Nantucket, A History

Date: [unknown] to 1914
Location: Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States
Surname/tag: Nantucket

Other: Massachusetts Sources

Contents 1 Nantucket, A History 1.1 Available online at these locations: 1.2 Table of Contents 1.3 Errata 1.4 Citation Formats

Nantucket, A History

• by Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow, M.D., LL.D. (1846-1917)

• Formerly Vice-President and Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain and Ireland; Life Fellow of the Royal Geological Society of Ireland; Member of the Anthropological Society of Washington, etc. Author of "Dictionary of American Indian Place and Proper Names of New England", "Heredity: A Study", etc.

• published by G.P Putnam's Sons, New York and London, 1914
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• https://books.google.com/books?id=BT8OAAAAIAAJ
• https://books.google.com/books?id=zB8lAAAAMAAJ
• https://books.google.com/books?id=jZLuBkTprdUC
• https://archive.org/details/cu31924028818008
• https://archive.org/details/nantuckethistory01doug
• https://archive.org/details/nantuckethistory02doug
• https://archive.org/details/nantuckethistory1914doug
• https://archive.org/details/nantucketahisto00douggoog
• https://archive.org/details/nantucketahisto01douggoog
• https://archive.org/details/nantucketahisto02douggoog
• https://archive.org/details/nantuckethistory00doug_0
• https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001262022
• https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/21677/

Table of Contents

• Forward
• Chapter I. The geology and phisiography of Nantucket
• Chapter II. Legends, Discovery, and Amerind, Place-Names
• Chapter III. The Aborigines
• Chapter IV. The White Settlers and the Settlement
• Chapter V. The Early Development of the Island
• Chapter VI. The Nantucket Whale Fishery
• Chapter VII. Quakerism in Nantucket
• Chapter VIII. Nantucket Records
• Chapter IX. The Nineteenth Century
• Chapter X The Nineteenth Century, continued
• Chapter XI. Some Early Dwellings in Nantucket
• Chapter XII. Eminent Nantucketers
• Chapter XIII. The Nantucket Flora
• Chapter XIV. Villages, Districts, etc.
• Chapter XV. "Quaint Nantucketers"
• Chapter XVI. Life-Saving Service and Wrecks
• Chapter XVII. The Island Steamers
• Chapter XVIII. The Newspapers of Nantucket
• Chapter XIX. In the Dredge-Net
• Chapter XX. Chronological Data, 1602-1912
• Index, Page 381

Errata

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