Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1890

by Nathaniel Philbrick

  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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