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William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Chapter 11: Nantucket County. (search)
harbor, on the borders of which the town of Nantucket is located. The history of Nantucket is verNantucket is very interesting, and its war record during the Rebellion, which is all we have now to do with, is higy honorable, and in brief is as follows:— Nantucket Incorporated as the town of Sherburn, June 27, 1687; name changed to Nantucket, June 8, 1795. Population in 1860, 6,294; in 1865, 4,830. Vhen mustered in and credited to the quota of Nantucket. 1863. December—, Voted, to authorize theney to volunteers enlisting to the credit of Nantucket, not to exceed three hundred dollars to any eviate the suffering of the sick and wounded Nantucket soldiers. 1864. At the annual election-dato the return made by the selectmen in 1866, Nantucket furnished two hundred and sixty-nine men fornavy, but those only who were inhabitants of Nantucket, and were in the military service. The townwhole amount of money raised and expended by Nantucket for State aid to soldiers' families during t[1 more...]<
William Schouler, A history of Massachusetts in the Civil War: Volume 2, Index. (search)
ield 212 M. Malden 425 Manchester 213 Mansfield 139 Marblehead 215 Marlborough 427 Marshfield 557 Marion 557 Mattapoisett 561 Medfield 504 Medford 429 Medway 506 Melrose 431 Mendon 646 Methuen 218 Middleborough 563 Middlefield 350 Middleton 220 Milford 648 Millbury 651 Milton 507 Monroe 274 Monson 310 Montague 275 Monterey 87 Montgomery 311 Mount Washington 88 N. Nahant 222 Nantucket 478 Natick 433 Needham 609 New Ashford 90 New Bedford 141 New Braintree 653 Newbury 223 Newburyport 225 New Marlborough 91 New Salem 277 Newton 435 Norton 145 Northampton 351 North Andover 229 Northbridge 656 North Bridgewater 564 Northborough 654 North Brookfield 658 North Chelsea 598 Northfield 278 North Reading 439 O. Oakham 659 Orange 280 Orleans 43 Otis 93 Oxford 660 P. Palmer
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Chapter 8: the Chardon-Street Convention.—1840. (search)
e proceedings hereafter. The clergy are out now, every Sabbath, preaching it up as a divine institution; but he who is Lib. 10.195. Lord of the Sabbath, and who is himself the true rest, will confound them. Gen. Harrison is elected President by an overwhelming majority. At the late election, the great body of abolitionists violated their solemn pledges, and voted for party. George Bradburn at the East, and John Rankin at the West, did a great deal of harm by supporting Harrison. On Nantucket, there was but one scattering vote! Poor Birney, it is estimated, has received some five or six thousand votes out of two millions and a half! The farce is equally ludicrous and melancholy. Yet the Emancipator, Friend of Man, and Abolitionist seem determined to keep it up. New organization is drooping to its death. Aside from the third-party movement in this State, it has no vitality. In our meetings, we denounce it as the worst form of pro-slavery. Rogers has his hands full in
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2, Index to volumes I. And II. (search)
and wife on G., 204; delegate Nat. A. S. Convention, 398; calls on G., 2.211; delegate to World's Convention, 354, lodges with G., 383, protests against exclusion of women, 382; on G.'s third son, 385; in Dublin, 402. Mott, Lucretia [b. Nantucket, Mass., Jan. 3, 1793; d. Philadelphia, Nov. 11, 1880], member Nat. A. S. Convention, 1.398, amends the Declaration, 407, not asked to sign it, 413; founds Phila. Fem. A. S. Soc., 417; calls on G., 2.211; speech at Penn. Hall, 216; at Non-Resistan [b. Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 28, 1785; d. Boston, June 28, 1830], career, 1.159-161; Appeal, 159, effect in Va., 160, 231, in Ga., 160; associated with G. by Cresson, 436. Father of Walker, Edwin G., 1.258. Wallcut, Robert Folger, Rev. [b. Nantucket, Mar. 16, 1797; d. Boston, Mar. 1, 1884], career, 2.422; joins Non-Resistance Society, 236, 237; calls Chardon St. Convention, 422. Walley, Samuel Hurd, jr. [1805-1877], 2.102. Walter, Lynde Minshull [d. 1842], 1.211. Ward, Joshua H.,
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 9: the beginnings of verse, 1610-1808 (search)
Boston, as literary centres, finally displaced Philadelphia. The earliest New England verse was as utilitarian and matter-of-fact as any prose. Narratives of the voyages, annals of the colonies, descriptions of flora, fauna, and scenery, written in the main for readers in the mother country, were versified merely for the sake of the jingle. Altogether this descriptive and historical verse amounts to less than a thousand lines. A Looking Glass for the Times (1677), by Peter Folger of Nantucket, derives interest from the fact that it was written by the maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin. Its four hundred lines in ballad quatrains are very bad verse, however, and, though it has been termed A manly plea for toleration in an age of intolerance, there is still question as to whether it was actually published in the author's lifetime and, consequently, whether Folger ran any risk. The most important piece of historical verse in this period was the work of the first native-bo
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
his, and one of the best of American, romances; it is the peculiar mingling of speculation and experience which lends Moby Dick (1851) its special power. The time was propitious for such a book. The golden age of the whalers was drawing to a close, though no decline had yet set in, and the native imagination had been stirred by tales of deeds done on remote oceans by the most heroic Yankees of the age in the arduous calling in which New England, and especially the hard little island of Nantucket, led and taught the world. A small literature of whaling had grown up, chiefly the records of actual voyages or novels like those of Cooper in which whaling was an incident of the nautical life. But the whalers still lacked any such romantic record as the frontier had. Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Chapter 2: the Worcester period (search)
east affected by his Arctic experiences. (N. B. The mercury fell to zero as soon as he entered the city.) About the same time Higginson reports lecturing at Nantucket: I had a nice two days at Nantucket, which is a mere scion of Cape Cod and sister of Plum Island; sandhills and marshes and sea; but I enjoyed it. The peoNantucket, which is a mere scion of Cape Cod and sister of Plum Island; sandhills and marshes and sea; but I enjoyed it. The people are all cousins. A few years ago the Coffin School went into operation and they looked round for the Coffin family to whom it was limited, and found them to include the whole island, so they made no distinction but of age. They are hospitable and sociable, as such isolated people always are; talk of the main land and the contiittle cottages, covered with honeysuckle, on a high bluff. At Siasconset they have fish-carts made like wheelbarrows, only with a whole cask for a wheel; and in Nantucket you see ladies riding in two-wheeled carts, standing up, holding by a rope to steady themselves. My lectures were very well received, only the people who had be
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Index. (search)
l, Bishop, 292, 293. Maggi, Lt.-Col., anecdote of, 212. Malbone, 253. May, Samuel, 4. Miller, Joaquin, in England, 287. Millerites, the, account of, 51. Milne, Mr., 96; invites Lucy Stone to lecture, 98. Monarch of Dreams, 335, 336. Montgomery, Col., James, in Civil War, 186, 188-91, 206-09. Morton, Edward, 115. Mott, Lucretia, 272. Moulton, Mrs. L. C., in Newport, 228; in London, 287. Mt. Katahdin, excursion to; 117-20. Murfree, Miss (C. E. Craddock), 267. N Nantucket, described, 92, 93. Nasby, Petroleum, 244. Negroes, accounts of, 183, 184, 193, 194, 197, 199, 207-21; on tactics, 203, 204. Newburyport, early, 5-43. Newport, R. I., early, 224-32, 235-74; Town and Country Club, 230, 231, 234; scenery of, 247-49. Norton, Jane, 2. O O'Connell, Monsignor, 312, 313. Ogden, Robert, Southern educational trip, 345, 346. Ossoli, Margaret Fuller, account of, 29, 30, 32. Ossoli, Count, 30. Oxford, England, Commemoration Day at, 291, 292.
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 3, Chapter 1: re-formation and Reanimation.—1841. (search)
ors diligently in the field to revive the anti-slavery organization with Frederick Douglass at Nantucket, with N. P. Rogers in New Hampshire. He begins to entertain disunion views. Alienation and hed (Lib. 12: 2, 3, 7, 8). Of the numerous meetings and conventions now instituted, that at Nantucket in August was a conspicuous Aug. 10, 11, 12, 1841; Lib. 11.130, 134. example of the glad renhe had never addressed any but his own color when he was induced to narrate his experiences at Nantucket. It was, he says, with the utmost difficulty that I could Life of F. Douglass, ed. 188 the express image of his own soul. That night there were at least a thousand Garrisonians in Nantucket! Another eye witness, Parker Pillsbury, reports ( Acts of the A. S. Apostles, p. 327): what Abby Kelley called the transcendental spirit, and who at Ms. Sept. 30, 1841, to W. L. G. Nantucket flatly proclaimed the anti-slavery organization the greatest hindrance to the anti-slavery ent
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, Chapter 33: the national election of 1848.—the Free Soil Party.— 1848-1849. (search)
except a week in Maine, he confined himself to Massachusetts, speaking in the principal towns and cities, In Maine he spoke at Portland, Bath. Waterville, Augusta, Gardiner, and perhaps one or two other points in that State In Massachusetts he spoke at Central Hall, Boston, September 14, and at other dates at Plymouth, Roxbury, Somerville, Chelsea, Milford, Newburyport, Dorchester, Amherst, Pittsfield, Great Barrington, Adams, Stockbridge, Chicopee, Springfield, Lynn, Salem, Brookline, Nantucket, Fall River, Taunton, Lowell, Fitchburg, Dedham, Canton, Worcester, and Cambridge. and on October 31 at Faneuil Hall. The speech was not written out, and no report is preserved He wrote a summary of points on a single sheet, which is preserved, and he had always with him an anonymous political pamphlet, much referred to at the time. Entitled General Taylor and the Wilmot Proviso. This also is preserved, with the numerous marks which he made upon it. The biographer has availed himself
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