Nantucket Atheneum; architect of; destroyed by fire; distinguished speakers; Maria Mitchell, librarian; rebuilding of
Nantucket Bank robbery
Nantucket Inquirer: advertisement for History of Nantucket; on arrival of whaleships; bank scandal and Great Fire; island as summer resort; Loper; Quakers (1845); Sandwich Islanders on island; spread of civilization in South Seas; unemployment (1846); whale fishery
Nantucket sleigh ride
“Nantucket Tea Party,”
Narrative of the Essex
Narrative of the Globe mutiny
“Narrative of the Robbery of the Nantucket Bank,”
“Nation of Nantucket,”
Native Americans: agriculture; alcohol; appearance; attitude to land-ownership; burial customs; clothing; courts; debt servitude; disease; dwellings; effect on ecology; fishing; influence on English; legends; medicines; petitions; population; purchases from Starbuck store; religion; role of sexes; rumors of uprising; whaling
Natural resources, lack of
Navigation
Neeffeld, Sarah
“A Nest of Love Disturbed,”
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket Steamboat Co.
Newbury, Massachusetts
Newfoundland
New Garden (Guilford), North Carolina
New Guinea
Newtown Gate
Nickanoose
Nickerson, Thomas
Okorwaw
“Oldest House,”
Opium use
Pacific Bank
Pacific whale fishery
Paddack, Love
Paddock, Ichabod
Panic of 1837
Panjame
Parker, Theodore
Pease, Nathan
Peat
Peedee
Peonage. See Debt servitude
Philip
Philip’s Run
Phrenologists: bank scandal; looting of Indian graves
Pinkham, Alexander
Plague of 1763. See Disease
Plainfield
Pocomo
Pollard, George
Polpis: Hidden Forest of; home of John Swain; house of entertainment; F. C. Sanford’s farmland
Polynesians. See South Sea Islanders
Pond fishing
Popsquatchet Hills
Population: comparative numbers of English and Indians; control of undesirables; decline of (1875)
Portuguese: Cape Verde and Azores immigrants (1760s); Melville on; racial conflicts; in whaling
Prince, Nathan
Privateer attacks
Proprietary
Prostitution: on Bay of Islands (New Zealand); Hawaiian Islands; Nantucket
Purchase of Nantucket
Puritans: attitude toward Indians; government regulation; Nantucketers’ disenchantment with; religious intolerance; in Salisbury; settlement patterns; similarity to Quakers
Purrington, Henry
Quaise: Kezia Coffin’s home; poor farm
Quakerism abolitionism; control of behavior; decline and schisms; disownments; exemptions during colonial wars; leading families; racial discrimination; recognized by New England Yearly Meeting; in Salisbury; similarity to Puritanism
Quary, Abram
Racial discrimination
Rantom scoot
Ratliff, Robert
Removal certificates: Miami, Ohio; Milford Haven, Wales; New Garden, North Carolina
Restraining Act of 1775
Revolutionary War: arrival of Continental troops; battles in Nantucket Harbor; effect on Nantucket; “Hard Winter,” ; imprisonment of whalemen; noninvolvement of islanders; shortage of fuel; smuggling; suffering during
Rice, Randall
Richardson, John
Roof walks
Roqua
Ross, Eunice
Rotch, Benjamin
Rotch, Joseph
Rotch, William
Rotch Counting House
Russell, James
Salem, Massachusetts
Salisbury, Massachusetts
Saltworks
Sandwich Islands. See Hawaiian Islands
Sanford, Frederick Coleman
Sanford, Peggy (Coleman)
San Francisco
Saul
Saul’s Hills
Saul’s Pond
Savage, John
Schools: William Coffin and Samuel Jenks’s advocacy of; Coffin School; controversy about; exclusion of blacks; Indian; in New Guinea; Sandwich Islanders; teachers; Timothy White
Sesachacha
“Set-offs,”
Settlements, off-island: Cape Sable, Nova Scotia; Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Dunkirk, France, 163; Hudson, New York; Indiana; Lima, Peru; Mendon, Massachusetts; Miami, Ohio; Milford Haven, Wales; New Bedford, Massachusetts; New Garden (Guilford), North Carolina
Seven Years War
Sexual behavior
Sheep: abuse of; attachment to place; earmarks; effect of declining numbers; grazing agreement with Indians; grazing on common grounds; pound for; shearings; in town; use in fertilizing
Sherburne: abandonment of old town; name of town
Shimmo
Shipping, volume of (1843)
Shipwrecks: ; British Queen; on Coatue; recorded by Peleg Folger
Shoals: danger of; description of; effect on early English-Indian contact; Bartholomew Gosnold’s experience with; at harbor entrance
Shrunken heads (from Bay of Islands)
Siasconset: growth of village; home of Benjamin Franklin Folger; Sanford cottage; as summer retreat; tree plantings; whale stations
Slave trade
Smith, Irene Jaynes
Smuggling. See Revolutionary War
Snakes
South Sea Islanders
Squam
Squantum
Stackpole, Edouard
Stanton, Phebe (Macy)
Starbuck, Alexander
Starbuck, Edward
Starbuck, Mary (Coffin)
Starbuck, Mary E.
Starbuck, Nathaniel
Starbuck, Nathaniel, Jr.
Starbuck, Obed
Starbuck, Paul
Starbuck, Samuel
Steinbeck, John
Stinting rights
Stone Fleet
Story, Thomas
Straight Wharf
Summer resort. See also Tourists
Sunset Hill
Surfside Beach
Swain, John
Taumkhods
Thoreau, Henry David
Tourists. See also Summer resort
Town. See Nantucket, town of
Town meetings: during Half-Share Revolt; Kezia Coffin’s conduct during; Mary Starbuck’s conduct
Transportation: by foot; by water; effect of railroads
Trees: pre-English times; spread of elms and pitch pines
Tryworks: effect on fishery; on shore; portable
Tuckernuck Island: deed to Tristram Coffin and sons; refuge for Indians
Tupper, Benjamin
Tupper, Benjamin, Jr.
Vickers, Daniel: on debt servitude; legal plight of Indians; “of color,”
Wampanoag language; place names; in religious services; in whaling
Wamsutta (Alexander)
Wanackmamack
Waqutaquaib Pond: boundary of original deed; site of Mary Starbuck’s baptism
War of 1812:; battle between Neufchatel and Endymion; British gunboat patrol; decline in whaling; effect on population and land values; imprisonment of seamen; negotiations with British
Waterfront. See Nantucket, town of
Water power, lack of
Weatherly, James
Webster, Daniel
Wesco:
Wesco Pond. See Lily Pond
Wesco Rock
Whaleboats
Whale fishery:; community involvement in; the hunt; numbers involved in (1825); racial make-up of
Whalemen: abusive captains; African Americans; alongshore masters (1726); attitudes of Nantucketers toward; behavior of; conservatism of; importance of promotion to; “Whale-List” (1763)
Whaleships: Bedford; Charles Carroll; Equator; Essex, see Essex disaster; Favorite; Hero; Industry; Lexington; Loper; Rambler; Two Brothers; Zone
Whale sloops: description of; Grampus; Greyhound; Phebe; Seaflower
Whales: Atlantic gray (“scrag”); humpback; right; sperm
Wherfore Creek
Whippey, David
White, Susanna (Gardner)
White, Timothy
Whittier, John Greenleaf
Wigwams
Williams, Abraham
Windmills
Winthrop, John
Women, on Nantucket: ; beauty of; education of; as farmers; during Great Fire; independence of; opium use of
Wonoma
Woolman, John
Worth, Henry Barnard
Worth, George
Worth, Nathaniel
Worth, William
Wright, Helen
Yale College
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