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Frederick Folger, the town clerk, signed the letter. [6] The letter addressed rumors that Nantucket had continued to trade secretly with New York City. In the following weeks, William Rotch and Samuel Starbuck were sent as envoys to Philadelphia, where in the winter of 1782 an official Agreement of Neutrality was drafted, signed, and made law. [6]
Thomas Macy was Amesbury's first town clerk; he held many town offices, and was involved in numerous land transactions. He left Amesbury in 1659 after years of conflict with local Puritan leaders, most notably over giving shelter to Quakers in this house. He became the first European settler to establish his family on the island of Nantucket.
Thomas Macy (1608–1682) was an early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and of Nantucket Island. He was born in Chilmark, Wiltshire, came over to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, and lived at various times in Newbury and Salisbury before becoming a founder of the town of Amesbury, Massachusetts. He married Sarah Hopcott (1612–1706 ...
The Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket district includes Falmouth's Precincts 1, 2, and 6, Aquinnah, Chilmark, Edgartown, Gosnold, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and West Tisbury on Martha's Vineyard; and the ...
Nantucket (/ ˌ n æ n ˈ t ʌ k ɪ t /) is an island about 30 miles (48 km) south from Cape Cod. [1] Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck and Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and County of Nantucket, a combined county/town government in the state of Massachusetts, United States. Nantucket is the southeasternmost town in both ...
The town on Nantucket Island, when it was still called Sherburne, in 1775. She moved with her family to Nantucket when she was about 15 years of age. [6] Her father, called the "patriarch of Nantucket", was one of the original English proprietors of the settlement, [7] and he was the island's first chief magistrate. [8]
From time to time between 1659 and 1662, Folger journeyed to Nantucket in order to survey it for the proprietors. [6] He was an interpreter for Tristram Coffin. In 1663 Folger moved to Nantucket full-time, having been granted a half a share of land by the proprietors, where he was a surveyor, an Indian interpreter, and clerk in the courts. [6]
Nantucket: Town Nantucket (seat) Open town meeting 14,255 105.3 sq mi (272.73 km 2) 47.8 sq mi (123.80 km 2) 1671 Uxbridge: Town Worcester Open town meeting 14,162