Following are the Nantucket directories: The First Resident and Business Directory of Nantucket, Edgartown, Cottage City, andVineyard Haven. (Boston: T.W. Ripley, 1897). The Resident and Business Directory of Nantucket 1909. (Boston: Boston Suburban Book Co., 1909). The Resident & Business Directory of Nantucket 1914. (Boston: Union Publishing Co., 1914). The Nantucket Directory 1919. (Boston: Union Publishing Co., 1919). Lothrop’s Nantucket Massachusetts Blue Book and Directory 1927. Boston: Union Publishing Co., 1927. The NHARL has U. S. Census records for Nantucket, 1790–1930. The town of Nantucket published “Valuation and Tax Lists” in 1896, 1902, 1911, 1916, and 1922.
Rutter
Thanks to grandchildren of Mildred H. Rutter and John Wood Rutter—Lynn Rutter Petrash (with contribution from her husband, John Petrash); Jonathan Wood (Woody) Rutter; Gail Nickerson Johnson; Judy Warriner Walker; and Tucker Warriner Smith for a conversation about their family and the house at 8 Ash Street. See “A Birdcage Table” in Blue Balliett’s Nantucket Hauntings:Twenty-One Firsthand Accounts with the Supernatural (Camden, ME: Downeast Books, 1990) for tales of the resident ghost.
Boardman
Thanks to Susan Boardman for initiating the House History Program of the Nantucket Preservation Trust, and to Bill Boardman for helping to keep the present project a secret.
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