#nantucket

[lascitasdelashoras]

Merry whales in the log of the ship Susan, kept by Reuben Russell. Nantucket Historical AssociationPublic Domain

[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

Nantucket Christmas Tree on a Boat

[ltwilliammowett]

Possibly the wreck of the Warren Sawyer, a late 19th century three-masted schooner wrecked in December 1884 west of Surfside Beach, Nantucket

[fleur-aesthetic]

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[dk-thrive]

Daybreak. 64° F. 5:20 to 6:00 am. Sconset Beach, Nantucket, MA. (@dkct25)

[balletbunnies]

Loveshackfancy princess 🎀🥂👼🏼

[clove-pinks]

A Nantucket sailor, c. 1857 (Sea History 172)

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[andallshallbewell]

[ltwilliammowett]

Unknown shipwreck, Great Point, Nantucket, 2019

On 12 November 1895, the fragment of a shipwreck was discovered that had run aground about four miles northeast of Great Point, Nantucket. The stem of an English-built ship was visible on a shoal, with a mast with transom and rigging attached. The identity and age of the ship could not be determined to this day.

[autumncottageattic]

graymalin

[copperbadge]

My Ancestors Sure Did Hate Some Puritans

Notwithstanding the purpose of their emigration from the mother country was that they might enjoy liberty of conscience in religious matters, [the Puritans] commenced the work of persecution, and enacted laws to restrain people from worshipping God according to the dictates of their consciences. Among other restraints, a law was made, that any person, who should entertain one of the people called Quakers, should pay a fine of five pounds for every hour during which he so entertained them.

Obed Macy wrote The History Of Nantucket in 1835 and was already talking extremely justified shit about the Puritans, who left England so that they could freely persecute all other faiths.

The History of Nantucket was recommended by a couple of sites as having more information about the colonization of Nantucket and some of my family members and it's...a whole lot to read, but also I suspect cousin Obed (he's a third-cousin way back) has an extremely subtle and dry sense of humor. 

His great-great grandfather Thomas Macy, one of the first white colonists to settle on Nantucket, was also pretty fun. Thomas was called to pay the abovementioned fine because he sheltered a couple of Quakers during a rainstorm and responded thus:

This is to entreat the honoured Court not to be offended because of my non-appearance. It is not from my slighting the authority of the honoured Court, nor fear to answer the case; but have been for some weeks past very ill, and am so at present; and notwithstanding my illness, yet I, desirous to appear, have done my utmost endeavor to hire a horse, but cannot procure one at present. I, being at present destitute, have endeavored to purchase one, but at present cannot attain it....

"I'm sick and there are no horses to rent and I can't afford to buy one, so fuck off Puritans."

Anyway the court case over him sheltering some Quakers during a rainstorm drove him off the mainland and led him to sail to Nantucket with Edward Starbuck (hey 10th great-grandfather!) to settle there. Which is just...really...Yankee. Like the spirit of New England was with Thomas Macy as he told the whole-ass government, such as it was, to go fuck itself, and straight up flounced off the mainland entirely.  

[hypergamygimme]

My routine Zillow browse.. 🌊

$24, 750,000 • 9 bed, 8 bath• w/ cottage guest house

Siasconset, MA 02564

[oldfarmhouse]

Nantucket

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[dk-thrive]

Daybreak. 6:15 to 6:30 am. 71° F. Brant Point, Nantucket, MA (@dkct25)