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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. Richard Strong, Mrs. Donald MacGlashan, Miss Helen Levins 1800 House: Curator, Mrs. Clare Macgregor
Receptionist: Miss Barbara Nathan Old Gaol: Curator, Albert G. Brock Whaling Museum: Curator, Renny Stackpole
Receptionists: Frank Pattison, James A. Watts, Patricia Searle, Rose Stanshigh, Alice Collins, Clarence H. Swift, Mary Lou Campbell, Donald S. MacGlashan Peter Foulger Museum: Curator and Director, Edouard A. Stackpole
Receptionists: Mrs. Clara Block, Everett Finlay, Mary J. Barrett, Richard Strong, Suzanne Zobel
Librarian: Mrs. Louise Hussey Nathaniel Macy House: Curator, Mrs. John A. Baldwin
Receptionists: Miss Dorothy Hiller, Mrs. Alfred Hall Archaeology Department, Curator, Mrs. Roger Young Old Town Office: Curator, Hugh R. Chace Old Mill: Curator, John Gilbert
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
Shipkeepers: Richard Swain, Buel Wrenne, Dov Pick Greater Light - Receptionists: Dr. Selina T. Johnson, Florence Farrell Building Survey Comittee: Chairman, Robert G. Metters
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 26 July, 1978 No.l
CONTENTS
Editorial - Nantucket's' 'Sheep Storms''
Hie Discovery of Nantucket Island by John E. La couture
' 'Quakers in Boston, 1656 -1964" by George A. Selleck
Book Review by Gordon Browne
Oliver S. Chase, a Young Nantucketer "In Search of
Wealth and Adventure" by Andre Aubuchon
July, 1977 - June, 1978
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 S.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.
