Bermuda / France / Suriname / United Kingdom / China / Finland / India / Guinea / United States / /
Currency
USD / cent / /
Event
Person Travel / Environmental Issue / /
Facility
Memorial Hospital / Murray’s Liquor Store / Mill Hill / Nantucket Atheneum / Prospect Hill Cemetery / Quaker cemetery / Bennett Hall / /
IndustryTerm
food / real estate / police car / take-out food / burial site / granddaughter-in-law / /
NaturalFeature
Cape Verdean / Cape Verdeans / /
OperatingSystem
Poseidon / /
Organization
Baptist Church / Nantucket Historical Association / Nantucket High School / Coffin School / Methodist Church / Academy Hill School / African Baptist Society / Memorial Hospital / Unitarian Church / Historical Association / Yale University / /
Person
Ida Porte / Wing Gee Der / Betsey Cary / William Porte Sr. / Emma Porte / George A. Folger / Lincoln Porte / Christina Porte / John Jacob Astor / Louis Philippe Newell / Wendell Howes / William Porte / Lena / Ezekiel Pompey / Lottie / Maria Mitchell / Charles Leung / Jonathan Paddock / William Porte Jr. / Paul Gardner / Woods Hole / Lydia (Corrington) Pompey / Daniel Whitney / Keziah Coffin Fanning / Thomas Jefferson / Christina Newell / Punqua Wingchong / Isaac Coffin / George Snell / Louis Philippe / Beulah / Ellen (Shea) Snell / Phillip Coffin / Abram Quary / Ada Clark / Estelle Coggins / Christine / William Sr. / Henry Obookiah / Anna Gardner / James Crawford / Ellen Gibbs Holdgate / Gulielma Folger / Leland Der / Crawford Porte / Sarah P. Bunker / Mabel Rosen / Ada Der / Hot Chin / Harry Der / Wing Jaa / Ning Der / Lee Wah / Ada M. (Der) Andrews / Han Leon / /
Position
Captain / custodian / President / Physician / clerk / sea captain in the China / eye specialist / bookkeeper / housekeeper and store clerk / Scientist / Officer / radio engineer / interpreter / model / ordinary seaman / Judge / social activist / /
ProvinceOrState
California / Massachusetts / /
PublishedMedium
the Inquirer and Mirror / the New Bedford Standard-Times / /
PART III. NANTUCKET AND THE WORLD’S PEOPLE Foreword Nantucket’s English settler families were not the first inhabitants of the island, nor has there ever been a time when their progeny, the “descended Nantucketers,