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Away off shore

Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890

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Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890

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English
Pages
325

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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.

Published in
New York, [Nantucket, Mass.]
Other Titles
Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
974.4/97
Library of Congress
F72.N2 P47 2011, F72.N2P47 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 325 p. :
Number of pages
325

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Open Library
OL25075490M
Internet Archive
awayoffshorenant0000phil
ISBN 10
0143120123
ISBN 13
9780143120124
LCCN
2010053110
OCLC/WorldCat
695683607

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