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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
Mrs. R. A. Orleans, Robert Tonkin, terms expire 1978; Robert D.
Congdon, Harold W. Lindley, terms expire 1979; Mrs. James F. Merriman,
Miss Barbara Melendy, terms expire 1980; Donald Terry, Mrs. H. Crowell
Freeman, terms expire 1981. 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, Miss Barbara Nathan 1800 House: Curator, Mrs. Clare Macgregor
Receptionists: Mrs. Richard Strong, Mrs. Edouard A. Stackpole Old Gaol: Curator, Albert G. Brock
Receptionists: Miss Danica Buckley, Miss Nanette Caton, Ned Horton Whaling Museum: Curator, Hugh R. Chace
Receptionists: Clarence H. Swift, Frank Pattison, James A. Watts, Patricia Searle, Rose Stanshigh, Alice Collins, Avery Trumbull Taylor, A. W. Craig Peter Foulger Museum: Curator and Director, Edouard A. Stackpole
Receptionists: Mrs. Clara Block, Everett Finlay, E. Louise Sweet, Mary Barrett
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 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; Buel Wrenne, David Branscombe Greater Light - Receptionist: Dr. Selina T. Johnson
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 25, Summer 1977 No. 1
CONTENTS
Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff
Editorial
Some Recently Recorded Accessions
President-Administrator's Report
Balance Sheet, May 31, 197
"Catching Whales"
Absalom Boston, His Family by Lorin Lee and Francine C. Cary
The United Methodist Church
Bequests - Address Changes
The Old 'Sconset Pump in 1882
An Old Lady of Nantucket 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 $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.
