Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association: Thirty-fourth Annual Meeting

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

Nantucket Historical Association

Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting August First, Nineteen Twenty-eight

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

Nantucket Historical Association

Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting August First, Nineteen Twenty-eight

THE INQUIRER AND MIRROR PRESS NANTUCKET ISLAND MASS.

LIST OF OFFICERS

President WILLIAM F. MACY Vice-Presidents MILLARD F. FREEBORN WILLIAM F. CODD WALTER GILMAN PAGE MRS. IRVING ELTING G. LISTER CARLISLE, JR. HENRY P. SCHAUFFLER Secretary REV. JOSIAH C. KENT Treasurer MRS. LILLIAN A. THURSTON Curator Emeritus MISS SUSAN E. BROCK Curator and Librarian MRS. WALTON H. ADAMS Auditors MISS EMMA COOK ALBERT G. BROCK MISS HANNAH G. HATCH

Councillors JOSEPH HUSBAND FRED V. FULLER CAPT. B. WHITFORD JOY MRS. ANNA FOLGER HUFF MISS SUSAN E. BROCK MISS MARY E. STARBUCK MISS ANNE RING Committees—1928-29 Finance—William F. Codd, Millard F. Freeborn, Miss Susan E. Brock.

Publication—Miss Susan E. Brock, Harry B. Turner, Miss Annie W. Bodfish.

Building—William F. Codd, Miss Susan E. Brock, Mil­ lard F. Freeborn, William Sumner Appleton.

New Work—Capt. B. Whitford Joy, G. Lister Carlisle, Jr., Mrs. Walton H. Adams, Miss Annie Barker Folger, Miss Sarah L. Macy, Miss Anne Ring, Miss Mary E. Starbuck.

Publicity—Walter Gilman Page, Rev. Josiah C. Kent, G. Lister Carlisle, Jr., Joseph Husband, John H. Robinson, Miss Annie Barker Folger, Miss Cora Stevens.

Junior Membership—Edgar W. Jenney, Rev. Josiah C. Kent, Miss Carrie J. Long, Miss Merle Turner.

Siasconset House—Millard F. Freeborn, Miss Annie B. Folger, Mrs. R. C. Small, Mrs. Frederick Hill.

Purchasing—Miss Susan E. Brock, Millard F. Free­ born, William F. Codd.

Old Mill—Millard F. Freeborn, Harry B. Turner, Fred V. Fuller.

Note:—It is understood by the Council that the Building Committee and the Committee on the Old Mill together constitute the Committee on the Oldest House and also on the Old North Burying Ground.

ANNUAL MEETING The thirty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Nantucket Historical Association was held in the Old North Vestry, Wednesday, August 1, at 3 p. m., President William F. Macy presiding.

The reading of the record of the last meeting was omitted as it had been printed in the Proceedings of 1927.

The Secretary's Annual Report was then read. As usual, this report scintillated with the Secretary's wit and wisdom. Miss Starbuck's literary style is her own, and a most interesting style it is. It raises the expectations of her hearers to a keen sense of enjoyment. Nor are her hearers disappointed, for they are lifted into an atmosphere that is rich, rare and racy. The pity is that we shall have no more of Miss Starbuck's Annual Reports; for the state of her health is such that she felt obliged to decline a re­ election to the office of secretary. It is with regret that the Association learns of this decision, for Miss Starbuck has been an asset of the Annual Meetings for many years.

She was the first secretary of the Association, serving from 1894 to 1900, and latterly from 1922 to 1928. It is a matter for congratulation, that, though relinquishing the office of Secretary, she will continue to serve the Association as Councillor.

The Treasurer's Report was then read and accepted and placed on file. This report showed the Association to be in a flourishing condition, with a membership of 631 and a comfortable balance in the treasury.

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The Curator's Report was then called for, but in the absence of the Curator, Miss Susan E. Brock, her report was read by the Assistant Curator, Mrs. Nancy Grant Adams. As in former years, this report was full of in­ terest inasmuch as it enumerated the many gifts which had been made to the Association within the year. But it was with a feeling of sadness that this report was listened to, for it was realized by all present that this was the last report that would come to us from the facile pen of our beloved Curator. The long-continued illness of Miss Brock has made it necessary for her to decline a re-election to the office which she has held so long. She was one of the founders of the Association, thirty-four years ago, and during all the intervening years has been the faithful cus­ todian of its ever-increasing collection of historical relics.

Miss Brock has the historical sense keenly developed; and she realizes, as few of us do, that the present has its roots in the past, and that the Nantucket Historical Association is the principal means of preserving the continuity of our Island life. A perusal of her Annual Reports over a period of years will convince even the casual reader of her life­ long interest in, and devotion to, the best interests of Nantucket's history and traditions.

Mr. Kent then reported for the Committee on Histor­ ical Essays. He said that, though the number of essays handed in was smaller than usual, the quality was very good, one of them being good enough to merit the first prize. It is the aim of the Committee to keep the standard of the first prize essay at a high grade, for by vote of the Association it is to be published in the Proceedings. The Committee feel that this year's first prize meets the re­ quirements. It was written by Miss Merle Turner and is entitled "Kindred Spirits of the Historical Rooms".

The second prize was awarded to Miss Dorothy Jones, her essay bearing the title "A Namesake". The third prize 8 }>

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went to Miss Amy Burdick, her subject being "The Oldest House".

At this point Mr. Kent called upon Miss Turner to read her essay. This she did to the enjoyment of all present.

Mrs. Stokeley Morgan, for the Nominating Committee, reported the following list of officers to serve the ensuing year: For President—William F. Macy.

For Vice Presidents—Millard F. Freeborn, William F. Codd, G. Lister Carlisle, Henry P. Schauffler, Mrs. Irving Elting.

For Secretary—Rev. Josiah Coleman Kent.

For Treasurer—Mrs. Lillian A. Thurston.

For Curator and Librarian—Mrs. Walton H. Adams.

For Councillors—Joseph Husband, Capt. B. Whitford Joy, Fred V. Fuller, Winthrop Coffin, Miss Susan E. Brock, Miss Mary E. Starbuck, Miss Anne Ring, Mrs. Anna Folger Huff.

On motion of Moses Joy it was voted that the Secre­ tary be instructed to cast one ballot for the list of names as presented. This was done by the unanimous consent of those present, and the above named officers were declared elected.

The business being over the following program was rendered: President Macy read his Annual Address; and, as usual, it was listened to with keen interest, for the Presi­ dent always has something to say that is worth our while to hear. Among other things, he told of a Museum Con­ ference which he attended in Washington last spring, where the trials and tribulations and advantages of local museums were freely discussed by those who have them in charge.

He found in the discussion that all museums have the same problems to grapple with, such as inadequate salaries, lack of appropriations, and ignorance of the value of local museums. But when one of the speakers suggested that 4. 9 >

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these problems might be solved by turning the local museum over to the Metropolitan Museums President Macy's Quaker traditions came to the front and, as he said, "I was moved to speak."

The President then spoke optimistically concerning our proposed Whaling Museum. He reported that about $30,000 had been pledged toward this venture, and he earnestly be­ sought the members of the Association to do their utmost to complete the required sum.

He referred feelingly to the retiring curator and paid her a high tribute, suggesting that the office of Curator Emeritus be created and that Miss Brock be elected to that office in recognition of her long and devoted service to the Association. It was unanimously so voted.

Miss Starbuck then read a letter from Mr. Charles S. Clark of New York City giving a graphic account of the founders of the town of Hudson, N. Y. That town on the Hudson River has a peculiar interest for Nantucket inas­ much as its founders were Nantucket people. Mr. Clark's letter was accompanied by a small engraving of Hudson.

(The letter will be found on another page).

Capt. B. Whitford Joy then gave an informal talk about the sturdy whalemen of Nantucket, but with special reference to Owen Spooner, the discoverer of "Sunset Longitude". This tardy recognition of the claims of Owen Spooner is of such historical interest that our secretary asked Capt. Joy to put it in writing. This Capt. Joy has done, and it may be found on another page.

Edgar W. Jenney then spoke interestingly on some of the plans which the town's Planning Board has in mind for the beautification of the town.

Our good friend, Moses Joy, makes an annual visit to Nantucket, and he times it so as to be present at the An­ nual Meeting of our Association. And he always speaks.

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And he always brings a gift in his hands. To the meeting this year he brought a whale's tooth which shows "every evidence of having been decayed while in the whale's jaw.

Paul B. Mann of New York was called upon to say a few words. He expressed amazement at the magnitude of our historical collections, and wondered whether we were making the most use of it. He suggested that we could make it better known if we had a Publicity Committee, and if we should correlate it with the school system.

An evening lecture, illustrated by stereopticon views, was given in the Old North Vestry by Paul B. Mann, en­ titled "The Worth-whileness of Historical Museums". Mr. Mann is connected with the schools of New York, and his address was largely about what the schools are doing to interest children in Museums.

Josiah C. Kent, Secretary.

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SECRETARY'S REPORT Mr. President, Members and Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association:Once more we are glad to report to you who come back each year, and to you who are just beginning to know us and our special work, how the Association has fared since the last Annual Meeting.

On the evening of that day, it will be remembered, our President, Mr. Macy, announced just before the lecture, that the collection of whaling implements and other re­ lated articles which Mr. Sanderson had promised to hold for us until we could provide for their proper housing, had been most generously turned over to us. This valuable collection was already the property of the Historical As­ sociation.

So with the new roof on the Fire Proof Building, and off our minds where it had rested so heavily, and so long; and with the restoration of the Oldest House, made possi­ ble by another generous friend, in the safe hands and under the personal supervision of a third of like mind, we began our new year with one definite object in view, the securing of the old Candle House for our Whaling Museum.

Immediately after the Annual Meeting a special com­ mittee was formed for the purpose of obtaining money by pledge or cash gifts for the purchase of the building.

Our President objected to the use of the phrase "solic­ iting funds". "Obtaining" was another matter, and of course gave more freedom as to methods. He said ^ 12 )3>

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that if each member of the rather numerous committee would "obtain" $1,000.00, the building was ours. We all saw that clearly. But when he added that it would be an easy matter to obtain this sum, it sounded less convincing.

However each one at the meeting promised to make the effort. And a few members succeeded in raising their quota before the season was over, though it had not been found such a simple matter as our optimistic President had stated. How the interest has grown and to what extent the fund has increased will be told later.

Besides the two committee meetings, there have been five meetings of the Council, for the consideration of minor matters of more necessity than interest. At a meeting towards spring, Mr. Fuller brought to us the good news that the work on the Oldest House was finished, and that it was closed and safely battened down to weather the re­ maining storms that might be in store before summer.

For the rest there is little of moment to report. Our correspondence increases steadily. It is gratifying to feel that we are supposed to know so much, for the informa­ tion asked covers a wide area. One of the most interest­ ing requests came from an elderly physician in western New York. He was of Nantucket birth, and in his youth he had gone whaling on his own father's ship, in order to earn the money for the medical education that he coveted.

And now, along in the eighties, and still sailing his own yacht, it had occurred to him that he would like to fly on her the house-flag of his father's ship. So the flag was looked up, and a copy was made from the chart in our Museum, and forwarded to the appreciative Doctor, whose father by the way, like all the whaling captains, practised medicine and surgery fearlessly when required on board ship, with no hint from Medical Schools ashore. "And be­ cause or in spite of this fact," like Victor Hugo's Ursus, "they effected cures."

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Our publications are still in demand. Many Histori­ cal Societies, and public and college libraries are keeping up to date their files, even of our Proceedings.

And now we look back once more through the year and think of those who will meet with us here no more.

We shall miss them greatly. But we cannot lose them wholly. What they have given us of the comfort of com­ panionship, of sympathy and support have helped to make our work what it has become, have helped to make us what we are.

And "among the names we loved to hear" are those of: Life Members—Mrs. Edith Ackley, Mrs. Bertha Affeld, Mrs. Mary E. Fuller.

Annual Members—Mr. Edmund Bigelow, Miss Char­ lotte Briggs, Mr. Albert S. Coffin, Mr. John S. Ditmars, Rear Admiral William Mayhew Folger, Mrs. Anna Smith Folsom, Mrs. Mary M. Gardner, Capt. John Killen, Mr. George Lally, Mr. Edward Abbot Lawrence, Mr. Henry S. McKeag, Mr. Everett Manter, Mr. Reuben B. Peele, Miss Elizabeth Riddell, Mrs. Ellen M. Round, Miss Anna G. Swain, Mr. Benjamin F. Williams, Mrs. Clementina Wing.

This sense of loss so hard to bear is the price we pay for having had such friends.

Respectfully submitted, Mary E. Starbuck, Secretary.

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TREASURER'S REPORT For the Year Ending June 30, 1928.

RECEIPTS. Balance on hand, June 30, 1927 . $ 355.92 Life Membership fees 120.00 Annual dues 581.00 Admission fees, Historical Rooms 940.25 Admission fees, Old Mill 161.00 Interest on bond 21.25 Rebate on Insurance policy .52 Sale of publications 56.05 Donations 137.14 Rent of Siasconset House (two years) 200.00 Withdrew from Nantucket Institution for Savings 403.15 Liberty Bond (called) ...... 1,000.00 PAYMENTS

$3,976.28

Cleaning Historical Building $ Cleaning Oldest House ..............

Postage and stationery . ..

Supplies ........

Nancy S. Adams, clerical work Inquirer and Mirror, Annual Reports Inquirer and Mirror, subscription Inquirer and Mirror, advertising and printing ..

Inquirer and Mirror, "Land and Land Owners" .

Inquirer and Mirror, stationery Inquirer and Mirror, Whaling Museum folders ..

Bay State League, dues Wannacomet Water Co •<ef 15 1§-

89.70 5.25 10.00 11.14 36.75 244.25 2.50 175.50 234.00 70.34 63.25 2.00 20.00

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Expenses of lecture F. V. Fuller, Annual Meeting expenses A. G. Brock, insurance Union Publishing Co., advertising William Voorneveld, floral piece Citizens' Gas, Electric & Power Co J. Killen & Son, fuel H. C. Chase, carting J. T. Worth, carting John Terry, auto hire M. J. Grant, repairs 'Sconset House Geo. S. Davis, labor and stock, 'Sconset House . .

W. B. Marden, labor Annie B. Folger, antiques Dorothy Boyer, Essay prize Frances Ramsdell, Essay prize Transfer to Winthrop Coffin Fund Salary of Attendants, Historical Rooms Salary of Attendant, Old Mill Salary of Janitor Salary of Secretary, 1927 Salary of Secretary, 1928 Salary of Treasurer, 1927 Salary of Treasurer, 1928 Salary of Curator, 1927 Salary of Curator, 1928 Salary of Assistant Curator, 1927 Salary of Assistant Curator, 1928 Deposited in Nantucket Institution for Savings Deposited in Nantucket Institution for Savings, Liberty Bond

1,000.00

Balance to new account

3,929.21 47.07 4. 16 )*•

50.00 35.20 233.61 25.00 9-00 2.03 4-50 4-00 5.50 1-09 1-25 95.65 12.00 10.00 5.00 2.50 5.00 405.00 81.15 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 50.00 50.00 177.14

$3,976.28

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Winthrop Coffin Fund Account RECEIPTS

Balance on hand, June 30, 1927 $ 1,275.41 Donation, Winthrop Coffin 8,000.00 Transfer from Historical Fund 5.00 Pacific Bank Loan on Savings Bank Book 700.00 Withdrew from Nantucket Institution for Savings 1,157.24 $11,137.65 PAYMENTS

F. V. Fuller, labor and auto hire F. W. Dingle, supplies H. S. Stollnitz, supplies Society for Preservation of N. E. Antiquities, material E. M. Dow, material Lewis G. Flagg & Co., material Isaac Blair & Co., shoring chimney James T. Worth, carting Thorp Brothers, teaming and stock Island Service Co., stock John Clarkson, stock and labor Arthur Williams, stock and labor Archibald Cartwright, stock and labor Alfred F. Shurrocks, services W. S. Appleton, services Anna Ward, board Pacific Bank, loan and interest Balance in Pacific National Bank

$

21.77 4.75 14.75 35.00 15.75 126.00 866.57 22.00 90.00 72.00 51.10 1,829.54 4,998.95 1,068.09 99.41 1,117.00 700.58

11,133.26 4.39 $11,137.65

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SUMMARY Assets

Fireproof Building and Meeting House Collection, (insurance) Siasconset House Old Mill Oldest House

$ 8,860.00 1,000.00 2,220.00 4,500.00 10,000.00 $26,580.00

Susan W. Folger Fund: Nantucket Institution for Savings Ella M. Starbuck Fund: Nantucket Institution for Savings Oldest House Fund: Nantucket Institution for Savings Permanent Fund (Life Membership fees) : Nantucket Institution for Savings Winthrop Coffin Fund: Pacific National Bank Balance on hand

100.00 8,000.00 400.00 2,068.22 4.39 47.07 $32,199.68

Liabilities

None

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MEMBERSHIP New Life Members New Annual Members

3

27 30

Lost by death, Life Members Lost by death, Annual Members Changed from Annual to Life Members Withdrawn Dropped for non-payment of dues

2 15 5 5

8 35

Present total membership Life Councilors Life Members Annual Members

631 2 92 537

631 Respectfully submitted, Lillian A. Thurston, Treasurer.

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CURATOR'S REPORT Mr. President and Friends:While the strenuous efforts of our officials and friends have been directed mainly to the wonderful financial achieve­ ments of our Association during the past year—the slow but steady growth of our collections has progressed as always, bringing us a number of historical and valuable relics.

We have received some very desirable old portraits.

Two of these—of Charles P. Swain and his wife, Lydia G. Swain, were painted in 1826 by the artist, William Swain, who has been considered the best of the painters who im­ mortalized our prominent old-time citizens.

Another is of Uriah Swain, painted in France in 1787, and who was lost at sea on his return voyage.

A fine miniature, painted in France also, of John Swain, a brother of Charles P. With these came a silhouette of Priscilla Bunker Coffin, belonging to this same family—and the whole bequeathed to us by our highly esteemed member, Miss Anna G. Swain.

Two more portraits were of Benjamin Brown and Nancy Gardner Brown, his wife. He was ringer of the cur­ few for many years. Some of us well remember joining the chant of the school-girls— "Twelve o'clock and all is well— For Benjamin Brown he rings the bell."

And still another association belongs to these portraits for they bear the mark of the brush of Sallie Gardner, who <{ 20 •

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was a "natural artist" of Nantucket and remarkably suc­ cessful in "catching a likeness" without the least instruc­ tion in drawing or painting.

So without beauty or artistic merit—these ancient productions hold interesting associations for born and bred Nantucketers.

A portrait of one of our most famous women—the Rev. Phebe Ann Hanaford—painted in colors on porcelain.

And a transparency in natural colors—mounted in a new and pleasing manner which gives a wonderfully life­ like representation of Capt. Walter Chase, whose history we always review with pride.

A number of fine framed photographs have also come to us. One of William Hussey Macy, one of William H. Swift, one of a group of the well-remembered officials of our dear old Steamer "Island Home". The names of Capt.

Nathan Manter, Mate William Fitzgerald, Clerk Charles C. Crosby, Engineer Albion K. Bucknam and Express Agent Charles Allen, bring back many poignant memories to the older half of our citizens.

Our accessories in books and manuscripts coming to us in large boxes, have caused us to yearn more and more for the library of our future visions. These have all been sorted and packed away as carefully as possible, which is all we can do with them at present.

Many single books were donated and one unusual enough to deserve special mention. A family bible—the largest in size we have ever seen—measuring over eigh­ teen inches in length and nearly twelve inches width and fully and finely illustrated also. Dated 1822.

Numbers of old manuscripts have been added to our store and carefully preserved. We have known for years that we possessed great value in these old records and often wished for someone who had the trained knowledge, in­ terest and leisure to examine them. And this year has 4. 21 )»•

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brought to our shores just the person who fulfilled all these requirements—except the one of leisure. This was Prof.

Charles Thornton Libbey, a noted genealogist of Maine, prominent in many historical societies. His personal quest here was the records of Benjamin Franklin Folger, Walter Folger and William C. Folger. These were so mixed in our archives that only a trained student could recognize and properly arrange them.

Prof. Libbey gave much time and labor to this work and the result was that he solved the whole problem of the Folger records, wrote out the details and sent us photostats of some of the letters. He explained clearly the manner in which these records interlace and overlap—and now we are able to show interested visitors just what material was left by these voluminous writers—and feel sure that all their records are in our hands. These must certainly be copied and printed as soon as possible—that they may be available for the use of the general public.

Another large box contained books and manuscripts from the estate of Rev. Phebe Ann Hanaford, whose por­ trait was mentioned previously. This collection would furnish good material for a biography of our famous preacher and have been sorted and packed away carefully, awaiting the time when needed—which is sure to come in the future.

The other large boxes came from the estates of Allen Coffin, Esq., and Mrs. M. A. Albertson and held many more books and manuscripts.

We have our usual list of small relics with their vary­ ing associations—viz:10*r

A krge China bowl brou£ht

lob5.

home from Shanghai in

A necklace of cloves made in the South Sea Islands.

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Another most unique necklace of round beads made of whale's teeth by one of our members for Mrs. Sarah C. Raymond and bequeathed by her to our scrim-shaw col­ lection.

Some dainty examples of hand-embroidered infant's garments made by Nantucket needle-women.

Some ladies' antique boots in watered silk.

A pair of white slippers with glass ornaments.

A wooden chair which once belonged to Gorham Hussey and was given by him to his daughter Hepsibeth and was intimately associated with her daily life, when for so many years she was honored and revered as one of our successful teachers.

Amongst the articles quite commonly brought from China by our early ship-masters, were the beautiful Chinese Crepe Shawls—which were so cherished by their owners that even to this day our Museum has not received one until the present time when we are the gratified recipients of a heavily and handsomely embroidered white shawl— brought by Capt. Christopher Capen from San Francisco to Nantucket in 1854.

We have had some very desirable articles offered for purchase, but the feeling that all our funds must be saved for the great object pressing upon us this year, has kept us from yielding to temptation—except in one small instance— the offer of a very ancient China bowl so strangely and uniquely marked that we could not resist—and I think you will all agree when you see it that this small extravagance will justify itself.

Besides our important and valuable acquisitions—we still have amusing examples of what we like to consider our "educational mission". Recently a young lady, when going down to see our basement exhibit, was told to be sure to look at the "camels". In a short time she appeared beside the attendant looking anxious and puzzled, saying, •4

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"Will you please tell me again where you keep the camels?

I looked all around and there are none there?"

The explanation seemed to relieve a troubled mind and again we felt we had not lived in vain!

We speak of, and are amused by, these trifling little happenings—but our minds are full of sincere gratitude that this year has proved to be a noted one in our history.

The fulfillment of our long-felt desire to celebrate the res­ toration of the Oldest House and at the same time to ac­ complish the successful start of our Whaling Museum—are certainly two marvellous events, and we may surely feel that we have plans enough before us to employ all our energies during a long and busy future for our beloved Association.

Respectfully submitted, Susan E. Brock, Curator.

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS Fellow-Members of the Association and Friends: I shall confine my remarks to-day pricipally to an in­ formal report of two meetings of the American Association of Museums which I have attended during the year—the first in October last, a meeting of the New England branch of the Association at Portland, Me., and the second the regular annual three-day conference of the National As­ sociation, held in conjunction with the American Federation of Art, at Washington in May of this year. As the latter was the larger of the two, and of more general interest, I shall devote most of my time to it.

I found these meetings both interesting and instruc­ tive. The many problems which concern the management of museums of every character are discussed by experts, including directors, curators, executive and administrative officials of museums, large and small, from all over the country. Ideas and experiences are exchanged, questions are asked and answered, a general spirit of mutual help­ fulness and co-operation prevails, and some of the addresses on special problems of museum work and administration are very inspiring.

Two things particularly impressed me at these con­ ferences. First, the quite universal spirit of enthusiasm for the work in which they were engaged which seemed to inspire all the workers; the evident desire to serve the public and to improve their opportunities for such service in every possible way. When we reflect that most of the •3 25

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executive officials are volunteer workers, and that many of the administrators are working for very modest salaries, this attitude is as surprising as it is inspiring. There seems to be little thought of self, but always the ambition to serve others, to give rather than to get, which seems to be a dis­ tinguishing characteristic of museum workers everywhere.

The other thing which impressed me was that even the largest and most prosperous and successful of the museums in the great cities have very much the same problems to meet and solve as the smaller ones in small towns such as ours. It is only a question of scale. Inade­ quate funds for the work they want to undertake, general apathy and lack of appreciation as shown by any proper response on the part of the general public, outside of a limited group—this was the universal story.

And yet, they keep up their courage, and in spite of these handicaps, there was a note of optimism throughout a feeling that the American people are gradually waking up to a better realization of the educational and inspira­ tional value of these institutions, which promises well for the future and is bound to result as time goes on in more adequate support. Many delegates reported some support fiom public funds, small, but growing appropriations from municipal councils and boards.

And this, by the way, suggested a possibility for us here. There is no reason, it was argued, why museums should not receive at least as much support from the public treasury as libraries, since the whole tendency of modern educational methods is to supplement the printed page with s u y of the object itself. The actual, tangible value, in dollars and cents, to any community of the presence and ac rvity of institutions of this kind is more and more being appreciated and recognized.

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to the world at large, and among the inducements offered to the prospective tourist or visitor are many of the things for which this association is directly and solely responsible.

The preservation and maintenance of the Old Mill, the Oldest House, the Quaker Meeting House, and our remark­ able collection of interesting objects in the fire-proof build­ ing must be recognized and acknowledged as distinct assets of incalculable value in attracting visitors to the island, and our proposed whaling museum, if and when we get it, will, we believe, bring, as time goes on, thousands of additional visitors who might otherwise never have come. A certain percentage of these people will come again and bring others.

Some will in time locate here, hiring or buying property, patronizing the local merchants, and furnishing employ­ ment to our people, thus enhancing the prosperity of the community. Would it not be "good business" then, aside from any sentimental considerations, for the town to lend its aid by a modest appropriation in support of the work we are doing, which redounds to the benefit of all? I com­ mend this thought to the Council for such action as may seem advisable.

But this is a digression from my main theme. To re­ turn to the Washington conference: Some three hundred delegates and representatives of various types of museums all over the country were present; the first session was opened by the President of the United States in a strong address, endorsing the purposes of the organization, and there were many speakers of national reputation at the several sessions. Special meetings of the different groups represented were held each forenoon, afternoon and evening, and there was a wide choice of interests and subjects.

Naturally, as I was there to learn, my special interest was in the meetings of the Historical Museum group, of which there were several, though I did attend some of the others.

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I found that the directors and curators of many of the historical societies represented were up against much the same problems and difficulties as we have to meet, and after hearing their stories, I am included to think that, on the whole, we are at least as well if not better off in most ways than the average of them—even some of the larger ones.

One director of a historical museum in a city of over three hundred thousand population reported with some pride that they now had over a thousand members. Comparing that with our membership of between six and seven hundred in a town of but little over three thousand population, I felt that we had done fairly well.

A few of the speakers were rather pessimistic, taking a somewhat gloomy view of the future of such societies as ours, and one note was struck occasionally which I could but resent. This was a tendency to question whether the average local historical society in the average small town was serving any useful purpose, whether it was really worth the effort put into it. Some rather disparaging criticisms were made. It was said that many if not most such muse­ ums were more or less "moribund", feebly supported by a small group of women, with a sprinkling of doddering old men, that they held meetings once a year or so, at which hey read dry-as-dust papers at each other concerning sub­ jects in which no one but themselves was interested, and that no one would miss them much if they went out of existence.

As for their collections, it was said that these were often heterogeneous, having no special connection, except m a very limited way, with the local history, that they were arranged without system, and that they had no parlcular story to tell. One man said the average local his­ torical museum in the small town was a "mausoleum of curiosities and freaks". But perhaps "the unkindest cut of 28 )§<•

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all" was the remark of one speaker who referred to a collec­ tion with which he was familiar as a sort of "glorified what-not".

Now of course there is just enough truth in all this kind of criticism to partly justify at least some of it. No doubt it does apply to some societies and some collections.

And perhaps this sort of "knocking" is good for us all and may have a wholesome effect in putting us on our mettle to see how we can improve and keep up with the procession.

It is, we all know, easy to get into a rut, and we must all be on the watch all the time to avoid just those pitfalls which were pointed out with such brutal frankness by some of the critics.

But one or two of the speakers went a little too far, and when one of the museum directors raised the question in all seriousness as to whether it might not be better if many of the small local museums went out of business al­ together so far as maintaining any permanent collection of exhibits is concerned, turning over what they had of value to the nearest large city museum, where, it was argued, more people would be given an opportunity to see the ex­ hibits, and confining their efforts to research and publica­ tion of the results, that was a little too much. Though as I have said, I was there to learn, and had no thought up to that time of taking any part in the discussion, I could stand it no longer. If ever "the Spirit moved" one of Quaker stock to testify, I was so moved there and then. I am afraid I bragged a little, not for myself, but for the Nan­ tucket Historical Association and its accomplishments to date.

To the suggestion that we turn over our exhibits to the big city museums, I replied by telling them the old story, which most of you know, I think, about the rich Boston church which, it is said, wrote to our Second Congregational Society, stating that they were building a new church and 4 29 ^

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were looking for a bell to hang in the tower. They had heard of our beautiful-toned old Portuguese bell, and won­ dered if it might perhaps be for sale. To which, you will recall, the Nantucket society is said to have replied to the effect that they had such a bell, that they had heard of the beautiful new church which the Boston society was building and wondered if perhaps the said church might be for sale. I further suggested, in the words of Cap'n Cuttle, that "the bearing of this obserwation lies in the application on't." I think I got the idea across. Then I told them a few of the things we have been doing and some of the things we yet hoped to do, and why we thought it was all well worth while. I had the satisfaction of being thanked afterward for what I had said by one of the high officials of the National Association and by the directors of one or two of the big museums who were not in sympathy with the aspersions which had been cast on our humble efforts by some of the speakers; and, incidentally, I gave the Nantucket Historical Association a little free adver­ tising.

I relate this incident, not to emphasize my part in it, but simply to show what the attitude of some, at least, of the big historical museum people is toward the small-town museum such as ours. However, that was just one in­ stance, not in any way typical of the general spirit of the conference, so I do not wish or mean to overstress it.

Many very valuable suggestions were made, and I regret that I have not the time to tell you, except very briefly, from my notes made at the time, what some of them were and what my own reaction was in each case. Many of them, of course, were not applicable to our situation here, but some of them might well be considered, and I shall in due course present them more in detail to our Council. <8{ 30 )§s-

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The general idea underlying most of the talks was the modern plan of connecting up the museum and its work more closely with the interests of the people in the com­ munity which it serves, stressing always the educational value of the exhibits, especially to the children and the young people, but also to adults, and establishing by every means possible the necessary contacts to get the message over. If the people are too apathetic to go to the museum, take the museum to the people. Take some of the exhibits right out and carry them where they will be seen—to the schools, to the churches at some of their social functions, to the clubs and the lodge rooms, or even to the shop win­ dows. Tell them that these are only samples. Arouse their curiosity to see more. In the modern parlance, to "sell" the museum to the community.

Of course it occurs to us at once, could we apply this idea locally here in Nantucket? I don't know how many Nantucket people have said to me at one time or another: "I have never been into your museum to see your collec­ tion, but I am told it's quite interesting, and I'm going in some day," or words to that effect. Now, just for a sug­ gestion, suppose some day we took our famous seventeenfoot sperm whale's jaw and carted it down on to the wharf, or, say, to the Yacht Club. Wouldn't it draw a crowd? Or suppose we placed our wax statue of the Dauphin of France in the window of the Pharmacy for a few days. I predict that the sidewalk might be blocked for a time till the novelty wore off. Then repace it with our best whaleship model.

Follow that with some of our Indian relics; then a South Sea Island exhibit, which is a museum in itself; and so on.

Think of the advertising value of such a move.

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too many sensations all at once, "museum fatigue" they call it, and the result is such a jumble that nothing stands out clearly in the mind afterwards.

Another thought is to tie up the exhibits with the school work. Not to force the matter in any way, not to make it a part of the curriculum, or to add to the work of the already overburdened teaching staff, but to offer to co­ operate and let the exhibits serve a real practical purpose.

Schools are, of course, already doing this themselves more or less, emphasizing the advantages of objective study.

There the museum can co-operate. Offer loan exhibits fit­ ting into the line of study, to be taken to the schools and kept as long as needed. Then organize study classes among adults along lines in which the museum can help. Work in connection with the public library for the advancement of knowledge and the entertainment and instruction of all the people.

Of course at first blush all this seems quite radical, not to say revolutionary, to the old-time museum workers, but it is the new way, they are gradually adjusting themselves to it and trying it out cautiously, step by step, as it proves itself. Just what we could do here I am by no means pre­ pared to say. But isn't it worth looking into and thinking about? It needs active, interested volunteer workers to make it a success, and it needs money. Everything does that's worth doing. But perhaps this is the very way to get the money and the support of the community. Let's think it over.

You have heard the reports of the officers of the as­ sociation, telling of the progress we have made during the year, and again I want to congratulate you on our prosper­ ous condition, even though our funds are, as usual, rather low, and on our prospects for the future. We have much to be thankful for. Our "Oldest House", thanks to the 4 32

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generosity of Mr. Coffin, is now completely restored, and, we believe, good for centuries yet to come.

Just a word as to the Whaling Museum. A year ago we reported some thirteen thousand dollars pledged toward the purchase of the old candle house. This has since grown to about thirty-thousand dollars, of which ten thousand dollars in cash is in hand. Another good strong pull all together will put it over, and I ask you each and all to help us all you can. Find some one who has not yet con­ tributed and get a check or a pledge. Every dollar counts.

No amount is too large and none is too small. Do your part.

Respectfully submitted, William F. Macy, President.

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RE-DEDICATION OF THE "OLDEST HOUSE" Nearly two hundred persons accepted the invitation of the Historical Association to attend the re-dedication of the "Oldest House" on Monday afternoon, July 30, 1928. The weather was perfect, neither too hot nor too cool, with just enough breeze for comfort, and the old mansion on Sunset Hill, with its surrounding lawns, presented a gay scene from three to five o'clock.

A committee comprising Mrs. Elting Sharp, Miss Mary S. Parker, Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. Brayton and Mr. Walter Gilman Page, had charge of the arrangements and every­ thing moved smoothly and without a hitch in the program anywhere. Though the attendance exceeded expectations, somehow the delicious home-made cakes and the delectable tea punch from a famous recipe held out to the finish.

The newly-restored old house was inspected by all from ground floor to attic, and it is probably safe to say that never before has it held so many people on any one day in all its two hundred and forty odd years of existence.

At four o'clock President William F. Macy of the As­ sociation called the assemblage together for a brief cere­ mony of dedication. All gathered on the slope at the east end of the house, and the President opened the exercises, speaking in part as follows: 4 34 ]§•-

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Fellow-members of the Historical Association and Friends: We are gathered here this afternoon to re-dedicate this ancient dwelling, the oldest building now standing on our island, and to express as best we may our appreciation of and our gratitude to our benefactor, Mr. Winthrop Coffin, a descendant of the great Tristram, for his generosity in making possible its complete restoration to what those who know most about it believe was, substantially, its original form and condition in the year of our Lord 1686.

It is a source of great regret to us all that Mr. Coffin is not here with us today to receive in person this tribute which we extend to him. But he is a modest man who avoids the limelight, and though I sent him a cordial, even an urgent, invitation to favor us with his presence, he begged to be excused. So we can only hope that he is with us in spirit, if not in the flesh, and that he may understand how much we realize our great obligation to him.

In speaking of "those who know the most about it" I refer primarily and specifically to our friend and fellowmember, Mr. William Sumner Appleton, Secretary of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, upon whom Mr. Coffin wisely relied to supervise the restor­ ation, to see that the work was done as it should be done, and that as few mistakes as possible were made. Mr. Ap­ pleton is also a modest man, if one may judge by a letter I received from him a few days ago. He is here, but only incognito, and he refuses to appear before you for reasons given in his letter, which, without asking his permission, (which I know he would not grant) I am going to read to you, so that you may understand just the kind of a man he is.

(Mr. Appleton, in his letter, begged to be allowed to hide behind the fattest fat woman in the rear row, as he did not care to be a target for the adverse criticism which might be aimed at him. He agreed to be present only on condition that he might remain silent, and gave all credit for anything which met with approval to Mr. Shurrocks, the architect).

Mr. Shurrocks, to whom he refers, is, as many of you know, the architect, who was on the job early and late every day from the start to the completion of the restoration. He -B{ 35 )§•

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is one of the few real experts in early New England colonial architecture, and his services were invaluable to the build­ ing committee. Such absolute devotion and singleness of purpose are all too rare, and we have nothing but praise for him and for his service to us.

To the artisans and mechanics who did the actual work, Mr. Cartwright, Mr. Williams and the others, we also owe our thanks and appreciation. It was a difficult job and one on which, under such exacting task masters as Mr. Appleton and Mr. Shurrocks, it was hard to show results commen­ surate with the time and labor expended; and the fact that perfect harmony prevailed throughout in the relations be­ tween those who directed and those who performed the work speaks well for them all.

And now the job is done, what do we think of it? We expected criticism, and we have had it—plenty of it. The only way we might have forestalled it would have been to do the thing the way our critics thought it should be done.

But who are we to criticise those who have made a life study of the subject? Whatever we did there were bound to be honest, well-meaning critics who were quite sure it was wrong because it was not as they or their fathers or grandfathers remembered the house twenty-five, fifty, or even seventy-five years ago. But, my friends, this house is two hundred and forty-two years old. All kinds of things have been done to it in that time. Who knows just how it looked even in the eighteenth century, let alone the seventeenth, when it was built?

All that can be done is to study the few surviving ex­ amples of the period and such illustrations, plans and deSTPtlons as are ava^able, and leave the matter to experts who have made such researches their life work. Such ex­ perts, fortunately, we have had, and we are safe in as­ suming that the restoration is as nearly correct in every detail as it was humanly possible to make it. I, for one, believe that if Jethro Coffin, son of Peter, son of Tristram, could see it today, it would look to him very much as it did £ h™dred and forty-two years ago when he brought Mary Gardner, daughter of John, to live in it.

So those of you—and there are many, I know—who are saying, as many have said to me lately, "Why on earth -»6{ 36 }§6-

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did they put those little diamond-paned casement windows in place of the ones which had always been there ?" I would say only that, to the best knowledge and belief of those best qualified to pass on the question, the windows which were, as they assume, "always there" were not always there. All the evidence is to the contrary. It is too long a story to go into here and now, but if any who are still unconvinced will take the time and trouble to seriously study this evidence, I am very sure they will see that the experts are right, and that Jethro and Mary and their children looked through just about such windows as we now see in the old house.

In fact, I am inclined to doubt if the double-hung sash such as we are familiar with were used or even invented in the year 1686. I will go further, I will venture to pre­ dict that, if, in the event of some future restoration, say a hundred years hence, these casements were replaced by double-hung sash, the critics of that day would say: "Why on earth did they take out those old diamond-pane case­ ments which have always been there?"

However, these matters after all are not of such vital importance. We are not here to quibble over such details.

The really important thing, it seems to me, is to try and put ourselves back for a day to those days of nearly two and a half centuries ago, and to visualize and realize the kind of people who attended the wedding of Jethro and Mary in the big West room, or fore-room, or whatever they called it, and the kind of lives they led.

We do know, from the records, that Jethro's grand­ father, Tristram, and Mary's father, John, were bitter ene­ mies for many years, their long fight for political supremacy in the affairs of the settlement being a part of the history of the period. That they finally "made up" and became re­ conciled not long before Tristram's death, in 1681, is cause for congratulation, for if the family feud had not thus been composed, Jethro and Mary might never have plighted their troth and this house might never have been built. It fol­ lows that many of us, their descendants, might never have existed, or if we had happened to have been born, we might, so to speak, have been someone else.

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We know, too, that Mary's father, John, gave the land we are standing upon to Jethro and Mary, and that Jethro's father, Peter, furnished from his mill in New Hampshire the lumber which went into the house. There is a tradi­ tion that Peter, who was a shrewd man of business, on learning that John had not yet actually passed the title of the land to Jethro, held up the wedding ceremony until the deed had been duly executed and delivered. There is still another legend that Jethro and Mary, though enamored of one another and long secretly betrothed, pretended indif­ ference to the plans of their parents to bring about the match until the land and house were promised, when, with a proper show of reluctance, they yielded and permitted the banns to be published.

But these legends and traditions are only such as may have originated in the imagination of some later romancer, based perhaps on nothing more substantial than idle gossip of the day handed down to succeeding generations. So let us accept them, if at all, with a grain of salt. Why spoil a beautiful story by even a breath of suspicion as to the motives of the characters? Surely even historians may be permitted to idealize a bit in a matter of this kind. a worc^ as the horseshoe in the chimney and the Indian peep-hole by the front door. For some reason there seems to have been a disposition in certain quarters to discredit the witchcraft theory as an explanation of the horseshoe, but when we remember that the year 1686, when this house was built, was at the very height of the witch­ craft craze, which was rampant both in the old country and m the colonies, culminating only six years later, in 1692, in the shameful executions on Gallows Hill, in Salem, is it not reasonable, in the absence of any more plausible explana­ tion, to assume that the builders of this house might well have adopted what was, even long before that, recognized as a good-luck symbol, as some degree of protection against the all-pervadmg fear?

Some confirmation of this hypothesis might well be found in that classic reply of Thomas Macy when, on the open boat voyage from Salisbury to Nantucket a genera­ tion before, in 1659, his wife besought him to turn back: Woman, go below and seek thy God! I fear not the witches on earth or the devils in hell!"

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As for the peep-hole, we know that this part of the island was sparsely populated at that time, practically a wilderness. The migration from Capaum to Wesko had hardly begun, and Jethro and Mary were, in a way, pion­ eers. There were many Indians on the island then, and we know that on occasion they drank too much New England rum; so it may well be that a precautionary reconnoitering may have been a wise preliminary to the admission of an applicant. The other legend of the Indian closet in the West chamber is certainly too good a one to lose, so let it stand.

Whether true or not, it makes good reading and adds to the romantic interest of the old mansion. If this be heresy from the president of a historical society, make the most of it.

I should like to linger longer on the history, authentic and legendary, of the old house, for it is all very romantic and fascinating, but we have promised to make these ex­ ercises brief, and I have already rambled on longer than I intended. So I will close with just a word of appreciation of the fine public spirit of the late Tristram Coffin, of Poughkeepsie, another descendant of the original Tristram, in sav­ ing this house from ruin and oblivion nearly half a century ago, when it was actually falling to pieces from neglect and abuse. Coming to Nantucket for the Coffin Reunion in 1881, he saw the house and at once bought it. Five years later, in 1886, on the two hundredth anniversary of its erection, he made extensive repairs, and in 1897 it was opened to visitors. So to him, originally, we owe the saving of this historic landmark from the fate which has befallen so many of our monuments of the past. To his heirs, also, who, on his death a few years ago, gave our Society the first oppor­ tunity to buy it, and at a price which was really less than it was fairly worth, we are under an obligation which we are glad to acknowledge.

And now we dedicate—may I even perhaps say con­ secrate—this old mansion for all time to the service of our Community, our State and the Nation. With proper care from those who come after us, there is no reason why it may not stand for yet another two hundred and forty-two years, at least, as a monument to the memory of our an­ cestors and a reminder of the times in which they lived.

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Hon. Breckenridge Long was then introduced and in a brief, but telling address, he paid a high tribute to the Historical Association for its acchievements in preserving and maintaining those things of historical and antiquarian interest which give Nantucket its distinctive character and charm as compared with the ordinary resort. We all owe much to the Association, he said, for its influence and ex­ ample along those lines, and we should give it our cordial and hearty support in all its undertakings. He painted a graphic word picture of the rigors, the hardships and the privations which the early settlers endured, and the effect which those experiences had in the formation of character, as shown in their descendants. Our purpose should be to see that those attributes which were developed in our an­ cestors by their contest with the obstacles they met and overcame are made clear to the generation of today, that they may profit by the lesson to be learned therefrom.

The president extended a cordial invitation to all pres­ ent who were not members of the Association to join and help in its support, and all were invited to attend the annual meeting on Wednesday afternoon and the lecture in the evening.

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Winner of first

By Merle E. Turner prize in Historical Society's Contest

The day had been warm and sultry—one of those June days when one has difficulty in shaking off drowsiness. I thought I would spend the afternoon in the cool of the His­ torical Rooms and had ventured into the basement to look at the famous old hand-fire-engine, Cataract, which was stored there as a relic of the Nantucket Fire Department of other days. Was it one of the pieces of apparatus which worked so hard to save the town in the Great Fire of 1846 ?

I was not sure in my own mind.

Slowly I mounted the stairs which led from the base­ ment to the room above. How quiet everything was, and how tired I felt. I glanced at my watch and hastened my steps. It was fifteen minutes after closing time. Had the custodian gone? I hoped not, for a night in the spooky Historical Rooms, filled with ancestral relics and stern oil portraits, was not pleasant to contemplate.

Alas! The place was empty, and the door was locked.

I went back to the stairs leading up to the portrait gallery and sat down. Dreamily considering my predicament the heat of the early June evening overcame me and I fell asleep.

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Suddenly I was awakened by voices. Could someone else have been locked in also? Eagerly I looked around.

It was imagination, for no one was in sight and I heard no footsteps. I glanced at my watch. It was eight o'clock, the hour when ghosts begin to walk. But, no, how silly of me, there are no ghosts.

"Thank goodness, another day is over," said one voice.

Now, at least, we can have peace from those curious peo­ ple who come here to stare at us."

Yes, replied another, "I come to dread each summer more than the last."

Quickly I turned in the direction of the first voice.

Could I believe my eyes? From his picture frame, the Honorable Walter Folger was speaking. His lips moved, and his eyes winked and blinked. On the opposite side of the gallery I heard a thump. Silently turning I beheld the picture of Elihu Coffin coming towards me. I shrank behind the stair posts and watched, eagerly but anxiously. The picture moved slowly across the room until it reached that of the Honorable Walter. There it halted and I breathed a sigh of relief.

"I am glad thee decided to come over here, Elihu.

Otherwise I should have lost my voice, screaming way over there at thee. Besides, Elihu, it is considered unmanly to talk loudly." Thus spoke Walter.

Why, from thy place thee can see all over the rooms," said Elihu. "From my stand I can scarcely see ten feet."

"Yes, and allow me to tell thee of the queer things'I see and hear in the course of a day. I have been here many a year and the visitors change from bad to worse every summer. Why, only this morning, a queer looking man—at least I hope it was a man, but you never can tell by the looks now-a-days—came up to my picture, and said, "Well, Walt, old scout, I suppose you were the shiek of your day.

You'd be some shiek now all right, with your stiff collar «S{ 42

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and your billiard-ball cane. Yes, I saw the original one down there with the rest of the canes. I wouldn't be seen going to a funeral with that one.' Now can you imagine such impertinence, right to my face. The idea of talking about my cane in that way. Why in my day, to have a cane with an ivory billiard-ball on the top was the thing.."

"I should say, Walter, that that was the same saucy person whom I heard criticizing the bureau which belonged to those queer Newbegin sisters, who were so fond of their hens. Evidently this person had heard of their hen, Han­ nah, because he began to discourse upon her habits. He said that he'd like to know 'if this was the bureau in which Hannah was accustomed to lay her eggs, and why they hadn't preserved Hannah with the rest of the dumb things in the Rooms.' Dumb things indeed! I'd like to know what there is better in the world than to have all our neces­ sities preserved. Right over there in that fireplace, for instance, is the very warming pan that used to warm the bed I slept in. And there is Aunt Judith's coffee grinder beside it. These crazy people call them odd, foolish, and old-fashioned. Old-fashioned indeed! These thin shapeless flappers, I believe they call them, who come scudding along under bare poles, don't know what is nice when they see it."

"I hope, Coffin, that I don't have to stay here many more years," said the Honorable Walter. "Why only yes­ terday, a brazen young thing in skirts up to her knees went over to my famous telescope and began to move it this way and that until I thought I should jump out of my frame.

She was dressed in red from top to toe. Imagine a woman wearing red—of all colors."

Here I gasped, for I knew the Honorable Folger meant myself. I arose and walked away, fearing to hear any more.

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things. I hastened over to the bureau of the Newbegin sisters. Sure enough it looked just as though it might have made a good nest for Hannah.

I thought of the scrimshaw work nearby. As I moved over to the case containing it, I glanced to the right and stopped. Did I see a baby? Forgetting the articles fash­ ioned of whale ivory for the moment, I examined it closer.

No, it was of wax and in a glass case. "The Dauphin, pur­ chased at a nunnery in Paris, by Captain Jonathan Coffin, in 1796. A study of Louis Charles, son of Louis the six­ teenth and Marie Antoinette," the inscription stated. I could scarcely make out the features in the twilight, but the face seemed quite well-shaped.

A sudden noise startled me. I went towards the door into the office. Nothing to be seen. There was another door. Instinctively I opened it, hoping it might lead out­ doors. Turning I saw a candle and a few matches on the office desk. I lit it and ventured beyond the open door. y, it was the Quaker Meeting House where once our forefathers sat on hard wooden benches, the women on one side and the men on the other. It was a cheerless place for a young girl of modern times.

I returned to the main room, now guided by my flicker­ ing candle. Suddenly I jumped, for I saw a face. Then I realized it was my own. A mirror? The last thing I ex­ pected to find. I examined it. It was true Chippendale, once owned by Thomas Starbuck. What wouldn't some of those antique collectors give for that! Slowly I turned away from it and met myself in another. This was one belonging to a man, named John Swain, one of the first settlers on the island. He must have been one of those lucky men who paid thirty pounds sterling and two beaver hats for the whole island, while now we have to pay fifteen hundred dollars for enough to build a henroost on. < 44

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A clock struck. I had wandered to the west end of the Rooms. There stood a grandfather's clock, ticking just as merrily as if it had been built recently instead of in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. It reminded me of the one in our parlor and I wondered if it had the correct time.

I looked at my tiny watch with the aid of my candle. It was nine o'clock. Just then I heard the curfew ring.

Should I try to sleep? If so, where? I decided to go back to the stair-case. On the way I tripped and fell. My hand hit something cold as I groped for aid in rising. The candle had gone out, but luckily I had the rest of the matches. Relighting it, I looked to see what my hand had touched. It was a glass case, covering a telephone. What was that doing there? I bent to read the inscription. It was the phone through which the first long distance mes­ sage had been sent in 1916.

Gazing at it sleepily, I wondered if I could stay awake much longer. Glancing around for a place to lie down, I saw a spinet. Sitting down on a wobbly chair, dated 1712, I tried to play "Ramona". What wheezing sounds pene­ trated the stillness. No two notes were in tune and four out of five refused to play. In disgust I gave it up and went back to the stairs.

Just before I sat down I saw something familiar. It was a doll, formerly belonging to my great-great aunt, Mary Archer. Often had I seen it at my grandmother's house.

I picked it up and again sat down.

Suddenly I heard the stern voice of the Honorable Walter again: "Elihu, don't thee think our descendants have done well in gathering such a wonderful collection as this together? No wonder the Nantucket Historical Association is envied by so many others. But there are some things that we do not see here, that actually belong here, don't thee think? For instance, I wonder what be­ came of Captain Peter Paddock's whale iron, the one that •4 45 >

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he thrust into a whale in the South Pacific. It was thirteen years later that he captured the same whale and found embedded in its blubber the same iron with the initials P. P. stamped into it."

"I know where that is, Walter," replied Elihu Coffin.

"Peter Paddock's grandson has it. He lives up in New York State, but I heard the custodian say that he had promised to send it back to Nantucket some day. But now that you have spoken of these things, don't you think it rather strange that that big wedgewood pitcher that be­ longed to Dionis Coffin, Tristram's wife, is not here with this wonderful collection we see before us?"

I must have been dozing again, for the mention of Dionis Coffin and her wedgewood pitcher aroused me.

Where had I heard about it before? Let me think. Could it be that Elihu Coffin meant the very pitcher which I had seen my father take occasionally from its hiding place in the closet and show to some admiring friend? I had been told that this pitcher once belonged to Dionis Coffin and that it had been handed down from generation to genera­ tion. That some day it would be given a place in the His­ torical Rooms I well knew.

Just then I heard footsteps and the lock turned in the door. Someone had seen the flickering candle-light inside the museum, and the assistant custodian had come to in­ vestigate. What a relief to know that I would not have to spend the long dark night in that lonesome place.

Reaching home, it was not long before I was asleep in my own comfortable bed, with nothing but pleasant mem­ ories of the Kindred Spirits of the Historical Rooms.

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OWEN SPOONER

By Captain B. Whitford Joy

The President has asked me to say something today, and as I was brought up to obey orders I shall have to say a few words.

I want to say a few words about those sturdy whale­ men of Nantucket who made Nantucket famous through­ out the world.

With their small ships (which oftentimes were none too seaworthy), and crude instruments, and poor charts, our sturdy forefathers sailed around the dreaded headland of Cape Horn, and across the wide expanse of the Pacific Ocean. They were the pioneers of their day. The present generation, with large ships, inproved instruments and good charts find no trouble in navigating the stormy Cape.

No country has produced better seamen and navigators than were the whalemen of Nantucket.

But there was one who, as a navigator, shines out above all the rest. I refer to Owen Spooner. As a boy, I remember him well. He was an inoffensive man. He surely did not show on the surface the capacity of his brains.

Mr. Spooner went whaling from the island, rose to be sec­ ond mate, and soon left the sea.

In the year 1840 he was second mate of the ship "At­ lantic". On a previous voyage the captain and mate talked of obtaining the longitude by a sunset altitude, but they H( 47

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did not try it out. On this voyage in the ship "Atlantic" Capt. Hoeg said to Mr. Spooner, "let's try the sunset longi­ tude." Capt. Hoeg took the observation of the lower limb of the sun with a spy-glass, and Mr. Spooner took the time by chronometer. The Captain and Mate worked on the problem for several hours and gave it up. Not so with Mr. Spooner; he worked several hours longer and obtained the longitude 116 degrees W. which corresponded with that of the afternoon by sextant. The next morning they took a sunrise sight which agreed with the morning sight by sextant. The ship was bound for Callao. On arrival there they boarded an American frigate for medical attendance.

There they met the late Commander Maury, a Lieutenant at the time. When they explained it to him he saw it in­ stantly, and said he would report it to the Navy Depart­ ment at Washington and would see that Mr. Spooner got substantial recognition from the government for his dis­ covery. And from that time on the problem of Sunset Longitude has been in all books treating of navigation, but giving Lieutenant Maury as its discoverer.

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EMIGRATION FROM NANTUCKET TO HUDSON, N. Y.

By Charles S. Clark

During a visit to Nantucket in 1919, I was very much surprised to find that very little seemed to be known re­ garding the emigration to Hudson, N. Y., from 1783 to 1800. Histories of Nantucket contain but scant mention of the event, and the Island seems to have forgotten it, on the theory perhaps that if anyone chooses to become an oif-islander, he is not worth remembrance.

As a descendant of five proprietors of Nantucket, and of more than five proprietors of Hudson, it is a pleasure to respond to the invitation of President Macy, and to en­ deavor to supply a few missing links in the chain which binds together Nantucket and Hudson.

It is to be presumed that the Sons and Daughters know of the terrible distress on the Island, after the Revolution.

So great was the need for money that I have been told (at Nantucket) that some of the old houses now worth thou­ sands of dollars were then sold for fifty pounds apiece. If this seems incredible let us remember that the whole upper West Side of New York from 59th Street to about 86th Street was sold at about the same time for fifty pounds.

So poor were the Nantucket emigrants to Hudson that they had no money to buy or build homes, and so they took with them to Hudson their houses, taken apart and shipped, piece by piece, in the fishing vessels.

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Urged by the pressing necessities of their families and friends, two noble men, Seth and Thomas Jenkins, who had gone to Providence, and there accumulated a fortune, pro­ ceeded to New York, in 1783, with a hundred thousand dollars in their possession. Their purpose was to seek a site for a new Nantucket, in a fertile country, but near navigable waters.

They first visited Colonel Henry Rutgers, a business friend, who owned a large farm on the lower east side of New York City; approximately the area now enclosed with­ in Market, Division, Grand and Corlears Streets, and the East River, and containing about fifty blocks.

Driving a close and hard bargain cost the descendants of the emigrants at least one hundred millions. Rutgers was a stubborn old Dutchman; the Jenkins brothers keen Yankee business men. Only a difference of $200.00 sep­ arated the parties when they agreed to disagree.

So the envoys went on to Claverack Landing on the Hudson River and were enchanted by what they saw. The land was cheap and fertile, the view of the Catskill Moun­ tains and the River was magnificent. A deep river swarm­ ing with fish promised ready access to the sea, and the site was the natural port of a rich country.

The few Dutch settlers were hospitable and reasonable, and a bargain was soon struck. Word was sent to Nan­ tucket,^ and in the autumn two families came with their belongings; the family of Seth Jenkins, consisting of his wife, Dinah Folger, and four children, Dinah Coffin, and John Alsop and his family. In the spring of 1784, the other proprietors arrived in several vessels, with their families.

Their leader was Stephen Paddock, who at once, with Thomas Jenkins, became prominent in the settlement.

The other proprietors were: linm TrfnPwBariiaudABtnjaiS.in .Foteer> Seth Jenkins, Wil­ liam Hall, Hezekiah Dayton, David Lawrence, Titus Morgan, -§( 50

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Reuben Macy, Cotton Gelston, John Alsop, Charles Jenkins, Ezra Reed, Gideon Gardner, John Thurston, Nathaniel Greene.

The original 18 proprietors subsequently increased their number to thirty; and in the Hudson records of the next few years appear these names of first settlers: David Bunker, Redwood Easton, Nathan Folger, Alex­ ander Coffin, Peter Barnard, Daniel Paddock, Obed Sears, John Hathaway, Solomon Bunker, Laban Paddock, Robert Barnard, Elihu Bunker, Daniel Clark, Zephaniah Coffin, Judah Coffin, George Clark, Shubael Worth.

On November 14, 1784, it was unanimously resolved to call the settlement Hudson, in spite of the wishes expressed by the Governor and by many settlers that it be called "Clinton", or "New Nantucket". At the same time the site of the present city was purchased from Colonel Van Alen and Lendert Hardick, Colonel Van Alen being given a thirtieth share as proprietor.

As in Nantucket, the land was divided into house lots and water, or fishing lots; the water lots being laid out on the Harbor.

A large majority of the settlers were Quakers, and these erected a meeting house during the first year of settlement. Their meeting house on Union Street, which existed until recent years, was almost a copy of the meet­ ing house now owned by the Nantucket Historical Associa­ tion. The Hudson Quakers to the second and third genera­ tion were charming people, gentlemen and gentlewomen to their finger tips, the men merchant princes, the women sweet and lovely with the peace of God. A little poem by Stephen Miller well describes them.

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Full fourscore years and ten ago From those lone and seagirt places, Marthas Vineyard and Nantucket, Came the Folgers, Jenkins, Macys, And the Paddocks, Worths and Daytons, And there were Coffins, full a score, With many more, a home to find On North River's quiet shore.

They are all gone, and in our streets Of those plain days there scarce a trace is Little save the names are left us Of the Bunkers, Barnards, Macys, Simple in heart, peace-loving men, With sober-minded worthy dames, All sweet within, and drab without, And all with good old Scripture names.

For their livelihood, the settlers turned to the pursuits of their forefathers, whaling, fishing, sealing, shipbuilding and its attendant industries. Twenty-five vessels were brought from Nantucket by 1786, and shipbuilding com­ menced at once. Jenkins and Gelston launched the first ship, called the Hudson, in 1786, and Robert Folger took command. In the days of its prosperity, Hudson outranked Nantucket as a whaling port, having from first to last over 100 vessels in the business of sealing and whaling. It was a Hudson ship commanded by a Nantucket skipper, the American Hero, Captain Solomon Bunker, which brought home the largest cargo of sperm oil ever brought to Amer­ ica, in 1797; and it was the Ajax, Captain Zephaniah Coffin, which broke the record in sealing. These ships, on the out­ ward and inward voyage, invariably stopped at Nantucket, to visit the old home.

The prosperity of Hudson in the first twenty years of its existence was amazing. Nantucket men at Hudson were now able to use to the fullest extent their native shrewdness and enterprise. On March 1st, 1802, it is re­ corded, no less than 2800 sleighs loaded with freight and 4 52

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produce entered the city. Fifteen vessels a day cleared from South Bay, a better record than that of New York; and so crowded at times was the Bay with vessels waiting to come up to the wharves that people walked across the Bay on the decks of vessels. Fishing, in the River, was unbe­ lievably successful. A hundred ton ship was filled with herring on one tide at Rogers Island. The river swarmed, in the season, with the delicious North River shad, and with gigantic sturgeon. Sturgeon was usually known along the river as "Albany beef", and herring as "Hudson pork".

Hudson sausage was famous far and wide, and to this day a gourmet will have no other sort, if he is an old-timer in New York.

It is saddening to record that all this prosperity was swept away, first by British Orders in Council, French de­ crees and the embargo; and secondly by the War of 1812 and the decline of the whaling industry. The birth of the steam boat, which destroyed the Hudson packet trade of the Paddocks and Clarks, was also severely felt.

Banks failed in Hudson, millions were lost, and many people emigrated west, to the Lake County of New York, to Rochester, and to Ohio and Indiana. Hudson was sur­ rounded by feudal manors, the owners of which would not sell land,—only rent it. Consequently those who wished to take up Government land were obliged to go west.

Hudson from 1783 to 1860 produced many great men, nearly all of whom were of Nantucket ancestry. Among them were Major General William Jenkins Worth, the hero of the War of 1812 and Mexican War, whose monument stands in Madison Square, New York; Lieut. William Allen, after whom Allen Street in New York is named, Chief Justice Ambrose Spencer and Charles J. Folger, Secretary of Treasury of the United States; John C. Spencer, Judges Edmonds, Cowles, Sutherland and Edwards; the great Captains Robert Folger, Alexander Coffin, Zephaniah Coffin, 4 53

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Laban Paddock, Robert Barnard and Judah Paddock; the shipbuilders, Seth Jenkins, Thomas Jenkins, Cotton Gelston, Obed Sears and Charles Clark. The celebrated People's Line on the Hudson owes its origin to Hudson men, and Hudson before the days of steamboats was the first to build packets (that is to say—sloops) carrying passengers only.

As might have been expected, the settlers of Hudson took Nantucket as their model in almost every conceivable way. The lean-to house, many with whale-walks or look­ outs on the roof, were replicas of the houses of Nantucket; and the mansions of the wealthy were copies of the man­ sions of Main Street, Nantucket.

The news at Nantucket, as I have been told by my grandfather and great grandmother, who was born in Nantucket, was always a subject of keen interest. It was news from Nantucket which gave rise to the famous joke of David Lawrence. When told the Bank at Nantucket had been robbed, he said, "They must have left their latch string outside."

There was an Academy and an Academy Hill, a Main Street, a Federal Street, and others named after the Nan­ tucket Streets. The arrival of famous ships created as great an excitement as in the early days of Nantucket, and a story is told of a famous preacher who said on Sunday morning. I am glad to see so many at service, even though the American Hero has arrived." The next moment he was alone in the church, for he had innocently, brought the great news.

On the occasion of my first visit to Hudson in boyhood I strolled out on the parade, as it is called, the park facing the Hudson. I met a few boys, who, seeing a stranger, began to ask questions. One of the first was, "Have you been around the Horn?" Every boy in the group had, ex­ cept myself, and not one was over fifteen. < 54

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The time limit will not permit me to tell you more of this eldest daughter of Nantucket. But may I express the hope that an effort will be made to bring into closer con­ nection with the Societies of Nantucket descendants, the descendants of the Hudson emigrants. There are now thousands of these, who are direct descendants of the original families and pioneers of the Island. And hence there is no apparent reason why New York should not have a branch of the parent society of Sons and Daughters of Nantucket.

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LIST OF MEMBERS LIFE COUNCILLORS Folger, Annie Barker, Lily St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lang, Florence Osgood (Rand), Nantucket, Mass.

LIFE MEMBERS Adams, Harry B., 4 Ashmore Road, Worcester, Mass.

Affeld, Mrs. Bertha Bacon, 113 Willow St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Appleton, William Sumner, 141 Cambridge St., Boston, Mass.

Austin, Mrs. W. H. M., Cliff Road, Nantucket, Mass.

Barnard, Prof. Charles, 139 East 39th St., New York City.

Barnard, Frederic, 236 Main St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Barnard, Marianna (Sprague), Care Mr. Frank Barnard, 290 Brodway, N. Y. Barret, John Wendell, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Barrett, William M., 214 Ave. A., Bayonne, N. J. Barrett, Mabel Allen (Downing), 1170 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Beebe, Alice Geissler, 53 Grove St., Wellesley, Mass.

Blackburn, Elizabeth M., Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bodfish, Annie Warren, Nantucket, Mass.

Brock, Susan Emma, Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Brown, Julia D., 35 West 130th St., N. Y. Brown, William Frederick, Woodstock, N. S. W., Australia, care of Dr. G. Archbold.

Capp, Seth Bunker, Box 2054, Philadelphia, Penn.

Carlisle, G. Lister, Jr., 18 Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cathcart, Wallace Hugh, President Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.

Catlin, Sarah Affia, Lily St., Nantucket, Mass.

Channmg, Eva, Hemenway Chambers, Boston, Mass.

Clark, Anna (Swain), Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Coffin, Elizabeth Rebecca, Lily St., Nantucket, Mass.

Coffin, Maurice P., 47 Union Park Ave., Jamaica, N. Y Coffin, Winthrop, 60 State St., Boston, Mass Coggeshall, Walter, 1 F St., Eureka, California.

Coleman, Emma, 14 Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Colket, Tristram Coffin, 2nd., Wynnewood, Penn.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Colket, Tristram Coffin, 3rd., 253 Hathaway Lane, Wynnewood, Penn, Davis, Charles Henry, 18 Old Slip, New York City.

Davis, Margaret (Underwood), 100 Common St., Belmont, Mass.

Dudley, Mary (Marrett), Standish, Maine.

Durfee, Mary Galusha (Hatch), Palmyra, N. Y. Elkins, Harriette Ann, Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Elting, Susan (Green), 729 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Everett, Henry Coffin, 201 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass.

Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Coffin, 49 Federal St., Boston, Mass.

Folger, Gulielma, Nantucket, Mass.

Forbes, Mary Bowditch, Milton, Mass.

Ford, Mrs. Horatio Mayfield, Richmond Rds., South Euclid, Ohio.

Ford, James B., 1790 Broadway, N. Y. Frothingham, Ellen Folger, 9 Exeter St., Boston, Mass.

Fuller, Frederick Vincent, Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Fuller, Mary Louise (Myrick), Nantucket, Mass.

Greene, Howard, 559 Marshall St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Gries, Ethel Goff (Folger), 2803—18th St., N. W. Wash., D. C. Gwynn, Mrs. Mary, 228 South 22nd. St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Hinchman, Anne, 3635 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Hinchman, Lydia Swain (Mitchell), 3635 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Hinchman, Margaretta, 3635 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Husband, Joseph, New Dollar Lane, Nantucket, Mass.

Hussey, Martha, 303 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Hutaff, Grace (Elkins), Nantucket, Mass.

Jannotta, Mrs. Stella, Warrenville Rd., Wheaton, Mass.

Johnson, Minnie Agnes (Johan), Bath, Maine.

Johnson, Pauline (Mackay), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Joy, Moses, Camera Club, 121 West 68th St., New York City.

Kimball, Martha W. (Pond), 13 Argyle Ave., Rochester, N. Y. King, Samuel G., 367-369 Atlantic Ave., Boston, Mass.

LaMotte, Mary Augusta, 1605 Tower Rd., Wilmington, Del. Lang, Henry, Nantucket, Mass.

Langlands, Helen (Coleman), 24 Fith Ave., New York City.

Larkin, Mrs. Ruth William, care of Larkin Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Leavett, Gertrude Mitchell (Goodsell), Scarsdale, N. Y. MacDonald, Mrs. Elizabeth H., Hotel Margaret, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mackie, Mrs. David Ives, 128 East 39th St., New York City.

Macy, Mary Eliza, Main St., Nantucket, Mass. <{ 57

LIST OF MEMBERS Macy, Nelson, 441 Pearl St., New York City.

Manter, Capt. Harry, 386 Park Ave., Cliff Side, N. J. McCleary, Helen Cartwright, 3 Auburn Court, Brookline, Mass.

McGill, Mrs. Frances M., 36 Rue Desaix, Paris, France.

Mead, Edwin D., 20 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Mitchell, Emily Burns, 1735 New Hampshire Ave., Washington, D. C. Mitchell, Helen (Leeds), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

O'Gorman, Mrs. Ella Foy, 230 E. St., Washington, D. C. Paine, Mary Elizabeth (Folger), 315 Mayer St., Providence, R. I. Pearson, Edward J., President N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, New Haven, Conn.

Robb, Nancy Delia, Nantucket, Mass.

Rollins, Rev. Walter Huntington, President Fairmount College, Witchita, Kansas.

Sand, Henry, A. L., 130 E. 67th St., New York City.

Sharp, Benjamin Karl, 49 West Castle Place, New Rochelle, N. Y. Sharp, Virginia May (Guild), Gorhams Court, Nantucket, Mass.

Sharp, Elizabeth Elting, 729 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Smith, Pauline Starbuck Byron, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Starbuck, George Franklin, Waltham, Mass.

Starbuck, John Austin, University Club, Los Angeles, Calif.

Starbuck, Mary Eliza, 8 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Starbuck, Susan Amelia, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Starbuck, Walter F., Waltham, Mass.

Starbuck, W. D. L., Sound Beach, Conn.

Swain, David Whiton, 31 Nassau St., New York City.

Swain, Eunice Swain (Barney), 36 Clark St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Voorneveld, William, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Ward, Mrs. Adelaide, Nantucket, Mass.

Wilson, Anne, Nantucket, Mass.

Worth, Frank, Ocean House, Nantucket, Mass.

ANNUAL MEMBERS A Ackley, Rev. Joseph B., Burnside, Conn.

Adams, Ellouise, 17 Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Adams, Karl, 36 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Adams, Nancy Story (Grant), 17 Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Albertson, Alice Owen, The Gunther, 41st St. and Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, Penn.

Alford, A. S., 1500 West 9th St., Los Angeles, California.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Allen, Mrs. Le Moyne Dillingham, Granville, N. Y. Allen, Mrs. Lucy Ellis, West Newton, Mass.

Allen, Marian Hallet, 632 Lexington Ave., New York City.

Allen, Olive Marchant, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Anderson, Florence Mary (Bennett), 364 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, Washington.

Anderson, Prof. Louis F., 364 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, Washington, Appleton, Helen E. (Folger), Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Appleton, Mrs. M. Phillips, 507 Gravers Lane, Chestnut Hill, Penn.

Armstrong, John R., Cranston, Providence Co., R. I. Atkins, Mrs. Katherine W., P. O. Box 1250, Boston, Mass.

Atwood, Mrs. Grace B., Segregansett, Mass.

Avery, Henry C., 204 Harrison Ave., New Brunswick, N. J. Ayers, Annie, Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Ayers, Mary, Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Ayers, John Killen, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

B Babcock, Edwina Stanton, 298 Piermont Ave., South Nyack, N. J. Bacheller, Augusta H., 51 Franklin St., Lynn, Mass.

Bacheller, Helen L., 51 Franklin St., Lynn, Mass.

Baker, Maude, 67 Stinson Ave., Providence, R. I. Balch, W. E., 801 Illinois Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. Baldwin, Annie (Osgood, 2 Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Barker, Burt Brown, 50 Upper Mountain Ave., Montclair, N. J. Barnard, Frank Redfield, 69 Bay View Ave., Port Washington, N. Y, Barnard, Mrs. Mary V., Newcastle, Henry County, Indiana.

Barnard, William O., Newcastle, Henry County, Indiana.

Barnes, Mrs. Anna Knapp, Little Book Shop, Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Barnes, Grace Davis, Gardner Court, Nantucket, Mass.

Barney, Charles Neal, 2 Park Ave., New York City.

Barney, Maginel W., 23 No. Water St., Nantucket, Mass.

Barney, William H., Hopedale, Mass.

Barney, Mrs. William H., Hopedale, Mass.

Barney, William H. Jr., Hopedale, Mass.

Barrett, Anna E. C., Siasconset, Mass.

Barrett, Marjorie, Nantucket, Mass.

Bartlett, Edith M., Gardner St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bartlett, Mrs. Josiah, Roland Park, Baltimore, Md. Bassett, Mrs. George P. Jr., 5440 Northumberland St., Pittsburgh, Penn.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Bassett, George Pomeroy, 3rd., 5440 Northumberland St., Pittsburgh, Penn.

Baxter, Anna, Nantucket, Mass.

Beadle, Phebe H., Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bellaver, D., Katonah, N. Y. Benham, Mrs. Elizabeth E. (Thompson), 86 Howe St., New Haven, Conn.

Bennett, Henry Hollis, 1135 Alvarado Terrace, Walla Walla, Wash.

Bennett, Mrs. Flora Moore, 1135 Alvarado Terrace, Walla Walla, Washington.

Bennett, Harriet Stanton, 5 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Benson, Mrs. R. E., 8 Winter St., Nantucket, Mass.

Benton, Amy Alice (Isom), Chestnut St., Nantucket, Mass.

Benton, William Josiah, Chestnut St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bettridge, Agnes E., 47 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.

Bigelow, Edward Alden, 8 Francis Circuit, Winchester, Mass.

Bigelow, Mary E., Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Black, Alice L., 183 Belmont St., Fall River, Mass.

Blackmur, Eleanor, 603 Beach St., Manchester, N. H. Bohan, Mrs. Arthur B., 1535 Juneway Terrace, Chicago, 111.

Bolles, W. B., Deal, N. J. Bolles, Mrs. W. B., Deal, N. J. Booth, Mrs. Dorothy C., 39 West 67th St., New York City.

Borneman, Mrs. E. L., 11 Hussey St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bostwick, Frances S., 193 Old Army Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. Bostwick, Jane Folger, 193 Old Army Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. Bracher, Mrs. Catherine Morison Coffin, Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. Bray, Louise W., 357 Harvard St., Cambridge, Mass.

Brayton, Lieut. H. R., Nantucket, Mass.

Brayton, Annie Sale (Chinery), Nantucket, Mass.

Brayton, Caroline E. (Slade), P. O. Box 104, Fall River, Mass.

Brewer, Margaretta McC. C., 75 Main St., Hingham, Mass.

Bridgman, Bessie, Nantucket, Mass.

Broadhurst, Edward T., 44 Firglade Ave., Springfield, Mass.

Broadhurst, Mrs. Edward T., 44 Firglade Ave., Springfield, Mass.

Brock, Albert Gardner, Nantucket, Mass.

Brock, Annie Cartwright, Nantucket, Mass.

Brooks, Anne Roberts, 24 North St., Greenwich, Conn.

Brooks, Josephine (Sylvia), 326 Highland Ave., Somerville, Mass.

Brooks, Nelson Merril, 24 North St., Greenwich, Conn.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Brown, Helen Dawes, Howard St., Nantucket, Mass.

Brown, Melvin W., Wakefield, Mass.

Bunker, Alice Macy, 24 Hussey St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bunker, Austin T., 14 Chestnut St., Maiden, Mass.

Bunker, Emily (Winslow), Gay St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bunker, Lauriston, Gay St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bunker, Margaret P., 181 Central St., Winter Hall, Mass.

Bunker, Paul West, Army & Navy Y. M. C. A., San Francisco, Cal. Bunker, Theodore, 188 Elleson St., Paterson, N. J. Bunker, William, Ridgefield, Conn.

Burgess, Ellen H. (Coffin), 109 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Burgess, Thomas F., Scarsdale, N. Y. Burgess, Mrs. Thomas F., Scarsdale, N. Y. Burleigh, Erwin C., Vineyard Haven, Mass.

Burrell, Caroline, (Cayford), 14 Hilliard St., Cambridge, Mass.

Bushnell, Eleanor Gray, 16 Elm St., Morristown, N. J.

C Campbell, Mrs. Olive (Dame), Hastings Lane, West Medford, Mass.

Capen, Frederick M., 100 West 80th St., New York City.

Capen, Walter Nelson, F. R. G. S., 17 Battery Place, New York City.

Capen, Ethel Adele, 100 West 80th St., New York City.

Carpenter, William D., Nantucket, Mass.

Carr, James A., 18-20 William St., New Bedford, Mass.

Carret, James W., 121 Griggs Road, Brookline, Mass.

Cartwright, Archibald, Nantucket, Mass.

Cartwright, Mrs. Archibald, Nantucket, Mass.

Cash, Helen, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cash, Mary Handy, 45 Florence St., Brockton, Mass.

Caverly, Albert H., 132 Bodwin St., Boston, Mass.

Ceeley, Dorcas E. (Dunham), 5 New Mill St., Nantucket, Mass.

Ceeley, Lincoln, 5 New Mill St., Nantucket, Mass.

Chadwick, Mrs. James F., 463 Pine St., Fall River, Mass.

Chamberlain, Miss Polly, Nantucket, Mass.

Chamberlain, Henry Harmon, 22 May St., Worcester, Mass.

Chase, Annie Baker (Coffin), Pine St., Nantucket, Mass.

Chase, Charlotte Bunker, 41 North St., New Bedford, Mass.

Chase, Sidney, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Chase, Warren Benson, Pine St., Nantucket, Mass.

Church, William, Prospect St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cisco, J. J. Jr., 1 Bloom St., Nantucket, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Clark, Susan Tyler, 2050 Garden St., Santa Barbara, California.

Clark, Mrs. Edith (Gardner), Pleasant St., Ashland, Mass.

Clark, Elsie B., Tenafly, N. J. Clark, Jacob Wendell, 122 South Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, 111.

Cobb, Edward Clifton, 716 Pleasant St., Worcester, Mass.

Codd, Sarah E. (Marchant), Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Codd, William Fitzgerald, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cody, Margaret A., 1 Virginia Place, Larchmont, N. Y. Coffin, Adelaide B., 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, N. Y. Coffin, John Bridger, 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, N. Y. Coffin, Mrs. John Bridger, 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, N. Y. Coffin, Celia M., 155 Nyack Ave., Pelham, N. Y. Coffin, Frank Mitchell, 155 Nyack Ave., Pelham, N. Y. Coffin, H. Errol, 522 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Coffin, Louis, Summer St., Nantucket, Mass.

Coffin, Margaret, Charter St., Nantucket, Mass.

Coffin, Mrs. Tristram, 929 West End Ave., New York City.

Coffin, William H., 618 South Cushman Ave., Tacoma, Washington.

Coffin, William M., 3755 Hyde Park Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Colby, Miss Josephine, Brookwood, Katonah, N. Y. Cole, Mrs. Helen W., 45 Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cole, William G., 45 Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Coleman, Harriet Maude, 2 Potter Park, Cambridge, Mass Coleman, Hester E., 2 Potter Park, Cambridge, Mass.

Coleman, Mary Myrick, 91 Pinckney St., Boston, Mass.

Colt, James D., 27 Suffolk Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass Colt, Jeanne N., 27 Suffolk Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

Conable, Florence (Easton), P. 0. Box 154, Monrovia, Los Angeles, Co., California.

Conable, Mrs. Leska Littlefield, 356 No. Primrose Ave, Monrovia Los Angeles Co., California.

Conable, Capt. Morris Easton, Fort McArthur, California.

Congdon, Hay Housatonic, School St, Nantucket, Mass Congdon, Frances, 720 County St, New Bedford, Mass.

Cook, Emma, Nantucket, Mass.

Cox, Ellen, Gardner St, Nantucket, Mass.

Cox, Mrs. George Clarke, 47 Union St, Montclair, N. J Cox, George Clark, 47 Union St, Montclair, N. J. Crosby, Mrs. Almira Esther, Alden Park Manor, Brookline, Mass Crosby, Everett U, Mermaid House, West Mermaid Lane, 'st. Mar­ tins, Philadelphia, Penn.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Crosby, Mrs. Everett U., Mermaid House, West Mermaid Lane, St. Martins, Philadelphia, Penn.

Currier, Mrs. Grace Silsbee, 16 Brewster Terrace, Brookline, Mass.

Cutler, Earl N., 15 Cliff Road, Nantucket, Mass.

D Dame, Daisy Gertrude, Hastings Lane, West Medford, Mass.

Dana, Bessie Andrews, 34 Church St., Englewood, N. J. Danforth, Isabelle, 493 Lexington Ave., New York City.

Defriez, Sarah Elizabeth (Barron), 537 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Delano, Henry C., 879 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Delano, Lydia M., 879 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Denton, Eugene Willis, New Hyde Park, Long Island, N. Y. Denton, Lydia M. Garretson, New Hyde Park, Long Island, N. Y. Dibble, Annie (Hayt), 17 Rich Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Dillingham, Louise G., Millburn, N. J. Ditmars, Mary Coffin, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Dodd, Mary (Dillingham), 16 Cedar Road, Belmont, Mass.

Dowey, Thomas Lyall, 4116 77th St., Jackson Heights, New York City.

Dunham, Harrison Gray Otis, 2 Broadway, New York City.

Dupee, Jeannie U., 7 Fairfield St., Boston, Mass.

Dupont, Charles, Silver St., Nantucket, Mass.

Dyer, Mrs. George, Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

E Easton, Miss Helen, 51 Franklin St., Lynn, Mass.

Edgerton, Mildred Gardner (Coffin), 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, New York.

Emery, Jennie Starbuck (Chadwick), Nantucket, Mass.

Everett, Lydia Coffin, 57 Parker St., Newton Centre, Mass.

Eppert, Mrs. George M., 423 South 4th St., Terre Haute, Ind. F Farnham, Joseph Ellis Coffee, Providence, R. I. Fessenden, Miss Anna, 3 Hamilton St., Salem, Mass.

Fish, Anna Gardner, Perkins Institute, Waltham, Mass.

Fisher, Charles J., Union St., Nantucket, Mass.

Fisher, Leila Capen, 25 Richmond St., Boston, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Fitz-Randolph, Reginald T., Nantucket, Mass.

Flagg, Mrs. Mary B., 1 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Annie Alden, Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Arthur Hanaford, Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Clifford, Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Lizabeth Sarah (Lawrence), Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Lydia Maria, Gardner St., Nantucket, Mass.

Folger, Ruth Angell, 113 2nd St., Troy, N. Y. Folsom, Charles F., 114 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Ford, Mrs. Horatio, So. Euclid, Ohio. Mayfield, Richward Rds. Francis, Eben Willis, Nantucket, Mass.

Fraser, Emma J., Nantucket, Mass.

Freeborn, Lydia Sanford, Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Freeborn, Millard Fillmore, Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Freeman, Harrison B., 50 State St., Hartford, Conn.

Fuller, Susan B., Nantucket, Mass.

Fuller, Walter N., 40 Chester Ave., Waltham, Mass.

G Gale, Sadie M., 4 Lowell Road, Schenectady, N. Y. Gardner, Alice C., Belmont, Mass.

Gardner, Grace Brown, Framingham Normal School, Framingham, Mass.

Gardner, Herbert C., Box 47, 'Sconset, Mass.

Gardner, Inez J., 1832 Biltmore St., Washington, D. C. Gardner, Isaac B., 930 Riversside Drive, New York City.

Gardner, Whittemore, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Geddes, Mathilde H., 39 Fairmount St., Brookline, Mass.

Gibbs, Mary E., 32 Harrison St., Taunton, Mass.

Gifford, Arthur, Hudson, N. Y. Giffin, Mary E. (Brown), Hussey St., Nantucket, Mass.

Giffin, Norman, 28 Oak St., Stamford, Conn.

Gilbert, Nathan F., Wabash, Indiana.

Gill, Phebe Andrews (Luther), 187 Sherwood Place, Englewood, N. J. Glassford, Mrs. S. R., 265 Highland Ave., Ridgewood, N. J. Goodrich, Annie (Starbuck), Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Gray, Donald Cameron, 337 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass.

Griggs, Adelaide Louise Greenwood, 421 Wood St., Pittsburgh, Penn.

Griggs, Jeremiah Brooks, 421 Wood St., Pittsburgh, Penn.

Grouard, Lena (Weymouth), 97 Bowdoin St., Dorchester, Mass. <{ 64

LIST OF MEMBERS Grout, Mrs. John C., 10 Browne St., Brookline, Mass.

Gummere, Amelia (Mott), 428 Montgomery Ave., Haverford, Penn.

Gurley, Rev. Richard H., St. Martins' Rectory, Radnor, Penn.

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Haggerty, Susan W., 42 Strathmore Road, Brookline, Mass.

Hallowell, Thomas Jewett, Traders Lane, Nantucket, Mass.

Ham, Miss Charlotte Woodman, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Ham, Mrs. Charlotte (Woodman), Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hamilton, Dora Macy (Pearson), 3319 North Adams St., Tacoma, Washington.

Harris, Edward, 25 Clover St., Rochester, N. Y. Harwood, Mrs. Douglas, 202 Burns St., Forest Hills, N. Y. Harwood, Margaret, 23 Craigie St., Cambridge, Mass.

Hatch, Hannah Gifford, Union St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hayden, Arthur D., Princeton, Club, New York City.

Heard, Reginald E., 73 Indian Heads Road, Greenwich, Conn.

Heard, Mrs. Reginald, 73 Indian Heads Road, Greenwich, Conn.

Heminway, A. F., 182 Cold Spring St., New Haven, Conn.

Hickson, Elizabeth Cathcart, 215 Plaza Hall, 43d and Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penn.

Hill, Florence (Merriam), Siasconset, Nantucket, Mass.

Hill, Murray Gardner, 20 Oak Knoll Gardens, Pasadena, Calif.

Holland, Annie, Gay St., Nantucket, Mass.

Holland, William, Gay St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hollister, Elizabeth (Watson), 987 East Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Hollister, Emily Weed (Barnes), 100 Anderson Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Holt, Mary Exton, St. Georges, Delaware.

Homans, Mrs. Alice, 53 Leicester St., Brookline, Mass.

Howard, Frank B., 48 South Hamilton St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Howes, Sarah Sprague (Sampson), Summer St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hubbard, Alma R., Wheeling, West Virginia.

Huff, Anna Folger, Nantucket, Mass.

Humes, Lucy D. M., Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Husband, Eleanor (Brown), 67 West 44th St., New York City.

Husband, Ethel, 67 West 44th St., New York City.

Husband, Thomas Blair, 67 West 44th St., New York City.

Hussey, Arrietta (Cathcart), Nantucket, Mass.

Hussey, Eliza Myrick, Gardner St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hussey, Elliott Benham, 34 Summit Cross, Rutherford, N. J. 4 65

LIST OF MEMBERS Hussey, John E. A., 45 Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hussey, Robert F., 340 West Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois.

Hutaff, Richard Elkins, Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hyde, Henry H., Washington Apartments, Baltimore, Md. I Ide, Miss Lilla D., 17 Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Ingall, Elizabeth C., Nantucket, Mass.

Ingall, Oswald D., Nantucket, Mass.

J Jenney, Edgar W., Vestal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Jenney, Mrs. Edgar W., Vestal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Jernegan, Elsie, Federal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Johnson, Bertha Bliss, Apt. 12, 1840 Biltmore St., N. W. Wash­ ington, D. C. Johnson, Florence H., 6 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Jones, Arthur W., Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Joy, Capt. B. Whitford, Nantucket, Mass.

K 'Kelley, Charlotte Rebecca (Macy), 478 County St., New Bedford, Mass.

Kelley, Elizabeth Chace, Nantucket, Mass.

Kellog, Louise Livingston, Hussey St., Nantucket, Mass.

Kellog, Herbert Steele, Hussey St., Nantucket, Mass.

Kendall, L. Malcolm, East Orange, N. J. Kendall, William Mitchell, 101 Park Ave., New York City.

Kent, Rev. Josiah Coleman, Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Kerins, Dorothy Coffin, 53 Arthur St., Yonkers, N. Y. Killen, John R., Nantucket, Mass.

Kimball, Mrs. James P., Howard St., Nantucket, Mass.

Kitchen, Miss Macy, 414 Carroll St., Saginaw, Mich.

Knevals, Jessie (Baxter), 191 Soundview Ave., White Plains, N. Y. L LaFountaine, Charles Ellis, Nantucket, Mass.

Lake, George Myrick, Nantucket, Mass.

Lamson, Kate Glidden, 12 Remington St., Cambridge, Mass.

Lapham, Mrs. Edna Capep, 250 Brahan Blvd., San Antonio, Texas.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Latham, Ethel L., 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.

Lathrop, Mrs. Mabel (Blossom), 10 Prescott Ave., Montclair, N. J. Lawrence, Bertha, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lawrence, Sarah (Farraly), Pine St., Nantucket, Mass.

Leavitt, Beatrice, Scarsdale, N. Y. Leavitt, Frank M., Scarsdale, N. Y. LeBus, Mrs. Clarence, Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lehmaier, Alan L., '202 Burns St., Forest Hills, N. Y. Lehmair, Mrs. James S., 140 West 57th St., New York City.

Lewis, Annie Bartlett (Robinson), 72 Miller Ave., Providence, R. I. Lewis, Frank Edward, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lewis, Mary (Brock), Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lewis, Mrs. Susie A., Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lewis, Vivian M., Paterson, N. J. Lewis, Mrs. Vivian M., Paterson, N. J. Littlefield, Harriet S., 120 West 92nd St., New York City.

Locke, Isabella F., 1969 Alameda Terrace, San Diego, California.

Locke, John J., 1969 Alameda Terrace, San Diego, California.

Loines, Elma, Flora St., Nantucket, Mass.

Long, Carrie James, Bloom St., Nantucket, Mass.

Lord, Miss Katherine, Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Loring, Clara S., 174 Belleview St., West Roxbury, Mass.

Lothrop, Sarah Gorham, 101 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Lovell, Sarah Elizabeth, 34 Akron St., Roxbury, Mass.

Lowden, Matthew Crosby, 143-145 West 15th St., New York City.

Lowell, Nathaniel E., Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

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Mackay, George Henry; Nantucket; Mass.

Macy, Elizabeth Eastoh, Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Huram Wade, West Chester St., Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Maude Conant (Thomas), West Chester St., Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Janet P., 214 Alexander Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. Macy, John Williams, 966 So. Private Rd., Hubbard Woods, Illinois.

Macy, Sarah Lucretia, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, William Francis, 103 Water St., Boston, Mass.

Mann, Paul B., 2293 Sedgwick Ave., New York City.

Manville, C. Rollin, Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. Manville, Mrs. Rollin Jr., Cliff Road, Nantucket, Mass.

Manville, Edith, 9 Cliff Road, Nantucket, Mass.

Marden, Willard B., Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Marks, Horace, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Marshall, Elizabeth E., 21 Federal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Marshall, Helen, 71 Williams St., Norwich, Conn.

Marshall, Mary Etta, 21 Federal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Marshall, Albert E., 3034 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. Martin, Charles H., 28 North Third St., Easton, Penn.

Martin, Mrs. Ferrier J., 55 East 73rd St., New York City.

Marvel, Mrs. Helen Gardner, West Medford, Mass.

Marvel, William Macy, West Medford, Mass.

Mason, Arnold C., 4953 Parkview Place, St. Louis, Mo. Maynard, Julia M., 257 Mystic St., Arlington, Mass.

Mead, Mabel C., 103 East 86th St., New York City.

Medary, Mrs. Henry M., 115 High St., Taunton, Mass.

Meyer, Edith Wells, 460 Scotland Road, South Orange, N. J. Meyer, Fredrik Fischer, 460 Scotland Road, South Orange, N. J. Miller, Mrs. Henry, Holland House, New York City.

Miles, Irene Lenore, 222 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Milne, Helen (Ring), Nantucket, Mass.

Mills, Mrs. Buell P., 11 Portsmouth Terrace, Rochester, N. Y. Mitchell, Clifford, M. D., 25 E. Washington St., Chicago, Illinois.

Mitchell, Leeds, 2430 Lakeview Ave., Chicago, Illinois.

Mitchell, Leeds, Jr., 2430 Lakeview Ave., Chicago, Illinois.

Mitchell, Mrs. Mary K., Siasconset, Nantucket, Mass.

Mitchell, Richard, 808 Cypress St., Grennsbow, N. C. Mitchell, Sidney, 171 Madison Ave., New York City.

Moore, Frederick Gardner, Segregansett, Mass.

Morgan, Eleanor (Williams), 1 Martins Lane, Nantucket, Mass.

Morris, Mary E., 34 Easton St., Nantucket, Mass.

Morse, Elizabeth W., Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Murray, Evelyn F., 44 Chestnut St., Wakefield, Mass.

Myrick, Alexander M., Nantucket, Mass.

Myrick, Lydia B. (Smith), Nantucket, Mass.

Mullineux, Mary, 11 West Walnut Lane, Germantown, Philadelphia, Penn.

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MacDougal, Robert Bruce, 137 West 12th St., New York MacArthur, Mrs. Rose, Siasconset.

MacGregor, John Jr., Union Mortgage Bldg., Cleveland, McElwain, Harriet Aurelia, 1798 Riverdale St., West Mass.

McElwain, Pauline Witherell, 1798 Riverdale St., West Mass.

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LIST OP MEMBERS McElwain, Rachel Doane, 1798 Riverdale St., West Springfield, Mass.

McElwain, Reuben Franklin, 1798 Riverdale St., West Springfield, Mass.

MacKay, Mrs. W. E., North Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

McKay, Donald D., 46 Woodbridge Road, Newton Highlands, Mass.

Mac Kaye, Percy, Cornish, N. H., P. 0. Windsor, Yt. McKeag, Mrs. Henry S., Nantucket, Mass.

McLenegan, Mrs. Carrie Cutter, 2728 Belrose Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

McLenegan, Samuel B., 2728 Belrose Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

N Nelson, Ernest W., Prof. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. Nerney, George E., 204 North Main St., Attleboro, Mass.

Newell, Helen Hunt, Nantucket, Mass.

Nicholson, Caroline Harriett (Bartlett), 27 G. St., South Boston, Mass.

Norris, Emma F. (Marsh), 9 Norway St., Boston, Mass.

Norton, Alice Lyon, 12 Appleby St., Wellesley, Mass.

Norton, Prof. Arthur O., 12 Appleby St., Wellesley, Mass.

Norton, Clara A. (Winslow), 18 Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Nunn, Stella (Chase), 42 Alton Place, Brookline, Mass.

Nye, Harriet, Hotel Kimball, Springfield, Mass.

Nye, Mrs. Mary F., Hotel Kimball, Springfield, Mass.

0 Oliver, Mrs. G. G., Pleasant Valley, Wheeling, Virginia.

Orr, Robert Aimer, 419 Wood St., Pittsburgh, Penn.

Osborne, William E., 610 Gararanty Building, Indianapolis, Ind.

P Paddock, Mrs. Elsie M., 907-300 West Adams St., Chicago, Illinois.

Paddock, George A., 907-300 West Adams St., Chicago, Illinois.

Page, Walter Gilman, 29 Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, Clara, Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, Clinton, Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, George T., 6059 Clemence Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Parker, Mary Scollay, Ash St., Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, Susette Louise, 25 Logan St., Auburn, N. Y. Pease, Ellen Gray (Parker), Nantucket, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Pease, Lillian (Murphy), Federal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Perry, Annie M., Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Perry, Annie Mabel., 115 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Perry, Mrs. Charles F., 25 Cottage St., Brookline, Mass.

Perry, Eugene M., Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Phelan, Joseph W., Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

Phinney, Joseph W., 270 Congress St., Boston, Mass.

Phinney, Priscilla (Morris), 270 Congress St., Boston, Mass.

Pitman, Albert P., Siasconset, Nantucket, Mass.

Pitman, Mrs. Charlotte (Wyer), Siasconset, Nantucket, Mass.

Piatt, F. G., Seven Doors, Nantucket, Mass.

Piatt, Mrs. F. G., Seven Doors, Nantucket, Mass.

Pope, Mary A., Medfield, Mass.

Porte, Ghristine Fairbanks, Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Porter, Charlotte M., 827 Lake St., Oak Park, 111.

Praeger, Caroline S. G., Nantucket, Mass.

Pray, Nellie M. (Chamberlain), Hotel Sheraton, 91 Bay State Road, Boston, Mass, Prentice, Edna Margaret, The Skipper, Nantucket, Mass.

Price, Joseph M., 305 Broadway, New York City.

Price, Miriam Sutro, 305 Broadway, New York City.

Prosser, Miss Harriet R., Englewood, N. J.

R Ramsdell, Marion, West Chester St., Nantucket, Mass.

Ray, Annie Sheffield, 92 Campbell St., New Bedford, Mass.

Raymond, Charles Beebe, Stone House, Akron, Ohio.

Raymond, Mary Perkins, Stone House, Akron, Ohio.

Reed, Mrs. Francis M., 812 W. Drive, Woodruff Place, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Reynolds, Mrs. Helen B., 995 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Richmond, Dorothy (Sharp), Nantucket, Mass.

Richmond, Dr. George Danforth, 167 Yamashita Cho., Yokohama, Japan.

Ring, Anne, Nantucket, Mass.

Ring, John C., Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Rixford, Mrs. Mary E., 140 Summit St., Woonsocket, R. I. Robb, Mrs. Ann, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Robinson, Annie D., 816 St. James St., Pittsburgh, Penn.

Robinson, Celeste M., 115 Llewellyn Road, Montclair, N. J. 4 70

LIST OF MEMBERS Robinson, Edward Collins, 18 East 125th St., New York City.

Robinson, John Henry, Nantucket, Mass.

Russell, Stanley J., 410 E. 50th St., New York City.

Russell, Adelaide T., Monomoy, Nantucket, Mass.

Russell, Benjamin F. W, 100 Goddard Aye, Brookline, Mass.

Russell, Mrs. Benjamin F. W, 100 Goddard Ave, Brookline, Mass.

S Saltus, Mrs. Rollin S, Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Sand, Alice L, 130 East 67th St, New York City.

Sanderson, Rev. Edward F, Nantucket, Mass.

Sandsbury, Miss Edith M, 8 Wellington Court, Roxbury, Mass.

Schauffler, Rev. Henry P, Nantucket, Mass.

Sears, Mrs. Henrietta Bird, 226 N. Union Ave, Havre de Grace, Md. Selden, Charles Albert, P. O. Box 34, Plainfield, N. J. Selden, Grace (Savage), P. O. Box 34, Plainfield, N. J. Severance, Madeleine (Fish), 2048 Market St, Harrisburgh, Penn.

Severance, Susan, 236 Bay State Road, Boston, Mass.

Severance, Walter E„ 2048 Market St, Harrisburgh, Penn.

Sheldon, Mrs. Clara P, Charlesgate Hotel, 535 Beacon St, Boston, Mass Sherman, Wilbur G, 165 Campbell St, New Bedford, Mass.

Sibley, Alice M, 55 Dale St, Roxbury, Mass.

Simpson, Mrs. Lydia Gardner (Coffin), Nantucket, Mass.

Simpson, Robert Coffin, 10 Chester St, Groton, Mass.

Simms, Mrs. Thomas, 63 Willowdale Ave, Montclair, N. J. Singleton, James, Quidnet, Mass.

Slack, Mary Church (Potter), 573 High St, Fall River, Mass.

Small, Phebe Hanaford (Coffin), Main St, Nantucket, Mass.

Small, Reuben Cahoon, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Smalley, Josephine, Broad St, Nantucket, Mass.

Smith, Emma Riddell, 69 Main St, Nantucket, Mass.

Smith, George M„ Jr., 3753 N. Meridian, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Snelling, Eugenia (Meneely), Orange St, Nantucket, Mass.

Snelling, Rev. Samuel, Orange St, Nantucket, Mass.

Soule, Mary Adelaide (Yeates), Baker City, Oregon.

Spencer, Ella (Young), 8 So. 51st St, West Philadelphia, Pa. Sprague, Mary Q, 1661 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass.

Stanton, Eva T, 85 North Lansdowne Ave, Lansdowne, Penn.

Starbuck, Rev. Andrew B, Newport, R. I. Slarbuck, Apnie Whitefield, The Blackstone, Chicago, Illinois.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Starbuck, Dr. C. Leonard, 600 West 146th St., New York City.

Starbuck, Fred L., 5012 Dorchester Ave., Chicago, Illinois.

Starbuck, George W., Bourndale, Mass.

Stevens, Cora, 7 Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Stevens, Frank F., 10 State St., Boston, Mass.

Stevens, Mrs. Margaret (Pearson), State St., Boston, Mass.

Still, Mrs. Ella (Hussey), 238 Gregory Aave., Passaic, N. J. Storrow, Mrs. James J., 417 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Strader, Mrs. Charlotte Swain, Siesta Key, Sarasota County, Florida.

Strong, Austin, 5 Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Strong, Mary (Wilson), 5 Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Sturdevant, Ethel H., 171 South Franklin St., Wilkesbarre, Penn.

Sturdevant, Mrs. George A., 430, East 53rd St., New York City.

Sturdevant, Lucy, Quince St., Nantucket, Mass.

Sutton, Virginia Cox., 2326 West 24th St., Los Angeles, California.

Swain, Anna (Knevals), 31 Nassau St., New York City.

Swain, Charles B., 7 Oneida Circle, Winchester, Mass.

Swain, F. Anthony, Iron Age Pub. Co., 239 West 39th St., New York City.

Swain, Millicent Augusta, 1830 Beersford Road, East Cleveland, Ohio.

Swain, Robert Edward, 704 Pennington St., Elizabeth, N. J. Swain, Wilbert D., 921 So. Dakota Ave., Sioux Falls, So. Dakota.

Swain, William T., Nantucket, Mass.

Swift, Caroline Elizabeth, Winter St., Nantucket, Mass.

Swinburne, Charlotte (Gardner), Academy Lane, Nantucket, Mass.

Sylvia, Ella Frances, Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Sylvia, Florinda M., Nantucket, Mass.

T Terry, Mrs. Ernest R., Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Terry, Ernest R., Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Thomas, Mrs. Carrie H., Buckeystown, Maryland.

Thomas, Ellen W., Nantucket, Mass.

Thomas, Mrs. Florence Chase, Nantucket, Mass.

Thurston, Lillian (Wood), Hussey St., Nantucket, Mass.

Tibbets, Rev. Edward D., Hoosac, N. Y. Tirrell, E. S., 71 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Titus, William S., 448 Riverside Drive, New York City.

Todd, Helen (Mitchell), 411 Forest Ave., Oak Park, 111.

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LIST OP MEMBERS Todd, James Jr., 171 Madison Ave., New York City.

Todd, Mitchell, 417 East 48th St., Chicago, 111.

Tolman, Helen M., Canton, Mass.

Torrey, Mary Adams, 23 Winthrop St., Roxbury, Mass.

Tracy, Phebe Whippey, Nantucket, Mass.

Tufts, Bowen, 7 Stratford Road, Winchester, Mass.

Turner, Grace (Gordon), Nantucket, Mass.

Turner, Harry Baker, Nantucket, Mass.

Turner, Merle E., Nantucket, Mass.

Tuttle, Isabelle (Hollister), Groton School, Groton, Mass.

V Van Kleeck, Mrs. Frederick, 99 Green Ridge Ave., White Plains, N. Y. Valentine, Anna Bellefort, Centre Co., Penn.

Van Tuyl, Effie (Hyatt), 522 Osage St., Leavenworth, Kansas.

Varney, Theodore, 100 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Veo, Harriette (Williams), North Water St., Nantucket, Mass.

Vinal, Marianna (Veeder), 25 Seventh St., New Bedford, Mass.

Voss, William H. M., 850 7th Ave., New York City.

Voss, Mrs. William H. M., 850 7th Ave., New York City.

W Wait, Annie (Spencer), Nantucket, Mass.

Waite, Mary, 31 Dudley St., Medford, Mass.

Wales, Gertrude Nye, 35 Cedar St., Gardner, Mass.

Walker, Mary Elizabeth, Milk St., Nantucket, Mass.

Wallace, Jovette (Lee), Wallace Hall, Nantucket, Mass.

Wallace, William, Nantucket, Mass.

Walling, Mrs. Georgie L., Easton St., Nantucket, Mass.

Washburn, Margaret Hedges, Haverstraw-on-Hudson, N. Y. Whipple, Phila M., 27 E. Housatonic St., Pittsfield, Mass.

Whipple, Nellie L., 27 E. Housatonic St., Pittsfield, Mass.

White, Mrs. Clifton B., 78 Crolin Ave., Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Whitelaw, Ralph T., Quinby, Va., Whitford, J. Mortimer, 1523 East 15th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Whitney, Henry L., 7 Exeter St., Boston, Mass.

Whittemore, Jennie R., 56 Cedar St., Fitchburg, Mass.

Wiland, Irma C., 45 Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Willard, Mrs. Helen Parker, 1709 19th St., Washington, D. C. 4 73

LIST OF MEMBERS Willets, J. Macy, New Marlboro, Mass.

Willets, Mrs. J. Macy, New Marlboro, Mass.

Williams, Arthur, York St., Nantucket, Mass.

Williams, Mary Francis (Mitchell), 1 Martins Lane, Nantucket, Mass.

Williams, Effie Peelle, Box 771, Wilmington, Ohio.

Williams, Philip A. Jr., 605 Columbus Ave., Springfield, Mass.

Winslow, Bessie (Chadwick), Nantucket, Mass.

Wood, Albert E., North Easton, Mass.

Wood, Arnold, East 51st St., New York City.

Wood, Dr. George C., Hanover, N. H. Wood, James H., The Cliff, Nantucket, Mass.

Wood, Nannie R., Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

Woods, Phebe A. (Meeder), Nantucket, Mass.

Worth, Annie M. (Driscoll), 7 Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Worth, Herbert Gelston, North Water St., Nantucket, Mass.

Worth, Mrs. Henry B., 15 Washington St., New Bedford, Mass.

Wyer, Arthur C., Delhi, N. Y.

The Officers of the N. H. A. are often asked whether a Nantucket ancestry is a required condition of membership in the Association. Other than interest in the work of the Historical Association the only conditions are stated in the by-law printed below.

Article 4, Constitution and By-Laws of the Nantucket Historical Association.

Any person may become and continue a member of this associa­ tion by the payment of one dollar per year. Any person may become a life member, and be entitled to a certificate of membership, on the payment of fifteen dollars. Any person may become a life councillor by a vote of the Association, on the payment of fifty dollars, and shall be entitled to a certificate of membership. The annual tax shall be due the 30th day of June each year. (

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PUBLICATIONS of the Nantucket Historical Association:

Quakerism on Nantucket since 1800, by Henry Barnard Worth.

Vol. 1, No. 1, 1896, out of print.

Timothy White Papers, by Rev. Myron Samuel Dudley.

Vol. 1, No. 2, 1898, 50cts.

Nantucket Lands and Land Owners, by Henry Barnard Worth.

The Title and The Nantucket Insurrection.

Vol. 2, No. 1, 1901, 50cts.

The Settlers, Their Homes and Government.

(Map) Vol. 2, No. 2, 1902, 50cts.

The Indians of Nantucket.

Vol. 2, No. 3, 1902, 50cts.

Sheep Commons and The Proprietary.

Vol. 2, No. 4, 1904, 50cts.

Ancient Buildings of Nantucket.

Vol. 2, No. 5, 1906, (reprinted in 1928), $1.00.

Indians Names, Wills and Estates, Index.

Vol. 2, No. 6, 1910, 50 cts.

Wills and Estates Continued.

Vol. 2, No. 7, 50cts.

A Century of Free Masonry on Nantucket, by, Alexander Starbuck.

Vol. 3, No. 1, 1903, 50 cts.

Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Nantucket His­ torical Association, from 1895 to 1927 (with the ex­ ception of 1899, which is out of print), price 25 cents. < 75