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Nantucket Historical Association

Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting July Twenty-Fourth Nineteen Twenty-Nine

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 G. LISTER CARLISLE, JR. FRED V. FULLER MRS. IRVING ELTING Secretary REV. JOSIAH C. KENT Treasurer MRS. HARRY GORDON 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 Term Expires 1931 JOSEPH HUSBAND CAPT. B. WHITFORD JOY MRS. B. WHITFORD JOY Term Expires 1932 WINTHROP COFFIN MISS MARY E. STARBUCK Term Expires 1933 EDGAR W. JENNEY MISS ANNIE W. BODFISH MISS CLARA PARKER Committees—1929-30 Finance—William F. Codd, Millard F. Freeborn, Miss Susan E. Brock.

Publication—Mrs. Walton H. Adams, Miss Annie W. Bodfish, Miss Clara Parker, Josiah C. Kent.

Building—William F. Codd, Millard F. Freeborn, Ed­ gar W. Jenney, William S. Appleton.

TJ ''ubbcity—Walter Gilman Page, Josiah C. Kent, Joseph Husband, Miss Annie Barker Folger, Miss Cora Stevens.

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

Siasconset House—Herbert C. Gardner, Miss Annie Barker Folger, Mrs. Frederick P. Hill B Purchasing—Mrs. Walton H. Adams, Miss Susan E. Brock, William F. Codd.

Jenneyd Mill—Fred V- Fuller, Harry B. Turner, Edgar W. Museum—William F. Macy, Fred V. Fuller, Mri wS u PAafe' Edgar W- Jenne^> JosePh Husband, Mrs. Walton H. Adams, Miss Annie Barker Folger.

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ANNUAL MEETING The thirty-fifth annual meeting of the Nantucket Historical Association was held in the Old North Vestry, on Wednesday, July 24, at 3 o'clock, 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 1928.

The Secretary's Annual Report was then read, ac­ cepted and placed on file. In this report the Secretary called attention to two major propositions which had engaged the attention of the Council during the past year,—the pro­ posed Whaling Museum, which will soon become a reality; and the will of the late Admiral William Mayhew Folger, which makes our Association the Admiral's residuary leg­ atee. Both of these matters are extremely important, and will mean much to the future prosperity of our Associa­ tion.

The Treasurer's Report was then read, accepted and placed on file. This was a very gratifying report in that it showed the Association to be in a better financial con­ dition than ever before, and with a constantly increasing membership. It is greatly to be regretted that the Treas­ urer, Mrs. Leo Thurston, owing to a pressure of other duties, felt obliged to decline a re-election. The thanks of the Association to the retiring treasurer for her faithful and efficient services were expressed by a unanimous vote.

The Curator's Report was then read, accepted and placed on file. The Curator's Report is always looked for­ ward to with pleasurable anticipation, for in it we learn 47 >

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of the gifts which have come to us within the year. Many gifts were mentioned in this report, but two were of out­ standing interest. One was a remarkable watch which was presented to the late Capt. George Brock by the Under­ writers for his skill in bringing the ship "Noonday" safely to port through an experience that seemed almost hopeless.

The other was a portrait of John W. Cook, who bears the distinction of being the oldest citizen of Nantucket. Mr. Cook is 95 years old, but is a familiar figure on Main street every day (weather permitting). The portrait was painted

by Walter Gilman Page, and was his generous gift to the Association.

Mrs. Elting Sharp, for the Nominating Committee, presented the following list of officers for the ensuing year: For President—William F. Macy.

For Vice-Presidents—Millard F. Freeborn, William F. Codd, Walter Gilman Page, G. Lister Carlisle, Jr., Fred V. Fuller, Mrs. Irving Elting.

For Secretary—Rev. Josiah Coleman Kent.

For Treasurer—Mrs. Harry Gordon.

For Curator and Librarian—Mrs. Walton Adams.

For Councilors—Winthrop Coffin, Joseph Husband, Ed­ gar W. Jenney, Capt. B. Whitford Joy, Mrs. B. Whitford Joy, Miss Annie W. Bodfish, Miss Mary E. Starbuck, Miss Clara Parker.

For Auditors—Albert G. Brock, Miss Emma Cook, Miss Hannah G. Hatch.

On motion of Moses Joy it was voted that the Secretary 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.

Mr. Kent then reported for the Committee on Histor­ ical Essays. He said that nine essays had been handed in «8{ 8

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this year, and that most of them were of a very high order.

This prize essay contest is a memorial to our one-time President, Alexander Starbuck. He started it several years ago by offering a prize for the bekt essay written by a pupil of our schools. His object was to create an interest in local history among the school children. After Mr. Starbuck's death the Association voted to continue the con­ test as a memorial to him. But it offered three prizes in­ stead of one,—$10.00, $5.00 and $2.50 in gold; but there shall be no first prize unless an essay shows exceptional merit. If an essay meets this requirement it shall also be printed in the Proceedings. Mr. Kent then stated that in the opinion of the Committee one essay did meet the re­ quirement. He then presented the three prizes as follows: 1st Prize—"Nantucket's Great Crisis," by Miss Alice Larsen.

2nd Prize—"Two Episodes in the Career of John Paul Jones", by Robert Melendy.

3rd Prize—"Whaling From Nantucket", by Arthur Johnson.

At this point, Miss Helen Cartwright McCleary made the following statement which is self-explanatory: "Rev. Phebe Ann Hanaford's mother, Phebe Ann Barnard, was the daughter of Capt. Henry Barnard of Nan­ tucket, master and part-owner of vessels which sailed from New England ports to England, Ireland and Holland. Among her possessions, Mrs. Hanaford treasured a "Protection Paper" Or "Clearance Paper", dated 1796, written in three languages, English, French and Dutch, signed by George Washington and by Timothy Pickering, Secretary of State, giving Capt. Barnard permission to take his ship "Lucinda" with a cargo of tobacco, lumber and whalebone, from Nor­ folk to Cork. By the permission of Mrs. Hanaford's grand­ daughter, Mrs. Dionis Coffin (Warner) Santee of Rochester, N. Y., photostat copies have been made of the orginal document. One of these copies is now presented, at this meeting, to the Nantucket Historical Association, jointly, 49 >

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by Mrs. Santee, a great-great-granddaughter of Capt. Henry Barnard, and by Miss Helen Cartwright McCleary, Capt.

Barnard's great-granddaughter."

In addition to the above, Mrs. Santee presented also several Woman's Club Insignia belonging to Rev. Phebe Ann Hanaford; also a gold watch which was presented to Mrs. Hanaford by her parish in Hingham in 1870.

A vote of thanks was extended to Mrs. Santee and to Miss McCleary for these gifts.

The following resolution was oifered by Mr. Moses Joy, and unanimously adopted.

WHEREAS, under the will of Admiral William Mayhew Folger, late of Cornish, New Hampshire, the Nantucket Historical Association was made the residuary legatee, with the proviso that certain conditions therein named be accepted by said Association; and WHEREAS, said conditions are substantially as fol­ lows: "The Bequest to be administrated as a 'fund' to be known as the 'Peter Folger Fund' in order to perpetuate the name of Peter Foulger. Said fund is to be under the control of the President, Vice-Presidents and Board of Councillors of the Association (Nantucket Historical As­ sociation). The property to be invested, the interest re­ invested as capital until such time as a building similar to that known in Nantucket as the Coffin School (the institu­ tion endowed by Sir Isaac Coffin, Vice-Admiral, Royal Navy) may be built in the town of Nantucket and adequately en­ dowed as a Historical Association.

I desire that no additions to this fund be accepted from other descendant of Peter Foulger. It is to be under­ stood that this fund is to be administered as herein de­ scribed or it is to be applied as hereinafter provided. Ex­ ception :-The Board of Control of this fund is hereby given the privilege of using, at its discretion, the sum of one hundred dollars per annum for the purposes of the Association.

Now, therefore, RESOLVED, That the foregoing con«&( 10

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ditions and any other conditions in said will relating to said bequest be and hereby are accepted by the Nantucket His­ torical Association.

The President then read his report. This was good to hear, for it told us that the efforts of the past two years to raise the $35,000 necessary to purchase the Candle House property had been crowned with success and that the prop­ erty was in process of being conveyed to the Association.

Thus is the Whaling Museum about to become a reality.

The President paid tribute to Mr. Sanderson ( owner of the property) for his generosity in waiving taxes and interest.

The property consists of the brick candle house with a vacant lot on either side, with a frontage on Broad street of about 200 feet.

Then followed the program.

Warren P. Landers, Secretary of the Tercentenary Committee of Massachusetts, outlined the reason why the State should celebrate in 1930, and told us what some cities and towns are planning to do. His object in coming to us was to try to enthuse Nantucket that we might have part in this state-wide celebration.

Miss Alice Larsen then read her prize essay, "Nan­ tucket's Great Crisis", which was received with great in­ terest.

Miss Helen C. McCleary then read a most interesting paper on "Rev. Phebe Ann Hanaford, Lecturer, Author and Preacher". This address was very timely as Mrs. Hanaford was born in Nantucket just one hundred years ago.

Mrs. Charles A. Ratcliffe read a few poems from a re­ cently published volume by W. Frederick Brown, a Nantucketer living in Australia.

Miss Merle Turner read a short but most interesting paper on "Nantucket Streets and Lanes". Miss Turner, re11

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cently graduated from our high school, is a prize-winner in our Essay Contest on more than one occasion, and has the historic sense highly developed.

Miss Mary E. Starbuck, our former Secretary, read a chapter from her forthcoming volume of Reminiscenses; and if this chapter be a sample of the book it is safe to predict that the book will be eagerly read upon its publica­ tion in August.

Our good friend, Moses Joy, made his annual pilgrim­ age from New York to be present at this meeting, and as usual, made a few remarks. Among other things he said that he had recently made a visit to Amesbury, and to the home of Thomas Macy (Nantucket's Original Thomas) ; and that he had written in the guest book— "Moses Joy, ninth generation from Thomas Macy". Our Annual Meetings would certainly lack something if Moses Joy were not present. We are as glad to see and hear him as he is glad to be with us.

Mrs. Lilla Barnard Starbuck read a letter which she had received today, containing information about Capt.

Paul West.

Josiah Coleman Kent, Secretary.

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SECRETARY'S REPORT To the Nantucket Historical Association: Your Council beg leave to present their annual account of their stewardship.

If the number of meetings be a criterion of activity, then the Council have been exceedingly active during the past year, for we have held ten meetings. Routine business has been attended to as usual, but that requires no special mention. Two major matters of business have occupied the serious attention of the Council; one, is the proposed Whaling Museum, about which you have heard so much during the past two years. It is not my purpose to tell you about that, for that will doubtless be the burden of the President's Address soon to follow. But fearing that the President's modesty will prevent his telling you the part that he has had in the successful working out of this prop­ osition, I deem it my duty to tell you a few thing you have a right to know. For we are apt to be forgetful.

"We boast the blessings we possess, Yet scarcely thank the one who sends."

When the Whaling Museum shall have become a reality (and we plan to make it a reality before our next annual meeting), Nantucket will have a museum the like of which, so far as we know, does not exist in this or in any other country. And, as we shall take pride in welcoming our summer visitors to this unique museum, we shall be glad to acknowledge that it would not have been possible had it not been for the untiring efforts of our President, William 4 13

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F. Macy. He believed in it from the beginning. It has been, and is, the apple of his eye. He believed that what Nantucket ought to have as a memorial to the hardy whale­ men who made her famous, Nantucket could have, if her people and her friends could be made to see its appropri­ ateness and its necessity.

Your Council know, as none others can know, the un­ flagging zeal with which he has worked for the consumma­ tion of his dream. He was present at all meetings of the Council, often coming down from Boston at his own expense; overcoming all obstacles; and inspiring courage and hope where faint-heartedness frequently lurked.

Another matter of major importance that occupied the attention of your Council was the will of Admiral William Mayhew Folger.

One day, late last summer, the postman brought to your Secretary a big, fat letter from a lawyer in New Hamp­ shire. Imagine his surprise when, upon opening it, he found a copy of the last will and testament of Admiral William Mayhew Folger, who had died in Cornish, New Hampshire, the previous June.

Naturally, your Secretary wondered why the will was sent to him. But he did not remain in ignorance very long; for under sections nine and ten of the will he found that certain rare pictures and other articles were bequeathed to the Nantucket Historical Association. Later sections decreed that all his property should be converted into money, a trust fund established, and the income given to a daughter and a sister.

This was all very interesting. But section 18 caused your Secretary's spine to stiffen and his eyes to open wide as saucers. It read: Upon the death of the two beneficiaries of the above created trust, Margaret H. Folger and Elizabeth L. Folger, 14 )J»

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the participation of the Windsor County Trust Co. shall cease, and the entire Trust Fund, capital and interest, I give to the Nantucket Historical Association of Nantucket, Mass.: provided however, that the following conditions are accepted by the Nantucket Historical Association, viz:The Bequest to be administered as a "fund" to be known as the "Peter Foulger Fund" in order to perpetuate the name of Peter Foulger. Said fund is to be under the con­ trol of the President, Vice-Presidents and Board of Coun­ cillors of the Association. The property to be invested, the interest re-invested as capital until such time as a build­ ing similar to that known in Nantucket as the Coffin School, may be built in the town of Nantucket and adequately en­ dowed as a Historical Association."

This bequest came out of a clear sky. Although the Admiral was known to have been on the island two or three times, no one had an inkling that he had any special in­ terest in it, and least of all, in the Nantucket Historical Association. It is needless to say that the good news was received with unfeigned enthusiasm.

One section of the will suggested that the Association send a committee to Cornish to make selection from certain specified articles. In pursuance of that suggestion the Council voted "that the President, the Curator, and the Secretary be a committee to investigate the whole matter of the legacy, to go to Cornish to make the selections, and with full power to employ counsel, if necessary." The com­ mittee attended to that service; but fearing that complica­ tions might arise which they could not handle, they engaged the services of Charles Neal Barney of New York, lawyer, friend, and member of the association. The matter is now in his hands.

It will be a long time; many years, perhaps, before the Association comes into possession of this unlooked-for leg­ acy, but the prospect is certainly alluring.

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Museum on Fair Street, the renovated Oldest House on Sunset Hill, the Ancient Mill on the hill, and the Whaling Museum which will be a reality within a year, the Nantucket Historical Association is one of the outstanding historical societies of the country, and we are desirous of enhancing its prestige by giving it a membership commensurate with its importance. To this end we have raised a slogan—"Make it a Thousand". This can be done if every member will get a member, if every member will use this slogan with en­ thusiasm when talking about Nantucket.

In closing this annual report it is meet that we call attention to those of our members who have passed into the great unknown;—members who once graced our meet­ ings with their living presence, but whose names are now inscribed on the scroll of sacred memory: Miss Caroline Swift, Mrs. Mary Coffin Green, Walter Nelson Capen, Edward J. Pearson, Mrs. Caroline E. Brayton, Mrs. Jessie Baxter Knevals, Frederick M. Capen, Mrs. Mari­ ana Sprague Barnard, Charles La Fontaine, Miss Mary Scollay Parker, Miss Susan A. Starbuck, Miss Jane Folger Bostwick, Edward Bigelow, Mrs. Nellie Pray, Frederick Fischer-Meyer, Edward Collins Robinson, Edward C. Cobb, Mrs. Helen Milne, Miss Mary Sprague, Mrs. John B. Folger, Mrs. Harriet Thayer, and Miss Emma Coleman.

Respectfully submitted, Josiah Coleman Kent, Secretary.

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TREASURER'S REPORT For the Year Ending June 30, 1929.

RECEIPTS Cash in Banks and on hand, June 30, 1928 Nantucket Institution for Savings Life Membership fees Annual dues Admission fees, Historical Rooms Admission fees, Oldest House Admission fees, Old Mill Sale of publications Sale of photos Sale of "Coffin Memorials" Donations

$5,619.68 278.66 90.00 552.00 903.60 588.16 110.00 87.44 10.20 4.00 54.00 $8,297.74

PAYMENTS Cleaning Historical Building Cleaning Oldest House Cleaning Old Mill Postage and Stationery Supplies Nancy S. Adams, clerical work Nancy S. Adams, supplies Holly Hardy, typing H. B. Allen, sign J. H. Robinson, printing Central Printing Co Inquirer and Mirror, subscription Inquirer and Mirror, Annual Reports 4 17 is-

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87.40 8.40 1.50 25.58 8.24 33.00 24.25 3.28 3.00 20.00 6.50 2.50 277.00

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Inquirer and Mirror, advertising and printing 114.25 Inquirer and Mirror, stationery and supplies ....

77.93 Inquirer and Mirror, "Story of Old Nantucket" ..

17.60 Bay State League, dues 2.00 Wannacomet Water Co 20.00 Expenses of lecture 72.30 W. F. Macy, expenses of committee on "Folger Will" 70.69 Charles N. Barney, expenses of committee on "Folger Will" 17.00 A. G. Brock, insurance 72.51 Citizens' Gas, Electric & Power Co 8.08 James T. Worth, carting 6.50 William J. Blair, fire extinguisher 10.50 Labor and services at Oldest House 15.50 W. B. Marden, labor and stock 7.00 C. F. Wing Co., shade 4.75 Photo, "Byrd Flag" 1.80 J. A. Holmes, repairs Old Mill 71.76 M. F. Freeborn, paint, Old Mill 200.23 Merle E. Turner, essay prize 10.00 Dorothy Jones, essay prize 5.00 Amy Burdick, essay prize 2.50 Salary of Attendants, Historical Rooms 390.00 Salary of Attendants, Oldest House 222.00 Salary of Attendants, Old Mill 55.00 Salary of Janitor 100.00 Salary of Secretary 100.00 Salary of Treasurer 100.00 Salary of Curator 100.00 Cash in Banks and on hand, June 30, 1929

2 375.55 5[922.19 $8,297.74

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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

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

3,000.00 424.64 2,058.22 439.33 $32,502.19

Liabilities

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MEMBERSHIP New Life Members New Annual Members

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

5 21 2 7 16

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51 Present total membership Life Councilors Life Members Annual Members

662 2 93 567 *662

Respectfully submitted, Lillian A. Thurston, Treasurer.

Examined and approved: Emma Cook Hannah G. Hatch

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CURATOR'S REPORT Mr. President and Members of the Historical Association:It is with much pleasure and pride that I render a re­ port to you of my first year as Curator. To be able to live up to the reputation of your former Curator, one who en­ deared herself to you all, will be quite beyond my feeble efforts, but I shall follow in the way she has led as nearly as it is possible and endeavor to fill the gap which her re­ tirement has made, with high hopes that you will not see or feel any material difference between the old and the new.

We started the season last summer a bit later than usual, but the attendance was about the same as in the previous year. Three thousand six hundred seventy-nine people availed themselves of the opportunity of viewing our fine historical collection, this number does not include mem­ bers of the Association who are admitted free. The Treas­ urer's Report will show you that the museum pays its way financially. The first thrill of being Curator came to me just after the last Annual Meeting when I received a letter from Commander Byrd, of flying fame. The letter was merely a matter of business concerning a flag which is in our collection, which matter necessitated correspondence and three letters came to me with Commander Byrd's sig­ nature. Needless to say that these letters are filed in a safe place.

Among the many donations this year are many of his­ torical interest to the island. Of first interest always are the portraits which come to us each year, and it is with 4 21 fa

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great pleasure that I announce that through the generosity of the artist himself, that fine portrait of our oldest male citizen, Mr. John W. Cook, has come into our possession. Sit­ ting for a portrait to be painted at the age of ninety-five years is something which I feel will not occur in the coming generation.

Another portrait of interest is that of Joseph Winslow who was born in 1775. This portrait was painted in France.

Two particularly fine portraits have recently come to us, one is of Mary Coleman Hart, mother of Joseph Coleman Hart the author of 'Miriam Coffin', and the other is of his Aunt, Anna Coleman Clapp. The latter portrait was painted

by Jerome Thompson.

A lovely old-time bonnet and a dainty lace cap worn by Lydia Hussey Macy and a small knitted purse belonging to her are among the nicest donations this year.

An old trundle bed from a Gull Island house and a flax wheel from another Nantucket house are other additions.

One log book of particular interest is that of the ship Lima. Also several other log books and scrap books, and a china pitcher which passed through the fire of 1846 one side of which bears proof of this fact. Another relic of the fire is a piece of an oak door of the safe in Lovell's Shoe Store on Main Street. This was recovered when re­ pairs were recently being made to the building.

To our collection of old watches has been added a fine and valuable specimen. It is the gold watch which was pre­ sented to Capt. George H. Brock for perseverance and skill in handling his ship 'Noonday' through a trying experience. hink you may be interested in hearing the story which 1 quote from the Boston Traveller of 1858. ''While the ship 'Noonday', Capt. Geo. Henry Brock, was on the passage from Calcutta, in August, 1857, she was driven aground upon an unknown reef in the Banda Sea. 22 jj-

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The weather was very rough, so much so that the crew frequently proposed to take to the boats and abandon her; but her gallant commander knew his ship was good and strong, and determined not to leave her until driven from decks by the angry sea. After two days and nights of in­ cessant toil, he succeeded in heaving her afloat, but found she was half full of water. Nothing daunted however, and having excellent pumps, he cheered the crew, and by un­ remitting efforts succeeded in bringing his ship into Batavia, where, at a trifling expense, he succeeded in stopping the leaks, and then proceeded to Calcutta. When docked, her forefoot and fifty feet of keel were discovered to have been ground off close to the planking, and a hole in one side of her bottom. The master carpenters in Calcutta expressed astonishment that she could have been brought into port in such a condition. Several of our underwriters appre­ ciating the skill and perseverance of Capt. Brock, presented him with a beautiful gold chronometer watch, valued at $500, upon which is inscribed: "Capt. George Henry Brock, of ship 'Noonday', from Underwriters, Boston, August 31, 1858."

This watch, together with a gold ring belonging to Mr. Joseph Clapp, was presented by Miss Susan E. Brock.

The Association was remembered in the will of Miss Mary S. Parker and to our collection has been added from her estate two exquisite glass decanters and a china plate, all bearing the insignia of Napoleon, the intial "N" with a crown above.

The will of Rear-Admiral Wiliam Mayhew Folger was of great interest to our Association as we were left many valuable relics outright and were made residuary legatees of a large sum of money, which will build for us a beauti­ ful memorial building of which Nantucket and our Society may well be proud. This may not be in our day but will 4 23

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be the prime movement for which the next generation may plan, and one step more in the ever forward advance of this Association. It was necessary last autumn for your Curator, accompanied by your President and Secretary, to take a trip to Vermont, the home of the late Admiral Folger, to choose from his belongings those things which we thought would be of value to our Association and which were spec­ ially mentioned in his will. We brought home with us all that could be easily packed and the remainder, consisting of old prints and bric-a-brac, will doubtless come to us before the estate is settled.

The most interesting of these relics are three small ships made of silver filigree, autographed photographs of Presidents Harrison, McKinley, Taft, and Roosevelt and of Julia Ward Howe, U. S. Commissions of all grades up to Rear-Admiral; two Admiral's flags; Testimonials of appre­ ciation which are bound in leather and beautifully typed from steamship lines.

Several letters from government officials; Admiral Dewey, Leonard Wood, Roosevelt and others; a paper con­ taining important information of the "Mutiny of the Bounty" and the valuable log-book of the ship "Topaz", dated 1808, which mentions the discovery of the survivors of the mutiny on Pitcairns Island and was the first informa­ tion the world obtained regarding them.

To call to mind to future generations that a new school-house was built in 1929, we have had donated the trowel which was used in laying the corner-stone of this building.

The accessions to our library have not been many but all will be happy to know that a copy of "My Recollections", written by Mrs. Lydia S. Hinchman, has been placed in our collection by that esteemed lady, and I am sure it will be 4 24 )&•

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read with interest. A book of poems written by W. Fred­ erick Brown, a former Nantucketer, and one written by Anthony Werner and donated by him.

The revision of the loan catalogue this year brings to light the fact that there are only sixty-four loans in our collection. Several pieces of valuable china and glass have been withdrawn the past year but we try to fill the vacant places by spreading out that which has been crowded.

Lack of space for proper arrangement of our heterogenuous display has ever been the cry, and now the time has come when we shall be relieved of some of the whaling collection by removing it to the Old Candle House which will soon be added to the group of buildings owned by the Association.

We are most proud of our success in securing this fine old building in which to house the valuable collection of whaling implements, the gift of Mr. Edward F. Sanderson, together with our own collection. Our dream of the past few years is realized and the Whaling Museum is now to be a reality.

The steady forward growth of our society in the past thirty years has been very gratifying and the people of Nantucket should be proud of the fact that these historical buildings are being saved for all time.

We have not accomplished much active work this year, except to cooperate with the schools in trying to bring be­ fore the young people in the upper classes the fact that our historical collection is worth seeing, and through the efforts of one of the history teachers we gathered a group of seniors and juniors of the high school and gave them free admittance to the rooms, and I am happy to say that the interest shown by the young people was well worth while.

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I feel I cannot close my report without a word of ap­ preciation to our attendants, both at the rooms on Fair Street and the Oldest House, all of whom are much in­ terested in the historic worth of our society. Much of the interest shown by the visitors is due to the courtesy and attention given by the attendants.

Your Curator is fully aware that this report cannot equal the reports that came from so facile a pen as that of your former Curator, but if you will bear with me I will try to improve with age.

Respectfully submitted, Nancy S. Adams, Curator.

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS I shall make the "President's Address", so-called, quite brief today. You will have heard enough from me before the meeting is over, as we have a rather full program, and I shall have something to say in introducing each of the speakers. Moreover, most of the ground is so well covered by the excellent reports of the Secretary, Treasurer and Curator, that there is little of interest which I can add without more or less repetition.

I have attended two meetings of the American Asso­ ciation of Museums during the year. The New England branch met in Boston in October, and the annual three-day conference of the national body was held, in conjunction, as usual, with the American Federation of Art, at Phila­ delphia in May. These conferences are interesting and helpful, and one learns much about museum affairs in general, but I regret to say that the historical societies are not very well represented. We are rather overshadowed by the larger groups from the natural history and art museums.

Our association is not a member of the national body.

I joined it individually and I attend the conferences at my own expense, not in any official capacity; but if, as I hope may prove to be the case in time, the historical society group earns and is given a more prominent part in the conferences, it may be advisable for us to join and be represented by one or more accredited delegates, for I be­ lieve much can be gained from these contacts with other workers in the same field through the interchange of ideas and experiences.

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You will recall that I made one or two suggestions last year as a result of certain information I gathered at these conferences. First, as to the possibility of getting some support from the town in the form of a small annual ap­ propriation in recognition of what we have already done and are doing to preserve and maintain the various mem­ orials and monuments of the past, which it is conceded are among the attractions which appeal to our summer visitors and tourists. This is being done more and more in many sections, especially in the West, as the value to the com­ munity of museum activities is coming to be more appre­ ciated by the tax payers and voters.

But alas! We live in a conservative commonwealth, and on investigation I find that under our constitution municipalities are expressly forbidden to contribute to the support of any institution, however worthy or deserving, over which the city or town government does not have ex­ clusive control. On general principles this may be a wise provision, but it does seem a bit rough on an association such as ours. We can and do help the town, but the town cannot legally help us unless we are willing to turn over all control to the town fathers—an alternative which, I take it, we are hardly ready to adopt as yet.

Another suggestion I made was as to the possibility of interesting the young people of the community, especially through the schools, so that they may "carry on" in the future. This has been considered by the Council, and a special committee appointed to study the problem. It is hoped that something may come of this later.

It seems to me that it is up to each one of us individ­ ually to "sell" our association to the people of the com­ munity—to the adults as well as to the children. Are we doing all we might along that line ? I think not. We take our organization too much as a matter of course. We must < 28

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realize that we have a rather remarkable institution, as such things go. Comparisons are odious, but few towns, even among those of much larger population, offer anything even approaching our various exhibits. We must all do more bragging about our accomplishments and "tell the world" about it.

I sent to each member last month when the bills for annual dues went out a special message urging you to show your interest and loyalty by doing a little campaigning for new members. How many of you took it seriously ? Some did, as is shown by the increased membership, but we are still far short of our goal of a thousand members, so I ask you to re-read the circular and act upon it. If you have lost it, get another from the Secretary. Speak to your friends. Invite them to join; many are waiting to be asked.

Don't keep them waiting any longer. Bring them in! Do your part, and back up your officers, who are devoting so much time, thought and energy to the cause. And do it now! Thank you in advance for this help.

Now as to the Whaling Museum. Two years ago today I reported that we had over thirteen thousand dollars pledged in response to our first appeal. Last year I told you that we had more than doubled that. Now today it gives me the greatest satisfaction to report that we have reached and passed our first goal. The thirty-five thou­ sand dollars we asked for to purchase the old Candle House is in sight.

I had hoped to be able to announce today that the deeds of the Candle House property had actually passed and that we now owned it. But there have been unavoid­ able delays, and all I can tell you is that the deed has gone to Europe to be executed and is now probably on its way back to us. We are confident that before many days it will be duly recorded in the Nantucket Registry of Deeds.

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And right here I want to pay tribute to Mr. Sander­ son for his patience and forbearance in waiting two years and a half for us to take up the one-year option which he gave us in January, 1927, and for the very generous terms he has made us on the final purchase. It was understood that we were to take it at just what it stood him in actual cash, including carrying charges, but he now offers volun­ tarily to waive all interest on his investment and all taxes he has paid during the two years and a half since he gave us the option. We are under the deepest obligation to him, which we are glad to acknowledge, for he has made it possi­ ble for us to realize our hopes at no distant date by estab­ lishing in Nantucket an institution in which we can all take pride.

But—of course there's a but—it must be understood that we still need more money. Repairs and alterations to the building are necessary to fit it for our purpose, and the fixtures and equipment for installing the exhibits will in­ volve considerable expense; so we must continue our appeal for contributions and pledges until everything is paid for and we know the enterprise is on a sound financial basis.

A small group of interested friends, most of whom have already made substantial contributions to the fund, have agreed to advance the money needed now in anticipation of the payment of deferred pledges and of future subscrip­ tions. But this must be paid back.

All we can say is that we are over the first hurdle, but there are still others to surmount, and we ask your further co-operation until we are free from debt. If the spirit moves any one who has already contributed to make some further pledge, we shall be grateful for any amount, large or small, and we urge you to tell others about it and give them a chance to have a share in it. We have conducted our cam­ paign so far in a dignified way, and we have tried not to 30

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interfere with other organizations seeking funds for other worthy causes. We intend to continue our efforts along the same line in future. Please give us your support and help.

Now may I suggest, if any of you are not enthusiastic over our purchase, that when you leave here this afternoon you take a walk down Broad Street and look it over. Bear in mind that the property we are getting includes all the land on Broad Street from North Water Street to North Beach Street—a frontage of over two hundred feet.

I am told and I believe that this is one of the most valuable sites in the town for any business purpose, and when we have our Whaling Museum established and open, and our new historical building which we hope to build some day from the Admiral Folger legacy—by which time, or perhaps before then, the town may build its new town hall, with a fine auditorium, on the opposite corner—Nantucket will have a wonderful civic centre right at its front door as you enter the town. Try and visualize it, and make it an object in your lives to have a real part in it.

Kespectfully submitted, William F. Macy, President.

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IN MEMORIAM In the Secretary's report for 1922 the following tribute was paid to MISS EMMA COLEMAN At the last meeting of the Council, held the first of May, a message from Miss Emma Coleman was received with great regret. She no longer felt able to resume her place as one of the attendants in the rooms during the summer. For seventeen years she has been one of the Association's most valued assets. Smiling and serene, dig­ nified and intelligent, as she sat in the big rocker, a gracious Island hostess among the relics of the past, all of which she knew and part of which she truly was, she was a never-failing source of pleasure to our visitors—her guests.

She was always ready to help the stranger, to give infor­ mation when it was required, to tell her illuminating stories, and so, in some measure, to suggest to the receptive soul a bit of the atmosphere of the real Nantucket. For to her, as to many of us, Nantucket is no longer an existing fact, it is a memory, and that alone is real.

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NANTUCKET'S GREAT CRISIS

By Alice T. Larsen Winner of first -prize in Historical Society's Contest

History tells us that every community, great or small, has a turning point in its career—a critical moment—on which depends the fate of its development. Nantucket has experienced such a crisis. It was the period of the Rev­ olutionary War, from 1775-1782. The little island, in its remote position, far out to sea, was at this time peopled by a resourceful people—the grandsons of the first settlers of Nantucket. These sturdy islanders, just after entering upon a new era in the development of Sherburne-Town as the foremost whaling port in the world, suddenly found themselves in the midst of the struggle. The Nantucketers were stripped of their whaling commerce and were forced to watch their maritime supremacy dwindle away to nothing.

In order to understand this critical period, a brief re­ sume of what had taken place before the Revolution began is necessary. The Nantucketers, after capturing their first whales directly off-shore from the island, had fitted out small sloops to pursue the mighty monsters of the deep.

The further they went in their pursuit, the larger and better equipped became their sloops. From the Davis Straits in the North, and as far west as the Azores, the Nantucket whale ships cruised.

During the five years immediately preceding the War, the whaling from Nantucket increased by leaps and bounds.

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In 1771, one hundred vessels sailed from the island. In 1775, the number had increased to one hundred and seventyfive ships, but most of these were larger than those of five years before, so that the tonnage was nearly double. Busi­ ness on the island was increasing accordingly. The trades closely allied to the whaling industry were thriving indus­ tries. The cooper-shops made the barrels and casks; the blacksmith's forge cast the iron hoops for the oil casks and the harpoons, whale spades and other whaling implements; the sail lofts fashioned the strong canvas for the whaleship's sails; the rope-walks wove the cordage for the shrouds and ropes so necessary to the whaleman; and the oil ware­ houses and the candle factories prepared their product for sale. Oil was shipped to England, the Colonies on the main­ land, and even to the West Indies. Sherburne-Town must have been a busy place in those early days.

And so, with the opening of the Revolution, Nantucket was the leading whaling spot in the world, with a fleet of one hundred and fifty ships and over two thousand seamen.

Proudly, her ships searched the Atlantic for whales, eager to return home with full cargoes. From north, south, east, and west they came back to Nantucket, to anchor off the bar at the Chord of the Bay with their greasy cargoes.

Then, came the first blow, with a suddenness that stunned the Nantucketers. On the very day that a Nan­ tucket whaleship returned with the news of the discovery of a new whaling ground—the Brazil Banks—the news of the Battle of Lexington and Concord reached the island.

The merchants of Nantucket seemed to recognize the long struggle that was to come between the Colonies and Eng­ land. They had already felt the harshness of England's power through the effect of the Restraining Bill, but they realized that they must face a sterner and more fearful prospect now.

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It was only a month after the first skirmish at Lex­ ington that Nantucket got its first taste of war-time methods. A group of Provincial soldiers came to the island in May on the pretense that the islanders were hiding stores for the British General Gage. After a great deal of parley, the soldiers departed, but took over sixty whaling-dories with them. Perhaps the taking of these boats was the real reason for the visit of the Provincials.

The next misfortune came when the Provincial Con­ gress requested the Nantucketers to send a representative to their assembly. This the islanders dared not do, for they feared an embargo by the British fleet.

The selectmen of Sherburne, now feeling alarmed be­ cause of danger, sent a petition to the General Court of the colony—a legislative body set up by the Revolutionists.

In this petition, the grave position in which Nantucket was placed was clearly set forth. It stated that the majority of the people belonged to the Society of Friends, a group that did not believe in war and would not take up arms, and that, as the island could not produce enough of the necessities of life, any hindrance in the obtaining of sup­ plies from the mainland would cause great distress. This petition mentioned the fact that the islanders hoped for a speedy reconciliation between the colonists and England.

The petition was practically ignored by the Provincial As­ sembly.

Despite the dread sense of impending disaster, the Nantucketers petitioned the Colonial authorities for per­ mits to sail for whales, the General Court of the Massa­ chusetts Bay Colony having passed a resolve that such permits were necessary. Many of these permits were granted the islanders, for both Elbridge Gerry and John Adams, who were powerful figures in the Colonial assem­ blies, knew that England was bidding for the whaling in4 35 )§-

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dustry and that the British would like to have whalemen sail from her own ports. The Nantucketers shrewdly se­ cured permits from the British, also, so that many of her ships carried "double papers", or two sets of permits!

Besides the whaling fleet, there were many small coast­ ing craft, which sailed from Nantucket to the mainland for foodstuffs, firewood, and other supplies. Even these small craft had to have permits from both the Colonials and the British.

But, although the permits helped a little at first, Nan­ tucket's commercial ventures were doomed to failure. The British began to claim that the Nantucketers were aiding the Colonials, and to make matters worse, prominent men in the Continental cause accused the islanders of carrying supplies to the British, and called them Tories.

Misfortunes now came in rapid succession. The Nan­ tucket vessels were captured, their crews imprisoned, or the ships sent back home again—with no cargo. Whaleships disappeared altogether, their crews sent to nameless graves or to rotting prison ships. The coasting vessels either returned empty or not at all. Soon the islanders were in grave danger of starving.

The winters of the war time were long, dreary months.

Once in a while, a small sloop would bring in provisions, but the prospect of the lifting of the heartless embargo of the island was cheerless. Smuggling, a dangerous but neces­ sary practice, now began in real earnest.

When we remember that these hardy Nantucketers were thrifty people, unused to warfare and their enforced idleness, and dependent wholly upon whaling, we can realize how patient and farseeing they must have been. The young men of Nantucket were away from the island during most of the war. Some of them served in the Colonial cause, both on land and sea. There were twenty, alone, on that 36

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famous warship Ranger, on which John Paul Jones terror­ ized the British coast. A great majority of them were whalemen. The saddest feature of the war and its effect on the island was in the fact that so many of Nantucket's young manhood died in the terrible prison ships or were drowned when their ships were sunk by the privateers of both America and England.

Although Nantucket had always been on friendly terms with the mother country (for London had been their chief market for whale oil) the Nantucketers knew that the Colonials were fighting in the right in their struggle for liberty. But, the islanders also knew that they could not show their sympathy for their mainland neighbors, because the Colonials could never protect them from the British fleet. It was their love for Nantucket, and their faith in its future as a whaling port, that forced the people on Nantucket to remain neutral.

As the war dragged on, the matters went from bad to worse. The capture of their ships by both the American and British privateers, the islanders accepted with a patient fortitude, but a new danger nearly forced them to fight.

This danger was in the raids of Tory refugees, who came to the island in stolen ships to steal sheep and other supplies!

During the hard winters, many families moved to the mainland. William Rotch, a great Nantucket oil merchant, succeeded in establishing many of these families in France and England, where they again started to carry on the great industry of whaling.

The breaking point of the crisis came during the year many of these families moved away. With a courage that, in the light of history, is remarkable, the majority of the Nantucket people refused to leave the island. Staunchly, they remained, a patient people, clinging to their faith in 4 37

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their homeland. They looked beyond the hardships, the suffering, and the want, to a time when once again they might renew their peaceful occupation of whaling.

What a scene of desolation Sherburne-Town must have presented: the wharves falling into decay, with a few rot­ ting hulks of what once were sturdy ships lying alongside, the deserted warehouses, the streets silent and drear, the counting houses forlorn in their loneliness, the good folks of the town discouraged and melancholy, for many of their relatives and friends were moving away to other parts of the world.

And, with all the gloomy, cheerless existence about them, the Nantucketers must have felt the spirit of their grandsires—the original settlers of the island—spring into being within them—the same matchless spirit which had brought these first settlers to the island so that they might worship God and live their lives as they pleased.

Unkown to the islanders, the critical period passed.

At this time, a few Nantucket whaleships, with their per­ mits, made desperate efforts to get away, succeeding after stirring escapes from privateers. A few managed to sell their oil, returning after short cruises. During the early part of the war, a number of the islanders had aided the Colonial cause with funds. Now, these were repaid for their gifts, being allowed to obtain some provisions from the mainland. This temporary relief heartened the islanders a great deal. A small Colonial garrison at Falmouth aided the Nantucketers, also, during some raids by a gang of no­ torious Tory refugess.

John Adams, one of the most powerful of the Colonial leaders, after a careful study of the whaling conditions, in which he grew alarmed at the way England was attempting to "steal" the industry from New England, began to ad­ vocate measures of relief for the Nantucket whalers, who, 38 }3f

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he realized, were the chief exponents of the industry. Adams seems to have realized that England's bid for the Nan­ tucket whalers did not include what the islanders loved most dearly—their home.

When peace once more was restored to the war-torn Colonies, the Nantucketer's threw aside the memory of the terrible effect the war had upon them and set out anew, to re-establish Nantucket as the chief whaling port in the world. Although a neutral island in the midst of the con­ flict, Nantucket had paid a fearful price for peace. Out of the eight hundred families, there were two hundred widows and nearly three hundred orphan children—a harsh penalty to a peaceful people who remained loyal to their home! The total loss in commerce and property exceeded one million dollars, while one man alone, (William Rotch), lost sixty thousand, in those days a staggering sum.

But the sad experience furnished a helpful knowledge with which, a generation later, the Nantucket people warded off famine and despair during the War of 1812, in which, again they remained neutral.

The Revolutionary War, then, produced Nantucket's greatest crisis, and at its close, instead of a deserted town, a silent monument to a better day, Sherburne-Town awoke to a new life. The faith of the island's dauntless people was not lost, for in a later day, Nantucket came to view a greater era in whaling and a prosperity far beyond the fondest dreams of the loyal folk in its crisis.

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PHEBE ANN (Coffin) HANAFORD The 100th Anniversary of her Birth.

By Helen Cartwright McCleary "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature".

In this day of centennials and semi-centennials in Massachusetts, (with a tercentenary of The Bay Colony in the offing!), it is fitting to recognize, at this meeting, the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of Nantucket's famous daughters, Phebe Ann Coffin, known to the world as the Rev. Phebe Ann Hanaford, Universalist minister, Lyceum lecturer, author and editor of note, facile and graceful poet, ardent champion of anti-slavery, temperance, social reform and women's rights, pioneer in her generation.

Mrs. Hanaford was a product of the Victorian era; for her span of life paralelled that of the famous queen. Her writings suggest the serious introspection and the senti­ ment of her generation; yet, her dignified choice of subjectmatter, her command of the English language, as well as the perfect rhythm of her prose and verse, give to her work a stateliness and lofty spirit, reflecting the beauty of her character and her unusual mentality.

Born on Nantucket Island, May 6, 1829, Phebe Ann Coffin was the only child of Phebe Ann Barnard (daughter of Capt. Henry Barnard and Love Cartwright), who was the first wife of Capt. George W. Coffin, ship-owner and merchant. Both parents were of the best Quaker stock, descendants of the first settlers of the island. Of her lin­ eage, six times, from Tristram Coffin, Mrs. Hanaford was 40 )*•

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very proud; also, of her descent from three of Peter Folger's children. Thereby, she claimed kinship with Benjamin Franklin, Lucretia (Coffin) Mott, Maria Mitchell, the Hon. Walter Folger, and Rev. Ferdinand Cartwright Ewer. The "Coffin Clan" was especially dear to her, and she never lost interest in her island home, though she seldom returned to it, after her marriage.

Very early in life, little "Phebe Ann" lost her mother; but Capt. Coffin's second marriage with Mrs. Emmeline (Barnard) Cartwright, widow of Joseph B. Cartwright, gave the child a devoted elder step-brother, Joseph B. Cartwright Jr., and seven younger Coffin half-brothers and sisters with whom she spent happy summers at 'Sconset, recorded, with fond recollection, in a novelette, "The Heart of Siasconset".

In search of literary food for her active mind, the little girl vibrated between the houses of her two Quaker grand­ mothers, in town, finding in one the family Bible and in the other a Webster's dictionary, from which two sources, no doubt, she drew the extensive vocabulary and beautiful phrasing for which she was noted, as lecturer, author and preacher. From her father, Capt. Coffin, (who, to save a week, could out-roar the waves at Surfside!) and from his mother (a descendant of a long line of Quaker preachers) she inherited the clear, rich voice Tike a silver bell' which could reach to the farthest corner of an auditorium. This voice she trained by reading the Bible aloud to her grand­ mother, and by climbing up into Brant Point lighthouse to recite to the winds and waves, as audience, selections from Byron and from Shakespeare, considered "too worldly" for a Quaker household! In another way, also, she found free­ dom from repression and an outlet for her nervous energy. ith the help of the rain-water barrel, she would creep up the long lean-to roof of her grandmother Barnard's house to the "walk", on top, to roll pebbles down upon the heads «sf 41

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of innocent passers-by, dodging quickly behind the big chimney, when they looked up, in amazement! "A prank a day will keep dullness away," was her subconscious motto.

Accustomed to hearing women talk and preach in Friends' Meeting, Phebe Ann Coffin always cherished the ambition to preach herself; and, gathering her little Barnard cousins about her, she would mount a box, in the barn, and "play preacher" to them, as long as they would listen.

Educated in the Nantucket public and private schools (whose standard, in her day, was "the best in the state", at sixteen, she was teaching school, at 'Sconset, while pursuing "higher branches" with the Rev. Ethan Allen, rector of St. Paul's Church. At 20, she married, December 2, 1849, Dr. Joseph H. Hanaford of Cape Cod, a homeopathic physician, a teacher in the Nantucket schools and a writer on medical subjects. With him she removed from the island to New­ ton, Mass., and continued to teach for a year.

Her literary career really began at the age of thirteen, when, in 1842, she contributed an anti-slavery poem on America to the Nantucket paper! In 1853, at the age of twenty-four (about the time Mrs. Stowe was writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin") Mrs. Hanaford published an anti-slavery story, "Lucretia the Quakeress". Every few years, there­ after, until she retired from preaching, she published one or more volumes. The variety of their content is noteworthy.

With equal ease, her facile pen turned from poetry, grave or gay, to sermons and essays of philosophic flavor, and from light, graceful narrative to historical biography show­ ing scholarly research of a high order! Of her fourteen published books, one of the best is her "Life of Abraham Lincoln" written in 1865. This book had great appeal, and was the first biography of Lincoln written after his death.

It reached a sale of 20,000 copies, 5,000 copies of which were translated into German. She also published a long Lincoln poem entitled, "Our Martyred President".

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A thrilling account of the wreck of the Ship Man­ chester is contained in her story, "The Captive Boy of Tierra del Fuego" published in 1867. In 1870-71, she produced three books—a collection of her poems and two biographies of note, "The Life of Charles Dickens" and "The Life of George Peabody". The latter book won her very high praise. 16,000 copies were sold, and a de luxe copy was sent to Queen Victoria. In 1877, Mrs. Hanaford published her best known and most comprehensive work, "Women of the Century" (sometimes listed as "Daughters of America") which reached a sale of 60,000 copies! A prolific writer of poetry, she published one collection called, "From Shore to Shore and Other Poems" and, shortly be­ fore her death, at 92, she had in preparation another col­ lection of poems, relating to Nantucket. She had also planned to publish "Sorosis Memories" and "Reminiscences of old New England", which would have been of historic interest to this ultra-modern age.

Forsaking her Quaker up-bringing, she became in­ terested in the Episcopal Church, and when she married Dr. Hanaford, she attended with him the Baptist church; but, in 1864, a period of great sorrow turned her toward the more cheerful Universalist denomination which, there­ after, claimed her interest. With a son and daughter to educate, she began, with marked success, an editorial career; and, from 1866 to 1868, she served as editor of Univer­ salist publications, notably "The Ladies' Repository" and "The Myrtle" while contributing articles to "The Gospel Banner" and to leading newspapers and magazines. In 1865, at the age of 36, she preached her first sermons. While visiting at Nantucket, she preached twice, at the request of her father, in the little school-house at 'Sconset, to an appreciative audience of former neighbors and old friends.

The following year, 1866, she was invited to preach at So. Canton, N. Y., as substitute for Rev. Olympia Brown (the 4 43 >

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second woman minister ever ordained) who urged Mrs. Hanaford to enter the public ministry, recognizing her many natural gifts,—a clear, musical voice, a gracious, womanly presence, a fine mind, stocked with the best liter­ ature, including an intimate acquaintance with the Bible, and a natural aptitude for high thinking and moral leader­ ship. Moreover, Mrs. Hanaford possessed good taste in dress and was handsome in appearance, with a broad, in­ tellectual brow, fine dark eyes, sparkling with intelligence, and a sweet and eager expression.

So, it came to pass that, February 19, 1868, at the age of 38, Mrs. Hanaford was called to the First Universalist Church, at Hingham, Mass., and was ordained as the first woman minister in New England and the fourth in the world! After a year of service at Hingham, in 1869, she added to her duties the parish at Waltham, Mass. Her home was in Reading, ten miles away, and she served the two parishes on alternate Sundays. In 1870, came her first big opportunity. On June 9 of that year, she was installed at New Haven, Connecticut, as pastor of the First Universalist Church, at a salary of $2,000, with $500 addi­ tional for moving her effects from Reading to New Haven.

In this same year, 1870, she received a signal public honor, as the first woman to be invited to be Chaplain of the legislature! Both in 1870 and in 1872, she served as Chap­ lain to both lower and upper houses of the Connecticut legislature. In more ways than one, Phebe Ann Hanaford was a pioneer!

After four successful years at New Haven, in 1874 Mrs. Hanaford accepted a call, to the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Jersey City, N. J. She was now 45 years of age, at the height of her career. The new parish, in Jersey City, was a large and wealthy one; and, at the end of her three-year contract, in 1877, she had doubled its membership! Then, alas! she sailed into troubled waters! ^ 44 ^

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Dissension arose, due to dislike of her devoted woman com­ panion; a man preacher was demanded by the younger members; and Mrs. Hanaford failed of re-election. At the urgent request of the majority of the members, who with­ drew to follow her, Mrs. Hanaford, unwisely, agreed to start a Second Universalist Society, adjoining the First Society; but, at the end of an apparently successful year, its delegates were not accepted by the General Universalist Convention. For the next few years, Mrs. Hanaford oc­ cupied no settled pulpit, but apparently, conducted a lec­ turing and preaching tour throughout the Middle West, in Ohio and Illinois. In 1884, she came into her own again, accepting a call to the Church of the Holy Spirit, in New Haven, where she remained six years, retiring from preach­ ing, in 1890, at the age of sixty-one.

During her active ministry, Mrs. Hanaford had the unprecedented pleasure of helping to ordain her own son, Rev. Howard A. Hanaford, and of exchanging pulpits with him, when he was a Congregational minister, in Brockton, Mass. She also conducted the wedding-service for her daughter, Florence E. Hanaford, upon her marriage to Thomas E. Warner, in 1876.

After her retirement, in 1890, Mrs. Hanaford lived for a year with her daughter, Mrs. Warner, at No. Tonawanda, N. Y.; but, in 1891, she removed to New York City and set up housekeeping with her devoted companion, Miss Ellen E. Miles, author, editor and hymn-writer. Mrs. Hanaford's interests in New York now centered in Club life.

She became President of the Woman's Press Club, and, finally, Honorary President. She served as Acting-Presi­ dent of Sorosis. She was interested in the New Century Study Club, the Society for Political Study, and the So­ ciety for New England Women. She conducted a class in Parliamentary Law, and, as a result, was the first woman to be made an Honorary Member of the Medico4 45 )>

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Legal Society, at the same time that Governor Whit­ man was so honored! She even initiated a club of her own, called PHILITSCIPOMA, an odd name formed from its objects, Philosophy, Literature, Science, Poetry, Ora­ tory, Music and Art! She was delegated and received by Presidents of the United States and by Governors of New York and Massachusetts, numbering among her intimate friends many persons of distinction.

In addition to her versatility and power, Mrs. Hanaford enjoyed perfect health, which enabled her to accom­ plish the large amount of work she compressed into twenty-two years of public life. Only a woman of wonder­ ful endurance could ride eighteen miles, on a hot Sunday, to preach three sermons, or drive over rough roads twentyeight miles to preach four sermons, in four different towns, besides addressing a Sunday School! At the age of 89 years, she drove eight miles, over country roads, to cast her first woman's vote for Governor Whitman (fancy her thrill!).

In 1914, after the death of Miss Miles, her companion for 44 years, Mrs. Hanaford, now 85 years of age, was obliged to leave New York City and make her home in the country with her granddaughter, Mrs. Dionis Coffin (War­ ner) Santee, with whom she passed a serene, old age, keep­ ing her heart young, never losing interest in public affairs, and retaining her faculties to the end. On June 2, 1921, at the ripe age of 92, she slipped quickly and quietly out of life, like a golden leaf drifting softly from a bough, sure in her faith that a larger work awaited her, in the Life Beyond.

Such fame and success as came to Mrs. Hanaford she fairly earned, by a lifetime of hard, conscientious, unre­ mitting toil, such as few modern women would be willing to undertake. In her declining years, it must have been a source of lasting satisfaction to her to reflect that, with 46 )3<-

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her whole heart, she had given her time, her unusual talents and her remarkable vitality to the task of leading her fellowmen to higher levels of thought and conduct, leaving the world a little happier, a little better, because she had lived and worked in it.

Time permits today only this brief sketch of Mrs. Hanaford's career; but a woman of her genius, culture and benevolence deserves more than a passing thought on her 100th anniversary. Fortunately, an unusual amount of material concerning her is in existence, to be expanded, by some practised hand, into a suitable biography to take its modest place beside the larger ones of her famous co­ workers and intimate friends, Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Livermore, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances E. Willard, Susan B. Anthony and other pioneer women who, like Mrs. Hanaford herself, helped to make history.

MY GRANDMOTHER'S VOICE.

By Rev. Phoebe Ann Hanaford.

There was no voice like hers, when I, a child And motherless, looked to my father's guide.

She watched his infancy and guarded mine, Was quick to praise, and kind when she must chide.

Her face I see, when, dreamily, I muse Where sit, in silent worship, Friends I love; Her Quaker garb still held in Memory's charge, As type of soul pure as the saints above; Her smile, her loving look, her tender word, And oh, her voice! so musical and kind; Not Heaven can thrill me with its anthems high, As could one sentence with her voice combined:— (Would I could hear it, when Life's storms are wild!)

"A new day will tomorrow be, dear child."

Mother's Journal, February 1897.

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By Merle E. Turner On one of my airplane trips over the town recently, I met an old lady who informed me that she used to live on the island and had not been down here for over forty years. She was enjoying her flight immensely and shouted to me every few minutes about something she saw down below.

"You know," she said, "I saw a whole lot of flowers on Rose Lane the other day. Do you know where that is?"

Rose Lane. Where did she mean?

It puzzled me for a while until I thought of the lane that runs up to Voorneveld's greenhouse, just north of the Methodist Church. My answer satisfied her and I waited, wondering what she would say next.

Suddenly the lady exclaimed: "And there is Break Neck Alley, where I used to slide down hill when I was a child." Again I was all at sea, but she pointed it out to me, and what should it be but what I know as Sunset Pass which leads from the school grounds to Lily street.

I asked her to tell me more of the old streets and she did her best to make me hear her above the noise of the motors. Before we landed I learned that she, as a girl, had lived on Stone Alley, which was then called "Gunter's Alley".

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joyable tales about the old lanes, the names of which I had never heard. Who ever would think now that the street opposite the Post Office (now the bus stand) was formerlynamed "Coal Lane", or that Hiller's Lane off Fair street used to be known as "Nabby Bailey's Lane" ?

During the afternoon she asked me if the old asylum were still on Jail Lane. There I was perplexed. I knew nothing of an asylum and had never heard of Jail Lane.

After asking her questions about its locality, I discovered that she meant Vestal street and that the "Asylum" was our old jail.

I spent the next day with her, riding around town, and I learned more about Nantucket as it used to be than I had ever known before. I discovered that Gay street used to be Coffin's Court; that Mooers' Lane was always known as "Judith Chase's Lane" or Moose Lane; and that Quince street was formerly Crown Court. No one seems to know why it was changed to Quince, for about all the fruit trees seen there have always borne pears. Saratoga street, that borders the Friends' burial ground, used to bear the cheerful name of Grave street. But where did the "Saratoga" come from?

We rode up Coffin's Court to inspect the new school building and then down Clay Lane. Westminster street had been called Clay Lane for years and my friend told me that on a rainy day Clay Lane had always held its own.

Coming down Federal street we stopped at "Black Horse Alley" to look at the old shop south of it where the old Quaker, William Hosier, bought old rope and nails from the Nantucket boys. "Black Horse Alley" is the small court between the Killen house and the Hosier property, both of which estates now belong to the town.

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had ever heard of Independence Lane. Upon my saying "no" she told me that it used to extend from Centre to Federal streets, north of the Main street stores, and that the town closed up the Centre street end many years ago when it built the engine-house there.

Madison street still exists, but few people know it.

It is the narrow way just wide enough for a cart or auto, that extends from Federal street to Coal Lane, between the news store and the Catholic Church.

Further down Main street, below Coal Lane, was Type Alley. This ran between what is now Lester Ayers' shop and the Wannacomet Water Company's office. It is said that it acquired its name from the fact that many years ago the former newspaper office was in the building on the west side of the alley and that type was often thrown out of the window by the apprentices.

My friend told me lots of other interesting things about the old town. I learned that "Hay Scale Lane" was the lowTer part of Pine street; that Macy's Court is now called Howard street; and that Angola street is now the western end of South Mill street.

Macy's Court! Why I have been told that it was there that Zaccheus Macy lived, the man who was the noted bone-setter of Nantucket. Why was it changed to Howard street ? No one seems to know, and if ever a man deserved to have a street named after him, it was Zaccheus Macy.

My interest in the old streets of Nantucket has grown keen as the days have passed. I learn that Main street was formerly called State street, and that Pearl street was originally India street, said to have been given that name because so many of the sea captains lived there and made voyages to India.

Tattle Court still remains the little narrow way on the west side of Fair street. Tradition says that it was given •4 50

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its name because so much neighborhood gossip transpired there. Whether this be true or not, no one has attempted to change the name and Tattle Court still exists.

And there was once Brown's Lane, which extended from Centre to Federal street, and was closed up when the Friends built their meeting house there (now the Roberts House dining-room).

Even in my day I have heard folks refer to North Liberty street as "Egypt". I wondered why it was so called and was told that it was always a place of total darkness; that up to forty years ago there were only four houses there and people did not travel that way much at night—hence the local application of the expression "as dark as Egypt".

Who ever heard of Easy street in Nantucket up to a few years ago—the place which is this year to be the center of the water-front carnival for the benefit of the Hospital ?

That was always known as "the dump", yet it suddenly blossomed out into Easy street and Easy street it will always remain, for the county commissioners have accepted the name and placed it on record. Is there another town in the world with an Easy street? Lots of people endeavor all their lives to live there, but do they?

Step Lane, between Centre and North Water streets, was always Step Lane until the steps were removed when Farmer Chapman and his wife started to run a boarding house there fifty years or so ago, and then for some reason or other it was transformed into "Chapman Avenue". It remained an avenue until later residents petitioned that the old name be restored and Step Lane it is today—without any steps.

New Dollar Lane, extending from Milk to Mill streets, is said to have been given that name because it was there the famous whaling merchant, Joseph Starbuck, lived—the man who built the three brick houses on Main street for •4 51 )§<•

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his sons. The Nantucketers were always skeptical whether Starbuck ever "saw a new dollar for an old one" in conse­ quence of his ventures. But why New Dollar Lane was changed to Risdale street I cannot state, but it was—and for a number of years people were compelled to live on Risdale street who preferred to live on New Dollar Lane.

But a few years ago the town voted to change the name back again and Risdale street blew away, never to return.

In passing, let us take a stroll through what is now Ray's Court, starting at Fair street by the Historical Build­ ing and extending through to Main street amid the shade of aged trees. John Ray, who was my grandfather several generations back, was a Scotchman named Macrae, but the Nantucketers found it easier to call him Ray, and Ray he and his descendants have remained ever since. He built the house now owned by Dr. W. P. Graves and settled his children around him, some on one side of the court and some the other. In 1830 Ray's Court was joined to Turner's Alley, which was the name of the little end of the court which empties out onto Main street. The name of Turner's Alley is no more—it is all Ray's Court.

Who authorized the change of Rose Jenkins's Lane, between Orange and Union streets, to the meaningless name of Flora street? No one knows who Flora was but there are many people living today who know all about Rose Jenkins and can well recall why it was called Rose Jenkins' Lane.

Just for a moment, let us take a peek at Prospect street. Where did that name come from ? Possibly because it had such a fine view of three cemeteries. Originally it was called Cooper street and came rightly by that name because a number of coopers lived there during the days when Nantucket's whaling industry was in its prime. 0c-

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casionally deeds refer to this street as Copper street in­ stead of Cooper street, but Cooper was its right name until it was transformed over night into Prospect street.

And, last but not least, I have found Cat Alley—a nar­ row passage extending north from Stone Alley, which is important enough, however, to have a sign-board announc­ ing its presence. Let us hope that it will always remain Cat Alley and that future generations will not try to im­ prove it. It should retain its name just as much as "Kite Hill", which remains "Kite Hill" today in spite of the fact that the boys have not flown kites there for a quarter of a century or more.

The streets of Nantucket were given names which had a meaning, although perhaps not always melodious in sound. There is no doubt but that Grave street meant much more to our ancestors than does Saratoga street, and the by-ways which were "lanes" years ago are entitled to re­ tain the names which the good people of Nantucket gave them when they built this old gray town that we all love and in which we all take pride.

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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.

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. Barrett, Mabel Allen (Downing), 1170 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Barrett, Mary E. (Wilson), 411 Montross Ave., Rutherford, N. J. Barrett, John Wendell, Oyster Bay, N. Y. Barrett, William M., 411 Montross Ave., Rutherford, N. J. Barrett, William Wilson, 411 Montross Ave., Rutherford, N. J. Beebe, Alice Geissler, 53 Grove St., Wellesley, Mass.

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

Bodfish, Annie Warren, Nantucket, Mass.

Brewer, Mrs. Mary Augusta, 728 Fairfield Rd., Burlingame, Calif.

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.

Channing, Eva, Hemenway Chambers, Boston, Mass.

Clark, Anna (Swain), Nantucket, Mass.

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

Coffin, Maurice P., 47 Union Park Ave., Jamaica, N. Y. 4 54

LIST OF MEMBERS Coffin, Winthrop, 60 State St., Boston, Mass.

Coggeshall, Walter, 1 F St., Eureka, California.

Colket, G. Crawford, Wynnewood, Penn.

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

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.

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.

Hamilton, Dora Macy, 3319 N. Adams St., Tacoma, Wash.

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

Hinchman, Lydia Swain (Mitchell), 3635 Chestnut St., Phila., 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 S., Warrenville Rd., Wheaton, Illinois.

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.

Lang, Henry, Nantucket, Mass.

Langlands, Helen (Coleman), 24 Fifth 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. 55 fa

LIST OF MEMBERS Mackie, Mrs. David Ives, 128 East 39th St., New York City.

Macy, Mary Eliza, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Nelson, 441 Pearl St., New York City.

Manter, Capt. Harry, 386 Park Ave., Cliff Side, N. J. McCleary, Helen Cartwright, 3 Auburn Courts, 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., N. E., Washington, D. C. Paine, Mary Elizabeth (Folger), 315 Thayer St., Providence, R. I. Praeger, Mrs. Caroline S. G., Nantucket, Mass.

Praeger, Louis J., Nantucket, Mass.

Robb, Nancy Delia, Nantucket, Mass.

Rollins, Rev. Walter Huntington, 9 Woodland Place, White Plains, New York.

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, Walter F., Waltham, Mass.

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 Ackley, Adams, Adams, Adams, Adams,

A Rev. Joseph B., Burnside, Conn.

Ellouise, 17 Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

Karl, 36 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

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

Walton H., 17 Fair St., Nantucket, Mass.

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LIST OP MEMBERS Alberston, Alice Owen, The Gunther, 41st St. and Baltimore Ave., Philadelphia, Penn.

Allen, Charles Edward, 55 Brookline Ave., Albany, N. Y. Allen, Mrs. Le Moyne Dillingham, Granville, N. Y. Allen, Mrs. Lucy Ellis, 35 Webster St., 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, Leila Macy, 14 Fairfield St., Brockton, Mass.

Appleton, Miss Mary Phillips, 507 Gravers Lane, Chestnut Hill, Penn.

Appleton, Mrs. Mary Phillips, 507 E. Gravers Lane, Chestnut Hill, Penn.

Armstrong, John R., Cranston, Providence Co., R. I. Atkins, Mrs. Katherine W., Belmont, Mass.

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

Avery, Henry C., 204 Harrision 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, Edward N., 5 Hood Ave., Rumford, R. I. 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, Port Washington Yacht Club, Port Wash­ ington, 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.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Barney, Maginel W., 41 W. 12th St., New York City.

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.

Bassett, Mrs. George P. Jr., 5440 Northumberland St., Pittsburgh, Penn.

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

Baxter, Anna C., 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, Harriet Stanton, 5 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Bennett, Henry Hollis, 305 Baker Bldg., Walla Walla, Wash.

Bennett, Mrs. Flora Moore, 305 Baker Bldg., Walla Walla, Wash.

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

Bentley, Mrs. Lizzie Coleman, McKenna Court, Scranton, Penn.

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, 471 Maple St., Manchester, N. H. Bohan, Mrs. Arthur B., 1535 Juneway Terrace, Chicago, 111.

Bolles, Walter B., 87 Sydney Ave., Deal, N. J. Bolles, Mrs. Walter B., 87 Sydney Ave., Deal, N. J. Booth, Mrs. Dorothy C., 39 West 67th St., New York City.

Borneman, Mrs. E. L., 66 Gates Ave., Montclair, N. J. Bostwick, Frances S., 80 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, 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.

Breckinridge, Mrs. Mary L., Lexington, Kty. Brewer, Margaretta McC. C., 75 Main St., Hingham, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS 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.

Brock, William C., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Brooks, Josephine (Sylvia), 37 Benton Rd., Somerville, Mass.

Brooks, Nelson Merrill, 24 North St., Greenwick, Conn.

Brown, Helen Dawes, 48 Elm St., Montclalir, N. J. Brown, Melvin W., Wakefield, Mass.

Bryant, Catherine A., 295 Ash St., Brockton, Mass.

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

Bunker, Austin T., 181 Central St., Somerville, Mass.

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

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

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

Bunker, Paul West, Army & Navy Y. M. C. A., San Francisco, Cal. Bunker, W. Roger, 37 Rich St., Waltham, Mass.

Bunker, William, Ridgefield, Conn.

Burch, Mrs. Charles N., 385 Goodwin Ave., Memphis, Tenn.

Burdick, Amy, Nantucket, Mass.

Burdick, Walter M., Nantucket, Mass.

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, 9 Franklin Place, Morristown, N. J. C

Campbell, Mrs. Olive (Dame), Brasstown, N. C. 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.

Carri, Herman, 221 Langdon Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Cartwright, Alexander J., 180 20th Ave., San Francisco, Cal. Cartwright, Archibald, Nantucket, Mass.

Cartwright, Mrs. Archibald, Nantucket, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Cash, Helen, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cash, Mary Handy, 926 Main St., Brockton, Mass.

Caverly, Albert H., 465 Medford St., Charlestown, Mass.

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

Chamberlain, Miss Pauline, Nantucket, Mass.

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

Chambliss, L. A., 1057 Central Ave., Plainfield, N. J. Chambliss, Mrs. L. A., 1057 Central Ave., Plainfield, N. J. Chapin, Mrs. Charles L., 290 State St., Springfield, Mass.

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

Chase, Charlotte Bunker, 67 Hillman St., New Bedford, Mass.

Chase, Mrs. Annie Macy, 303 County St., New Bedford, Mass.

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

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

Church, William, National Cathedral School, Washington, D. C. Cisco, J. J. Jr., First Mortgage Securities, 111 Broadway, N. Y. Clark, Elsie B., Tenafly, N. J. Clark, Jacob Wendell, 122 South Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, 111.

Clark, Susan Tyler, 2050 Garden St., Santa Barbara, California.

Cobb, Jean, 20 Cliff Rd., Nantucket, 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., 110 Hillside Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Coffin, Frank Mitchell, 110 Hillside Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Coffin, H. Errol, Sound Beach, Conn.

Coffin, Margaret, Nantucket, Mass.

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

Coffin, Richard H., 12 So. Julia St., Mobile, Alabama.

Coffin, Vincent B., 60 Merbrook Bend, Merion, Penn.

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.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Colt, James D., 27 Suffolk Road, Chestnut Hill, Mass.

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

Conable, Florence (Easton), P. O. Box 154, Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California.

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

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

Congdon, Dr. Charles E., Nashua, N. H. Congdon, Frances, 720 County St., New Bedford, Mass.

Congdon, Frank E., 320 Highland Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. Congdon, May Housatonic, School St., Nantucket, Mass.

Congdon, Mrs. Charles E., Nashua, N. H. Congdon, Mrs. Frank E., 320 Highland Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. Cook, Emma, Nantucket, Mass.

Cooper, Helen, Nantucket, Mass.

Cox, Ellen, Gardner St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cox, George Clarke, 274 Madison Ave., New York City.

Cox, Mrs. George Clarke, 274 Madison Ave., New York City.

Crosby, Mrs. Almira Esther, Alden Park Manor, Brookline, Mass.

Crosby, Everett U., Mermaid House, West Mermaid Lane, St. Mar­ tins, Philadelphia, Penn.

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., 31 Headley Rd., Morristown, N. J. D Dame, Daisy Gertrude, Hastings Lane, West Medford, Mass.

Dana, Bessie Andrews, 80 Church St., Englewood, N. J. Davie, Mrs. Miriam Phinney, 96 Mystic St., West Medford, Mass.

Davie, Miriam, Jr., 96 Mystic St., West Medford, Mass.

Davie, Morris Emerson, 96 Mystic St., West Medford, Mass.

Davison, Mrs. Ralph, Ballston Spa., New York.

Davison, Ralph, Ballston Spa, New York.

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

Denton, Eugene Willis, New Hyde Park, Long Island, N. Y. Denton, Lydia M. Garretson, New Hyde Park, Long Island, N. Y. Detrick, Miss Lillie, 104 Biddle St., Baltimore, Md. Dibble, Annie (Hayt), 17 Rich Avenue, Mt. Vernon, N. Y.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Dillingham, Louise G., Millburn, N. J. Ditmars, Mary Coffin, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Dorsey, Emily C., 11 Dana St., Cambridge, Mass.

Douglass, Miss Katherine F., 39 So. LaSalle St., Chicago, 111.

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

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

Duponte, 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.

Eppert, Mrs. George M., 423 South 4th St., Terre Haute, Ind. Everett, Lydia Coffin, 57 Parker St., Newton Centre, Mass.

F Farnham, Joseph Ellis Coffee, Providence, R. I. Fessenden, Miss Anna, 3 Hamilton St., Salem, Mass.

Fessenden, R. G., Concord, Mass.

Fezandie, Mrs. Hector, Siaseonset, Mass.

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

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

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

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, J. Butler, Nantucket, Mass.

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

Folger, Ruth Angell, 113 2nd. St., Troy, N. Y. Folger, Sidney B., Siaseonset, Mass.

Folsom, Charles F„ 114 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Francis, Eben Willis, Nantucket, Mass.

Franklin, Harry R., North Easton, Mass.

Fraser, Emma J., Nantucket, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS 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., 1168 Lowell Road, Schenectady, N. Y. Galvin, Mrs. Thomas F., Siasconset.

Gardner, Alice C., Nantucket, 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 Riverside 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.

Giffin, Mary E. (Brown), Hussey St., Nantucket, Mass.

Giffin, Norman P., 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.

Gordon, Mrs. Harry, Jr., Polpis Road, Nantucket.

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

Green, Joseph, 121 Summit Ave., Summit, N. J. Griggs, Adelaide Louise Greenwood, 421 Wood St., Pittsburgh, Penn.

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

Grouard, Mrs. Lena (Weymouth), 97 Bowdoin St., Dorchester, Mass.

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.

H Haggerty, Susan W., 35 Oak Terrace, New Highlands, Mass.

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

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

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

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LIST OF MEMBERS Harper, Miss Ida, 149 Westland Ave., West Hartford, Conn.

Harris, Edward, 40 Franklin St., Rochester, N. Y. Harwood, Douglas, 202 Burns St., Forest Hills, N. Y. Harwood, Margaret, 23 Craigie St., Cambridge, Mass.

Harwood, P. Leroy, P. O. Drawer 853, New London, Conn.

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

Hayden, Arthur D., 1700 H. St., Washington, D. C. Heard, Reginald E., 15 Broad St., New York City.

Heard, Mrs. Reginald E., 15 Broad St., New York City.

Hedges, Miss Lila C., Haverstraw, N. Y. Heminway, A. F., 182 Cold Spring St., New Haven, Conn.

Hibben, H. J., 131 So. Meridan St., Indianapolis, Ind. Hickson, Elizabeth Cathcart, 215 Plaza Hall, 43d and Chestnut Sts., 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. Holmes, James A., Nantucket, Mass.

Holmes, Mrs. James A., Nantucket, Mass.

Holt, Mary Exton, St. Georges, Delaware.

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

Howard, Frank B., 234 Main St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Howe, Frederic C., Harmon-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. Howes, Sarah Sprague (Sampson), Summer St., Nantucket, Mass.

Hubbard, Alma R., Wheeling, West Virginia.

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

Husband, Eleanor (Brown), 122 E. 42nd St., New York City.

Husband, Ethel, 122 E. 42nd St., New York City.

Husband, Thomas Blair, 122 E. 42nd St., New York City.

Hussey, Arrietta (Cathcart), Nantucket, Mass.

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

Hussey, Elliott Benham, 134 Summit Cross, Rutherford, N. J. Hussey, John E. A., 45 Milk St., Boston, Mass.

Hussey, Peter M., Nantucket, Mass.

Hussey, Robert F., 1340 West Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois.

Hutaff, Richard Elkins, 115 E. 90th St., New York City.

Hutton, Florence Edgar, Nantucket, Mass.

Hyde, Henry H., Washington Apartments, Baltimore, Md. «e( 64 ]3<-

LIST OF MEMBERS 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, Nantucket, Mass.

Johnson, Bertha Blinn, Apt. 12, 1840 Biltmore St., N. W. Wash­ ington, D. C. Jones, Arthur W., Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Joy, Mrs. B. Whitford, Nantucket, Mass.

Justice, Elizabeth S., Nantucket, Mass.

Justice, William W., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Kelley, Elizabeth Chace, Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

Kendall, L. Malcolm, 31 Beech St., 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, Charles P., Nantucket, Mass.

Kimball, Mrs. James P., 419 W. 119th St., New York City.

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

L Lake, George Myrick, Nantucket, Mass.

Lamson, Kate Glidden, 14 Remington St., Cambridge, Mass.

Lapham, Mrs. Edna Capen, New Canaan, Conn.

Latham, Ethel L., 9 Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.

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

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LIST OF MEMBERS Lawrence, Sarah (Farraly), Pine St., Nantucket, Mass.

Leavitt, Miss Brooks, % Capt. Logan Cresop, 50 Trinity Place, New York City.

Leavitt, Frank M., % Capt. Logan Cresop, 50 Trinity Place, New York City.

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

Lewis, Annie Bartlett (Robinson), 65 Burnett St., Providence, R. I. Lewis, Frank Edward, Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Lewis, Vivian M., Vice Chancellor's Chambers, Paterson, N. J. Lewis, Mrs. Vivian M., Vice Chancellor's Chambers, Paterson, N. J. Littlefield, Harriet S., 815 Park Ave., New York City.

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

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

Loines, Elma, 3 Pierrepont Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. Long, Carrie James, Bloom St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

Lovell, Sarah Elizabeth, Attleboro Spring, Attleboro, Mass Low, Will H., 25 Prescott Ave., Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. Low, Mrs. Will H., 25 Prescott Ave., Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. Lowden, Matthew Crosby, 143-145 West 15th St., New York City.

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

Luther, Mary Hartness (Gould), 886 Carroll St., Brooklyn, N. Y. M Mack, Doris M., Nantucket, Mass.

Mackay, George Henry, Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Alice, Greenwich, Conn.

Macy, Clinton Thomas, Nantucket, Mass.

Macy, Elizabeth Easton, Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

Macy, John Williams, 966 So. Private Rd., Hubbard Woods, Illinois.

Macy, Nelson Jr., Greenwich, Conn.

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

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

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

Manville, C. Rollin, Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. 66

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Manville, C. Rollin, Jr., Cliff Road, Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

Marks, Horace, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Marshall, Albert E., 3034 St. Paul St., Baltimore, Md. Marshall, Elizabeth E., 21 Federal St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

Marshall, Ruth H., 89 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

Martin, Charles H., Oneida Road, Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Conn.

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

Marvel, Mrs. Helen Gardner, 1119 DeVictor Place, Pittsburg, Penn.

Marvel, William Macy, 1119 DeVictor Place, Pittsburg, Penn.

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.

Meneely, Mrs. C. H., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Miles, Irene Lenore, 222 Henry St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 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., Grennsboro, 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.

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

Murray, Evelyn F., 44 Richardson Ave., Wakefield, Mass.

Myrick, Alexander M., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Mac MacArthur, Mrs. Rose, Siasconset, Mass.

MacDougal, Robert Bruce, 137 West 12th St., New York City.

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LIST OF MEMBERS MacGregor, John Jr., Union Mortgage Bldg., Cleveland, Ohio.

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

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

Mac Kaye, Percy, Cornish, N. H., P. O. Windsor, Vt. MacKinnen, Anna I., Nantucket, Mass.

Mc McAuslan, Mrs. Harold L., 12 Cole Ave., Providence, R. I. McConnell, 331 W. 24th St., New York City.

McElwain, Harriet Aurelia, Chicopee, Mass.

McElwain, Pauline Witherell, Chicopee, Mass.

McElwain, Rachel Doane, Chicopee, Mass.

McElwain, Reuben Franklin, Chicopee, Mass.

McKeag, Mrs. Henry S., 1 Club St., Montclair, N. J. McLenegan, Mrs. Carrie Cutter, 2728 Belrose Ave., Berkeley, Calif.

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

N Nelson, Ernest W., Prof. Duke University, Durham, N. C. Nerney, George E., 204 North Main St., Attleboro, Mass.

Newell, Helen Hunt, Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

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

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

Norton, Henry Franklin, 46 W. River St., Milford, Conn.

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

Nunn, Stella (Chase), Wallingford, Conn.

Nye, Harriet, Hotel Kimball, Springfield, Mass.

Nye, Mrs. Mary F., 40 Riverview Terrace, Springfield, Mass.

Nye, Pemberton H., 709 County St., New Bedford, Mass.

O Oliver, Mrs. G. G., Pleasant Valley, Wheeling, West Virginia.

Orr, Robert Aimer, 248 4th Ave., Pittsburg, Penn.

Osborne, William E., 928 Illinois Building, Indianapolis, Ind. ••Si 68

LIST OF MEMBERS P Paddock, George A., 724 Clinton Place, Evanston, Illinois.

Paddock, Mrs. Elsie M., 724 Clinton Place, Evanston, Illinois.

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

Pancoast, Charles R., Darling St., Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, Clara, Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, Clinton, Nantucket, Mass.

Parker, George T., 6059 Clemence Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Parker, Susette Louise, 1 Bellevue Place, Auburn, N. Y. Patterson, Mattie Bruce, Senaca, S. C. Pearson, Mrs. Gertrude J., 1118 W. Johnson St., Madison, Wisconsin.

Pease, B. Chester, Nantucket, Mass.

Pease, Ellen Gray (Parker), Nantucket, Mass.

Pease, Lillian (Murphy), Federal St., Nantucket, Mass.

Pell, S. H. P., 16 E. 43rd St., New York City.

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

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

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

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

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

Phinney, Jennie Johnson, 96 Mystic St., West Medford, Mass.

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

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

Pierce, Mrs. Ruth Phinney, 96 Mystic St., West Medford, Mass.

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

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

Piatt, Clementina, Nantucket, Mass.

Piatt, F. G., 32 Grove Hill, New Britain, Conn.

Piatt, Marie Starbuck, Nantucket, Mass..

Piatt, Mrs. F. G., 32 Grove Hill, New Britain, Conn.

Pollak, W. G., 30 Broad St., New York City.

Pope, Mary A., Medfield, Mass.

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

Porter, Charlotte M., Breckenridge, Colo.

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. 69 )3<-

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

Ratcliffe, Mrs. Frances, Nantucket, Mass.

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

Ray, Earl S., Nantucket, 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., 50 E. 10th St., New York City.

Richmond, Dorothy (Sharp), Nantucket, Mass.

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

Ring, Anne, Nantucket, Mass.

Ring, Miss Mary R., Riverbank Court Hotel, Cambridge, Mass.

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

Rixford, Mrs. Mary E., 454 So. Main St., Woonsocket, R. I. Robb, Mrs. Ann, Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Robinson, Celeste M., 115 Llewellyn Road, Montclair, N. J. Robinson, John Henry, Nantucket, Mass.

Ross, Dr. Worth, 2100 Seminole Ave., Detroit, Michigan.

Rowland, Stanley J., 425 E. 51st St., New York City.

Russell, Adelaide T., 816 James St., Pittsburg, Penn.

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

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

S Saltus, Mrs. Rollin S., Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Sand, Alice L., % Irving Trust Co., Park Ave. and 42nd St., N. Y. Sanderson, Rev. Edward F., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Santee, Mrs. Dionis C., 521 Chili Ave., Rochester, N. Y. Satterly, Miss E. F., 128 Christopher St., New York City.

Schaufffer, Rev. Henry P., Nantucket, Mass.

Sears, Mrs. Henrietta Bird, Hotel Iowa, Keokuk, Iowa.

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.

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LIST OP MEMBERS 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.

Shurrocks, Alfred F., 10 Elton St., Providence, R. I. Sibley, Alice M., 55 Dale St., Roxbury, Mass.

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

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

Simms, Mrs. Thomas, 99 Livingston St., New Haven, Conn.

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), Box 198, Baker City, Oregon.

Spencer, Ella (Young), 8 So. 51st St., West Philadelphia, Penn.

Stanton, Eva T., 20 Owen Ave., Lansdowne, Penn.

Starbuck, Annie Whitefield, The Blackstone, Chicago, Illinois.

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

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

Starbuck, George W., Bourndale, Mass.

Starbuck, Harold E., 219 Swathmore Ave., Swathmore, Penn.

Starbuck, Dr. Joseph Clinton, S. W. Cor. Washington and Monroe St., Media, Penn.

Starbuck, Mrs. Lilla Barnard, Greenwood, Mass.

Starbuck, Wm. D. L., Federal Radio Commission, Washington, D. C. Stevens, Cora, 7 Centre St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Stovell, E. Maud, Nantucket, 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, 60 N. Franklin St., Wilkesbarre, Penn.

Sutton, Virginia Cox., 1024 Manzanila St., Los Angeles, Calif.

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

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

Swain, F. Anthony, 2954 Marion Ave., New York City.

Swain, Millicent Augusta, 1830 Beersford Road, East Cleveland, 0.

Swain, Robert Edward, 321 Elmora Ave., Elizabeth, N. J. Swain, Wilbert D., 921 So. Dakota Ave., Sioux Falls, So. Dakota.

Swain, William T., Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

T Taylor, Diana, 96 Mystic St., West Medford, Mass.

Taylor, Ellis, Jr., 96 Mystic St., West Medford, Mass.

Taylor, John, Jr., 96 West Medford, Mass.

Taylor, Mrs. Ellis Phinney, 96 Mystic St., West Medford Mass.

Taylor, Priscilla, 96 Mystic St., West Medford, Mass.

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., Hossac, N. Y. Tice, Edward P., Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

Todd, James Jr., 171 Madison Ave., New York City.

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.

U Urann, Julia Macy (Wagner), Gibbs Ave., Wareham, Mass.

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V Van Kleeck, Mrs. Frederick, 99 Green Ridge Ave., White Plains, N. Y. Varney, Theodore, 100 Main St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

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

W Wagner, Max, 103 Water St., Boston, Mass.

Wait, Annie (Spencer), Nantucket, Mass.

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

Walker, Miss Harriet E., 108 Hancock St., Auburndale, Mass.

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

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

Wallace, William, Wallace Hall, Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

Whipple, Phila M., 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., Brush Hill Road, Hyde Park, Mass.

Whitney, Miss Georgiana, 7 Exeter St., Boston, Mass.

Whitney, Mrs. Henry L., 7 Exeter St., Boston, Mass.

Whitaker, Evelyn L., Hotel Martha Washington, New York City.

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

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

Willard, Mrs. Helen Parker, 1709 19th St., Washington, D. C. Willets, J. Macy, New Marlboro, Mass.

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

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

Williams, Edwin, Canyon Hill, Route 1, Caldwell, Idaho.

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

Williams, Frances Fowle, Centerville, Cape Cod, Mass.

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

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

Wilson, William H., 219 Ward Place, So. Orange, N. J. Winslow, Bessie (Chadwick), Nantucket, Mass.

Wood, Albert E., North Easton, Mass.

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LIST OF MEMBERS Wood, Arnold, East 51st St., New York City.

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

Wood, John R., 2d, Nantucket, Mass.

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

Wood, Suzanne, North Easton, Mass.

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

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

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

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

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

The Officers of the Nantucket Historical Association 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 A, 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, Ancient Buildings of Nantucket.

Vol. 2, No. 5, 1906, (reprinted in 1928), Indian Names, Wills and Estates, Index.

Vol. 2, No. 6, 1910, Wills and Estates Continued.

Vol. 2, No. 7,

50cts. §1.00.

50cts.

50cts.

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

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

Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Nantucket His­ torical Association, from 1895 to 1929 (with the ex­ ception of 1899, which is out of print), price 25 cents.

The Horseshoe House,

by William F. Macy, price 50cts.

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