HISTORIC NANTUCKET Published quarterly and devoted to the preservation of Nantucket's antiquity, its famed heritage and its illustrious past as a xvhaling port. Volume 23
January, 1975
No. 3
CONTENTS Nantucket Historical Association Staff and Officers
2
Editorial — "A Maritime Community"
5
Report of the Administrator
6
The Nantucket Macys, by E. A. Stackpole
8
" 'Twas the Folger in Him," by E. A. Stackpole
12
"To a Gallant Ship," by Theodore C. Wyman
14
The Weymouth Logbook
17
The Old Town Building, by E. A. Stackpole
18
Captain Coffin and His Interesting Career, by E. A. Stackpole 21 "Shadowy Reflections," by Henry Hagny
24
An Appeal for Abolition of Slavery on Nantucket By The Late Clarence King
27
"Whales and Destiny," a Book Review
30
Legacies and Bequests
32
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, 1975, Nantucket Historical Association Communications pertaining to the Publication 3hould be addressed to the Editor, Historic Nantucket, Nantucket Hstorical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554.
