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. Honorary Vice-President, Henry B. Coleman Secretary, Richard C. Austin Treasurer, John N. Welch Councillors, Leroy H. True, Chairman

Benjamin Richmond, Francis W. Pease, terms expire 1977; Mrs. R. A. Orleans,

Robert E. Tonkin, terms expire 1978; Robert D. Congdon, Harold W.

Lindley, terms expire 1979; Mrs. James F. Merriman, Miss Barbara

Melendy, terms expire 1980. Registrar, Miss Dorothy Gardner Historian, Edouard A. Stackpole Editor, "Historic Nantucket", Edouard A. Stackpole; Assistant Editor, Mrs.

Merle Turner Orleans.

STAFF

Oldest House: Curator, Mrs. Kenneth S. Baird

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

Receptionists: Mrs. Irving A. Soverino, Mrs. Alfred A. Hall, Mrs. Harold

Arnold, Miss Helen Levins 1800 House: Curator, Mrs. Clare McGregor Old Gaol: Curator, Albert G. Brock Whaling Museum: Curator, Hugh R. Chace

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

James A. Watts, Abram Niles, Adam Craig Peter Foulger Museum: Curator, and Director, Edouard A. Stackpole

Receptionists: Mrs. Clara Block, Everett Finlay; Librarian:

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

Receptionists: Miss Dorothy Hiller, Mrs,Henry C. Petzel Archaeology Department: Curator, Mrs. Roger Young

Field Supervisor, Miss Barbara Kranichfeld Old Town Office: Curator, Hugh R. Chace Old Mill: Curator, Richard F. Swain

Miller: John Stackpole Folger-Franklin Seat & Memorial Boulder: Curator, Francis Sylvia Friends Meeting House-Fair Street Museum: Curator, Albert F. Egan, Jr. Lightship "Nantucket": Curator, Benjamin S. Richmond

Ship Keeper, Richard Swain

HISTORIC NANTUCKET

P u b l i s h e d q u a r t e r l y a n d d e v o t e d t o t h e p r e s e r v a t i o n o f N a n t u c k e t ' s a n t i q u i t y , i t s f a m e d h e r i t a g e a n d i t s i l l u s t r i o u s p a s t a s a w h a l i n g p o r t .

Volume 24 April, 1977 No. 4

CONTENTS

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

Editorial

Some Notes on the Folgers (Foulgers)

A Visit to Nantucket in 1826

W. Ripley Nelson - A Tribute

The Quaise Farm Horror of 1844

The Rev. Fr. John D. Whitney, S.J. by Edouard A. Stackpole

A Nantucket Shipmaster's' 'Sea Anchor"

The Ordeal of the "Island Home"

The Lightship "Nantucket"

Lament for a Favorite Locomotive 2

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Legacies and Bequests 31

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 $7.50; 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.