Historic Nantucket, April 1981, Vol. 28 No. 4

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Old Chart of Nantucket Sound Now on display at the Peter Foulger Museum, this survey by an island pilot is thought to have been drawn, with notes, by Captain Paul Pinkham, whose chart of Nantucket and the surrounding waters, published in 1791, is the earliest known pilot chart for this area. Date unknown.


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