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Subject: Fwd: "QUAKER NANTUCKET -- The Religious Community Behind The Whaling Empire"
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:56:47 -0400

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>
>This is in response two posts entitled:
>
>Re: Can
><http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/COFFIN/2006-07/1152283294>;
>Path Of Our Knowledge Be Traced To Our Ancestors?
>One by David Sylvester, and the other by Karen Eddy, with both
>dated: Fri,
>7 Jul 2006
>
>
>
>Since I've been subscribed to this COFFIN-L list since Late in 1999,
>I am
>going to post something much different than Genealogy Charts this
>time! It
>shall be a book review, somewhat in line with "Can Path Of Our
>Knowledge Ge
>Traced To Out Ancestors" of Fri, 7 Jul 2006. My material is taken
>from the
>back-jacket of the book, which is listed below.
>
>
>
>
>
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>
>"QUAKER NANTUCKET -- The Religious Community Behind The Whaling
>Empire"
>
>by Robert J. Leach and Peter Gow.
>
>
>
>"In 1702 Nantucket Island was swept by a spiritual tidal wave called
>Quakerism. In the following century and a half, Nantucket's
Religious
>Society of Friends created not only one of the world's most
successful
>Quaker communities but also a whaling empire that was the envy of
>the world.
>
>Based on Quaker records long thought lost and never before fully
>examined,
>"Quaker Nantucket" tells how this Quaker community arose, prospered,
>and
>eventually collapsed. Along the way we meet the individuals who
>built this
>remarkable community: "Great Mary" Coffin Starbuck, founder of the
>Nantucket Quaker Meeting; the self-destructive reformer David
Gardner;
>whaling magnate William Rotch; and Eunice Paddack, the "last
>"Quaker," who
>died in 1900. We also learn of the men and women who kept Quakerism
>alive
>on Nantucket to this day.
>
>"Quaker Nantucket" explores the role of religion in defining one of
>America's most fascinating societies. Insatiable whale killers,
>stubborn
>pacifists, intolerant neighbors, and passionate abolitionist,
>Nantucket's
>Quaker's were quintessentially American phenomenon."
>
>
>
>A Scholar and an educator who has been a visitor to Nantucket since
>1923,
>Robert J. Leach has been a member of the Religious Society of
>Friends for
>sixty years. He is the author of many articles and lectures on the
>island's
>Quaker heritage."
>
>"Peter Gow has been a contributor and editor on numerous projects
>relating
>to Nantucket history and maritime culture. He has also been a
>teacher of
>history for more than twenty-five years.
>
>
>
>Mill Hill Press & Publisher
>
>Nantucket Island, Massachusetts 02554
>
>ISBN 0-9612984-0-5
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>I refer you to pages 97 - 108, a chapter entitled: "Tightening
>Discipline"
>- a paragraph from page 101:
>
>
>
>"Since strategic use of the elaborate Quaker "passport" system
was made
>again in 1767, when William Hunt, founder of New Garden Meeting in
>North
>Carolina, appeared to Nantucket with a colleague. Hunt, it
seemed, was
>eager to recruit new members to his community. As recently as 1761,
>Nantucketers had been hearing a similar message from Henry Stanton
>concerning the Carolina coast, and in 1764 William Barnard, his wife
>and
>seven children had moved -- without certificates -- to New Garden.
>When it
>appeared that other members were reacting favorably to Hunt's
>appeal, the
>leadership of the meeting took an unprecedented step of refusing to
>endorse
>his credentials. In essence, Hunt and his minister companion,
>Zachariah
>Dicks, were not to be treated as ministers or even as Friends in good
>standing."
>
> ---(Continues on into next paragraph)
>
>
>
>
>
>Editorial by Violet: I wish to point out that William Barnard's
>wife was
>Mary Coffin, granddaughter of LT John & Deborah (Austin) Coffin of
>Martha's
>Vineyard. Mary Barnard's parent's where Samuel & Miriam (Gardner)
>Coffin,
>which makes Mary a sister of my 4G-Gandparents, William Coffin &
>Priscilla
>(Paddock) Coffin, Nantucket MM, MA>New Garden MM, NC in 1773; and
their
>entire family, including married adults with children migrated to
>Guilford
>County, NC, 1771-1773. The migration is believed to begin in 1771
>with Libni
>Coffin & family as the first -- Libni is son of William &
>Priscilla.. The
>entire migration of Nantucket, MA to Guilford County, NC was from
>1771-1791.
>It is believed that the bulk of Coffin migration from NC>IN -->"
>Westward
>Ho" are descendents of my William & Priscilla (Paddock) Coffin.
>
>
>
>If you wish to review more books about Nantucket and its early
>settlers,
>please click on
><http://www.feliixplace.com/mass/nantucketlookups.html>;
>Nantucket Lookups .
>
>
>
>
>
>Violet Moore Guy
>
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>
>07/11/2006
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