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. 3
Nantucket Historical Association Staff and Officers
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Editorial
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A Granddaughter's Memories of Allen Coffin by Isabel Worth Duffy
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Wanted — A Chronometer
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Nantucket's Role in the Boston Tea Party by Edouard A. Stackpole
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Saving the Oldest House: Tristram Coffin of Poughkeepsie
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Accessions and Events
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Administrator's Report
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Walter Folger Jr.'s Prophecy on Nantucket Land by Edouard A. Stackpole
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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, 1974, Nantucket Historical Association Communications pertaining to the Publication should be addressed to the Editor, Historic Nantucket, Nantucket Hstorical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554.
