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Nancy Grant Adams, 1887 - 1968 "MY SEA-FARING FAMILY" was completed in 1957 by Mrs. Nancy Grant Adams, who had retired the previous year as President of the Nantucket Historical Association. She had been a vital part of the Association's growth for over thirty years, serving in various capacities - curator, librarian, custodian of collections, chairman of the Whaling Museum, and, finally, as President in 1953. Her activities in Nantucket also included the Abiah Folger Franklin Chapter, D.A.R., Nantucket Civic League, Nantucket Atheneum Library, American Red Cross, and as a member of the Nantucket Finance Committee. As a daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Nantucket whaling captains, she had collected over the years a remarkable number of logbooks, letters and stories from which she wrote "My Sea-Faring Family". It is with pleasure and pride that we present in this issue of "Historic Nantucket the first installment of her book, a major achieve ment of a remarkable woman. Merle T. Orleans, Assistant Editor
MY SEA-FARING FAMILY: A true account of the whalemen: Charles Grant Nancy J. Grant Charles W. Grant George A. Grant
1814-1906 1823-1905 1850-1882 1857-1942
by Nancy Grant Adams 1887-1968 daughter of George A. Grant
