administrator — 20 Financial - - 22 Whaling Museum 24 Hadwen House-Satler Memorial 27 Curator 28 Christian House 28 Old Mill 30 Oldest House 30 Peter Foulger Museum 31 "Whales and Destiny" 34 The Nantucket Bank Robbery 35 Legacies and Bequests 36

Historic Nantucket is published quarterly at Nantucket, Massachusetts, by the Nantucket Historical Association. It is sent to Association Members. Extra copies S.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 1973, Nantucket Historical Association. Communications pertaining to the Publication should be addressed to the Editor, Historic Nantucket, Nantucket Hstorical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554.

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NANTUCKET SCHOQ

The Old High School Clock With the construction of the high school on Academy Hill, in 1856, this old clock was installed in the main room, and marked the passing hours each day until the building was razed in 1929, when it was presented to the Nantucket Historical Association. It now hangs in the Research Room at the Peter Foulger Museum.