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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

Editorial - 2

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A Granddaughter's Memories of Allen Coffin by Isabel Worth Duffy

Wanted — A Chronometer . 6

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Nantucket's Role in the Boston Tea Party by Edouard A. Stackpole 13

Saving the Oldest House: Tristram Coffin of Poughkeepsie 19

Accessions and Events 20

Administrator's Report

Walter Folger Jr.'s Prophecy on Nantucket Land by Edouard A. Stackpole 24

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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.

The old wooden pump in side-yard of the Henry Coffin Carlisle House on Main Street.