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Nantucket,
Massachusetts has held a unique position in
the history of our country. First sighted in
1602 by the English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold,
Nantucket was part of the New York colony until
1692 when by act of Parliament it became a part
of the Bay Colony of Massachusetts. The town,
which was first established on the north shore,
was called Sherburne, after the homeplace of
some of the settlers, but in 1795 the name was
changed to Nantucket—the island, county, and
town now claiming the name given by its native
inhabitants.
Thomas Mayhew, a merchant and Christian
missionary of Watertown and Martha's Vineyard,
had been granted title to the island in 1641 by
the English authorities then in control of all
lands between Cape Cod and the Hudson River.
Mayhew subsequently sold to the first settlers
"all right and interest that I have in the
Island of Nantucket... for and in consideration
of the sum of Thirty pounds ... and also two
bever hats one for myself and one for my wife"
(this quoted from "a true copy" of the document
that sealed the purchase, in the collection of
the Nantucket Historical Association).
Inhabited at the time of the English settlement
by some 3000 natives of the Wampanoag tribe, the
"faraway land" (as Nantucket is translated in
their language) developed into a community of
small farmers and sheep herders (the manufacture
of wool was a vital industry in colonial New
England). In addition to farming the land and
hunting small game, the natives and the
newcomers took sustenance from the waters
surrounding Nantucket, in which varieties of
finfish, particularly cod, and shellfish
abounded. So-called drift whales occasionally
washed ashore and were prized for their oil, but
by the 1690s the Nantucketers had begun to
organize whaling expeditions in small boats to
pursue the "right" whales—so-called because they
were of moderate size and slow moving and
therefore easy to catch—that passed close to
shore on their annual migrations. Whale houses
with elevated platforms were established along
the south shore, and when the spouting whales
were spotted the boats set off through the
pounding surf to capture them. They were towed
to shore and the carcasses stripped of the
blubber that would be "tried out" to extract the
valuable oil.
Deep-sea whaling began around 1715, a few years
after the first sperm whale had been taken by a
sloop blown out to sea in a gale. Oil from the
"head matter" of this gigantic creature was
found to be of a quantity and quality unmatched
by any natural or manmade product then
available. But the great sperm whale inhabited
the deepest parts of the oceans, so Nantucket
men began to make offshore voyages of fifty
miles and more, but needed to be within reach of
shore to offload their catch and have it
processed. By the mid-eighteenth century larger
whaleships were being built and became seagoing
factories, with all the equipment needed to
extract and store huge quantities of oil. For
the next hundred years Nantucket whaleships
would traverse the oceans of the world on their
legendary three-, four-, and five-year voyages
in search of "greasy luck."
Back on the island, the economy was centered on
the whale fishery, with rope-walks, cooperages,
blacksmith and boatbuilding shops, ship
chandleries, sail lofts, and warehouses.
Supporting businesses such as seamen's boarding
houses, grog shops, clothing shops, purveyors of
groceries and dry goods sprang up. When the
whaleships came back to port, their precious
cargo was sold at great profit to mainland
refineries and candlemakers, for use in domestic
lamps and street lights, and for myriad
industrial uses. Spermaceti candles, made from
the solid wax derived from the head matter, were
the finest household illuminants yet known and
accounted for some of the impressive fortunes
amassed in the industry. For almost a hundred
and fifty years — from the early 1700s to the
1840s — Nantucket was the whaling capital of the
world. As Melville wrote in Moby-Dick: "Thus
have these . . . Nantucketers overrun and
conquered the watery world like so many
Alexanders."
Throughout that period the island's political,
economic, and religious leadership was dominated
by the Religious Society of Friends — the
Quakers. Their experience of persecution, in
England to begin with and subsequently in the
New World, led them to Nantucket's shores, where
although they were not welcomed with open arms
they were at least tolerated. By the turn of the
eighteenth century the Friends, according to one
historian, "had secured a hold upon the
islanders such as no other religious
denomination had ever acquired." Their rejection
of worldliness, their spurning of adornment, and
their "lack of sympathy for anything calculated
to make earthly life happy or even pleasant" did
not prevent them from having an astute business
sense; many of Nantucket's first families — the
Starbucks, Barneys, Coffins, Macys, Folgers,
Gardners, Husseys, Colemans, Worths, and many
others — Quakers all — would be pre-eminent in
the conduct of the whaling industry.
Summer on Nantucket Island. As early as
the 1840s, rooming houses and small inns were
operating, and the "invigorating and delightful
indulgence of Sea Bathing" was being touted in
off-island newspapers by entrepreneurial types.
It was in the 1870s, however, that the first big
summer hotel was erected, and four more followed
suit over the next ten or twelve years. The war
behind them, Nantucket women opened their homes
to summer boarders, providing "large airy rooms"
and "nicely cooked bluefish" as attractions. The
town got behind the effort; "two boats a day"
was a lure. The "Season" was created, and
Nantucket has never looked back. Now one of the
most popular and attractive destinations in the
world, the present-day Nation of Nantucket is as
prosperous a little "elbow of sand," as Melville
described it, as can be found anywhere in the
world.
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