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 24
January, 1977
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CONTENTS
Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff i
2
Editorial
5
The Silver of John Jackson by Kathryn C. Buhler
6
William Watson, Engineer and Educator
10
The Nantucket Railroad Collection
13
Wreck of the "T. B. Witherspoon" by Edouard A. Stackpole
17
Grace Brown Gardner by Gertrude A. Pratt
22
Presentation of Relics from S. S. "Nobska"
25
Legacies and Bequests
26
"The Far Away Island" by Theodore C. Wyman
27
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.
