Historic Nantucket, January 1961, Vol. 8 No. 3

Historic Nantucket

ORANGE STREET, WINTER, NANTUCKET Copied by Bill Haddon from a lithograph by Ruth Haviland Sutton

JANUARY, 1961

Published Quarterly by

NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION NANTUCKET, MASSACHUSETTS

NANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION OFFICERS President, George W. Jones.

Vice-Presidents, Miss Grace Brown Gardner, Burnham N. Dell, Stokeley W. Morgan, W. Ripley Nelson, Albert Egan, Jr., Mrs. William Mather.

Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Ethel Anderson.

Auditor, Ormonde F. Ingall.

Councillors, George W. Jones, Chairman; Richard J. Porter, Oswell J. Small, term expires 1961; Robert C. Caldwell, Alma P. Robbins, term expires 1962; Mrs. Joseph King, Mr. Herbert I. Terry, term expires 1963; Mrs. Francis W. Pease, Mr. H. Errol Coffin, term expires 1964.

Publicity Committee, W. Ripley Nelson, Chairman.

Honorary Curator, Mrs. Nancy S. Adams.

Curator, Mrs. William Mather.

Finance Committee, Stokley W. Morgan, Chairman.

Editor, Historic Nantucket, Miss Alma Robbins; Mrs. Margaret Fawcett Barnes, Mrs. R. A. Orleans, Assistant Editors.

Exhibits' Publications Committee. Burnham N. Dell, Chairman; Mrs. John Bartlett.

Chairmen of Exhibits, Fair Street Museum, Mrs. William Mather; Whaling Museum, W. Ripley Nelson; Oldest House, Mrs. Francis W. Pease; Old Mill, Robert Caldwell; Old Jail, Oswell Small; 1800 House, Mrs. Joseph King.

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

VOLUME ,8

JANUARY, 1961

No. 3

CONTENTS Nantucket Historical Association Officers

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Ruth Haviland Sutton — 1898-1960

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"Save the Steeple", an Appeal, by Dr. William E. Gard­ ner

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The Report of the Committee for the "Relief To The Dis­ tressed"

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Father Mapple's Hymn from Moby Dick

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Whaling — Extracts

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Lahaina Anchorage, by Jane Litten

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Recent Events

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Diary of William C. Folger, Edited by Nancy S. Adams .... 30 Membership Report

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Legacies and Bequests

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Sherburne House Lots — 1665

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Historic Nantucket is published quarterly at Nantucket, Massachusetts, by the Nantucket Historical Association. It is sent to Association Members. Extra copeis $.50 each.

Membership dues are — Annual-Active $2.00 ; Sustaining $10.00 ; Life—one payment $50.00.

Entered as Second Class Matter, July, 1953, at the Post Office, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Copyright, 1961, Nantucket Historical Association.

Communications pertaining to the Publication should be addressed to the Editor, Historic Nantucket, Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

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Photo by Mrs. Jeanne Reis

Miss Sutton seated, at right, in her studio, The Candle House, Nan­ tucket with her friend, Miss Yuriko Tourime, in her native dress, and Miss Nancy Brainard, a cousin, who spent the summers of 1959-60 with Miss Sutton.

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In Memoriam Ruth Haviland Sutton Nantucket lost one of its distinguished citizens and artists, and the Nantucket Historical Association lost an interested friend and member who had given of her time and talent generously for many years in the death of Miss Ruth Haviland Sutton which oc­ curred on November 25, 1960.

Miss Sutton, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, had lived and worked on Nantucket, called the island her home for nearly twenty years. Her delicate lithographs, her beautiful water colors and drawings of Nantucket scenes have traveled the world around, and have conveyed the Island's charms in delightful imagery.

Many of these pictures have become part of the permanent col­ lection in Carnegie Institute, the Library of Congress, the Ashton Collection in Springfield, Mass., the Art Institute in New Brit­ ain, Conn., and the Kenneth Taylor Galleries of Nantucket. She exhibited annually in the Sidewalk Art Show and in her studio, The Candle House, on Commercial Wharf, Nantucket. A group of her prints was selected for presentation to members of the Newcomen Society of England.

Miss Sutton had traveled extensively and her Pencil Print Notes included scenes of Florida, New York city. Williamsburg, Virginia, and Martha's Vineyard as well as Nantucket and other locales.

In 1959 Miss Sutton contributed to Nantucket's 300th An­ niversary Celebration by presenting to the public a "composite architectural arrangement of Historical items of Nantucket" which was copied for publication in our issue of July 1960 with the description which Miss Sutton wrote of her work.

Miss Sutton was a member of the Exhibits' Publications Com­ mittee of our Association and many times permitted the use of lithographs of the Nantucket scenes for Historic Nantucket.

Miss Sutton took an active part in community affairs with devoted and sincere interest; she will be greatly missed for her contribution to the community and to the Historical Association was of great value, appreciated by all.

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Save the Steeple

BY DR. WILLIAM E. GARDNER

The Christmas bell of the Baptist Church was silent on Christmas Day. Hurricanes and over one hundred years of exposure to high winds and water caused the condemna­ tion of the tottering, beautiful steeple surmounting the "lan­ tern" and "belfry".

Nantucket townsmen; se­ lectmen, bank presidents, merchants, artists and "Nan­ tucket-All" are responding to the call for $10,000 to recon­ struct the steeple, lantern and belfry, that the bell may ring again, and the weather vane wave the signals to the hun­ dreds who plan their day after a look. This steeple, compan­ ion to the golden dome of the Photo by Bill Haddon Watch Tower, has been a long time feature of the town sky line from common, beaches, and harbor.

The pastor, trustees, and people of the congregation have made the first donations. Experts from the mainland in tower and steeple construction and renewal are inspecting the condi­ tion and will recommend the most economical and long-duration replacement. The Pacific National Bank has made a generous donation and volunteers to receive all gifts and reminds donors that such gifts are possible deductions in income tax reports.

Please make checks payable to the "Save the Steeple Fund" and mail to the Pacific National Bank, Main Street, Nantucket, Mass­ achusetts.

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The Report of the Committee for the ^Relief to the Distressed" Published, in circular letter form,, 18 A7, copies may be seen at the Historical Museum, Fair Street.

Friends:—The undersigned of the town of Nantucket, having finished their labors in distribution of the bounty entrusted to them from abroad, for the relief of the sufferers by the calamitous fire of the 13th and 14th of July last, feel called upon to give an account of their stewardship.

Our first care was to send our appeals and circulars abroad, asking aid for the distressed part of our community; and from more than one hundred cities and towns we have received sub­ stantial evidence of their good feeling toward them. Your bounty has been large and well-timed;—about sixty-four hundred Dollars worth of Provisions, Clothing, Furniture and Dry Goods, have been received, and fifty-six thousand four hundred ninety-eight 53-100 Dollars in money.

In distributing what has been entrusted to our care, we have kept constantly in view the wish of the donors—"RELIEF TO THE DISTRESSED".

We have not been able to adopt any fixed rate of per centage, but have varied it with circumstances, as but few cases were alike, and our aim was rather to relieve the distressed, than to give to those who had much left, however severe their loss might have been.

The aged and infirm, to widows and other destitute females, and to orphans, we have handed out freely of your gifts, and in some few extreme cases, have nearly or quite made good their loss, when it has not exceeded five hundred dollars; than which greater amount has in no individual case been awarded.

The recipients are more than four hundred and sixty persons, of whom three hundred and fifty are heads of families; so that the whole number actually assisted is upward of thirteen hundred and fifty persons. Of the first number, three hundred and fifty six were very destitute, and a large portion of them entirely so; these received in money, forty-nine thousand, eight hundred and thirty four dollars. Those to whom the remainder was given, had little

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or no available means. Among the first named class, were eighty six persons over sixty years old, and one hundred and fifty six females, a large proportion of whom are widows.

The recipients have generally been well satisfied, and very grateful for your bounty bestowed upon them. Some few of the recipients, as we have since found, were not entitled to assistance; but while they have received it through false statements, they have also received our just rebuke.

In the distribution of your munificence, we have acted in­ dependently of the few in our community who attempted to con­ trol us. All has been done under our direction. If we have not done right, we alone are to blame. All is accounted for, and we believe we have dispensed it faithfully, and according to the best of our ability, judiciously; and conscious are we of integrity of purpose, that it will give us pleasure, at any time, to open our books to any of the donors, or give them any other information they may desire.

Friends,—your generosity and sympathy for the distresses, entitle you to our sincere thanks, and we here, for the inhabitants of Nantucket, for the recipients of your bounty, and ourselves personally, publicly and heartily tender you the same. When hundreds of families were without roof to cover them or a bed to lie upon, and very many of them without a change of rainment, —when widows and old men had been stripped of their all, and had no hope for the future, except such as were founded on the humanity of others,—it was then you so liberally and so promptly responded to the call of the distressed, bound up their broken hearts, and sent them on their way rejoicing;—and surely Heav­ en's choicest blessings will be your reward.

For our services we have charged nothing—we have received nothing; but have the approval of our consciences, and believing the course which we have pursued in dispensing what you have so liberally furnished, will not fail to secure your approval, and that of the recipients generally, and having been the instruments in your hands, of making many destitute and desponding families comfortable and happy, by whom a tear of gratitude has been shed, and from whom many a prayer of thankfulness has gone up to high Heaven;—these more than compensate for all the care which has devolved upon us, in being the almoners of your bounty.

REPORT OF COMMITTEE FOR "RELIEF TO THE DISTRESSED"

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The whole number of building's burned is upward of three hundred and sixty, and the whole amount of property destroyed about a million dollars. There was insured about three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, and there has been received from abroad about seventy thousand dollars,—leaving an actual loss of about six hundred thousand dollars.

Nantucket, January 22nd, 1847 JOB COLEMAN NATHANIEL RAND OBED SWAIN EBEN W. ALLEN WILLIAM BARNEY CHARLES G. COFFIN ALFRED FOLGER *

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"There are some that never Had a slice of Bread Particularly nice, and wide, But it fell upon the Sandy Floor And always on the Butter side."

(From the Diary of Matthew Crosby, Jr., 1861)

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Father Mapple's Hymn from Moby Dick The ribs and terrors in the whale, Arched over me a dismal gloom, While all God's sunlit waves rolled by, And left me deepening down to doom.

I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair.

In black distress, I called my God, When I could scarce believe him mine, He bowed his ear to my complaints— No more the whale did me confine.

With speed He flew to my relief, As on a radiant dolphin borne; Awful, yet bright as lightening shone The face of my Deliverer God. My song for ever shall record That terrible, that joyful hour; I give the glory to my God, His all the mercy and the power.

Herman Melville.

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W haling—Extracts The Spermaceti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address and boldness in the fisherman," Thomas Jefferson's Whale Memorial to the French Ministers—1778

"And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it?"

Edmund Burke's reference to Nantucket Whale-Fishery

1780

"My God! Mr. Chase, what is the matter ?" I answered, "we have been stove by a whale."

By Owen Chase of Nantucket, first Mate of the ship "Essex", from "Narrative of the Shipwreck of the Whale Ship Essex of Nantucket".

"Nantucket itself," said Mr. Webster, "is a very striking and peculiar portion of the National interest.. . ."

From report of Daniel Webster's Speech in U. S. Senate, 1828

"Suddenly a mighty mass emerged from the water, and shot up perpendicularly into the air. It was the whale."

From "Miriam Coffin or the Whale Fisherman".

'So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While the bold harpooneer is striking the whale!"

Nantucket Whaling Song.

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Lahaina Anchorage

BY JANE LITTEN

Six months away from Nantucket, through the icy blasts of Cape Horn and across half the Pacific, lay the little village of Lahaina on the Island of Maui in the Sandwich Islands. -Lahaina Roads, protectively encircled by the high islands of Maui, Molokai Lanai and Kahoolawe, became one of the principal anchorages of the Pacific whaling fleet. 2The first American whaling ships to visit the Sandwich Islands dropped anchor in that roadstead in the Fall of 1819. They were the Equator of Nantucket, Captain Ehsha Folger and the Balena of New Bedford, Captain Edmund Gardner. 3The ships reached Lahaina after stopping for refresh­ ments at Kealekekua Bay on Hawaii where they took a 110 barrel whale.

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same Fall two other ships sailed from New England that were to alter the destiny of the Kingdom of the Kamehamehas. One was the brig Thaddeus from Boston, October 23, 1819, bringing the first company of missionaries. The other, the Maro, sailed from Nantucket on October 26, 1819 on the important voy­ age that discovered the Japanese whaling grounds and made the Pacific a second home for the men of Nantucket, New Bedford and other New England whaling ports. The Maro visited at La­ haina and Captain Joseph Allen reported in a letter, "On the 22nd of May [1820] we took our anchors at Mowee and steered north­ west We got on Japan the later part of June We took most of our oil from Latitude 36° N. and Longitude 16.8° E. to 170° West Saw no ships while on the coast but plenty of whales. ... Left the Coast Sept. 17 for the Sandwich Islands, ar­ riving at Mowee on October 27 " The following year the Washington of Nantucket, Captain Swain, and another ship of New Bedford both obtained 1000 bar­ rels on the Japan grounds and touched at Lahaina. So the pat­ tern was set which was to bring hundreds of American whaling ships and their polyglot crews converging upon Lahaina for pro­ visions and recreation in the Spring and Autumn seasons. sThe

anchorage in the Lahaina Roadstead was a safe and spacious one and no pilot was needed in coming in. "Vessels gen­ erally approach through the channel between Maui and Molokai, standing well over to Lanai, as far as the trade will carry

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them, then take the sea breeze, which sets in during the fore­ noon, and head for town. The anchorage is about ten miles in extent along the shore and from within a cable's length of the reef in seven fathoms of water, to a distance of three miles out with some twenty-five fathoms, affording abundant room for as large a fleet as can ever be collected here."

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Lahaina that these early ships found was a small quiet village. On the landing stood a two story brick warehouse that had been Kamehameha the Great's residence, built for him by two foreigners. He lived there in 1802-3 while collecting the taxes of the Island of Maui, recently conquered by his armies. Also at the landing stood the heiau, or place of worship. In the year of the visit of the Equator, the heiau had lost its significance; for the King had died and the old gods and old tabus had been over­ thrown by the young King Liholiho. Beyond the landing, the taro patches stretched along the beach marking off the place that had formerly been sacred and tabu to women. Around the taro patches were neatly laid out huts and behind them was the mulberry and cane plantation of Mr. Butler an American, who had been induced by a gift of land from Kamehameha I to settle there.

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Stewart, one of the early missionaries, described his first view of Lahaina in 1823, . . at sunrise this morning, the wild mountains that overhang the district of Lahaina, were in distinct view, and we advanced rapidly to the anchorage. The settlement is far more beautiful than any place we have yet seen on the Islands. The whole district, stretching nearly three miles along the seaside, is covered with luxuriant groves. . . .

"The width of the district, from the sea towards the moun­ tain, is from one-half to three-quarters of a mile. The whole ex­ tent, included within these boundaries, is perfectly level, and thickly covered with trees and various vegetables. . . . There is no uniformity or neatness to be seen and almost every thing seems to be growing in the wildness of nature. The bread-fruit trees stand as thickly as those of an irregularly planted orchard, and beneath them are taro patches, and fish ponds, twenty or thirty yards square, filled with stagnant water; and interspersed with clumps of tapa tree, groves of the banana, rows of the sugar­ cane, and bunches of the potatoe and melon."

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1843 when Herman Melville arrived aboard the Nan­ tucket whaler Charles and Henry, Lahaina was no longer a quiet

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native town. It was the capitol of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the home of the ruling monarch Kamehameha III, the seat of the newly formed legislature and the site of Lahainaluna, the mis­ sion school for training leaders for the Kingdom. It was also the busiest port in the Islands, for in the decade of the forties La­ haina had 2,144 ship arrivals, almost double the number at Hono­ lulu. 9In that Spring season of 1843, there were seventeen Nan­ tucket vessels besides the Charles and Henry provisioning at La­ haina. They were: Foster, Captain Congdon; Ganges, Captain Pit­ man; Harvest, Captain Gardner; Henry Astor, Captain S. Pinkham; Hero, Captain William Chase; Lexington, Captain Weeks; Mary Mitchell, Captain Lawrence; Montano, Captain Coon; Nan­ tucket, Captain Gardner; Naragansett, Captain Coffin; Obed Mit­ chell, Captain E. Coffin; Ocean, Captain Parker; Peruvian, Cap­ tain Arthur; Three Brothers, Captain Mitchell; Walter Scott, Cap­ tain Bunker; Young Hero, Captain Brock; and Alexander Coffin, Captain Wyer.

The "wild mountains" still dominated the scene; but the settlement along the beach had changed. '°Commander Charles Wilkes of the United States Exploring Expedition said. "The Fort is the most conspicuous object in Lahaina. ... it is of little account however, as a defense, serving chiefly to confine unruly subjects and sailors." "The Fort covering an acre, had twenty foot high walls of coral block, mounted with guns of doubtful military value. It was the home of the King's garrison which numbered forty-six soldiers, nine officers and five drum players.

The drum players appeared on the Fort wall at sundown beating the drums as a signal for all seamen to return to their ships. lzAs the port regulations stated, "It shall be irregular for sailors from foreign ships to spend the night on shore without the leave of the Governor, and whoever is found on shore one hour after sun­ set, shall be put in confinement until morning and then shall be delivered to the Master of the vessel to which he belongs, who shall pay to the Harbor Master six dollars for every man thus delivered."

On one side of the Fort, a canal ran to the ocean and stretch­ ing along the canal was the open grass hut of the government market place. ,3According to port regulations, "Every master of a foreign vessel who desires the privilege of purchasing refresh­ ments for his vessel at Lahaina, shall pay to the Harbor Master, ten dollars, in return for which said Master shall be entitled to

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receive five barrels of potatoes, with the privilege of purchasing at pleasure in the market, supplies for his ship, according to the rules of the place." l4The

ships' boats apparently came up the canal to barter at the market place, for among the things forbidden to the mer­ chants by royal decree was "chasing a boat." Other things for­ bidden were: overcharging, under-selling, illicit selling, wrangl­ ing, breaking of bargains, enticing, pursuing, and greediness.

Since this royal decree was issued in 1833 by the Princess Nahienaena, she had a special word of caution to her own sex, " I hereby forbid women from going to the market enclosure, for the purpose of sightseeing or to stand idly by, they are strictly forbidden from going there."

The produce bought by whaling ships at Lahaina included: hogs, goats, bananas, melons, pumpkins, onions, squashes, sweet potatoes, turkeys, ducks, fowls and beef; but most in demand was the Irish potatoe which grew plentifully on the slopes of Haleakala. ,5Dr. Baldwin of the mission wrote, "The productions of the earth would have been abundant, had they not been carried off faster than the earth could bring them to maturity. Vessels after ves­ sels have poured in upon Maui, till it seemed as if they would carry off the soil itself."

One of the most important supplies put on by ships at La­ haina was fresh water. The watering place was a spring between the market and mission premises. The whaling crews would raft the casks in and land them on the beach, then men employed by the government would roll them to the watering place, fill them, roll them back and raft them off to the boats. On one occasion complaints about a stove cask caused the government to require the ships to fill the casks themselves. ,6Eleven whaling captains immediately wrote a letter of protest to the government, "The life of a whaler is one of hardship and toil, and upon his arrival at your port, he needs rest and relaxation, there is always suffici­ ent repairs necessary on board a ship, after his return to port from a cruise, to keep the crew employed, and besides, tis abso­ lutely necessary to the lives of the sailors that they should have liberty days, which they cannot have should you compell them to do the work formerly done by your Kanakas in rolling the casks to & from the beach & then off to the boats."

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1'Several

firms of American and British origin supplied the whaling ships with the equipment they needed to replace that worn and lost during the cruise. This equipment was not manu­ factured in the Kingdom but imported for the purpose of selling it. These firms also handled exchanges of credit and other financial ti ansactions for the whaling fleet. The Friend magazine estimated that each vessel spent $800 to $1500 per visit for equipment, pro­ visions and repairs. About $200 of this was spent on fresh veg­ etables, foods and other local produce and $600 to $1300 for (im­ ported) articles taken from the stores.

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recruited at the Islands, were Hawaiian seamen. In a three year period in the mid-forties, nearly two thousand Hawaiians shipped as seamen on foreign ships. 1 Government rules de­ signed to protect their nationals shipping on foreign ships were included in the Port Regulations; but apparently were not strictly adhered to. At Lahaina the men desiring to ship, had to receive written permission from the Governor of Maui. The government also required the following bond from the Master of the vessel, "I — Master of the ship of hereby certify that having agreed with a citizen of the Sandwich Islands to serve on board the vessel under my com­ mand, I do hereby pledge myself and said vessel in the sum of two hundred dollars to return the said to the Sand­ wich Islands within fourteen months from this date, provided said shall then be alive. . .."

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the beach beyond the canal, sat the squat coral block palace of Kamehameha III. A visitor of 1840 said, "The 'Palace' is of stone, of two stories, with a piazza running all around it, and is a very comfortable if not very magnificent one." This vis­ itor also described the manner of hospitality at the palace which was, it is said, built for the purpose of entertaining whaling cap­ tains. "The dinner was cooked and served in European style, and was eaten with hearty relish. While we were sitting at our wine, a huge bed, about twelve feet by eight, was brought in, and put in an adjoining room for us to take a 'siesta.' It was capacious enough for us all, but as I did not incline to court the 'balmy god' in such a 'permiscuous manner' (as Mrs. Cluppins says) I ac­ companied J. to the church. . . . After supper we sat till late at the table, the king conversing upon different subjects, and mani­ festing much interest in the agricultural enterprises of the for­ eigners, showing a good deal of information in regard to growing

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of sugar and silk. We retired at a late hour, threw ourselves on the big bed, and having been 'lomi-lomi'd' [massaged] by the attend­ ing natives, we pulled our tapas over our heads as a broad hint to the mosquitoes, and slept soundly till morning."

21 The church which stood at a distance mountainward of the Palace, was the first stone church built in the Islands. It was 105 by 51 feet, constructed of volcanic rock and financed by the chiefs, principally Hoapili, the Governor of Maui. Dedicated on March 4, 1832 it was, "two stories high with galleries to seat 3,000 people in the native manner, close together on the floor."

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church was only one of the results of the missionary influence that began when the brig Thaddeus landed. The mission­ ary enclosure back of the King's remaining taro patch at the landing, consisted of the homes of Rev. William Richards and Dr. Dwight Baldwin, the medical office of Dr. Baldwin, the seaman's chapel over which the blue Bethel flag flew on Sunday mornings

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The Episcopal School for girls. This building was the United States Marine Hospital until 1860.

and the two stories of the seamen's reading rooms. Some of the first donations towards the building of these reading rooms were made by men from Nantucket ships in 1833. "The subscription list shows: J. B. Coleman, Capt. (later to be Melville's Captain on the Charles and Henry), Zenas Coffin, Sundries, $4.00; E. Fisher, Capt., Atlantic, 24 small slates, $6.00; Mr. N. Hanilen, Atlantic, 12 small slates, $3.00; D. U. Coffin, Capt., Spartan, cash!

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$4.00; and C. Abrams, Capt., Congress, a firkin of butter, $6.00.

Missionary Ephraim Spaulding who had been instrumental in raising the money to build the reading room, said, "The reading rooms, especially the rooms for the masters and officers, far ex­ ceed our most sanguine expectations. It is the home for masters on shore, the only place of pleasant resort. In the piazza, they have a view of the offing, their ships at anchor, their boats passing and repassing. We are confident that no step taken by the mission at Lahaina in relation to seamen has met with such cordial ap­ probation on their part and promises such favorable results."

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at Lahaina, was the U. S. Marine Hospital, a two story coral building with verandahs running the length of both floors.

The United States consul was responsible for the sick and dis­ abled seamen discharged in Hawaiian ports. The amount of money spent by the Lahaina consulate for that purpose exceeded that of other American consulates anywhere else in the world. 25Nine days after Melville left Lahaina for Honolulu, the Acushnet, the whaler he had deserted in the Marquesas came to Lahaina. The ship discharged Thomas Johnson, a negro, one of Melville's old shipmates who died at the Marine Hospital of a "disreputable disease". Fifteen months later, Herman Melville's cousin, Pierre Francois Henry Thomas Wilson Melvill died aboard the American whaling ship Oregon and was brought to Lahaina to be buried.

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years after Melville's Lahaina visit, his friend Evert Duyckinck recorded in his diary, "A visit from Herman Melville with a picturesque account of Dr. Judd at Lahaina, making up his diplomacy from fat natives lolling in the shade. . .." Dr. Gerrit P. Judd, a medical doctor and member of the Protestant mission, had become a political advisor to Kamehameha III. 27Melville prob­ ably witnessed the annual session of the House of Nobles taking place at the Long House on the beach. This session had passed an appropriations bill and closed two days after Melville's arrival in Lahaina, 28with a speech by Dr. Judd discussing the sad neces­ sity that had caused the temporary cession of the Islands to Lord Paulet of Great Britain.

The seamen's time at Lahaina was not altogether taken up with the concerns of provisioning his ship. He found both time and energy to be a problem to the local law enforcement officers.

The presence ashore during the season of hundreds of men. anxi­ ous for pleasure enough to make up for the long months of mon­ otony and restriction, made for an explosive situation. 29In a

This picture of the Harbor was painted between 1846 and 1858.

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routine report to the Minister of Interior, the sheriff at Lahaina wrote, "... a few riots now and then, but nothing of any conse­ quence." The control exercised by the Government over the sale of hard liquor was often the key to peace and quiet. While the Islands were temporarily ceded to Great Britain grog shops were licensed by Lord George Paulet. The resultant riot is described

by Dr. Baldwin.

3°"0n Friday, the 15th, the drunken sailors rescued a prisoner from the constables and sent him on board ship—a riot which occupied all our streets for an hour or two was the consequence —stones were the missiles—the sailors began the throwing—but they did not end it. On Saturday P.M. & till dark, we had more frightened works. A party of half-drunken sailors went to the King's to take him. The King's people returned the sailors' stones with great fury, and one of his attendants knocked the leader senseless to the ground. After the riot was dispersed, he was taken to the fort—but the war went on. A chief, on horseback (I did not learn who) was assailed by the sailors with stones—the na­ tives flew to his aid, & stones flew on both sides—some skulls supposed to be broken—but none have yet proved fatal. Towards evening as the seamen gathered towards the landing, war, noise, oaths, obscenity, & hurled stones filled the air—but a party armed with swords by the authority, somewhat moderated the rage of the sailors."

This was Lahaina, the town and the anchorage well known to Nantucket men and whaling ships; for they led the way to its use as a provisioning point on their ever lengthening voyages in search of a full ship.

(Note: Buildings mentioned in this article that are still standing in Lahaina are: Dr. Baldwin's home, Dr. Baldwin's med­ ical office, the seamen's reading room and the U. S. Marine Hospi­ tal. See pictures.)

1.

Sailor's magazine, August, 1834, p. 357.

2.

Stackpole, Edouard A., The Sea Hunters, Lippincott, 1953, p. 269.

3.

Sailor's, op. cit., p. 357.

4.

Taylor, A. P., "The Versailles of Old Hawaii," in Hawaiian Historical Report, 1928, pp. 34-68.

5.

Alexander, W. D., A Brief History of the Iiavmiian People, American Bk., 1899, p. 151.

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Map of Lahaina, Maui by L. I. Duperrey, August, 1819, in Freycinet, Voyage Autour du Monde, V. II, p. 542.

7.

Stewart, Charles S., Journal of a Residence in the Sandwich Islands,

N. Y„ 1828, p. 94.

8.

Kuykendall, Ralph S-, The Haibaiian Kingdom, 7778-1851,, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1947, p. 307.

9.

"List of ships at Lahaina Maui from Jan. 1843," published by Sherman Peck, Ship Chandlery, Lahainaluna Press, 1843.

10.

Wilkes, Charles, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition, Vol. IV, Chapter VII, "Maui 1841," Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 184-5.

11.

"List of war materials in the Fort at Lahaina, 1848," Hawaii, Archives.

12.

"Port Regulations for Lahaina, Island of Maui," in Sandwich Island Gazette, October 20, 1838.

13.

Ibid.

14.

"No ke kuai," (Relating to Sales) signed by Harieta Nahienaena, Lahaina, November 5, 1833. English translation. Hawaii. Archives.

15.

Alexander, Mary Charlotte, Dr. Baldivin of Lahaina, Berkeley, 1953 p.

153.

16.

Letter to John Young Kaeo, from eleven whaling captains, Lahaina, Maui, March 29, 1851. Hawaii. Archives.

17.

Morgan, Theodore, Hawaii, a Century of Economic Change, 1778-1876, Harvard, Cambridge, 1948, pp. 80-81.

18.

Kuykendall, op. cit., p. 312.

19.

Sandwich Island Gazette, October 20, 1838.

20.

Polynesian newspaper, October 23, 1841, p. 77.

21.

Alexander, M. C., op. cit., p. 68.

22.

Sailor's, August, 1843, p. 363.

23.

Alexander, M. C., op. cit., p. 71.

24.

Kuykendall, op. cit., p. 311, Note.

25.

Leyda, Jay, The Melville Log, Harcourt, N. Y., 1951, p. 399.

26.

Ibid., p. 184.

27.

Ibid., p. 250.

28.

Judd, Gerrit P., IV, Dr. Judd, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1960, p. 120.

29.

Letter to G. P. Judd, Interior Dept., from H. Swinton, September 29, 1845. Hawaii. Archives.

30.

Alexander, M. C., op. cit., pp. 150-151.

Editor's Note:—The author, who is librarian at the Lahaina Branch

Library, has been working as part of a Maui Historical Society Committee,

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writing a historical tour guide to Lahaina. The New England-Lahaina tradi­ tion is present in her own family. Her maternal great-great-grandparents were stationed at Lahainaluna mission school from 1835 to 1843. They were the Reverend Mr. Ephraim W. Clark and Mrs. Clark (Mary Kittredge) of New Hampshire who sailed from Boston November 3, 1827, on the Parthian in the third company sent by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to the Sandwich Islands. Stafford L. Austin, her great­ grandfather was a lawyer who worked his way to the Islands aboard a whaler, leaving New Bedford in August 1849. He landed in Lahaina and later married a daughter of the Clarks'.

The author plans to continue her research and articles on this subject and hopes to visit our whaling centers in the near future—perhaps including Nantucket, and we look forward to welcoming her. She is interested in hear­ ing from persons whom she might assist, or who might assist her, in gaining pertinent material. She may be addressed: Miss Jane Silverman, Librarian, Lahaina Branch Library, Wailuku, Hawaii.

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Recent Events During the summer season (1960) many direct descendants of the original Proprietors visited the Historical Museum, Fair

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The gold medal presented to Dr. Benjamin Hussey

by Emperor Napoleon, 1807.

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Street, not only to examine the many beautiful pieces of glass and silver, and the portraits of their ancestors which have been en­ trusted to the care of the Historical Association, but they came also to bring gifts which greatly increase interest in the exhibits.

Miss Grace M. Plimpton was one of these several visitors who brought gifts of unusual interest to the Bunker, Coffin, Hussey and West families. On the preceding page are pictures of the medal presented by Napoleon to Dr. Benjamin Hussey. (The medal is one-half this size). Dr. Hussey "saved" Napoleon's army with his vaccine and this medal was given in grateful appreciation.

Dr. Hussey later brought his vaccine home to Nantucket and established an institution for giving treatment to his fellow towns­ men (on one of the small islands near Tuckernuck which no longer exists) but his medical thinking was far in advance of his day and his "vaccination" was not accepted by Nantucketers.

Miss Plimpton is directly descended from Dr. Hussey through Captain Paul West and Dr. Benjamin H. West.

Together with several other valuable gifts Miss Plimpton brought also tiny, hand lettered and beautifully illustrated books belonging to Hannah Coffin. The books are covered with the dainti­ est figured paper, are stitched with white sewing cotton with fine stitches, and are easily read even though Hannah Coffin made them in 1,806. *

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Another gift has recently come to us from Forest Macy Johnson, Bayberry Hill Press, Meriden, Connecticut. This is a small, attractive book, number 9 of a private printing, and is the copy of a letter written by Josiah Macy to his grandson, Silvanus J. Macy, 12th mo., 1867, giving an interesting history of his ex­ periences. The title of the book is "I followed the Sea". We are grateful for this most appropriate gift.

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On October 1, 1960 Retired Admiral Donald Baxter MacMillan, famed Arctic explorer and teacher visited Nantucket and gave an illustrated lectured entitled "Far North" at the High School auditorium. Admiral MacMillan is not a Nantucket native but he has visited, and lectured here several times during the past years, and his Polar Expeditions, his unique contribution to know­ ledge of the Far North gives him an honored place among citizens of our country. He began his North Polar explorations in 1908, and since that time has made many successful and productive trips.

Admiral MacMillan was born November 10, 1874 in Provincetown, Massachusetts. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College, re­ ceiving a doctorate from there in science in 1918. He is a Fellow of the American Geographical and Royal Geographical Society; gave distinguished service to this country during World War I and II. He has more than ten thousand pictures of Labrador,

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Greenland, and the Baffin Island coast lines, many of which he showed during his lecture; he has written many books including "Four Years in the White North".

The Admiral's ship "Bowdoin" was built to his specifications for his trips to the Arctic, and it brought him with his crews home safely. It is now at its last home port, Mystic Seaport, Marine Museum, Mystic, Conn. Nantucketers were indeed fortunate to have the privilege of listening to a lecture by this distinguished American explorer.

Among the Pamphlets which the Nantucket Historical As­ sociation has for sale there is an error. Please note: Quakerism on Nantucket by Burnham N. Dell may be purchased for 50c. We do not have "Elihu Coleman, Quaker, Antislavery Pioneer of Nan­ tucket" by Thomas E. Drake, for sale.

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Diary of Willam C. Folger EDITED BY NANCY S. ADAMS (Continued from October, 1960, issue of Historic Nantucket)

1835 July 27—I paid Cromwell Barnard, Jr. one dollar for cutting coat, 25c for pantaloons, 25c for vest & 33c for cutting out jacket, in all $1.83. I took the vest & cloth for a silk velvet vest to Hepzibeth Bay to make. I had let her have last evening 1 gal of oil at 90c.

She had made a pair of pantaloons for me at 75c. I got David Paddack's horse and my cart & went with uncle Barney to lot and brought home my hay at 2 loads. Lot Palmer paid me 1.25 towards the turkeys, he had paid 2 dollars in milk, we are square.

I let Lily street house at the rate of 70 dollars per annum, to Sarah B. Hiller, she paying me in advance for one quarter from this date—17.50 less 1.05 Int. dis.—16.45. She is to remove upon my selling the house if I desire it & I am to pay back all the money if it be within the month. I attended the botanical lecture at the Town Hall this evening. I bought of J. F. Macy 6 tickets for 1 dollar to attend C. Dunkins course of lectures at Atheneum on education. Attended.

Wed. 28—I signed my name to the list of members of the Young Men's Total Abstinence Society, yesterday. I worked in A. G. Bunker's lot about 2V^ hours this afternoon, hoeing up weeds.

Gave Oliver Chadwick the door formerly belonging to the front room at G. G. house. Attended the botanical lecture. Returned to Dr. Macy his census of 1830. I have a copy of it.

Thurs. 29—Gathered some currants which I took to A. G. Bunker's store to sell. I went in forenoon to Uncle Walters. Afterwards to Aaron Mitchell's garden with J. C. David the lecturer on botany.

Worked in lot three hours for A. G. Bunker, hoeing weeds.

Dec. 10—I went this evening to the Atheneum & heard Dr. Paul Swift's Introductory lecture to a course of lectures to be delivered there by several gentlemen.

Dec. 11—Making preparations to go away, wrote by mail to father stating my intention to come.

Dec. 12—Peter Folger paid me 29 dollars for my fowling piece and I gave him a receipt. I got of Aunt Elizabeth clothes she had washed for me at 50c also some she had made for me. I got last evening of Eliza the Encyclopedia Americana in 13 vols, that I

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had left in deposit with her last winter. Took over to Uncle Aaron Folger's 5 volumes of the Casket also my Diet, of Arts & Sciences in 4 vols. I also took to Uncle Aaron the 13 vols, of Encyclopedia to leave in deposit with him, also took to-day from Uncle Samuel Macy's house to Uncle Aarons, 1 china platter, 1 china punch bowl, 4 china plates, 1 Liverpool pitcher, 2 burnt glass or chine cups, 1 twisted wine glass, 1 old tumbler, 3 whalebone boxes, 1 glass preserve jar, these articles were my mothers' & I took them to uncle Aaron's for safe keeping. I have taken to Uncle Walter's and entrusted to his care a mahogany box containing my deeds and surveys, also 2 silver pepper boxes, 1 silver milkpot, 1 silver punch spoon, 1 silver tongs & half dozen large silver spoons that were mother's and half doz. that were grandfather George's, also half doz. or less that were grandfather Walter's.

I gave aunt Anna Folger half doz. silver spoons (small) marked R. F. that were my mother's. I got of Asa G. Bunker 2 penknives at each and half doz. Temperance Almanacs at 12)/2C per half doz. & 200 quills at I2V2C—total 1.12l/2C. Dec. 14—Arvin Weeks paid me for the Geography & Atlas got of me some time ago—2.25—we are square.

John Chadwick paid me my bill against him. I settled with Charles G. Stubbs his bill for father, viz: 1 tea kattle 1.25 for mending another 6c and zinc to put under stove 55c & took receipt.

Dec. 15—I settled with Hon. Samuel H. Jenks his bill of 29.70 and the credit of 18.67 leaving a balance of 11.13 which I paid him and ordered my paper sent to Hyannis. I subscribed 2.00 to a Temperance Reading Room.

I paid Aunt Elizabeth Folger 1.07 being for washing 64c and making undershirt 17c and 2 draws at 14c each.

Dec. 16—I paid yesterday to William Stubbs 50c for mending rub­ bers. Paid George W. Ewer P.M. 1 cent postage on a paper. Bought 1 skein of silk to mend devonshire pantaloons. I paid Caroline Smith two dollars for making over pea jacket. Thermometer down to 3° below zero at about 4 p.m. I deposited in Pacific Bank for safe keeping my note against Thomas Macy for Dec. 17—At home to-day writing etc. I gave E some thoroughwort or Eupatorium perfoliatum. Attended William Mitchell's lec­ ture this evening at the Atheneum (on astronomy).

Dec. 18—I bought of David Wood a pair of hip skin boots for 3.50 also a pair of india rubbers for 1.25. Paid Aunt Elizabeth for making another under shirt 17c and washing 8c.

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Dec. 19—David Joy Esq. gave me a letter of recommendation. I bought of J. & F. Lawrence & Co.; a pair of first rate horse skin gloves for 1.00 cash and bought of Francis G. Bunker 3c worth of court plaster.

Dec. 29—I paid Carman 50c to go to Brant Point and get a half barrel of whale foots, I got of David Joy and put on board of the Fenwick mail packet and to take down my trunks & other baggage to her. I left Nantucket in the Sloop Fenwick about 2 o'clock, towed beyond the ice by the Steamboat Telegraph. We anchored at Holmes Hole about 6 P.M. in a fog & calm.

Dec. 21—Left the Hole about 12 M. & arrived at Woods Hole at about y~2 past 2 o'clock P.M. Paid for passage 1.50.

I engaged Capt. J. Hatch to take me to Hyannis to-morrow and board me till then for 4 dollars.

Dec. 22—I started from Woods Hole at % after 6 A.M. for Hy­ annis in Capt. Hatch's waggon with a boy who lived with him for driver, we passed through Falmouth about 8 o'clock and thence through Mashpee by the Rev. Fish's dwelling to Cotuit & from thence by Marstons Mills to Centerville & Hyannis. Paid 10 cents for two qts of corn in Cotuit. Arrived about 1 P.M. at Hyannis, took care of the boy and the horse this night.

I got of Capt. Zaccheus Hamlin the "Visit to Texas & Texas Guide" which I had lent him & sent by the boy to Capt. Hatch at Woods Hole to lend him.

Delivered Capt. Hamblin this evening a check on the Barn­ stable bank that Wm. Coffin sent him. I let Mr. R. Kelley have 19 gals of whale foots that I had brought for him. I got it of D. Joy at 35 cts. plus 50c cost of transportation 1.00—$4.50.

Dec. 23—The boy started this afternoon for Woods Hole. Father and I went across the Cape to West Barnstable to see Mr. Whit­ man the school agent, but he had engaged another man to teach as he thought I was not coming off time enough.

Dec. 23—I bot of O. M. Hinckley in Barnstable, Smith's Arithmetic at 42 cts. and Alger Perry's spelling book 14 cts, and of Horatio Underwood Alger's Murray Grammar for 20 cts.

Dec. 24—I bot 1 cts worth of snuff at D. Hinckleys. Wednesday evening I went to the Lyceum in Hyannis & Heard the Question discussed. Again on the 30th. I went to Lyceum and heard a lecture and a discussion.

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Dec. 30—Father and I went to the dedication of South Yarmouth Congregational Church.

1836 Jan. 1—Father and I went down to the Quaker village in Yar­ mouth and crossed the bridge into Dennis, paid 8 cts in all for toll at bridge. Went to Oahoon's and I got him to tell my fortune, paid him 50 cts. I bot at Solomon Crowell's at Friends village 3 skeins of blue yarn at 27 cts—and one half yard of linen.

Jan. 2—I sold Otis Loving, Post Master 1 qt. of oil for 31 cts had let him have 1 qt. before for the same, making 2 qts in all sold— 62y<> cts. Paid 2 cents for the postage of the two numbers of the Nantucket paper up to this date. I went to Hyannis Port one day in this week.

Jan. 4—I started from Hyannis at near ten A.M. for Orleans, was in Yarmouth woods at 12 noon, crossed the second bridge into Dennis and paid 2 cts for passage. I went from Dennis to Har­ wich, passed through the village of that name by the Church and arrived at Orleans in the evening. I got to Major H. Knowles's Public House just after 7 p.m. where I put up.

Jan. 5—I went this forenoon to the Congregational Church to meet with the Barnstable County School Convention, but they did not meet till afternoon on account of there being few present on account of rain. Saw a great yellowish fox with bushy tail & white tip end. Met at 2 P.M. at the Church with the Convention & heard a lecture from Mr. Green and a discussion. Stillman Pratt vice-president in the chair. Met at 6 P.M. again with Mr. Vose in the chair, heard discussions about uniformity of books etc.

Jan. 6—Went again this morning at 9 o'clock to the Convention with S. Pratt in the chair. Charles Whipple gave a lecture on Ed­ ucation, then a discussion ensued. Met again at half past one. I had been introduced to Rev. C. Pratt, S. Williams of Brewster & J. Sanford of Dennis by Major Knowles family. Mr. Williams de­ livered a lecture on Curiousity, then discussion took place.

In the evening a lecture on School teaching by Rev. J. Orcut of Welfleet. Adjourned to meet at Rev. Mr. Williams Church in Brewster the 3rd. Tuesday in March. The duties of School Com­ mittees was discussed in the evening.

Jan. 7—I paid Major Knowles 1.75 cts. being what he asked for board. I was introduced by him to Mr. Elisha G. Perry of Welfleet.

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Took leave of the family and started at about half past nine A.M. for Hyannis via Brewster village, passed through the village, and by the cotton mill & the grain mill in Brewster & then through a long extent of wood to Yarmouth and thence to Yarmouth and thence to Yarmouth Port where I took a road to Hyannis where I arrived just after four P.M. Jan. 8—I bot of David Hinckley, Jr. 8 cts worth of snuff.

Jan. 9—I received a letter for which I paid postage of 12'/^ cts.

Jan. 10—Very stormy and has been since Monday evening last.

Jan. 12—I paid Prince Hinckley 50 cts for tapping shoes.

Jan. 13—Went to the funeral of Sally Lovell.

Jan. 14—Went with father down to Deacon Chase's to dinner and tea.

Jan. 15—Samuel W. Holbrook of Welfleet came to father's to en­ gage me to go to Welfleet to take one of the town schools for 2 months and I engaged to go for 22 dollars per month and board.

Jan. 16—I got of Richard Kelley, rope maker 4.50 that he owed me; Lent Mr. Z. B. Newman "Gurney on the Sabbath", Spanish Grammar and part 4 and 5 of the Conners Treasury of Knowledge, also the Comprehensive Atlas, he now has besides, Balbi's French geography & Sullivan's Moral Class book.

Jan. 18—I attended this afternoon the meeting of the Barnstable Temperance Society which I joined they met at the Baptist Church in Hyannis and voted not to use wine and strong beer as common drinks but only for medical or sacramental purposes.

Jan. 18—Attended a meeting at fathers house this evening, pres­ ent were Rev. D. Chessman, Deacon of the High School teachers & others.

Jan. 19—I left Hyannis in the mail stage about 7 p.m. with Wm. P. Moore for Welfleet. Arrived just after 11 P.M. at his residence in East Harwich, almost frozen as the weather was very cold. I stopped at his house that night & the next morning, breakfasted with him & started from there about 10 A.M. for Welfleet. I paid Wm. P. Moore four dollars for passage to Welfleet and 2 shillings for breakfast & lodging. Stopped at Elisha Cobbs tavern in Eastham & warmed & fed the horse & arrived at Welfleet about 4 o'clock. I went to the house of Capt. Joseph Holbrook where the

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agent Samuel Waterman Holbrook resided. I was kindly received by his lady & family & by him when he returned from his church, as he was at meeting when I arrived & they invited me to stop with them that night. I went with S. W. Holbrook & family to Rev. Stephen Bailey's Church this evening.

Jan. 21—The Holbrooks concluded this morning to board me while I resided in Welfleet. I went this day & evening to the Congrega­ tional Church to the protracted meeting.

Jan. 22—I went this afternoon to the house of Josiah Whitman, Esq. to see Samuel G. Gillman the former teacher of Center School & also to see Deacon Whitman who was one of the School Com­ mittee of Welfleet. I had seen Elisha G. Perry the chairman of said committee at Cobbs Tavern in Eastham & he told me to call on Deacon Whitman & tell him he thought it would be well for me to commence without examination. I showed Squire Whitman my recommendations from Nantucket & he thought it would be well to commence the school on Monday morning. I learnt in some measure from the teacher his method of conducting the school. I got of Squire Whitman Porters Rhetorical Reader for 70 cts and a set of Geographical Questions for 20 cts.

Jan. 24—I began my school in a very severe rain storm, had twelve scholars in the forenoon and 20 in afternoon.

Jan. 25—Had over 30 scholars—the school increased so that I had 40.

(To Be Continued)

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Membership Report This Membership report includes only changes which have occurred since June 1960.

LIFE MEMBERS Mrs. B. T. Andrews James M. Andrews Bruce A. Coffin Mr. Dexter D. Coffin, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. T. Noel Macy

Mrs. Dexter D. Coffin Roy A. Coffin Mrs. Winthrop Coffin Miss Jessie Schenk Mrs. Laurence M. Williams William A. Vawter

SUSTAINING MEMBERS Elliott F. Coffin Mr. Louis Coffin Robert C. Coffin

Mrs. Wilfred Dauphinee Mrs. A. C. Greene Mrs. Aaron G. Macy Mrs. R. R. Titus

ANNUAL MEMBERS Mrs. Lenore E. Adams Jane Ashman Clifford E. Barbour, Jr. Mr. Thurlow Barnes Mrs. H. M. Bernstein Helen L. Bieberbach Mr. Arthur Bowles Mrs. Arthur Bowles Miss Bonnie Brady Mary Frances Brown Mrs. W. Wallace Brown Donald Macy Brown Mrs. Howard H. Brownlee, Jr. D. T. Burnett John M. Carroll H. B. Chadwick Mabelle H. Chappell Philip W. Codwise John R. Coffin Grover C. Coffin Jane C. Coffin Walter K. Coffin Gaylord M. Coffin Mr. C. Carlton Coffin Mrs. C. Carlton Coffin Mrs. Leslie R. Coffin George A. Coffin Mrs. Walter Coffin Jerome Keyes Coffin

Mrs. Harold Macy Jenkins Foster Macy Johnson Ruth R. Johnson Foster Macy Johnson, Jr. Mrs. Adrian C. Keller Mrs. John S. Kerins Mrs. Eleanor Coffin Kittridge Mr. Frederick W. Korth Mrs. Ruth Harrison Kreth Major William H. Lanagan Miss Velieta Leist Miss Marjorie Leonard Capt. John J. London W. Gilman Low Capt. William T. Macy, USMC Paul Macy Mrs. Thomas Ridgway Macy Elwood H. Macy E. Herbert Macy Dr. H. Macy Maryalice Macy George H. Macy Miss Julia E. Macy C. L. Macy Dr. Dorothy Macy, Jr. Frank H. Macy Mr. J. C. Macy Mrs. J. C. Macy

MEMBERSHIP REPORT George H. Coffin Orrin Macy Irving L. Coffin Frank Macy Forrest V. Coffin Mr. Philip Malloy Patricia Coffin Mrs. Philip Malloy Miss Ruth Coffin Clark S. Marlor Ross E. Coffin Miss Zaida J. Marsh Ralph R. Coffin Miss Mary Mendonca Mrs. Lena M. Coffin Mr. Joseph Metcalf, II Mrs. Elliott F. Coffin Mrs. Joseph Metcalf, II Mrs. S. C. Coffin Mrs. Ruby Macy Moore Hector D. Coffin Mrs. S. P. Morgan Vincent Brown Coffin Mrs. Bertha Collier Andrew F. Oates Lt. (j.g.) Michael W. Conger, USCGR Susan Payette (Cal.) Eugene Ray Crichett, Sr. Susan Payette (N.Y.) Lewis H. Crossy Mrs. John B. Prizer Alfred R. Crosby Charles T. Daniels Mrs. Alan Daniels Miss Vernie McNab Darling Mr. James Porte Davis Mrs. James Porte Davis Louis S. Davidson Mrs. Clarence P. Day Mrs. Beverly A. Dettle George D. Dickey Mrs. Frank W. Disbrow Mrs. Harold E. Dyer Bradford Macy Eaton Mrs. Merle M. Esbeck William C. Euler Miss Annette Evans Miss Annebet Everett W. deWitt Folger Mr. Benjamin Franklin Folger, Jr. Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Folger, Jr. Mrs. Margaret F. Frantz

Robert M. Ray Mrs. Frank Reynols Flora T. Riedy Mrs. Albert Robb Gordon Rutherford Mrs. J. M. Rutherford Mrs. Robert L. Saville Martin Shallenberger Mrs. Blanche C. Shaw Mary Howland Sherman Mr. Stanley Smith Mrs. Stanley Smith Mrs. Manton P. Spear David Squire Terry Staples Dr. Edward B. Swain Josephine F. Theberge Mrs. Kathryn Folger Thorne Miss Carrie Thornton Mrs. N. Lester Troast Mrs. James V. Turner Roger B. Tyler

Mrs. Duressa Coffin Ganton Horace K. Goff Mrs. Lewis C. Grant

Frederic B. Viaux Anthony Vicevich

F. G. Hardenbrook Mrs. F. E. Harper Miss Inez A. Hawkes Mr. David Hecht Mrs. David Hecht James O'B. Higgins Mrs. Hazel Macy Higgins

L. B. Wallerstein Mrs. M. Johnson Walters Mr. Earl J. Weckerley Mrs. Earl J. Weckerley Mrs. John C. Wehmann Madeline Wickam Joseph Wheeler Woods

38 Mrs. Marion Coffin Hill Mr. L. Hochheimer Mrs. L. Hochheimer Esther Jane Hoffman David L. Holmes Dr. Charles A. Hugenin

HISTORIC NANTUCKET Gordon Winslow, Jr. Mrs. Verna Womble Miss Florence J. Worth Warren K. Zerbe Florence J. Zwicker

DEATHS Mrs. Julian Burdick Wellington R. Burt Mrs. H. Murray Conrad Gwendolyn Gouin Maj. Gifford H. Hallock Miss Elsa Kidde

Joseph King Capt. Davis Goodwin Maraspin Burt McConnell Mrs. Harold P. Page Ferdinand L. Starbuck Ruth Haviland Sutton

Our total active membership is 1125 and we hope to add many more members before our next report in July 1961. Life members 167; sustaining members 83, and annual members 875.

Ethel Anderson, Secretary

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Legacies and Bequests Membership in our Association proves that you are interested in its program for the preservation of Nantucket's famed heritage and its illustrious past, which so profoundly affected the develop­ ment of our country. You can perpetuate that interest by naming the Association to receive a legacy or bequest under your will which will help to insure the Association carrying on in the future. Counsel advises that legacies or bequests to the Nan­ tucket Historical Association are allowable deductions under the Federal Estate Tax law.

Legacies will be used for general or specific purposes as di­ rected by the donor. A sample form of bequest may read as follows: FORM OF BEQUEST "I give, devise, and bequeath to the Nantucket Historical Association, a corporation duly in­ corporated by the Commonwealth of Massachu­ setts, and located in the Town of Nantucket, in said Commonwealth, the sum of dollars."

Bequests may be made also in real estate, bonds, stocks, books, paintings, or any objects having historical value in which event a brief description of the same should be inserted instead of a sum of money.

Please send all communications to Miss Ethel Anderson, Secretary, P. 0. Box 1016, Nantucket, Massachusetts. Office, Fair Street Museum.

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