Volume 24 January, 1977 No

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 No. 3

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

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Editorial

The Silver of John Jackson by Kathryn C. Buhler

William Watson, Engineer and Educator

The Nantucket Railroad Collection

Wreck of the "T. B. Witherspoon" by Edouard A. Stackpole

Grace Brown Gardner by Gertrude A. Pratt

Presentation of Relics from S. S. "Nobska" 2

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Legacies and Bequests 26

"The Far Away Island" by Theodore C. Wyman 27

Historic Nantucket is published quarterly at Nantuckei, 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.