Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS

President: H. Flint Ranney Vice President: Robert D. Congdon Vice President: Mrs. Bracebridge Young Secretary: Mrs. Walker Groetzinger Treasurer: Donald E. Terry Honorary Vice Presidents

Walter Beinecke, Jr. Alcon Chadwick

George W. Jones Albert Brock Mrs. Bernard Grossman Presidents Emeritus Leroy H. True

Albert F. Egan, Jr Mrs. R. Arthur Orleans

Edouard A. Stackpole

Mrs.Kenneth Baird Mrs. John A. Baldwin Mrs. Dwight Beman Mrs. James Chase Mrs. H. Crowell Freeman John Gilbert

COUNCIL MEMBERS Mrs. Hamilton Heard, Jr. Mrs. John G. W. Husted Reginald Levine Robert F. Mooney Mrs. Carl M. Mueller Philip C. Murray

Mrs. Alan Newhouse Francis W. Pease Mrs. Judith Powers Charles F. Sayle, Sr. Mrs. Jane D. Woodruff Robert A. Young

Max N. Berry Patricia A. Butler Charles Carpenter

ADVISORY BOARD Mrs. Charles Carpenter Mrs. Thomas Loring Stuart P. Feld William B. Macomber William A. Hance Nancy A. Martin Andrew J. Leddy, Jr. STAFF John N. Welch, Administrator Victoria Taylor Hawkins Bruce A. Courson

Curator of Collections Curator of Museums & Interpretation Jacqueline Kolle Haring Edouard A. Stackpole

Curator of Research Materials Historian Louise R. Hussey Leroy H. True

Librarian Manager, Whaling Museum Elizabeth Tyrer Wilson B. Fantom

Executive Secretary Plant Manager Peter S. MacGlashan Elizabeth Little

Registrar Curator of Prehistoric Artifacts Kathrine L. Walker Gayl Michael

Ass t. Curator of Collections Asst. Curator of Research Materials Thomas W. Dickson Richard P. Swain

Merchandise Manager Miller Georgiann L. Phipps Director of Development

Do cents: Kay Allen, Kathleen Barcus, Suzanne Beaupre, Marjorie Burgess, Alcon Chadwick, Tamar Chizewer, Marjorie Corey, Roscoe Corey, Margaret Crowell, Anita Dougan, Everett Finlay, Barbara Johnston, Maureen Murdock, Elsie Niles, Alfred Orpin, Gerald Ryder, Dorothy Strong, Mary Witt

' ' * Historic Nantucket

Edouard A. Stackpole, Editor Merle T. Orleans, Assistant Editor

Published Quarterly and devoted to the preservation of Nantucket's antiquity, its famed heritage and its illustrious past as a whaling port.

Volume 34 April, 1987

CONTENTS

No. 4

Nantucket Historical Association Officers and Staff

Editorial: It Happened in April - In Our Own Times Melville's First Captain - Valentine Pease, Jr.

"An Island Song", by Mary E. Starbuck

Emerson's Tribute to Nantucket

Bequests/Address Changes

Were There Two Parliament Houses? by Roland L. Warren

"Seaside Time", by Josephine Smith Brooks My Sea-Faring Family by Nancy Grant Adams "Nantucket", by Mary Starbuck

When Governor Lincoln Visited Nantucket

"The Walk", by Mary Starbuck "Springtime-Blisstime", by Josephine S. Brooks

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Historic Nantucket (USPS 246-160) is published quarterly at Nantucket, Massachusetts by the Nantucket Historical Association. It is sent to Association members and extra copies may be purchased for $3.00 each. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Nantucket Historical Association, P.O. Box 1016, Nantucket, MA 02554. c. N.H.A. 1986 (USSN 043^-2246).

Membership dues are: Individual $15., Family $25., Supporting $50., Contributing $100., Sponsor $250., Patron $500., Life Benefactor $2,500.

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.