Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President, Leroy H. True Vice-Presidents, Albert G. Brock, George W. Jones, Alcon Chadwick, Albert F. Egan, Jr.,

Walter Beinecke, Jr., Mrs. Charles Clark Coffin Honorary Vice-Presidents, W. Ripley Nelson, Henry B. Coleman Secretary, Richard C. Austin Treasurer, John N. Welch Councillors, Leroy H. True, Chairman

Mrs. H. Crowell Freeman, Miss Mary Gardner, terms expire 1976, Benjamin Richmond,

Francis W. Pease, terms expire 1977; Mrs. R. A. Orleans, term expires 1978; Robert D.

Congdon, Harold W. Lindley, terms expire 1979 Curator, Miss Dorothy Gardner Historian, Edouard A. Stackpole Editor, "Historic Nantucket", Edouard A. Stackpole; Assistant Editor, Mrs. Merle Turner

Orleans.

STAFF

Oldest House; Chairman, Mrs. Kenneth S. Baird

Receptionists; Mrs. Margaret Crowell, Miss Adeline Cravott Hadwen House-Satler Memorial: Chairman, Mrs. Phoebe P. Swain

Receptionists: Mrs. Irving A. Soverino, Mrs. Alfred A. Hall, Mrs. Henry G. Kehlenbeck 1800 House:

Receptionist: Mrs. John Kittila, Sr. Old Gaol: Chairman, Albert G. Brock Whaling Museum: Chairman, Hugh R. Chace

Receptionists: Clarence H. Swift, Mrs. Herbert Sandsbury, Frank Pattison,

Abram Niles, James A. Watts, Miss Lucia Arno. Peter Foulger Museum: Chairman and Director, Edouard A. Stackpole

Receptionists: Mrs. Elizabeth B. Worth, Mrs. Clara Block, Joseph Sylvia

Librarian: Mrs. Louise Hussey Nathaniel Macy House: Chairman, Mrs. John A. Baldwin

Receptionists: Miss Dorothy Hiller, Mrs. Henry C. Petzel Archaeology Department: Chairman, Paul C. Morris, Jr.

Field Supervisor, Miss Barbara Kranichfeld Old Town Office: Chairman, Hugh R. Chace Old Mill: Chairman, Richard F. Swain. Miller: Hugh MacVicar Folger-Franklin Seat & Memorial Boulder: Chairman, Francis Sylvia Friends Meeting House-Fair Street Museum: Chairman, Mrs. Harding U. Greene

Co-chairman, Mrs. Alfred M. P. Amey lightship "Nantucket": Chairman, Benjamin S. Richmond, ship keeper, Richard Swain

HISTORIC NANTUCKET

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

Volume 23 April, 1976 No. 4

CONTENTS

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

Editorial — Nantucket Should Invest in Nantucket

The Association's Bi-Centennial Exhibit

"18th Century Nantucket"

by Mary Phillips

The Macys of Chilmark, England, Nantucket Macy Ancestors

Killed by a Whale

Sachem Nickanoose of Nantucket and the Grass Contest

by Elizabeth A. Little

Legacies and Bequests 2

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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 Communications pertaining to the Publication should be addressed to the Editor, Historic Nantucket, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts 02554.

Tristram Bunker, oil on canvas, one of the portraits to be displayed at the "18th Century Nantucket" Exhibit. It was painted about 1800. The owner wishes to remain anonymous.