Proceedings of the Nantucket Historical Association: Forty-fifth Annual Meeting

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

Nantucket Historical Association

Forty - Fifth Annual Meeting July Twenty - Six

1939

PROCEEDINGS OF THE

Nantucket Historical Association

Forty - Fifth Annual Meeting July Twenty - Six

1939

Officers PRESIDENT

Edouard A. Stackpole

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VICE PRESIDENTS

Thomas H. Giffin Charles P. Kimball Everett U. Crosby

Fred V. Fuller Bassett Jones Harry B. Turner SECRETARY

Mrs. Oscar B. Eger TREASURER

Robert D. Congdon CURATOR

Mrs. Walton H. Adams AUDITORS

Miss Cora Stevens

Col. Louis J. Praeger COUNCILLORS

Term Term Term Term Term Term Term Term

Mrs. Emma F. Hayward Earl S. Ray Mrs. Molly Mc. Taylor Col. Louis J. Praeger Mrs. Alfred Shurrocks Miss Mary Turlay Robinson Miss Cora Stevens Charles A. Selden

Expires Expires Expires Expires Expires Expires Expires Expires

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LIFE COUNCILLORS

Mrs. Florence Osgood Lang Miss Annie Alden Folger Edward F. Sanderson

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Committees The President is ex-officio member of all Committees.

Finance Committee—Fred V. Fuller, Robert D. Congdon.

Old Mill Committee—Bassett Jones, Thomas H. Giffin, Everett U. Crosby.

Historical Rooms and Meeting House Committee—Everett U. Crosby, Mrs. Walton H. Adams, Miss Annie Alden Folger, Mrs. Emma F. Hayward, Mrs. Molly Mc. Taylor, Earl S. Ray, Mrs. Alfred Shurrocks.

Membership—Mrs. Molly Mc. Taylor, Charles P. Kimball, Mrs. Alfred Shurrocks, Miss Cora Stevens.

Whaling Museum Committee—Charles P. Kimball, Bassett Jones, Thomas H. Giffin, Harry B. Turner, Earl S. Ray, Col. Louis J. Praeger, Mrs. Walton H. Adams, Charles A. Selden.

Oldest House—Fred Y. Fuller, Miss Annie Alden Folger, Mrs. Emma F. Hayward, Mrs. Molly Mc. Taylor, Thomas H. Giffin, Mrs. Alfred Shurrocks, Miss Mary T. Robinson, Miss Cora Stevens.

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Publications Timothy White Papers, by Rev. Myron S. Dudley.

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

Nantucket Lands and Land Owners, by Henry Barnard Worth.

The Title and the Nantucket Insurrection.

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

The Settlers, Their Homes and Government.

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

(Map) The Indians of Nantucket.

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

Sheep Commons and The Proprietary.

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

Ancient Buildings of Nantucket.

Vol. 2, No. 5, 1906, (reprinted, 1892), $1.00.

Indian Names, Wills, Estates, Index.

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

Wills and Estates, Continued.

Vol. 2, No. 7, 50cts.

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

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

The Horseshoe House, by William F. Macy.

50 ct.s "Ye Olde Mill," by William F. Macy.

25 cts.

Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Nantucket Historical Association from 1895 to 1939.

25 cts.

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ANNUAL MEETING •"P he Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Nantucket Historical Association ^ was held at the old Friends' Meeting House, adjoining the Historical Rooms, on Wednesday afternoon, July 26. Members and friends of the Association filled the historic place to its capacity and, although the meeting ran over its customary two hours, everyone spoke of their pleasure in being present and many lingered to congratulate the two principal speakers, Miss Margaret Wood, of Wilmington, N. C., and Rev. Lyman Greenman, of Har­ vard, Mass.

Seated in the tiny vestibule of the Meeting House, greeting each of the members and friends as they arrived, sat Miss Josephine Congdon, garbed in a costume of the Friends. Her appearance added a pleasing touch to the day of "meeting."

The proceedings got under way at 3:00 o'clock, with President Edouard A. Stackpole in the chair. He welcomed the assemblage in behalf of the Association, saying, in part: "Once again we are gathered in this historic meeting house and school­ room of the Friends, now entering upon its 102nd year. In this place, I feel that we are closer to the past; surely in a, nearer contact with that part of Nantucket's glorious heritage which our Historical Association is constantly striving to preserve."

The reading of the record of the last meeting was dispensed with, it having already appeared in the Annual Proceedings, published in September, 1938.

The report of the Secretary, Mrs. Oscar B. Eger, was then read.

Mrs. Eger mentioned one highly significant fact—that the membership of the Association is once more on the up-grade, after several years of decrease due to economic conditions. To date, the total membership is 704—552 annual members, 91 life members, 24 sustaining members, and 31 junior members.

This continues the fine record of the Association as one of the largest His­ torical groups in New England.

The report of Treasurer Robert D. Congdon was read by Dr. Charles E. Congdon. This report was a most cheering exposition of the Association's sound financial condition. Less than eight years ago its outstanding debt was more than $10,000, due to the expense incident to the launching of the Whaling Museum. Today, with the Museum a paying investment of vital importance to the Association, the debt has been cut to $5,000. This means 4. 9 )§•

that the original museum indebtedness has not only been sliced in half but that the other expenses incurred from the necessary repairs to the other exhibits have been paid—the last being for those of the Old Mill.

The report of the Curator, Mrs. Walton H. Adams, was next in the order of business. This proved a high-light in the business meeting, being an interesting account of the recent acquisitions and loans, well-written and delivered. Mrs. Adams stated that an unusual number of donations and loans of historic articles have been made this year, among them being Civil War relics of Samuel Crawford, from Mrs. Julia Fisher Ellis; of Davis Hall, from Mrs. Mabel Hall Bowie; and of Obed G. Smith, from the estate of the late Mrs. Caroline Coleman Smith.

The Nominating Committee, Miss Olive Allen, Chairman, submitted its report, which was read by Miss Helen C. McCleary for the Committee, as follows: President—Edouard A. Stackpole.

Vice Presidents—Fred V. Fuller, Bassett Jones, Harry B. Turner, Thomas H. Giffin, Charles P. Kimball, Everett U. Crosby.

Secretary—Mrs. Oscar B. Eger.

Treasurer—Robert D. Congdon.

Curator—Mrs. Walton H. Adams.

Auditors—Col. Louis J. Praeger, Miss Cora Stevens.

Councillors for Three Years—Miss Cora Stevens, Charles A. Selden.

Life Councillor—Edward Sanderson.

Upon vote by the meeting, the Secretary was instructed to cast one ballot for the election of the officers above named, and they became duly elected. **

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Mrs. Florence Bennett Anderson, one of Nantucket's illustrious daugh­ ters, and Prof Louis F. Anderson, her husband, were present at the meet­ ing. Mrs. Anderson responded to the chairman's invitation to stand and receive the homage of the gathering.

A motion was made and seconded that the attendants at the various ex­ hibits of the Association have all payroll cuts restored to them as of 1929.

This motion was placed before the meeting and voted upon unanimously in the affirmative.

William H. Tripp, Curator of the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and a member of our Association, was again present, having made a special trip to the island from New Bedford. He was introduced to the meeting and ex­ pressed his pleasure at being on hand. He spoke of the lecture on Pitcairn Island, sponsored by our Association, to be delivered at the Unitarian Church that evening by Granville P. Lindley, of Barrington, R. I. "I have seen it four times already," he said, referring to Mr. Lindley's fine motion picture story of modern Pitcairn, "and I am looking forward to seeing it again this evening."

The Rev. and Mrs. Farrier, of New Jersey and Nantucket, were also *e{ 10 )s<-

among those present. Mr. Farrier arose to tell briefly of the old sail-loft "lift" in his barn at Squam, which he is giving to our Historical Association.

Mrs. Frederick L. Ackerman, chairman of the committee on the Old Mill, gave a short talk on the accomplishments in the work of the Mill during recent years. The grinding mechanism is in perfect working order, and the quality of the corn ground is becoming widely known. As a living memorial of the past, the Old Mill is a practical member of the Association's group of exhibits. Since it was launched upon its new career of grinding corn in 1930, the Association has, through the interest and effort of the committee, com­ pletely restored the wooden apparatus. The cost of the work—some $5,000— has been paid, the last note being cancelled thisi year.

"The Old Mill is having its best year to date," declared Mrs. Ackerman.

The first of the two principal speakers of the afternoon—Miss Margaret H. Wood, of Wilmington, N. C.—was then introduced. Miss Wood read her paper, entitled "Some Descendants of Kezia Folger Coffin," in a delightful manner and received vigorous applause upon its conclusion.

Miss Wood's paper was a document of more than passing historical interest. In it she traced the migration of a grandson of famous Kezia Coffin to Wilmington, N. C., and then went on to mention facts about the descenddants of the small family-group of Nantucketers who migrated to Wilming­ ton, up to the present day.

Her comments on the famous Kezia Coffin Fanning diary were followed with keen interest. Of the 50 tiny booklets which once comprised the diary, only one may now be located. This fragment, owned by Miss Wood's sister for more than half a century, was presented to our Association by Miss Wood. She also presented a typewritten copy of notes from the diary, some as extracts made by her father many years ago, and others made by herself from extracts in the possession of the Historical Museum. As a labor of love, Miss Wood compiled the two sets of extracts, and then sent her compilation to an interested kinsman, Frank B. Howard, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who, appreciating the work in it, had three typewritten copies made for Miss Wood, of which three one was this presentation copy.

Miss Wood refuted the characterization of Keiza Coffin as it apears

by Col. Joseph Hart, who made her the "Miriam" of his novel "Miriam Coffin," which appeared one hundred years ago.

Frank B. Howard of Poughkeepsie, above referred to, another descendant of Kezia Coffin, was called upon to say a few words. Mr. Howard responded briefly, expressing his keen interest in the work of the Association, and re­ ferring to a lecture delivered last November at Vassar Institute by President Stackpole, a lecture entitled "Whaling From the Hudson."

The second of the two principal speakers was then introduced—the Rev. Lyman Greenman, of Harvard, Mass., former President of the Harvard His­ torical Association, and a great-grandson of Walter Folger, Jr., Nantucket's versatile genius. Mr. Greenman's paper was entitled "Walter Folger, Jr., a Biography in Preparation."

Before delivering his talk, Mr. Greenman presented to our Association 11 )§<•

some priceless books and papers belonging to the famous Walter Folger Jr. Among these were records of the Proprietors of the Common and Undivided Lands, of which group he was secretary from 1811 to 1818; a book on as­ trology published in 1682; an astronomical volume printed in 1788, which he believes was used by Walter Folger in designing his now famous clock; a W. F. Almanac compiled in 1780; the log of the sloop "Orhit," and other valuable papers. These were accepted with thanks by the President.

Mr. Greenman proved a most interesting speaker. He gave not only some intimate glimpses into the career of his distinguished ancestor, but he inter­ spersed his remarks with humor and pleasing asides, which kept the assembly listening keenly and enjoying it all hugely. The speaker has devoted con­ siderable of his time to the collection of Walter Folger material, and has gone deeply into the genealogy of the Nantucket Folgers as well.

One of the interesting facts brought out by the speaker was in relation to Walter Folger's religion. "Doubtless he was not pious as was his ancestor, Peter," read Mr. Greenman, "and expressed views not in accordance with the prevailing orthodox theology. But what else could you expect of a free scientific mind? His search for truth journeyed far beyond the stars, could not be limited by man-made theological dogmas."

Due to the lateness of the hour, Mr. Greenman was forced to cut short his paper regarding the Folger and Gayer genealogy, but as it is herein contained, it may be perused in full. When he took his seat, he was given a fine round of applause, which he smilingly acknowledged.

Mrs. Robert Appleton then arose to tell a few anecdotes concerning Walter Folger, who was also one of her ancestors. Present at the meeting also were a number of other descendants, including Miss Annie Alden Folger, who owns the justly famous clock, the William Swain portrait, and other Folger heirlooms. Also present were descendants of Simeon Folger, mentioned by Mr. Greenman, one of them being Miss Josephine Congdon, already mentioned as being in the vestibule in her Friends' costume.

At the close of the meeting, many remained to express their pleasure in attending, and the two speakers experienced a glow of satisfaction in the complimentary words extended them for their fine addresses.

Thus ended the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Nantucket Historical Association.

—E. A. S.

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Secretary's Report

Mr. President, Members and Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association: Another year' has closed and again we are assembled to take our note of time, not by its losses but by its accomplishments, not by its hopes so much as by its fulfillments. Time has dealt so kindly with us of late that it would be ungrateful to regret that we are a year older than we were at the date of our last Annual Meeting. In this year, as in past years, and not to mention the coming ones, our desire is for increased membership, ad­ ditions to our fine collections and growing interest in our Association.

The Council during the past year has held its regular meetings. Our first was called according to custom as soon after our Annual Meeting as possible, on Sept 1, 1938, at which committees were chosen for the ensuing year. The most important meeting was held on January 13, 1939, at which a recommendation was made in favor of selling the 'Sconset House, which we have owned for many years. In accordance with the Constitution, a special meeting of the Association was called on March 18, 1939, at which it was voted to accept the recommendation of the Council.

Under the By-laws of the Association, the report of the special investi­ gating committee and the recommendation of the Council in the matter were held over twenty-six days, during which time all members of the Association were notified by post card of the purpose of the called meeting, and the same was advertised three weeks in The Inquirer and Mirror.

On April 15, 1939, a regularly called meeting of the Association was held and a vote was cast selling the 'Sconset House to Miss Mildred Burgess.

It seemed very fitting that this property should go back into the family, so to speak, as it was formerly owned by Miss Burgess' great-grandfather, George C. Gardner.

Other Council meetings for necessary business were held on Sept. 21, 1938, March 2, 1839, April 15, 1939, and May 2, 1939. The routine business of the Council has been transacted in proper order. The meetings have all been well attended. As is customary, with your permission, I will dispense with the summary of all the details relative to the business of the year.

Again this year we have the sad list of those who have been called from us. Among them are a life councillor, Winthrop Coffin, and three life -S{ 13

members, namely, Mrs. Lydia Swain Hinchman, Joseph Husband, William Voorneveld. Other members have been taken from us and their presence will be sadly missed by all of us.

Our membership stands thus at the close of the fiscal year, June 30, 1939: Life Members Sustaining Members Annual Members ..

Junior Members ...

91 24 552 37 704

Total

In connection with the above let me again add that it would be a great conveniences to your Secretary and Treasurer to be informed promptly of any change in the address of members. It would help us in keeping our mailing lists correct as well as complete.

Our publications are still in demand. Many historical associations and public and collebe libraries are keeping their files up to date including our "Proceedings."

Few of us realize that the present has its roots in the past and that the continuity of our island life. This thought should be brought home to the Nantucket Historical Association is the principle means of preserving our people here in Nantucket to awaken in them a keener interest in our Historical Association and create a desire to help further our work. Although there has been much accomplished there is yet much to be done.

Repectfully submitted, Mrs. Oscar B. Eger, Secretary.

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Curator's Report Mr. President and Members: In going over the record of the past year we find that last season, at all the exhibits, the attendance was greater than for several years previous.

Your Curator has had a very busy time cataloging and marking the many accessions which have come to us this year.; It has been an exceptional year for donations. The early Spring and Fall bring many interesting people to our Island and they particularly enjoy our exhibits, which are opened for them by appointments. We have had so many accessions that it would take too much time to list them all, so I will speak only of those among the most interesting. From the estate of Henry Hollis Bennett we received a fine old low-boy, dated about 1765 and possibly earlier, and made in Nantucket. It was originally the property of Jethro and Susannah Coffin Pinkham; and from the same estate an old desk of the type used in the office of our oldtime ship owners. This desk belonged to William Henry Crosby of the firm of Matthew Crosby and Son, ship owners and oil merchants, and was be­ queathed to the father of the donor. We have placed this desk in the entrance hall at the Whaling Museum.

A very small wooden box has found its way to us. It once belonged to Thomas Coleman and is known to be as old as 1723. We have received col­ lections from the estates of Mrs. Obed G. Smith and Mrs. Mabel Hall Bowie, as well as a large collection from Mrs. Julia Fisher Ellis Among these donations are Civil War relics of Davis Hall, Obed G. Smith and Samuel C. Crawford.

Many years ago, some Nantucket antiques were taken from the island by a summer resident and carried to Peekskill, N. Y., and now, through the generosity of a friend, they have found their way back to rest in our Museum. Among these things are three ladder back chairs, many kitchen utensils for use in the old fireplaces, such as iron kettles, shoal kettles, skil­ lets, a toaster, an old crane and pot hooks for the same, old flat irons, lan­ terns and many other articles. Also, we have transferred from the old house at 'Sconset, many articles which were not included in the sale of the house.

From a member of the Council, we have received a beautiful miniature of the grandmother of the donor, painted in 1827, also a small pair of scales used in the Klondike for weighing gold. These were used by the brother of the donor.

As material for a thesis for a B. A. degree, a young lady named Miss Babette Levy chose the topic "The Life and Influence of Peter Folger." At the suggestion of Herbert W. Folger, of Dayton, Ohio, a member of our Association, our President was permittedt o make a copy of this thesis and we now have it in our Museum.

Last summer there were two Sunday meetings held here in the Friends' Meeting House, attended by a dozen or more people.

Relics from the Coffin family are always acceptable and we have added 4 15

to our collection a stone water cooler, formerly belonging to Eliza Coffin. It was made either in Athens or Hudson for her, and given to her by her father, who owned a pottery there. She was the wife of Charles G. Coffin, who owned the brick house on Main street now known as the Warland house.

An old desk made by Christopher Hussey has been donated to us. It is of the knee-hold type with drawers on each side, and three small drawers in the middle, the top one of which is a secret drawer. This was the property of the late Dr. George D. Richmond, and he used the small drawer for gold for fillings. A very nice oldchair, dated 1836, has been donated. It was for­ merly the property of the late John B. Folger and was presented to us by his daughter, Miss Annie Alden Folger. Miss Folger also acquired an old table desk which was made in the Nantucket jail in 1808 of wood brought from Canton by the first ship that sailed from Nantucket to the Orient. She presented this to us, also, as well as a small child's crib, which is a family relic, and which will later be fitted with a mattress and quilt.

We have been making up a case of relics formerly belonging to Hon. Walter Folger and we hope to add to it from time to time. Through the gen­ erosity and interest of Rev. Lyman Greenman and Miss Annie Alden Folger we are to become the recipients of many old and valuable papers belonging to Walter Folger, Jr. Two visitors to our island have come into the Historical Museum this season and deposited with us some old family relics which they felt be­ longed here. From one lady we received a pair of beautiful, solid silver sugar tongs, which belonged to Caroline Bassett Tefft, dated 1832; a silver spoon which belonged to Mary Bassett, 1806, and a gold locket containing the pictures of Caroline Bassett and her husband, Asa Tefft. From the other lady we received a very lovely silver ladle which belonged to Avis Hassard or Hazzard, who was born in Nantucket, and a most exquisite oil painting of Mary and Avis Hassard, twin sisters; also, a set of linen doilies, with tat­ ting edge, which were made by Mary Robinson Nelson, daughter of Avis Hassard, who married Thomas Nelson. These latter articles are a loan, but we are hoping they will remain with us for all time.

Another friend has sent us a replica of the Magna Carta, and a pam­ phlet describing the Magna Carta Hall at the World's Fair. Some of the pupils of Hepsabeth Hussey will be glad to know that a Boston rocker, formerly belonging to her, has been bequeathed to us by the late Miss Eliza Hussey. From Mrs. R. A. Douglas-Lithgow we have received a box of arrowheads which were collected by her late hunsband, R. A. Douglas-Lith­ gow, the author of "Nantucket—a History," during his rambles over the island.

A curious old relic has been given to the Museum by Mr. Frank Sylvia, through our President. It is a frame made from a part of a locust tree which was brought here by Reuben Gardner, Jr., in 1782, from the land of John Vail in France. Reuben Gardner married John Vail's daughter, Eliza­ beth, and took her here at the time. The tree was set on his land, the third lot from Main on the east side of Orange street, and was killed by the great 16 )§•

fire in 1846. The frame was made by Reuben Gardner Folger, when we was 80 years of age, in the year 1870. In the frame is a verse written in French

by Reuben G. Folger, while attending school in the town of Bolbec, on the road to Paris, twenty-one miles from Le Havre. The verse, as translated, reads as follows: "A man boasted to Aristophanes of having much read. 'Tis not those, answered the Philosopher, who eat to the best advantage that are the fleshiest or the healthiest, but those who digest best."

Sometime in the future we hope to be able to have printed, and to sell, the little story written by our late Curator, Susan E. Brock, called "'Round the Horn." We have all the material, the copy of the original, and some added notes made by Miss Brock after the story was first printed.

At the Oldest House the number of visitors last year was over 1600.

The only report to be made is the addition of some articles transferred from the Historical Museum and from the 'Sconset house, together with some other relics that seemed to fit in the house.

At the Whaling Museum last year we had over 8000 visitors. Much work has been done in the building by your Curator and the Chairman of the building committtee, Mr. Charles Kimball. The library has been entirely re­ arranged, all books being re-classified, and space made on the shelves for papers and pamphlets which heretofore had been lying in boxes rather pro­ miscuously.

Portraits and pictures have been re-hung, and at the close of last season all the log-books were wrapped in papers and placed in the safety deposit valut at the Pacific National Bank for safe keeping, while the library was being rearranged. We have had a closet built especially for the logs, near the entrance to the library, easily accessible for the librarian, in which all the logs will be kept under lock and key. It was necessary to do this because they were being handled rather roughly, and constant handling would event­ ually do great damage to them. They are a valuable asset to our fine library and must be safeguarded for all time. We have received some new books the past year and some relics of whaling days; among them being two old sea chests, some old harpoons, a cabin lamp, and several new log books of ships on which Captain William Fuller sailed as master or mate.

Many hours of hard work have been devoted to making this collection more interesting, and at this time I would like to personally thank Mr. Kimball for his hearty co-operation and his invaluable assistance. In all the buildings the same corps of faithful attendants have been co-operating in every way to make the visitors welcome and to interest them in our fine exhibits.

In closing, let me once more remind you that it is your loss if you fail to visit our exhibits at least once a year, and bring your friends. Let us do our best to make Nantucket people more museum-minded, by inviting them to join the Association, so that we may say more than half our mem­ bership, instead of only about one-eighth are real Nantucketers.

Respecttfully submitted, Nancy S. Adams, Curator.

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TREASURER'S REPORT CASH ACCOUNT RECEIPTS $59.59

Cash Balance, July 1, 1938 General Account—Dues, Gifts and Sales Museum Accounts Pair Street—Admissions Sales Oldest House—Admissions Sales Whaling Museum—Admissions Sales

$677.66 $390.50 11.75 407.25 65.59 2043.75 179.15 $3097.99

Investments Life Membership Income Credited Sale of Siasconset House

$45.00 13.29 1200.00

$1258.29 50.00 $5143.53

Loan Payments ASSETS Fair Street Property—Land and Buildings Oldest House and Land Old Mill and Land Whaling Museum and Land Collections in all Museums

$5000.00 5000.00 $5000.00 10000.00 10000.00

$35000.00 Nantucket Institution for Savings Accounts Old House Fund Ella M. Starbuck Fund William F. Swift Fund Mary E. Macy Fund Susan E. Brock Fund Life Membership Fund Undrawn Interest U. S. Government Three Shares Common Stock Emerson Drug Co.

$612.28

3000.00 5000.00 500.00 1000.00

2293.31 12405.59 232.65 150.00 7.50 $47795.74

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TREASURER'S REPORT CASH ACCOUNT DISBURSEMENTS General Account Postage, Printing, Supplies, Sundries Salaries

$688.40 500.00

Museum Accounts Pair Street—Attendants, Maintenance Oldest House—Attendants, Maintenance Whaling Museum—Attendants, Maintenance and Interest on Mortgage Investments Life Membership Account Permanent Fund—Sale of 'Sconset House

$1188.40 $486.59 245.50 1515.32 $2247.41 $45.00 $1000.00 $1045.00

Old Mill Special Account Interest on Notes Notes Paid

$31.25 500.00 $531.25 $50.00 $81.47

Loan Cash Balance, June 30, 1939

$5143.53

LIABILITIES Old Mill Note Whaling Museum 5% Mortgage

$250.00 5000.00 $5250.00

Respectfully submitted, Robert D. Congdon, Treasurer.

Audited by: Miss Cora Stevens Col. Louis J. Praeger 19

President's Report It has been a custom for your President to "say a few words" at each of the Annual Meetings. This I have neglected to do during the past two "annuals," believing that the length of the meeting precluded any extensive remarks on my part, and so I am taking this means of conveying to you something in the manner of an annual message.

This year our Association observed its Forty-fifth Anniversary. A glance back over the years since 1894 reveals at once that many of the aims and ambitions of the founders have been realized, and that the steady growth of our Association has fulfilled certain hopes and plans of those early work­ ers. We of the present owe our founders more than mere gratitude; we owe them a pledge of allegiance for their industry and perseverance, for their executive ability and business sense. Just as surely as they made the Nan­ tucket Historical Association a substantial, intelligent community asset, just as certainly must we, as members of their group, carry on their work.

Those early founders had just as many every-day personal problems as we of the present Association, but they gave willingly of their time and energy to build for the future. We cannot duplicate the vigorous executive ability of the Rev. Myron S. Dudley, the scholarly research of Henry Barnard Worth, the historical sense of Alexander Starbuck and the keen memory of Mary Eliza Starbuck and Susan E. Brock. But we can duplicate their inter­ est by collectively supporting the institution which they have placed in our hands.

As your President, it is my duty to report to you certain accomplish­ ments in the way of research. During the past several years, I have been able to complete a number of articles having to do with various phases of the island's history. Some of these have appeared in part in the columns of The Inquirer and Mirror. At a meeting of the council this spring these arti­ cles were offered to the Association for printing in pamphlets, which are to be sold for the benefit of the Association. The subjects include "Nantucket Whalemen Discoverers in the South Seas," "The Nantucket Boys in the Civil War," "Revolutionary Heroes and Martyrs," and a number of others.

The Association's importance as a community asset becomes more and more apparent as the years pass. It not only represents an active group of persons interested in the past, present and future of the island, but it owns several buildings that have taken a large place in the attractions for which Nantucket is famous, becoming integral parts of the island life.

Membership in the Nantucket Historical Association holds forth an opportunity to islanders as well as the many descendants of island families —an opportunity to aid in preserving the best of the traditions of early Nantucket. The very fact that the loyal summer residents of Nantucket outnumber the islanders as members should spur Nantucketers to join and do their share in keeping alive the spirit of their sturdy ancestors.

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KEZIA COFFIN FANNING, DAUGHTER OF KEZIA FOLGER COFFIN.

From a photograph of the original painting on wood owned by Frank B. Howard, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Kezia Coffin Fanning was the wife of Phinehas Fanning, and wrote the famous diary mentioned in the paper written and delivered by Miss Margaret H. Wood, of Wilmington, N. C.

Some Descendants of Kezia Coffin

By MARGARET H. WOOD. In the veins of Kezia Folger Coffin flowed the blood of two great Nan­ tucket pioneers, Peter Folger and Tristram Coffin. By marriage to John Coffin, great grandson of Tristram, she gave her daughter Kezia, her only child, and through her to her descendants, a double portion of the Coffin inheritance.

There is both tenacity and persistence in the Coffin character. To be seen today in the porch of the parish church of Alwington, near Bideford, County Devin, is a double tablet containing the names of the rectors and their Coffin patrons from 1278 to 1935. There are only two lapses of five and eighteen years respectively in the Coffin administration of 660 years, both of these occurring in the fourteenth century. But, even then the living remained in the family gift and in 1935 the last entry stated that the trustees of the will of Matilda Pine Coffin continued to function for her.

A certain John Coffin was the head of the house and the dispenser of its patronage when Tristram decided to emigrate to the New World and to brave its hardships.

Kezia Coffin's daughter Kezia married at the age of eighteen Phinehas Fanning of Long Island, a young lawyer, who soon had his hands full attend­ ing to the business affairs of his executive mother-in-law.

This Kezia Coffin Fanning began to keep a diary at the age of sixteen in 1775, and continued the practice to her death in 1820. The record abounds in keen and important observations about everything that happened in Nan­ tucket with some mention of her own family. But her main preoccupation was with her mother, whose doings were part of the current history of the times, and she displays an amazing knowledge of men and affairs and makes comments which throw light on controversial subjects.

The diary came eventually into the possession of her youngest son, Phin­ ehas Wines Fanning, and he brought it with him to Wilmington, North Carolina. He guarded it very preciously and loaned it with reluctance to his great nephew, Thomas Fanning Wood (my father), and the latter under­ took to make extracts from it and to copy certain portions. In a letter to Alexander Starbuck, written April 7, 1877, he mentions the difficulties of finding time to select and copy passages apt to prove of public interest.

Finally, however, he sent a copy of his gleanings from the diary to Mr. Starbuck, who used them in his comprehensive history of Nantucket.

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The original diary of about 50 booklets was sent by my father to his brother Alfred, living in Brunswick, Georgia, and was loaned to a kins­ man. After the latter's death it was lost entirely to the family.

My sister possesses a few pages of it, however, which she purloined as a small child when she was told that Grandma Kezia's diary was to be sent away. Was it a streak of the Coffin tenaciousness in her which prompted her to keep its existence a secret for forty years, during which time all those who could object had died?

Although the stolen section narrates nothing more exciting than the robbery of the Nantucket bank, it contains the signature of Kezia Fanning, proving its authenticity. Not bad for a descendant of the first Kezia, it it?

The economic circumstances which led so many native sons and daugh­ ters of Nantucket to emigrate south and west are well known. Failure of the whale-fishery threw captains and sailors alike out of work, and the sub­ sequent impoverishment of the Island affected every one.

Before the exodus of the Fannings began in earnest, Captain Thomas Fanning, third son of Phinehas and Kezia, took to the sea, and at the age of twenty-one commanded a packet ship plying between New York and Charleston. In the latter place he had an office from which his maritime affairs were directed. He died at the age of forty-nine, unmarried, and lies in Trinity Church-yard.

Phinehas Wines Fanning, youngest son of Phinehas and Kezia, also chose the sea and, having been appointed assistant purser in the U. S. N., he was sent to Charleston to join the Lynx, working meantime in the office of his brother Thomas. The ship never came at all, and in 1822 he removed to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he remained the rest of his life.

Three years before this, in 1819, Wilmington had suffered one of the disastrous fires which have repeatedly visited the community. At that time the population of the town was 1,098 whites, 1,433 slaves, and 102 free negroes. The conflagration, which was of incendiary origin, destroyed four entire blocks in the business section, a loss estimated at between $600,000 and $700,000, entailing so much suffering that a relief fund was opened for the town's benefit by the public-spirited in Raleigh.

Phinehas Fanning started his editorial newspaper work in a town still partly buried in ashes. Walter F. Brooks, in his "Fanning Family," relates that he held many public offices of trust in Wilmington, such as chairman of the County Court, member of the City Government, etc., and concludes that no other man in the history of Wilmington did more for the prosperity and advancement of the city than he. He died in Wilmington in 1880, with­ out child of his own, but his great nephew, Nicholas William Schenck, lineal descendant of Kezia Fanning, has left on record his great appreciation of the fatherly kindness of Uncle Phinehas, who made himself responsible for him from 1836 to 1852.

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Fanning, of the opportunities in construction and building in Wilmington, where, in 1827, another conflagration had wiped out one of the blocks re­ cently rebuilt after the fire of 1819.

In 1834 he wrote of a projected railroad 161 miles long, which was to run in conjunction with a steamship line, and to connect Wilmington with Raleigh. Work was not actually begun until January, 1837, and it was fin­ ished in March, 1840. By 1839, John Coffin Wood and Robert Barclay Wood, sons of Caroline Fanning Wood, with their respective families, had got their plans in shape to make a final break from the Island.

They arrived in Wilmington in time for the brothers to get about a year's work as contractors on the railroad project and, as a firm of builders, the job of erecting St. James' Episcopal Church.

My father, Thomas Fanning Wood, son of Robert Barclay Wood, writing his recollections for his children, comments on the buildings of a better sort that the firm constructed to replace flimsy structures destroyed by fire. The that the firm constructed to replace flmsy structures destroyed by fire. They integrity and pride of craftsmanship, to the job of remaking Wilmington and the crown of their efforts is the beautiful City Hall, combined with the opera house, noted for its extraordinary accoustical properties.

In 1840-41, new destructive fires gave impetus to a building program and brought Henry L. Haynes and George Ferguson, who were excellent carpenters, from the Island to Wilmington to ply their trade. They had married daughters of Hettie Wells Fanning Wood, who, with her sister Car­ oline Matilda Wood, daughters of Kezia Fanning, had become widowed before leaving the Island. Their husbands were brothers, Daniel Wood and Jara Bourn Wood, and now at long last they had broken every remaining tie with Nantucket to make their home with the Fanning colony of more than twenty souls.

Henry Haynes and George Ferguson provided houses for their families near their mother-in-law, Hettie Wells Fanning Wood, who lived with her widowed daughter, Charlotte Frances Hartshorn. When the gold fever broke out in California the Fergusons removed thence. Henry Haynes accompanied them alone and died there, his family still in Wilmington.

Hettie Wells Fanning Wood is quoted again and again by her nephew, John Coffin Wood, in support of her statement in his family chronicles, be­ cause of her accuracy and unfailing memory.

Our father, writing of her, says: "She had a bright intelligent face— refined and pleasing." She was well educated and rewarded the children of the family, who threaded her needles, with tales from English History of which she had a vast store.

Her daughter Charlotte Frances married Harvey Hartshorn, one-time Nantucket hatter doing business on Main street. She conducted a school in Wil­ mington for small children. In time her daughter, Harriett Courtney Hart­ shorn, assisted her until her marriage to Nathaniel Green Daniel.

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We now return to the affairs of Hettie's sister Caroline Matilda, who married Jara Bourn Wood. She was a widow when she came to live with her son Robert Barclay Wood and his family. Robert had married his cousin Mary Ann Wilber, and she had brought her sister Nancy Swain Wilber with her, both natives of Nantucket, who, much later, married Joseph MacLaurin.

She was a remarkable woman of whom much could be said, but to do so would divert us from the Fanning narrative.

In 1857, when the great depression fell like a shadow over the land, Robert Barclay and John Coffin Wood dissolved their partnership. The former was engaged by Major W. H. C. Whiting, of the United States Engineers, to build a lighthouse on Hunting Island off the coast of South Carolina. Part of Robert Barclay Wood's family accompanied him there, and others re­ mained in Wilmington until he returned home.

The only account of the further activities of John Coffin Wood is con­ tained in a statement in our father's family chronicle. He writes: "Uncle John was at Fort Fisher during my stay there, building casements of pal­ metto logs. He was a fierce secessionist in his language and did all he could to aid the Confederacy. He was a naturalist by instinct and made a good collection of sea-mosses while off duty, from the waters of New Inlet."

Caroline Matilda was called by all the members of the family, "Mother Wood." In her keen interest in public affairs she resembled her mother, Kezia Fanning. She was a perpetual reader, a noted Bible student, and always carried with her two small candle-sticks which fitted into each other and extra candle ends so that she might never be without the means of light.

Often the family saw her in advanced years ensconced in a big canopied bed, a mosquito net thrown over it,while she read, holding the book in one palsied hand and the candle-stick in the other wavering one.

She was fifty-one in 1835, when Col. Joseph Hart brought out his book "Miriam Coffin." As her brother Fhinehas had a copy of it, she had an opportunity to read what Hart had contrived, in fact and faction, concerning her grandmother Kezia Coffin, who is supposed to be the Miriam in that book, and about her own mother Kezia Coffin Fanning, who is called Ruth.

We wonder what she thought as she read this tissue of fact and fancy. All Hie while the family possessed the diary of her mother Kezia Fanning, giving day by day accounts of what had happened during the period, and she could look when she liked into the pictured face of her grandmother Kezia Coffin, a portrait in oils on tin, which she had brought with her from the Island.

Now and then she doubtless displayed to her children the letter of Benjamin Franklin, written in 1765 in London, to her grandmother, beginning "Loving Cousin," and apprising her of the purchase of two silver candle-sticks which he was sending her.

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without any explanation, or stating any of the extenuating circumstances, which, in her opinion, made her grandmother Kezia's conduct both admir­ able and heroic.

Our grandfather, Robert Barclay Wood, expected his two older sons, Robert, Jr., and our father, Thomas Fanning, to be builders. But the former preferred a business life, and our father was inclined to medicine, which he studied under difficulties, owing to the opposition at home.

He was still a medical student when he enlisted as a private in the Confederate Army, and after serving in the 3rd Regiment under Stonewall Jackson, he finished the war with Robert E. Lee at Appomatox, and was given charge of the smallpox hospital in Wilmington during the year-long epidemic,. He was never able to complete his formal education but was recognized by the University of Maryland and given an honorary degree in medicine.

In spite of a very busy life, serving his community as doctor and sur­ geon, he helped to organize the State Board of Health and became its first Health Officer. He also started and founded the North Carolina Medical Journal, which he owned and edited until his untimely death in 1892.

His youngest brother, Alfred, removed to Brunswick, Georgia, married there and became well-to-do. He took an interest in every activity in his adopted city looking to its welfare and progress.

Before closing this paper, we must mention that Kezia Fanning recorded in her diary the continuous tussle between the American Provincials on the one hand and the Britishers on the other. As torn between a rising power, yet unproven, and the constituted authority of empire, many a one was guilty of putting trust in the known rather than in an uncertainty. Nan­ tucket Island, thirty miles from the mainland, was by that much nearer the mother country, and with the hazards of getting food to remote islanders, it is not difficult to understand that supplies were acquired in any way possible, no matter which side furnished them, and Nantucket was a free port all during the War. If Kezia Coffin, was the famous smuggler which she has been called by her enemies, and by those who accepted their accusations, it may be found to her credit rather than otherwise, because smuggling, .such as it is meant in this case, is not the current crime that seeks evasion of lawful government impositions, but was an attempt to run provisions into Nantucket when even the United States Colonies were passing laws against exporting to the Island.

Writing for The Inquirer and Mirror, August 7, 1882, under the pen name of "Nantucket, Jr.," the late Alexander Starbuck refuted the common accusations against Kezia Coffin. He says he has extracts of the General Court which relate to Nantucket covering the period in question, and al­ though his notes, etc., would cover 300 pages of printed matter, he found not one single reference to Kezia Coffin's arrest for smuggling.

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Jenkins, caused the arrest of Dr. Benjamin Tupper, Timothy Folger, Esq., William Rotch, Samuel Starbuck and Kezia Coffin on the charge of high treason, with corresponding and trading with the enemy; charges true beyond the shadow of a doubt, but so extenuating were the circumstances deemed, even to the heated partisan men of the time, that the Concord Court would not convict them."

It is said in our family that Kezia Coffin pleaded her own cause on this occasion. However that may be, all the defendants were released, and even Thomas Jenkins, a native but not at the time living on the Island, sought to have his charge withdrawn after finding that it was based on purely hear­ say evidence.

In conclusion, we quote again from Alexander Starbuck, page 205 of his "History of Nantucket:" "Mrs. Kezia Coffin was a woman of marked ability and force. For a considerable time after the commencement of the Revolutionary War she continued to be a staunch supporter of the King. The common report of the day accused her of smuggling but there does not seem to be any foundation for the story. Without doubt she was instrumental in importing provisions, but it was not apparently done secretly nor for undue personal gain. It is to be fairly argued that if some one had not moved more rapidly than the law there would have been much suffering in Nantucket."

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"Walter Folger Jr., a Biography in Preparation"

BY REV. LYMAN H. GREENMAN Former President of the Harvard (Mass.) Historical Association.

My brother is a native, but I am only an off-islander—a coof. My middle name should have been Folger. Nantucket stands first in affection and appeal, for it was the home of my maternal ancestors. From youth I have collected Nantucket items and records of my branches of the Folger family.

Letters, documents, pictures and other material gleaned from four gener­ ations of the Walter Folger line have, during the last sixty years, found a resting place in my cabinet.

My grandfather, Walter Folger, 3rd, as executor of his father's will, kept some of his letters, legal papers, and a few books. Much of this material was given to me by my aunt Elizabeth Ray, and the remainder, except for a few magazines and pamphlets of no biographical interest, given to me from my cousin Sarah Frank Ray. Three years ago Mr. Small, owner of 7 Farmer street, the home of my grandfather, found under the eaves several hundred valuable Walter Folger papers which he generously gave, some to me, and others to cousin Annie Alden Folger.

Walter Folger, Jr., has been the subject of many memoirs and sketches.

I have probably read them all. They are meager sketches all of them, old stuff, repeated until they have become folk lore. I fancy some it flowed from the adoring pen of William C. Folger, a diligent searcher, but notoriously inaccurate.

In the library of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society one often sees a bunch of manuscripts in a box labeled "In Preparation."

"Walter Folger, Jr., a Biography in Preparation." That title suggests the bit of research work I recommend for this Association to undertake. With the material at hand added to what may be dug up here, at the State House, and at Washington, enough material could be collected for the writing of a true biography, revealing the human side of our illustrious townsman. **

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Walter Folger had a Peter Folger conscience, and hatred of sham, dis­ honesty and oppression, a scientific, logical mind and a goodly endowment of what the Folgers as a tribe are said to lack—a sense of humor. William Swain's portrait of him, now in the possession of Miss Annie Alden Folger, shows a twinkle in his eye, an assurance that he possessed this saving grace.

As to personal appearance we have the testimony of Capt. Thomas A. Gardner who, as a young man, kept in New Bedford a store much frequented 27

by Walter Polger. As a lad I knew Captain Gardner, then a very old man.

He said Walter Folger was short in person, stout, broad-shouldered, weight about 175 pounds, countenance strongly resembling Dr. Franklin, broad face, and bluish-grey eyes. My mother, who also had bluish-grey eyes, knew her grandfather as a very old man, somewhat deaf. He heartily enjoyed his dinner, especially calf's head with brain sauce. He spent most of his time in his library, a small room, the walls lined with books to the ceiling. Here he sat the day through, his feet resting on the table top, his long nose deep in a book. His home, as you doubtless know, was the house on Pleasant street, owned many years by Molly Starbuck.

I have read that Walter Folger was not religious. Perhaps the writer did not understand the difference between pious and religious. It is also reported that he ceased to attend Friends' Meeting after marriage. Doubtless he was not pious as was his ancestor Peter, and expressed views not in ac­ cordance with the prevailing orthodox theology. What else could you expect of a free scientific mind. His search for truth journeyed far beyond the stars, could not be limited by man-made theological dogmas.

His interests were as broad as the intellect of man. I have books from his library on medicine, chemistry, theology, history, French literature, as­ trology and astronomy. In mental integrity he ran true to type. You recall that Folger, the English school master, so-called, who tutored several Edgartown boys for the Harvard preparatory school at Cambridge, in his famous poem, "A Looking Glass For The Times," shows his acquaintance with the religious tents of the Friends, the Baptists, and the Bay Colony Congregationalists. And how he scored the judges and blasted the magis­ trates for their persecutions! Peter's poem was a trumpet call to freedom and the complete separation of Church and State You recall, about 1658, Peter, unable to accept and teach any longer the narrow theology of Thomas Mayhew, asked for and was granted dismissal from the Church at Edgartown. Then he went to Newport and joined Dr. Clark's church, the first Baptist Church in Rhode Island, the liberal church of that day.

I admit that Walter Folger, like his ancestor Peter, and many of his descendants, was unsound in the faith as measured by the dominant theol­ ogy Probably for that very reason the town of Dedham refused citizenship to John Folger, with the result that he went on to Watertown, where again his name does not appear on the church record.

The statement that Walter Folger left the Friends Meeting after his marriage is without proof. My mother told me he married out of meeting, which would seem to indicate that Alexander Ray and his daughter Anna were not m good standing. Walter Folger was only 20 years old when he married Anna. It could not have been on his account, but on account of the high social and financial standing of his father, Walter Folger, Sr., that a committee of the meeting waited upon him and asked him to say he was Jprry. And the answer: "Yes, I am sorry I displeased thee, but not sorry that I married Anna." Walter Folger must have retained his connection with the meeting for my grandfather was a birth-right Friend. When my <{ 28 )•>

THE HONORABLE WALTER FOLGER, JR.

Scholar, Inventor, Mathematician, Astronomer, Legislator, and Surveyor.

grandfather married Mary Folger, daughter of Capt. Simeon Folger, who had been read out of meeting for going to sea in an armed vessel and for joining the Society of Masons, he, too, was waited upon by a committee of the Friends and asked to say he was sorry for marrying out of meeting.

To the committee he returned a like answer to his father's. Note finally that Walter Folger was buried in the Friends' Burying Ground.

My purpose today is not to inflict upon you another conventional sevenpage memoir, but to suggest lines for some future biography; and further to comment on some of the Walter Folger books and papers I am presenting to the Association. About the year 1835 Walter Folger began to compile the genealogy of all the families on the island. His three tall valumes of gen­ ealogy were given to my mother, who in the early sixties copied them in a more legible hand and continued the records down to about the year 1900.

One hundred years ago, people were less interested in genealogy than we are today. At that time Walter Folger received from a distant relation, living on the Cape, what was intended to be a pious rebuke for his interest in the worldly matter of family connections. He sensed the unconscious humor of the letter and saved it for future chuckles. Here is a transcription of this letter: Sandwich, 5th Mo., 30, 1842.

Respected Friend Walter Folger: When on Nantucket to attend the marriage of Henry Russell I had the opportunity of seeing thee at Abraham Wing's and thou wast endeavor­ ing to inform us of the genealogy of our connections. It was then on my mind to say to thee if thou had the genealogy of ours and thine back to the flood it would not avail thee anything if thou had not a well grounded hope in the merritts and mercies of a dear redeemer all thou knew of genealogies would be of no account in a coming day when we must all render up an account of our stewardship and receive according to what we have done, for surely there is a reward for the righteous and also for the wicked. Let me entreat thee in the language of love to endeavor to know thy peace made with thy God before it is too late. I have taken the liberty thus to write thee believing thou wouldst not take amiss if thou did not think it worth noticing for we all have a work to do and must do it before it is too late for in the grave no work can be done.

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I fancy Walter Folger as a genealogist would approve of our devoting more than a few minutes to his ancestors of long ago. Chasing ancestors back ten centuries has for many years been one of my indoor sports. Who were the Folgers and where did they come from?

In Brittany, a few miles from the sea, is the city of Fougeres, pro­ nounced (foo-zhair). It is of Roman foundation and flourished before the time of the Conquerer. This is the town that undoubtedly gave its name to the Foulger family. Other families that passed with the Conquerer from France to England bore the name of the town or district from which they came.

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The De Fougeres were a baronial family descended from Alan, Baron of Fougeres in Bretagne about 900. Allan was the father of Maine, whose grandson Maine was living in 1050. From his brother (Franguale) descended the Lords Bohun of Midhurst. Now what follows is important: Henry de Bohun of the fifth generation was the most powerful of the Barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Charta at Runnemede. Henry was the great-great grandfather of Humphrey de Bohun, who married Elizabeth, the daughter of King Edward I, a direct ancestor through the Gayers of Walter Folger, Jr. The Barons of Fulgiers had many branches in England. Then was Ralph de Fulgeres, who in 1083 is recorded in Domesday as holding lands in Devon, and Henry de Filgeres, in 1130, another Ralph in 1189. Wm. de Ful­ geres held a barony in York in 1165. Nace mentions "Ralph de Fulgeris" as present at the Battle of Hastings. The historian Richard Baker, speaking of the same person, calls him "Robert Fulger." The Rolls of Battle Abby furnishes us with Le Sire de Fougereis, and Domesday Book shows that he received a large tract of land in England from the Conquerer in requittal for his services; and the Rolls of the Exchequer abundantly attest that he founded a family then which either became extinct or became lost in the name of Folger. **

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Once, at Ottawa, Ontario, I found a book in the government library from which I made note that in Domesday Book appear the names: Walter Fulcher, Co. Lincoln and Walter fil Fulcer, Co. Bedford. Another Folger refer­ ence I stumbled upon in Vertals History of the Knights of Malta, 1728.

Foucher, the patriarch of Jerusalem, opposed the exemptions granted by Pope Anastasius II to the order of St. John, and the next year, 1155, Anastasius having died, he journeyed to Rome to procure the repeal from the English born Pope Adrian IV. My next meeting with the family name was with the Folgers of the sixteenth century. Mr. Mason, formerly of Harvard College, reported to me from the British Museum and St. Clements, Ipswich, Co. Suffolk, the fol­ lowing entries: Susan Foulger dr. W. F. & Johan bapt. Sept. 1599.

John Fowlser so W. F. & Johan bapt. 28 Nov., 1602.

Wm. Foulger son 10 Feb., 1604.

John Folser buried 24 May 1620.

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Col. Chas. E. Banks, M. D., who wrote the history of Martha's Vineyard, gave us more information concerning John & Peter Folger than any other writer. In a genealogy note which I cut from the Boston Transcript more than thirty years ago, Col. Banks wrote: "I have found the name Folger in the following forms, Fouldger, Foulger," and he writes twelve other spell­ ings. These names, said he, are found in Norfolk, Suffolk, Wilts and Cam•4 30

bridge, contiguous counties. I once waded through over one thousand pages of White's History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Co. Norfolk, published in 1885. I searched the directory of every city, town and hamlet of the county for the name Folger. I found two persons by the name of Folger, thirty-six others spelling the name in some other form. In Norwich, the traditional home of John and Peter, I found four Foulgers, and three Fulchers.

In Diss, twenty-one miles southwest of Norwich, I found in the directory one W. Fulcher, a coach-builder. Col. Banks had several references to the Folgers in Norfolk Co., at Roydon and Diss, adjoining parishes in which the registers are preserved and date well back into the sixteenth century.

In Thrandeston, a few miles south of Diss, in Suffolk, a Thomas Fulcher was living in 1539. The region around Roydon was probably the home of the Folgers as early as 1500. Twenty years after Col. Banks' note on the Folger name had appeared in the Transcript, he discovered that John Folger was from Diss, Co. Norfolk. Diss is on Noveney River that divides Norfolk from Suffolk. Thus, John Folger did not come from Ipswich, from which port the ship Abigail might have departed.

Col. Banks discovered that John Folger's wife, Meribah Gibbs, was the daughter of John Gibbs of Frense Hall in the neighborhood of Diss, as is proved hy the will of John Gibbs, 1609, in which he mentioned his daughter, Merraba Folger. John Gibbs though a yeoman, must have been a man of wealth and importance for he lived in a "Hall."

Contrary to the tradition long accepted John Folger was not a widower when he came to America in the ship Abigail. When he landed in Boston, October 8, 1635, he was accompanied by his wife Merraba, his son Peter, and, Col. Banks thinks, possibly by two daughters, Ruth and Joanna. On this point we have the testimony of a Mrs. John Folger, of Huntington, Long Island, who in a letter dated Feb. 5, 1759, relative to the maternal ancestors of Franklin, now in the possession of the Historical Society of Philadelphia, wrote: "John Folger married Meriba Gibbs in Great Britain and Brought her and his Son Peter and One Daughter to New England, the daughter married to Paine on Long Island" (Found in "The Homeland of Franklins,"

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A final word in regard to the Fugere— Folger name. In the second vol­ ume of Baird's fascinating "The Hugenot Emigration to America" is the story of the election in the Narraganset country of Frenchtown, the present site of Greenwich. Baird inserts a copy of the original map of Frenchtown, divided into plots and bearing the name of the man to whom each plot was assigned. One plot bears the name Fougere.

Fougeres are still in our midst. Last month the Cambridge school com­ mittee appointed a new master to its school system, one Louise N. Fougere, obviously of French descent.

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Folger. His mother was Elizabeth Starbuck, daughter of Thomas Starbuck, the son of Jethro Starbuck and his cousin Dorcas Gayer, the daughter of Judge William Gayer and Dorcas Starbuck, the daughter of Edward Starbuck and Katharine Reynolds.

I would now speak of his Gayer Ancestry. "William Gayer and his Descendants" is the title of an interesting paper given by Henry Barnard Worth before the Association and printed in the report of its Twenty-eighth annual meeting. In this paper he states: "Students in heredity can find no better illustration of the transmission of distinguished mental traits than appears among the numerous descendants of William Gayer. The manifes­ tation is in business, literature and science and for two centuries the long line included leading merchants, public officials, authors, educators, profes­ sional and scientific men." Mr. Worth goes on to mention by name 30 or more descendants of Wm. Gayer, but he does not mention one of his most ver­ satile descendants—Walter Folger Jr. In the New England Register for July, 1877, appeared an article entitled "William Gayer," contributed by William C. Folger. This article does not carry Gayer's genealogy back of his mother, Jane Spark, who was a resident of Plymouth, England, in 1694.

The lineage of William Gayer has been traced back through the Gayers and the powerful family of Courtney to King Edward I of England, and through him to Alfred the Great, William the Conquerer, on to the Kings of France, Spain, Portugal, princes of Italy, and to Otto, Emperor of the Empire. Three Knights of the Garter, four Barons of Runnemede, and a King of Scotland should be added to the list of ancestors from whom Walter Folger, Sr., and all your Nantucket descendants of the StarbuckGayer alliance.

But I have already written more than I intended. I trust what I have had to say will be of interest, and that some of the "knowing Folgers" will glean from it a more intimate knowledge of the "Great Walter" and of the Nantucket Folgers in general, the descendants of the latter including many distinguished men and women in their own right.

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COPPER PLATE ENGRAVED FOR BANK NOTES FOR THE PHOENIX BANK OF NANTUCKET, DESIGNED AND ENGRAVED BY WALTER FOLGER, JR.

LIFE COUNCILLORS. Folger, Miss Annie Alden, 16 Gardner St., Nantucket.

Lang, Florence Osgood (Rand), Nantucket.

Sanderson, Edward F., Quidnet, Nantucket, Mass.

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

Adams, Karl, 36 Beacon St., Boston.

Adams, Mrs. Nancy S. (Grant), Fair St., Nantucket.

Appleton, William Sumner, 141 Cambridge St., Boston.

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

Barrett, Mrs. Mabel Allen (Downing), 1170 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C. Barrett, Mrs. Mary E. (Wilson), 411 Montross Ave., Rutherford, N.J. Barrett, William Wilson, 411 Montross Ave., Rutherford, N. J. Beebe, Miss Alice Geissler, 181 Appleton St., Arlington Heights, Mass. t Bodfish, Miss Annie Warren, Nantucket.

Boynton, Frederick P., 204 Sheridan Road North, Highland Park, 111.

Brewer, Mrs. Mary Augusta, 728 Fairfield Rd., Burlingame, Cal. Capp, Seth Bunker, Box 2054, Philadelphia, Penn.

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

Cassidy, Rt. Rev. James E., Fall River, Mass.

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

Coffin, Maurice P., 47 Union Park Ave., Jamaica, N. Y. Coffin, Winthrop, 45 Warren St., Brookline, Mass.

Colket, G. Crawford, Villa Nova, Pa. Colket, Tristram Coffin, 2nd., Villa Nova, Pa. Colket, Tristram Coffin, 3rd, Villa Nova, Pa. Crane, Mrs. Herbert R., 5 Chestnut, St., Nantucket, Mass.

Davis, Charles Henry, 18 Old Slip, New York City.

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

Dickinson, Walter F., Wheatley Cross Roads, Wheatley, Long Island.

Durfee, Mrs. Mary Galusha (Hatch), Palmyra, N. Y. Erickson, Arioch Wentworth, Greystone House, Swampscott, Mass.

Erickson, Arioch Wentworth, Jr., Greystone House, Swampscott, Mass.

Erickson, Mrs. Cecile Macy, Greystone House, Swampscott, Mass.

Erickson, Douglas, Greystone House, Swampscott, Mass.

Erickson, Josiah Macy, Greystone House, Swampscott, Mass.

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

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

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

Folger, Miss Annie Alden, Nantucket, Mass.

Forbes, Miss Mary Bowditch, Milton, Mass.

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

Ford, James B., 1790 Broadway, New York.

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Francis, Mrs. Edgar S., Durham, Conn.

Freeborn, Miss Lydia S., 22 Liberty St., Nantucket.

Freeman, Mrs. Pauline Smith, Main St., Nantucket.

Frothingham, Miss Ellen Folger, 9 Exeter St., Boston.

Fuller, Frederick Vincent, Milk St., Nantucket.

Gibbs, James H., Nantucket, Mass.

Gray, Mrs. David, 2406 Penobscot BIdg., Detroit, Mich.

Gray, David, Jr., 2406 Penobscot BIdg., Detroit, Mich.

Greene, Howard, 559 Marshall St., Milwaukee, Wis. Gries, Mrs. Ethel Goff (Folger), 2803—18th St., N. W., Wash., D. C. Gwynn, Mrs. Mary, 228 South 22nd. St., Philadelphia, Penn.

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

Hinchman, Miss Anne, 3635 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. Hinchman, Miss Margaretta, 3635 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Penna.

Humphrey, Mrs. Nancy Delia (Robb), Nantucket.

Hutaff, Mrs. Grace (Elkins), Nantucket.

Jannotta, Mrs. Stella S., 6314 Lakeview Ave., Chicago, 111.

Jenkins, Lawrence W., Peabody Museum, Salem, Mass.

Johnson, Mrs. Minnie Agnes (Jonah), Bath, Maine.

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

Jones, Bassett, 101 Park Ave., New York City; Polpis, Nantucket.

Kenney, Miss Lillian, Nantucket.

Kimball, Charles P., Madaket Road, Nantucket.

King, Samuel G., 367-369 Atlantic Ave., Boston.

Lang, Mrs. Florence O. R., 36 Hawthorne Place, Montclair, N. J. Larkin, Mrs. Ruth William, care of Larkin Co., Buffalo, N. Y. MacDonald, Miss Elizabeth H., Hotel Margaret, Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N. Y. Mackie, Mrs. David Ives, 128 East 39th St., N. Y. Macy, Mary H., 365 W. E. Ave., New York city, N. Y. Macy, Nelson, 441 Pearl St., N. Y. Manter, Capt. Harry, 386 Park Ave., Cliff Side, N. J. McCleary, Miss Helen Cartwright, 3 Auburn Courts, Brookline, Mass.

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

Miller, Mrs. Gertrude Hussey, 50 Marshall St., Brookline, Mass.

Morse, Mrs. Elizabeth W., Liberty Street, Nantucket.

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

O'Gorman, Mrs. Ella Foy, 4167 Halldale Ave., Los Angeles, Calif.

Oliver, Norris S., 26 Washington St., East Orange, N. J. Otis, Charles, 67 Pearl St., New York city.

Paine, Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Folger), 315 Thayer St., Providence, Rhode Island.

Praeger, Mrs. Caroline S. G., Nantucket.

Praeger, Col. Louis J., Nantucket.

Robinson, Miss Emily B., 4 Martins Lane, Nantucket.

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

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Runk, B. F. D., 24 North St., Greenwich, Ct. Sand, Henry A. L., 27 Hulbert Ave., Nantucket.

Sharp, B. Karl, 49 West Castle Place, New Rochelle, N. Y. t Sharp, Mrs. Elizabeth Elting, 729 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Sharp, Mrs. Virginia May (Guild), Gorhams Court, Nantucket.

Starbuck, George Franklin, Waltham, Mass.

Starbuck, John Austin, University Club, Los Angeles, Cal. Starbuck, Walter F., Waltham, Mass.

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

Swain, Mrs. Emma Swain (Barney), 191 Soundview Ave., White Plains, N. Y. Swain, Robert Edward, 321 Elmora Ave., Elizabeth, N. J. Tucker, Albert M., Academy Lane, Nantucket.

Walling, Lieut. John, U. S. S. S-37, Cavite, P. I. Ward, Mrs. Adelaide, Nantucket.

Wilson, Miss Anne, Nantucket.

Worth, Frank, Nantucket.

Wyman, Theodore C., 19 Brant Point Road, Nantucket, Mass.

0 SUSTAINING MEMBERS Ackerman, Mrs. Frederick L., Windy Hill, Nantucket.

Armstrong, M. M., 80 John St., New York City.

Brooks, Mrs. Anne Roberts, 24 North St., Greenwich, Ct. Brown, Miss Helen Dawes, 9 Howard Street, Nantucket.

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

Chamberlain, William E., State Street Trust Company, Boston, Mass.

Collier. Mrs. Robert, 823 Park Ave., New York City.

Griffin, Rev. Joseph M., 6 Orange Street, Nantucket.

Johnson, Mrs. Pauline M., Colorado Springs, Col. Kendall, William Mitchell, 101 Park Ave., New York City.

Lameson, Gardner, 320 W. 83rd Street, New York City.

Lehmaier, Mrs. Isabelle M., 140 W. 57th Street, New York City.

McKeag, Mrs. Henry S., 123 No. Mountain Ave. Montclair, N. J. Pray, Mrs. Charles Prior, 50 So. 2nd Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Russell, B. F. W., 20 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.

Russell, Mrs. B. F. W., 20 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.

Shurrocks, Alfred F., 16 Vestal St., Nantucket.

Shurrocks, Mrs. Alfred F., 16 Vestal Street, Nantucket.

Storrow, Mrs. James J., 417 Beacon St., Boston, Mass.

Sullivan, Mrs. Amelia L., 180 Washington Ave., Albany, N. Y. Waggaman, Robert M., 1700 Eye St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Walls, Dr. Frank, Main St., Nantucket.

Walls, Mrs. Frank, Main St., Nantucket.

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

Willets, J. Macy, New Marlboro, Mass.

Winsor, Mary, Haverford, Penn.

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ANNUAL MEMBERS Ackerman, E. D., 90-23 149th St., Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y. Ackerman, Mrs. E. D., 90-23 149th St., Jamaica, Long Island, N. Y Ackerly, Mrs. Dana T., 365 West End Ave., New York City.

Adams, Mrs. Nancy S. (Grant), Fair Street, Nantucket.

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

Ahern, Henry E., 151 Valley View Road, Ridgewood, N. J Alfred, Alin E., 337 So. Ridgewood Rd., So. Orange, N. J. Allen, Florence M., 85 Vine St., Woonsocket, R. I. Allen, G. Myron, Granville, N. Y. Allen, Miss Marion Hallett, Orange St., Nantucket.

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

Anderson, Mrs. Ella B., 689 South Road, White Plains, N. Y. Anderson, Prof. Louis F., 364 Boyer Ave., Walla Walla, Washington.

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

Appleton, Mrs. Helen E., (Folger), Milk St., Nantucket.

Appleton, Mrs. Leila H. (Macy), 14 Fairfield St., Brockton, Mass.

Allen, Ralph, 101 Woodnut Ave. Brooklyn, N. Y. Arnold, Miss Sarah E., 13 River St., Weston, Mass.

Ashley, Charles S., 93 State St., New Bedford, Mass.

Ashley, Clifford W., 31 8th St., New Bedford Mass.

Atkins, Edna, 17 Woodside Terrace, Springfield, Mass.

Atkins, Mrs. Katharine W., P. O., Box 1250, Boston.

Atkins, Mrs. Robert W., Brant Point, Nantucket.

Atwood, Mrs. Harry, 100 High St., Leonia, N. Y. Austin, C. Warren, Orange Street, Nantucket.

Austin, Mrs. C. Warren, Orange Street Nantucket.

Autz, Eugene, 256 Hudson St., New York City.

Ayers, Mrs. Ethel Capen, Babcock, Miss Edwina Stanton, 298 Piermont Ave., So. Nyack, N. Y. Bacheller, Miss Augusta F., 51 Franklin St., Lynn, Mass.

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

Bache, Miss Edith M„ 4400 Sansom St., Philadelphia, Pa. Backus, Mrs. Alma, Main St., Nantucket.

Baker, Miss Maude, 67 Stimson Ave., Providence, R. I. Baldwin, Mrs. Annie Osgood, 9 Quince St., Nantucket.

Baldwin, Frank C., "The Crossways," Lincoln Ave., Nantucket.

Barkentine, Slater, 4 W. 40th St., New York City.

Barnard, John R., E. Sandwich, Mass.

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

Barney, William H., Hopedale, Mass.

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

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

Barnum, Gen. Malvern-Hill, 194 St. Paul's St., Brookline, Mass.

Barrett, Miss Anna E. C., Siaseonset.

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Bates, Maurice E., 3216 Morrell Ave., Kansas City, Mo. Beinert, Frederic L., 42 Grove St., Boston, Mass.

Benchley, Mrs. Robert, 2 Lynnwood Rd., Scarsdale, N. Y. Benchley, Robert Jr., 2 Lynnwood Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. Benham, Mrs. Lizzie E., 23 Pearl St., Nantucket.

Bennett, Mrs. Flora Moore, Darling St., Nantucket.

Bennett, Martha C., 423 W. 120 St., New York City.

Benson, John W., 420 W. 116th St., New York City.

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

Benton, Mrs. Amy Alice, Chestnut St., Nantucket.

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

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

Blackmur, Paul, Cohasset, Mass.

Blair, Mrs. Robert S., 60 E. 42nd St., New York City.

Blake, Mildred Mighell, 149 E. 40th St., New York City.

Blanchette, Paul, Burlington, Vt. Blossom, Rev. W. G., 2431 Lower Azuso Rd., El Monte, Calif.

Bolles, Walter P., 84 Sydney Ave., Deal, N. J. Borneman, Mrs. E. L., 66 Gates Ave., Montclair, N. J. Boyd, Miss Edith L., 823 Park Ave., New York City.

Bracher, Mrs. Catherine Morison Coffin, Dongan Hills, N. Y. Bradlee, H. Gardner, 6 Ledgewood Road, Winchester, Mass.

Bradlee, Mrs. Reginald, 6 Ledgewood Rd., Winchester, Mass.

Bray, Miss Louise W., 357 Harvard St., Cambridge, Mass.

Brayton, Lieut. Harry R., Nantucket.

Breckinridge, Mrs. Desha, Gardner's Court, Nantucket.

Brewer, Mrs. Harriet E., 28 Perkins Ave., Norwich, Conn.

Bridgman, H. W. 656 Farmington Ave., Hartford, Conn.

Bridgman, Miss Bessie, Nantucket. i Brock, Albert Gardner, 36 Liberty St., Nantucket.

Brock, Mrs. Annie Cartwright, 36 Liberty St., Nantucket.

Brock, Albert G. 2nd, 13 Gardner St., Nantucket.

Brock, Elizabeth, 13 Gardner St., Nantucket.

Brock, William C., 13 Liberty St., Nantucket.

Brock, Mrs. Bessie Eastman (Cook), 13 Gardner St., Nantucket.

Brooks, Edward, 32 Allerton St., Brookline, Mass. . Brooks, Mrs. Josephine S., 403 Common St., Belmont, Mass.

Brooks, Miss Mildred Howland, 403 Common St., Belmont, Mass.

Brown, Mrs. Clyde, Norwalk, Conn.

Brown, Mrs. James Wright, 24 Cliff Road, Nantucket.

Brown, James Wright, 24 Cliff Road, Nantucket. ? Brown, Melvin W., Wakefield, Mass.

Brown, Rose, 74 Arsenal St., Watertown, Mass.

Bruce, H. Addington, Cambridge, Mass.

Bruen, Edward F. L., Box 366, Nantucket.

Bryant, Miss Catherine Alma, 63 Beckwith St., Cranston, R. I. *2{ 37 >

Buchanan, Mrs. J. E., 5 Mill St., Nantucket.

Burdett, William, 17 Fairbanks St., Brooklyn, New York.

Burdett, Mrs. William, 17 Fairbanks St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Bunker, Austin T., 5 Worthen Road, Winchester, Mass.

Bunker, Clarence Alfred, 46 Chestnut St., Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Bunker, Mary Hawthorne (Mrs. C. A.), 46 Chestnut St., Wellesley Hills, Mass.

Bunker, Theodore, 188 Ellison St., Paterson, N. J. Bunker, William, P. 0. Box 115, Ridgefield, Conn.

Bunting, Mrs. W. S., 315 South Fourth St., Wilmington, N. C. Bunting, W. S., 315 South Fourth St., Wilmington, N. Carolina.

Burgess, Joseph R., Sturbridge, Mass.

Burleigh, Erwin C., Beckwith Place, Rutherford, N. J. Burrell, Mrs. Caroline C., 14 Hilliard St., Cambridge, Mass.

Bushnell, Miss Eleanor Gray, 9 Franklin Place, Morristown, N. J. Bunsmade, Mrs. N. B., Bedford Hills, New York.

Bright, Mary De Haven, Wayne, Penna.

Barnum, General Malvern-Hill, 194 St. Paul's St., Brookline, Mass.

Benchley, Robert, Jr., 2 Lindwood Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. Benchley, Nathaniel G., 2 Lindwood Road, Sarsdale, N. Y. Cameron, Miss Alice S., 34 Wellington Courts, Brooklyn, N. Y. Campbell, Joseph A., 33 Athelwold St., Dorchester, Mass.

Campbell, Mrs. Louise D., 33 Athelwold St., Dorchester, Mass.

Campbell, Mrs. Olive (Dame), Brasstown, N. C. Carlisle, Elsie, 75 Main St., Nantucket.

Carnway, Gifford Mrs., Gorham's Court, Nantucket, Mass.

Carr, Dorothy H., 129 Jenney Lind St., New Bedford, Mass.

Carri, Herman, 221 Langdon Ave., Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Cartwright, Archibald, Howard St., Nantucket.

Cartwright, Mrs. Esther B., Howard St., Nantucket.

Cash, Miss Helen, 49 Centre St., Nantucket.

Cathcart, Miss Ida, Box 584, Nantucket.

Chadwick, F. Stuart, India Street, Nantucket, Mass.

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

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

Chandler, Eleanor, 109 Adee St., Port Chester, N. Y. Chapin, Mrs. Charles L., 290 State St., Springfield, Mass.

Chase, Charles N., 968 Washington St., Stoughton, Mass.

Chase, Miss Charlotte B., 67 Hillman St., New Bedford, Mass.

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

Chase, Mrs. Annie Barker (Coffin), Pine St., Nantucket.

Clark, Miss Susan Tyler, 2050 Garden St., Santa Barbara, Calif.

Cobb, Judson W., 25 Division St., So. Manchester, Conn.

• Codd, William Fitzgerald, Orange St., Nantucket. »Codd, Mrs. Sarah E. (Marchant), Orange St., Nantucket.

Coffin, Miss Adelaide B., 15 Fairview Heights, Rochester, N. Y. •^£ 38 )&-

Coffin, Caleb, 226 East 70th St., New York City.

Coffin, Frank M., 110 Hillside Ave., Mount Vernon, N. Y. Coffin, Mrs. Delia B., 75 Willett St., Albany, N. Y. Coffin, Isa L. E., 4421 Morgan Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minn.

Coffin, Isabel P., 30 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Coffin, Mrs. Mary, Broad St., Nantucket.

Coffin, Ruth, 89 Chestnut St., E. Orange, N. J. Coffin, Seward V., 75 Willett St., Albany, N. Y. Coggins, Mrs. Estelle P., 10 Fair Street, Nantucket.

Cole, Mrs. Helen W., 45 Centre St., Nantucket.

Coleman, Miss Harriet, 2 Potter Park, Cambridge, Mass.

Coleman, Henry B., Hussey St., Nantucket.

Coleman, Dr. W. S., Room 307, Trelawny Bldg., Portland, Me. Coleman, Miss Hester E., 2 Potter Park, Cambridge, Mass.

Collis, Mrs. Lucy A., Silver St., Nantucket.

Colt, Jeanne N. (Mrs. James D.), 27 Suffolk Rd., Chestnut Mill, Mass.

Conable, Mrs. Florence (Easton), P. O. Box 154, Monrovia, Calif.

Conable, Mrs. Leska Littlefield, 356 N. Primrose Ave., Monrovia, Calif.

Conable, Major Morris E., Room 231, U. S. Court House, Portland, O. Congdon, Dr. Charles E., Orange St., Nantucket.

Congdon, Mrs. Anne (Ramsdell), Orange St., Nantucket.

Congdon, Mrs. Bessie (Gates), 31 Liberty St., Nantucket.

Congdon, Frank E., 31 Liberty St., Nantucket.

Congdon, Miss Josephine, 1 School St., Nantucket.

Congdon, Mrs. Robert, Orange St., Nantucket.

Congdon, Robert, Orange St., Nantucket.

Conklin, Julia F., 142 So. First Ave., Canton, Illinois.

Conway, Mrs. Gilford, 1000 Park Ave., New York, N. Y. Cook, Miss Emma, Box 424, Nantucket.

Cook, George, 89 Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Cook, Mrs. R. H., 75 Washington Ave., Northampton, Mass.

Coolidge, Ruth D., 7 Hastings Lane, West Medford, Mass.

Craig, Mrs. Wm. H., Baltimore, Md. Craig, Louise, Baltimore, Mr. Craig, Clarissa, Baltimore, Md. Crane, Mrs. Herbert R., 5 Chester St., Nantucket.

Craven, Miss Jessie, Nantucket.

Christell, Helen M., 10 Kathryn St., Bellville, N. J. Christell, Rita, 10 Kathryn St., Bellville, N. J. Crosby, Everett U., Orange Street, Nantucket.

Crosby, Mrs. Everett U., Orange St., Nantucket.

Cummings, Lawrence B., 130 E. 75th St., New York City.

Cummings, Mrs. Lawrence B., 130 E. 75th St., New York City.

Cutler, Earl N., 31 Headley Road, Morristown, N. J. Dana, Miss Bessie A., 80 Church St., Englewood, N. J. Davis, Herbert E., Monomoy, Nantucket.

Davis, Mrs. Edith M., Monomoy, Nantucket.

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Davis, Mrs, Marion J., 110 Riverside Drive, New York City.

Defriez, Mrs. Sarah E., 237 Washington St., Brookline, Mass.

Denton, Eugene Willis, New Hyde Park, Long Island, N. Y. Denton, Mrs. Lydia M. Garretson, New Hyde Park, Long Island, N. Y. Detrick, Miss Lillie, Blue Ridge Summit, Franklin Co., Pa. Dibble, Mrs. Annie (Hayt), 1 Park Lane, West, Mt. Vernon, N. Y. Diefendorf, Robert D., Summit, N. J. Diefendorf, Mrs. Robert D., Summit, N. J. Dillingham, Mrs. Louise G., Milburn, N. J. Ditmars, Mrs. Mary C. (Worth) Main St., Nantucket.

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

Donoghue, James W., Concourse and 161st St., New York City.

Donovan, Mrs. James J., 28 Cliff Road, Nantucket.

Dowey, M. Lyall, 232 Palisade Ave., Union City, N. J. Doyle, William B., 531 Ocean Ave., New London, Conn.

Drake, Constance, 2 Penstone Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pa. Drake, Thomas E., 2 Penstone Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pa. Duane, Miss F., 558 West Chester Ave., Poort Chester, N. Y. Dudley, Helen M., Morrow, Warren Co., Ohio.

Dunham, Harrison G., 180 Hilton Ave., Hempstead, L. I., N. Y. Edgarton, Lewis G., 84 Briarcliff Road, Rochester, N. Y. Edgarton, Mrs. Mildred G. (Coffin), 84 Briarcliff Rd., Rochester, N. Y. Edgarton, Priscilla, 84 Briarcliff Road, Rochester, N. Y. Edmunds, A. D., 1411 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass.

Eger, Mrs. Catherine (Ray), Saratoga St., Nantucket.

Eger, Oscar B., Saratoga St., Nantucket.

Ellinger, Edgar, 16 East 52nd St., New York City.

Ellinger, Blanche (Mrs. Edgar), 16 East 52nd St., New York City.

Ellis, Albert W., 24 School Street, Boston, Mass.

Ellis, Mrs. A. W., 24 School Street, Boston, Mass.

Emery, Mrs. Jennie S., (Chadwick), Milk St., Nantucket.

Ernst, Joan, Monomoy, Nantucket.

Ernst, Mrs. Margaret S., 46th West 11th St., New York City.

Ernst, Milita, 179 Pine St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Ernst, Morris L., Monomoy, Nantucket.

Ernst, Roger, Monomoy, Nantucket.

Eswald, Miss Margaret, 640 Oak St., Hagerstown, Md. Everett, Bernice J., 76 Hoyle St., Norwood, Mass.

Everett, Carol Miss, 76 Winter Street, Norwood, Mass.

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

Ewer, Nelson P., 59 Pleasant St., Nantucket.

Farnum, Miss Mary, 15 No. Water St., Nantucket.

Farrell, Florence R., Vestal St., Nantucket.

Fay, E. W., Southboro, Mass.

Fezandie, Mrs. Hector, Hudson View Gardens, 183rd St., and Pinehurst Ave., New York City.

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Fine, Dr. J., Broad St., Nantucket. k Fish, Miss Anna Gardner, Perkins Institute, Watertown, Mass.

Fisher, Mrs. D. K. Este, Ruxton, Baltimore Co., Maryland.

Fisher, Miss Lila Capen, 25 Richwood St., Boston, Mass.

Floyd, Mrs. Walter, Monomoy, Nantucket.

Fochet, Mildred, 435 W. 119th St., New York City.

Folger, Miss Annie Alden, Nantucket.

Folger, Mrs. George A., Pearl St., Nantucket.

Folger, Herbert Warren, 1723 Radcliffe Rd., Dayton, Ohio.

Folger, Lester M., 7538 12th St., N. W., Washington, D. C. Folger, Miss Ruth Angell, 146 First St., Troy, N. Y. Folger, Oliver N., Maywood, N. J. Folger, Walter W., 613 Barron St., Portsmouth, Virginia.

Fordyce, Wesley, Darling St., Nantucket.

Fordyce, Mrs. Wesley, Darling St., Nantucket. e Fowler, Percy L., Bordentown, N. J. Francis, Lewis W., 81 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Francis, Mrs. Lewis W., 81 Remsen St., Brooklyn, New York.

Franklin, Harry R., North Easton, Mass.

Fraser, Miss Emma J., Nantucket.

Frazier, Robert H., 313 W. Washington St., Greensboro. N, C. Freeman, Harrison B., 50 State St., Hartford, Conn.

Freeman, Miss Ruth, 160 E. 48th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Fuller, Mrs. Susan B., Milk St., Nantucket.

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

Gale, Harvey, 1168 Lowell Road, Schenectady, N. Y. Gale, Robert, 135 West 12th St., New York.

Gale, Mrs. Sadie M., 1168 Lowell Road, Schenectady, N. Y. Gallagher, Mrs. Robert J., 128 Chapin St., Binghamton, N. Y. Gardiner, Mrs. Alice C., Belmont, Mass.

Gardiner, Raynor M., Belmont, Mass.

Gardiner, Marshall, Main St., Nantucket.

Gardiner, Mrs. Marshall, Main St., Nantucket.

Gardner, Miss Grace Brown, State Teachers College, Framingham.Mass.

Gardner, Harrison G., No. Liberty St., Nantucket.

Gardner, Mrs. Harrison G., No. Liberty St., Nantucket.

Gardner, Herbert C., Box 47, Siasconset.

Gardner, Miss Julia M., 339 E. 78th St., New York City.

Gardner, Rev. William E., 5 Arlington St., Boston, Mass.

Gardner, Mrs. Mary Tracy, 5 Arlington, Boston, Mass.

Garland, Mrs. Hattie B., 73 Orange St., Nantucket.

Gibbs, James H., Upper Main St., Nantucket.

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

Giffin, Miss Charlotte C. N., 61 Sherman St., Hartford, Conn.

Giffin, Norman P., Nantucket, Mass.

Giffin. Thomas H., 14 Hussey St., Nantucket.

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. Giffin, Mrs. Mary E., 14 Hussey St., Nantucket.

Gill, George M. L., 187 Sherwood Place, Englewood, N. J. Gill, Mrs. Phebe Andrews (Luther), 187 Sherwood Place, Englewood.

Gill, Mrs. Sarah Pike, 187 Sherwood Place, Englewood, N. J. Gill, Phillip Lee, Jr., 187 Sherwood Place, Englewood, N. J. Glassford, Mrs. S. R., 299 Highland Ave., Ridgewood, N. J. Goodridge, Mrs. Frederic G., New Canaan, Conn.

Gordon, Elsie Mae, 70 Morningside Drive, N. Y. C. Gordon, Mrs. Harry, Jr., Polpis Road, Nantucket.

Gorman, Harrison C., 17 Gay Street, Nantucket, Mass.

Grady, Donald C., 29 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Mass.

Grant, George A., 76 Orange St., Nantucket. , Gray, Donald C., 320 Commonwealth Ave.,; Boston, Mass.

Green, Howard, Christiana, Delaware.

Greene, David J., 47 Broad St., Milford, Conn.

Greene, Mrs. Anna (Dort), 47 Broad St., Milford, Conn.

Greenman, Rev. Lyman, Harvard, Mass.

Grimshaw, William C., Fort Phoenix, Fairhaven, Mass. r Grouard, Mrs. Lena (Weymouth), 97 Bowdoin St., Dorchester, Mass.

Grosvenor, T. P., Old Westbury, Long Island, N. Y. Grosvenor, Mrs. Anita, Old Westbury, Long Island, N. Y. Grout, Mrs. John C., 194 St. Paul St., Brookline, Mass.

Gurley, Rev. Richard H., St. Martin's Rectory, Radnor, Penn.

Haines, Mrs. Arthur, Alden Park Manor, Germantown, Philadelphia.

Halbach, Mrs. E. K., Short Hills, New Jersey.

Hall, Mrs. Clarence, 19 Senior PL, Bridgeport, Conn.

Hamhly, A. Lincoln, 57 No. Main street, Fall River, Mass.

Hammond, Josephine, Main St., Nantucket.

Harris, Mrs. Richard B., 1127 East Avenue, Rochester, N. Y. Harrison, Mrs. Agnes W., South Rd., Holden, Mass.

Harwood, Miss Margaret, 23 Craigie St., Cambridge, Mass.

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

Hatch, Miss Hannah Gifford, 37 Union St., Nantucket.

Haviland, Howard R., 4410 R. C. A. Bldg., Rockefeller Centre, N. Y. Hayward, Mrs. Emma F., Centre St., Nantucket. * Hazard, Miss Bertha, 11 Nassau St., Boston.

Heard, Mrs. Reginald E., 33 Clinton Place, Hackensack, N . J. Hedge, Mrs. William R., 87 Kilby St., Boston.

Hedge, William R., 87 Kilby St., Boston.

Heins, Mrs. Mabel T., 404 E. 18th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Henry, Mrs. Frank F., 800 West Ferry St., Buffalo, N. Y. Henry, Kenneth, 507 Hancock St., Quincy, Mass.

Hesselgrove, Miss Ruth A., 66 Bradley St., Bridgeport, Conn.

Hicks, Mrs. J. Everett, 124 Bellview Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. Hill, Murray Gardner, 20 Oak Knoll Gardens, Pasadena, Calif.

Hill, Miss Pauline, State Library, Raleigh, N. C. 42 jS®-

Hiller, Miss Helen, A. W. A. Club House, 353 W. 57th St., N. Y. C. Hinckley, Mrs. Van Ingen, "Eden Hill," Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Hitchcock, Mrs. Lemuel, Siasconset.

Hirt, Eloise Sterling, 1650 Santa Maria, Glendale, Cal. Hobbs, Franklin W., 78 Chauncey St., Boston, Mass.

Hoffmeier, Miss Helen, 140 West Antietan St., Hagerstown, Md. Holden, Mrs. Harry H., Siasconset.

Holland, William, 4 Gay St., Nantucket.

Holmes, Mrs. James A., 41 Orange St., Nantucket.

Horrocks, Emily C., New Hartford, N. Y. Horrocks, Frances, New Hartford, N. Y. Howard, Frank B., 234 Main St., Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Howard, Miss Lucy V., Hussey St., Nantucket.

Hoyle, Alexander E., 248 Boylston St., Boston.

Hubbard, Thomas F., 3324 Ellerslie Ave., Baltimore, Md. Hubbard, Mrs. Thomas F., 3324 Ellerslie Ave., Baltimore, Md. Hubbard, Thomas M., 1001 Riverside Ave., Baltimore, Md. Humphrey, Ira W., Tiverton, R. I. Hunter, C. C., 90 North 17th St., East Orange, N. J. Hurst, Carl E., 40 Broad St., Boston, i Hussey, Miss Eliza Myrick, Nantucket.

Hussey, Elliot B., 134 Summit Cross, Rutherford, N. J. Hussey, John E. A., 50 Marshal St., Brookline, Mass.

Hussey, Peter M., 17 W. Chester St., Nantucket.

Hussey, Mrs. Elizabeth Chace (Kelley), 17 W. Chester St., Nantucket.

Hutton, Miss Florence Edgar, 18 Union St., Nantucket.

Inman, Annie G., 3174 W. 14th St., Cleveland, Ohio.

Jackson, Alison K., 88 Bay State Road, Boston, Mass.

Jacob, Mrs. W. H., 157 E. 72nd St., New York City.

Jaillet, Elizabeth, 110 Orange St., Nantucket.

Jaillet, Urbaine, 110 Orange St., Nantucket.

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

Jernegan, Miss Elsie, Orange St., Nantucket.

Johnson, Mrs. Belle H., Conway, Mass.

Jones, Anna M., 2475 Palisade Ave., Bronx, N. Y. Jones, Bassett, Polpis, Nantucket, Mass.

Jones, Mrs. Bassett, Polpis, Nantucket.

Jones, Frank W., 9 Lakeview Terrace, Winchester, Mass.

Judson, Miss Mary A., 178 Smith St., New Bedford, Mass.

Kayan, Mrs. Eliazbeth, Stanwick Lane, Greenwich, Conn.

Kayan, Frederick, Stanwick Lane, Greenwich, Conn.

Keally, Mrs. Mildred Taber, 28 E. 70th St., New York City.

Keech, John Scott, 31 Nassau St., New York City.

Keech, Mrs. John Scott, 31 Nassau St., New York City.

Hyde, Mrs. E. A., 105 Muchencore Rd., Rye, N. Y. <43)3r

Kellogg, Mrs. Janet Reid, 31 Bayles Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. Kellogg, Mrs. Louise Livingstone, Hussey St., Nantucket.

Kerins, Mrs. Dorothy Coffin, 53 Arthur St., Yonkers, N. Y. Keyes, Homer Eaton, 468 Fourth Ave., New York City.

Kidde, Miss Elsa A., 66 Gates Ave., Montclair, N. J. Kilburn, Clifford S., 264 County St., New Bedford, Mass.

Kilton, Miss Harriet A., 180 Power St., Providence, R. I. Kimball, Mrs. Charles P., Madaket Road, Nantucket.

King, Clarence, Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, Conn.

King, Mrs. Clarence, Silvermine Rd., New Canaan, Conn.

King, Timothy, Kingdomcome, New Canaan, Conn.

La Boiteaux, Mrs. Isaac, Byrn Mawr, Pa. Lachmann, Mrs. Norbert, 181 Edward St., New Haven, Ct. Laird, Mrs. Jessie M., 24 Bishop Road, West Hartford, Conn.

Lamson, Gardner, 310 West 72nd St., New York City.

Lamson, Miss Kate G., 14 Remington St., Cambridge, Mass.

Lane, Hazel Gardner, 394 Broadway, Chicopee Falls, Mass.

Lang, Miss Anna, 20 Pearl St., Nantucket.

Langton, Mabel Ford, 454 Waverly Place, Orange, N. J. Lapham, Mrs. Edna Capen, South Ave., New Canaan, Conn.

Lathrop, Churchill P., Norwich, Vt. Lathrop, Mrs. Mabel (Blossom), 10 Prescott Ave., Montclair, N. J. Lathrop, John Clarke, 10 Prescott Ave., Montclair, N. J. Laurence, Julia R., 1 Vestal St., Nantucket.

Lehmaier, Alan L., % Ladd & Webster, 4 East 46th St., New York.

Lewis, Dr. Frank Edward, Centre St., Nantucket.

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

Lewis, Susie, 115 Main St., Nantucket.

Lewis, Vivian M., Vice Chancellor's Chambers, Paterson, N. J. Lewis, Mrs. Vivian M., Vice Chancellor's Chambers. Paterson. N. J. Lewis, Walter C., Brookline, Mass.

Locke, John G., 1969 Alameda Terrace, San Diego, Calif.

Locke, Mrs. Isabella F., 1969 Alameda Terrace, San Diego, Calif.

Loepsinger, Albert J., 20 Abbotsford Court, Providence, R. I. Loines, Miss Elma, 3 Pierrepont Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. i Long, Miss Carrie James, Liberty St., Nantucket.

Long, Mrs. Hilton W., 2 Prescott St., Cambridge, Mass.

Longley, Harry, 83 East 2nd St., Corning, N. Y. Lord, Miss Harriet, 25 East End Ave., New York City.

Lothman, Mabel Voss, 375 So. Gore Ave, Webster Grove, Mo. Lottridge, Silas A., 43 So. Maple Ave., E. Orange, N. J. Lottridge, Alice D., 43 So. Maple Ave., E. Orange, N. J. Lougley, Harry, 83 East 2nd St., Corning, N. Y. Low, Mrs. Will H., 22 Sagamore Rd., Bronxville, N. Y. Lowden, Matthew Crosby, 143 West 15th St., New York City.

Lowell, Nathaniel E., Nantucket. < 44 ]§*•

Mack, Miss Doris M., 1 Plumb Lane, Nantucket.

Mackie, Mrs. Arthur H., 535 Lake St., Newark, N. J. Macomber, B. Prank, Tiverton, R. I. Macy, Clinton Thomas, 28 West Chester St., Nantucket.

Macy, Harriett, 509 W. 122nd St., New York City.

Macy, John Williams, 966 South Private Road, Hubbard Woods, 111.

Macy, Madeleine W., 515 W. 122nd St., New York City.

Macy, Nelson Jr., Greenwich, Conn.

Manville, C. Rollin Jr., Lawrence Park, Bronxville, N. Y. i Marden, Willard B., Milk St., Nantucket.

Marshall, Albert E., 139 Brewster Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. Marshall, Mrs. Albert E., 139 Brewster Road, Scarsdale, N. Y. t Marshall, Miss Helen, 71 Williams St., Norwich, Conn.

Marshall, Kendrie N., ISA Ware St. Cambridge, Mass.

Marshall, Mrs. Kendrie N., 13A Ware St., Cambridge, Mass.

Marshall, Thomas W., 1147 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. Marshall, Mrs. Thomas W., 1147 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. Marshall, Whitfield, 7023 Blair Road, Washington, D. C. Martin, Mrs. Charles H., Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Conn.

Martin, Mrs. Everett Dean, 107 Witherbee Ave., Pelham Manor, N. Y. Martin, Mrs. Ferrier J., 27 East 76th St., New York City.

Martin, Shelton E., Peasack, N. J. Martyne, Charles W., 82 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn N. Y. Marvel, Mrs. Helen Gardner, 2 Locke Road, West Medford, Mass.

Marvel, William Macy, 2 Locke Road, West Medford, Mass.

Mason, Edith, 8036 Watkins Drive, St. Louis, Mo. Mason, Mrs. Lydia Swain, 5319 Angora Terrace, Philadelphia, Penn.

Mason, Mrs. W. S., 8036 Watkins Drive, St. Louis, Mo. Mather, William L., Nantucket.

Mather, Ida L., Nantucket.

Maynard, Miss Julia M., 259 Mystic St., Arlington, Mass.

Meader, Miss Caroline Stewart, 862 Glenwood Ave., Avondale, Cin­ cinnati, Ohio.

Menges, Dr. Ernest H., Orange St., Nantucket, Mass.

Messick, Ottilie M., 63 Forest Ave., Riverside, 111.

Merchant, Miss Abby, 149 Grand St., White Plains, N. Y. Merchant, Miss Helen, 360 E. 50th St., New York City.

Meyer, Mrs. Edith Wells, 460 Scotland Road, So. Orange, N. J. Mifflin, Mrs. E. N., 54 Concord Ave., Cambridge, Mass.

Miller, Mrs. Henry, Siasconset.

Miller, Miss M. Louise, 66 Centre St., Nantucket.

Milliken, Mrs. Mary Alice, 303 County St., New Bedford, Mass.

Mills, Mrs. Buell P., 11 Portsmouth Terrace, Rochester, N. Y. Mitchell, Florence, 33 Water St., Medford Mass.

Mitchell, Josephine L., 33 Water St., Medford, Mass. < 45 )§«-

Mitchell, Leeds, 1515 Board of Trade Building, Chicago, 111.

Mitchell, Leeds Jr., 1515 Board of Trade Building, Chicago, 111.

Mitchell, Richard, 808 Cypress St., Greensboro, N. C. Moller, Mrs. Hans Eskildsen, 7 Pleasant St., Nantucket.

Monaghan, James, Nantucket.

Moore, Charles Everett, 11 Court St., White Plains, N. Y. Moore, Mrs. Frank W., Melrose Road, Auburn, N. -Y. Moore, Frederic Gardner, Segreganset, Mass.

Moore, Mrs. Grace Boomer, Segreganset, Mass.

Morris, William R., Lily St. Nantucket.

Morrissey, J. Frank, 590 Main St., West Warwick, R. I. Morse, Carl F. A., 237 Locust St., Danvers, Mass.

Morse, Norris H., East Northfield, Mass.

Moss, Horace A., East Northfield, Mass.

Murray, Henry A. Jr., 158 Mt. Vernon St., Boston. jiMyrick, Mrs. Lydia B. (Smith), Hussey St., Nantucket.

Mackay, George H., 47 Penniman Rd., Brookline, Mass.

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

MacKinnon, Miss Anna I., 33 Liberty St., Nantucket.

McCarthy, Eleanor G., 43 Fowler Ave., Revere, Mass.

McCormick-Goodhart, L., Langley Park, Silver Springs, Md. McDonald, H. Louise, 11 Grant Ave., Glen Falls, N. Y. McKean, Captain John, 210 Oakland Beach Ave., Rye, N. Y. McLean, Kendall S., 104 St. Botolph Street, Boston, Mass.

McMillan, Mary E., 162 Pleasant St., North Adams, Mass.

McWilliams, William J., 99 Willow Ave., Larchmont, N. Y. Nash, Francis P., Groton School, Groton, Mass.

Nash, Mrs. Francis P. Jr., Groton School, Groton, Mass.

Neill, Miss Pauline, State Library, Raleigh, N. C. Newcomb, Mrs. Lizzie, 7 Union St., Nantucket.

Nichols, Marie Jordan (Mrs. Walter J.), Hudson View Gardens, 183rd St. and Pinehurst Ave., New York City.

Nichols, Walter J., Hudson View Gardens, 183rd St. and Pinehurst Ave., New York City.

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

Norcross, Jessamine A., 76 Orange St., Nantucket.

Norcross, Mrs. Madeleine L., 76 Orange St., Nantucket.

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

Norris, Mrs. Jean (Cobb), 20 Cliff Road, Nantucket, Mass.

Norris, Mrs. Whiton, Ashburnham, Mass.

Nutt, Mrs. Glenn, 410 Fairmont St., Amarillo, Texas.

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

O'Connell, Mary B., 17 Woodside Terrace, Springfield, Mass.

Osborne, Irene, 1177 Boswell St., Topeka, Kansas.

Osborne, William E., 712 Guaranty Bldg., Indianapolis, Ind. 46 )$•

Otis, Miss Berenice, 62 Sunapee St., Springfield, Mass.

Otis, Judge Thomas, Hyannis, Mass.

Outcult, Mildred, 2 Penstone Road, Bryn Mawr, Pa. Page, Mrs. Walter G., "The Wood Box," Nantucket.

Parker, Miss Clara, Stone Alley, Nantucket.

Parker, Mrs. Lydia Bradford, Plympton, Mass.

Patten, Mrs. Carrie Macy, 602 Pineo St., Hilo, Hawaii.

Patten, Miss Elinor, 602 Pineo St., Hilo, Hawaii.

Pearson, Gardner W., 69 Chelsea St., Lowell, Mass.

Pearson, Whitman, Tewksbury, Mass.

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

Perry, Mrs. Annie Mabel, 1 Howard St., Nantucket.

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

Perry, Lawrence W., Box 535, Saxtons River, Vt. Phelan, John K., 59 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Phelan, Mrs. John K., 59 Pleasant St., Nantucket, Mass.

Philcox, Norma Hussey, 75 Jefferson Ave., Maplewood, N. J. Pickett, Harold L., 10 Fair St., Nantucket.

Pitman, Albert B., Centre St., Nantucket.

Pitman, Mrs. Charlotte (Wyer), Centre St., Nantucket.

Pivirotto, Lawrence, Pearl St., Nantucket, Mass.

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

Pollak, Mrs. Elsie E., 30 Pine St., New York City.

Pope, Mrs. Mary A., Medfield, Mass.

Porte, Lincoln, Lowell Place, Nantucket.

Post, Regis, 90 Main St., Nantucket.

Post, Mrs. Regis, 90> Main St., Nantucket.

Post, Mrs. William Combe, Boontown, N. J. Potter, Mrs. L. D., Greenfield, Mass.

Prentice, Miss Margaret, The Skipper, Nantucket.

Price, Joseph M., 35 E. 84th St., New York City.

Price, Mrs. Miriam Sutro, 35 E. 84th St., New York City.

Priest, Joseph K., 44 E. Pearl St., Nashua, N. H. Proodian, Carekin S., Centre St., Nantucket.

Prosser, Miss Harriet R., 20 Dwight Place, Englewood, N. J. Prouty, Mrs. G. Edward, Foster St., Littleton, Mass.

Putney, Mrs. Edmonds, 125 E. 63rd St., New York City.

Ratcliffe, Mrs. Frances, Nantucket.

Rawson, Dorothy, 3737 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Rawson, Miss Marion, 3737 Clifton Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.

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

Ray, Earl S., Nantucket.

Reed, William M. 2nd, "Meadowside," Dedham, Mass.

Reynolds, Mrs. Helen B., 37 East 64th St., New York City. <S{ 47

Rich, E. L., 217 Armington St., Edgewood, N. J. Richardson, William J., 500 East 18th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Richmond, Mrs. Dorothy Sharp, Nantucket.

Richmond, Helen F., 18 Fitzhenry Square, Revere, Mass.

Richie, E. William, Lewis Ave., Walpole, Mass.

Richie, E. M., Lewis Ave., Walpole, Mass.

Richer, Mrs. E. M., Lewis Ave., Walpole, Mass.

Richer, William E. Lewis Avenue, Walpole, Mass.

Ring, Miss Anne, Nantucket.

Ring, John C., Liberty Street, Nantucket.

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

Robbins, rs. Loring G., 185 High St., Pittsfield, Mass.

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

Robinson, Miss Celeste M., 115 Llewellyn Road, Montclair, N. J. Robinson, Miss Emily, 4 Martin's Lane, Nantucket.

Robinson, John H., Box 301, Nantucket.

Robinson, Captain William Appleby, Cornwall, N. Y. Robinson, Mrs. William Appleby, Cornwall, N. Y. Robinson, Mary Turlay, 171 W. 12th St., New York City.

Rogers, Mrs. A. Stewart, School St., Nantucket.

Rogers, James Cummings, Chevy Chase, Md. Rollins, Mrs. Loring G., 185 High St., Pittsfield, Mass. * Rule, George C., Gay St., Nantucket.

Rule, Mrs. George C., Gay St., Nantucket.

Runk, B. F. D., 24 North St., Greenwich, Conn.

Russell, Mrs. Adelaide T., 215 Chestnut Road, Sewickley, Penn.

Russell, Miss Isabel, 20 Newbury St., Boston.

Russell, John R., 107 Caroline Ave., Alexandria, Va. Russell, Mrs. John R., 107 Caroline Ave., Alexandria, Va. Russell, Mrs. Lucia, Greenfield, Mass.

Rust, Fred W., 1000 Washington St., Boston.

Saltus, Mrs. Rollin S., Mt. Kisco, N. Y. Sanderson, Rev. Edward F., 70 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Sandsbury, Miss Edith M., 25 Gaylord St., Dorchester, Mass.

Sangree, Carl, 2 Penstone Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pa. Sangree, Walter H., 2 Penstone Rd., Byrn Mawr, Pa. Santus, Mrs. L. W., Montclair, N. J. Saunders, Mrs. Margery, 7 Morton St., New York City.

Sautter, Mrs. Sue, 55 Prescott Ave., Bronxville, N. Y. Satler, Charles E., Main St., Nantucket.

Satler, Mrs. Charles E., Main St., Nantucket.

Schaub, Mrs. Harry P., 37 Temple Way, Summit, N. J. Schepp, Florence L., 834 Fifth Ave., New York City.

Scholl, Mrs. Harry P., 37 Templar Way, Summit, N. J. Scott, Clara A., 315 Rickey Ave., Pittsburgh, Penn.

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Scott, Mrs. William Clement, "The Crossways", Newburgh, N. Y. Scott, Mrs. W. C. Jr., R. D. 2, Newburgh, New York.

Searle, Olive M., 903 East Huran St., Ann Arbor, Mich.

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

Selden, Charles A., Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Selden, Mrs. Grace Savage, Liberty St., Nantucket, Mass.

Severance, Miss Susan, The Barnacle, West Haven, Conn.

Severance, Walter E., 1901 Market St., Harrisburg, Penn.

Sheahan, George M. (M.D.), 12 School St., Quincy, Mass.

Sherman, Miss C. B., 1430 Belmont St., Washington, D. C. Sherman, Wilbur G., 165 Campbell St., New Bedford, Mass.

Simms, Mrs. Thomas, Fells Rd., Essex Falls, N. J. Simpson, Robert C., 161 Monument St., Groton, Conn.

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

Smith, Alfred E., Federal St., Nantucket.

Smith, Mrs. Mertie H., Federal St., Nantucket.

Smith, Franklin E., 50 Congress St., Boston.

Smith, Mrs. Annie M. (Nye), 50 Congress St., Boston.

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

Smith, Mrs. Mary Eddleston, Box 235, Nantucket.

Smith, Harry E., Centre St., Nantucket.

Smith, Mrs. Harry E., Centre St., Nantucket.

Smith, Capt. Herbert P., Nantucket, Mass.

Smith, H. S., Longview Road, Port Washington, N. Y. Smith, Mrs. Lucy Coleman, Nantucket.

Snedeker, Mrs. Caroline, Centre St., Nantucket.

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

Snow, Mrs. Emma S. F., 4296 Ashland Ave., Norwood, Ohio.

Soulier, Sophie, 3958 46th St., Long Island, N. Y. Spaulding, Miss M., 83 Center Mill Road, Great Neck, L. I. Stackpole, Mrs. Alice T. (Larsen), Liberty St., Nantucket.

Stackpole, Edouard A., Liberty St., Nantucket.

Stackpole, Mrs. Laurel P., Orange St., Nantucket.

Stackpole, J. Albert, Orange Street, Nantucket.

Stanley-Brown, Mrs. Rudolph, 2123 Bancroft PI., N. W., Washington, District Columbia.

Starbuck, Mrs. Annie Whitfield, Box 124, Walloon Lake, Mich.

Starbuck, Dr. C. Leonard, 8 Ogden Ave., White Plains, N. Y. Starbuck, Dr. Joseph Clinton, 42 E. Baltimore Ave., Media, Penn.

Starbuck, Miss Isabel F., 6 Bournedale Road, Jamaica Plain, Boston.

Starbuck, Miss Margaret Coffin, 51 Carver St., Boston.

Starbuck, William, 827 16th St., Washington, D. C. Stark, Louise, 'Sconset, Nantucket.

Stern, Mrs. Alexander, 36 Crook Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Stevens, Miss Cora, 7 Centre St., Nantucket.

Stevens, Stanford H., 5 Mill St., Nantucket.

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Stevens, Mrs. William Stanford, 8-A Darling St., Nantucket.

Stevens, William 0., Pleasant St., Nantucket.

Stevens, Mrs. William O., Pleasant St., Nantucket.

Still, Mrs. Ella (Hussey), 837 Belmont Ave., Springfield, Mass.

Stitt, William, 328 W. Bedford St., New Bedford, Mass.

Stovell, Miss Maude, "The Woodbox," Nantucket.

Stratton, Mrs. Frank L., Gorhams Court, Nantucket.

Strieby, Mrs. Irene Macy, 1433 Penn Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. Strong, Austin, Apt. 7-A 125 E. 63rd St., New York City.

Strong, Mrs. Mary (Wilson), Apt. 7-A, 125 E. 63rd St., New York.

Sturzen, Miss Doris, 7 East 43rd St., New York City.

Sumner, John O. Jr., 409 Marlborough St., Boston, Mass.

Sutton, Miss Ruth, 20 Dexter St., Springfield, Mass.

Swain, Charles B., 10 Leslie Road, Winchester, Mass.

Swain, Mrs. Anna K., 191 Soundview Ave., White Plains, N. Y. Swain, Frank King, Doylestown, Pa. Swain, Mrs. William T., Dukes Rd., Nantucket.

Swartwout, Mrs. Mary Cooke, 45 Church St., Montclair, N. J. Swett, Mrs. Alton, 130 Hermosa Ave., Long Beach, Calif.

Swinburne, Mrs. Charlotte (Gardner), 3 Academy Hill, Nantucket.

Sylvester, Edmund Q., Hanover, Mass.

Symonds, Warren L., Isle La Motte, Vt. Taber, Mrs. G. H., 4114 Bigelow Blv'd, Pittsburgh, Penn.

Taylor, Frank C., 190 Kempton St., New Bedford, Mass. » Taylor, Kenneth, 15 Union St., Nantucket.

Taylor, Mrs. Margaret S., Siasconset, Mass. i Taylor, Mrs. Molly, 15 Union St., Nantucket.

Taylor, Mrs. Wm. S., 20 Newbury St., Boston.

Taylor, Huntley, Nantucket.

Taylor, Mrs. William A., 480 Chase Ave., Winter Park, Fla. Teetor, Mrs. Leora C., Hagerstown, Indiana.

Tenney, Winthrop P., 80 Maiden Lane, New York City.

Thayer, Luella M., 17 Woodside Terrace, Springfield, Mass.

Thomas, Miss Ellen W., Nantucket.

Thomas, Mrs. Florence Chase, Chester St., Nantucket.

Thompson, Miss Eliza B., 23 Pearl St., Nantucket.

Thorpe, G. E., 17 Barnard Ave., Watertown, Mass.

Thurston, Mrs. Lillian A. (Wood), 24 Hussey St., Nantucket.

Tice, Edward P., 65 Orange St., Nantucket.

Tice, Mrs. Edward P., 65 Orange St., Nantucket.

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

Tolman, Mrs. Helen M., Canton, Mass.

Tompkins, Mrs. Richard W., Grand Ave., Newburgh, N. Y. Touret, Rev. Frank Hale, Tryon, N. C. Touret, Mrs. Frank Hale, Tryon, N.C. Touret, William C., Tryon, N. C. 50

Townsend, George W., 6411 Pinehurst Road, Baltimore, Md. Tripp, William H., 165 Newton St., New Bedford, Mass.

Trescott, Mrs. Howard G., 257 South Central Ave. Wollaston, Mass.

Tripp, Mrs. William H., 165 Newton St., New Bedford, Mass.

Turner, Gordon Baker, Chestnut St., Nantucket.

Turner, Mrs. Harriett Chadwick, 72 Geargia St., Roxbury, Mass.

Turner, Harry B., Nantucket.

Turner, Miss Merle E., Nantucket.

Turner, Mrs. Grace F. (Gordon), Nantucket.

Tuttle, David F., 66 Milton Road, Rye, N. Y. Tuttle, Mrs. Isabelle (Hollister), 271 Park St., New Haven, Conn.

Urann, Mrs. Julia Macy (Wagner), 34 Gibbs Ave., Wareham, Mass, Urann, Marcus Morton, 34 Gibbs Ave., Wareham, Mass.

Urann, Maxine Macy, 34 Gibbs Ave., Wareham, Mass.

Urann, Nina Blaisdell, 34 Gibbs Ave., Wareham, Mass.

Van Pelt, Miss Emma, 77 Maple Ave., Morristown, N. J. Van Pelt, Miss S. Elizabeth, 77 Maple Ave., Morristown, N. J. Varin, Mrs. Chas .T., 9708 9th St., Ozone Park, N. J. Varney, Theodore, 100 Main St., Nantucket.

Varney, Mrs. Elizabeth P., 100 Main St., Nantucket.

Veit, Mrs. Robert, Short Hlls, N. J. Viola, W. N., 740 Joslyn Road, Pontiac, Mich.

Wagner, Max, 4 Liberty Square, Boston.

Wagner, Mrs. Wilhelmina Dexter, 14 Wyman St., West Medford, Mass, Waine, William, 51 Fair St., Nantucket.

Waine, Mrs. Grace E., 51 Fair St., Nantucket. <r Wait, Mrs. Annie (Spencer), Nantucket.

Walker, Miss Grace R., 454 Pomeroy Ave., Pittsburgh, Penn.

Walker, Miss Harriett E., 138 Hancock St., Auburndale, Mass.

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

Wallace, William, Nantucket.

Wallace, Mrs. Jouette (Lee), Nantucket.

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

Walsh, Mrs. Mary E., 600 E. 57th St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Walsh, Mrs. Wm. T., Box 197, Siasconset, Nantucket.

Walrath, Miss Vera M., 132 Wilder Terrace, Springfield, Mass.

Warner, Mrs. Arthur S., The Knoll, Florence, Mass.

Weeks, Miss Mabel F., 39 Claremont Ave., New York City.

Wheeler, Miss Elsie, 236 Grand View Bldg., Tuckahoe, N. Y. Wheeler, Miss Ruth, 236 Grand View Bldg., Tuckahoe, N. Y. Weirich, Marjorie C., 89 Crooke Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Weiss, Rev. George Parker, Valley Stream, Long Island, N. Y. Wescott, Dr. O. D., Nantucket.

West, Mrs. Ralph, 16 Quince St., Nantucket.

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Wardsworth, Mrs. Mason, New Canaan, Conn.

Wetzel, Mrs. Ada C., Pine St., Nantucket.

Whipple, Miss Nellie L., 27 East Housatonic St., Pittsfield, Mass. # Whipple, Miss Phila M., 27 East Housatonic St., Pittsfield, Mass.

Whitelaw, Ralph T., Accomac, Virginia.

Whitney, Miss Georgianna, 676 Brush Hill Road, Milton, Mass.

Whitney, Miss Rosamond, 676 Brush Hill Rd., Milton, Mass.

Whitney, Henry L., 676 Brush Hill Road, Milton, Mass.

Whitney, Mrs. Henry L., 676 Brush Hill Road, Milton, Mass.

Whittemore, Mrs. Jennie R., 96 Cedar St., Fitchburg, Mass.

Widenmann, Mrs. H. A., 124 Bellview Ave., Upper Montclair, N. J. Wilbur, Miss Fannie B., 364 Hope St., Providence, R. I. Wilbur, Miss Florence H., 364 Hope St., Providence, R. I. Wilby, Eleanor, 2632 Clearview Ave., Cincinnati, Ohio.

Wilcox, Harold, Greenwich, Conn.

Wildman, Marne, Woodbridge, Conn.

Willard, Mrs. Helen Parker, 2425 Wyoming Ave., Washington, D. C. Willauer, Mrs. Whiting, 20 Newbury St., Boston, Mass.

Willey, Leonard T., 6 Washington St., Fairhaven, Mass. t Williams, Arthur, York St., Nantucket.

Williams, Miss Harriet C., 70 Orange St., Nantucket.

Williams, Philip Adams Jr., Williams Motor Sales Co., Springfield, Mass.

Williams, Wm. Lloyd, Kent, Conn.

Wilson, Anthony, Thornshwaite, Keswick, England.

Wilson, Frederic W., Sunset Driving, Ossining, N. Y. Winslow, Mrs. Bessie (Chadwick), Nantucket.

Wolff, Mrs. Marion A., Jamaica, L. I. Wood, Arnold, 1 East 51st St., New York City.

Wood, Mrs. Etta C., 11 Gardner St., Nantucket.

Wood, Dr. George C., Hanover, N. H. Wood, James H., Nantucket.

Wood, Miss Margaret, 201 Chestnut St., Wilmington, N. C. Woodbridge, Mrs. J. Lester, 524 Arbutus St., Mt. Airy, Phila., Penn.

Woods, Mrs. Frank A., Nantucket.

Worcester, Mrs. W. W., 1109 No. Caivert Ave. Baltimore, Md. Worth, Mrs. Emma C., 15 Washington St., New Bedford, Mass.

Wright, Harrison, 236 Grand View Bldg., Tuckahoe, N. Y. Wunder, Mrs. Charles S., Pittsburgh, Pa. Wyatt, Grace, Easley, So. Carolina.

Wyer, Arthur C., Delhi, N. Y. Wyer, Louise Selden, Delhi, N. Y. Yaeger, Clem L., P. 0. Box 277, New Bedford, Mass.

Zabriskie, F. C., 344 Prospect Ave., Hackensack. N. J. 4 52