Map of the town of Nantucket, 1858
Rev. F.C. Ewer's map of Nantucket, 1869
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