Nantucket (Mass.) -- History
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Thomas Drake letters
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-224
Overview
This collection contains three letters written between Thomas E. Drake and his wife, Constance, and Senator Edward Kennedy.
Dates:
1972-1973
"Nantucket Quakerism"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-058
Overview
"Nantucket Quakerism," written by Robert Leach, describes Quakerism in Nantucket from 1698 to 1763, and theorizes that the failure to solve the problem of common land ownership lead to the collapse of Nantucket.
Dates:
Undated.
Rodman-Rotch Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-132
Overview
The Rodman and Rotch families were New England Quakers. Samuel Rodman (1753-1835) married Elizabeth Rotch (1757-1856) in 1780. He was a successful Nantucket and New Bedford, Massachusetts, whaling merchant and clerk of New England Yearly Meeting. Elizabeth (Rotch) Rodman was a birthright member of the Society of Friends, also from a family involved in the whaling business, and active in philanthropic and reform causes. They had nine children. The Rodmans and Rotches were closely intertwined...
Dates:
1763-1865
