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Away off shore: Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890
2011, Penguin Books, Published in association with Mill Hill Press
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Table of Contents
An island and its altar
Native origins : Maushop, Roqua, Wonoma, and Autopscot
Thomas Macy's great escape
Tristram Coffin, country squire
"An island full of Indians" : King Philip, John Gibbs, and Peter Folger
Gardner versus Coffin : the revolt
The whaling legacy of Ichabod Paddock
Mary Starbuck, high priestess of the company store
Richard Macy, the master builder
Of God, Indians, and getting by : the hireling, Timothy White
Peleg Folger, the poet whaleman
Kezia Coffin's revolutionary rise and fall
The "removals" : from Jethro Coffin to William Rotch
A "nest of love" no longer : William Coffin and the bank, commons, and school wars
The golden boy and the dark man : Obed Starbuck and George Pollard
Absalom Boston and Abram Quary : "of color" on the Grey Lady
Maria Mitchell, the provincial cosmopolitan
F.C. Sanford, the mythmaker
Epilogue.
Edition Notes
"First published in the United States of America by Mill Hill Press 1994"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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