Patty Jo Rice spent many hours in Nantucket last winter researching the origins of the building that is now the Whaling Museum. Previously associated with Preservation Institute: Nantucket, she has her doctorate in Historic Preservation from the University of Florida School of Architecture.

AB 149. Folger and Mitchell. 1820.30. Account book in the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association, Edouard A. Stackpole Library and Research Center, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

AB 150. Walter Folger, 1777.85. Account book in the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association, Edouard A. Stackpole Library and Research Center, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

AB 402. Candle House Gilbert Coffin, 1817.26. Account book in the collection of the Nantucket Historical Association, Edouard A. Stackpole Library and Research Center, Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Byers, Edward. The Nation of Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American Commercial Center, 1660. 1820. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987.

Hedges, James B. The Browns of Providence Plantations: The Colonial Years.
Providence: Brown University Press, 1968.

Kugler, Richard C. .The Whale Oil Trade, 1750.1775,. in Publications. Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts (54): 153.73, 1980.

Macy, Obed. The History of Nantucket: Being a Compendious Account of the First Settlement of the Island by the English Together with the Rise and Progress of the Whale Fishery. Reprint of 2d ed.
Clifton, New Jersey: Augustus M. Kelley, 1972.

Warner, Oliver. 1866. Statistical Information
Relating to Certain Branches of Industry in Massachusetts for the Year Ending May 1, 1865.
Boston: Wright & Potter, Inc.

 

Other References of Interest

Chyet, Stanley F. Lopez of Newport: Colonial American Merchant Prince. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1970.

Brown, James Templeman. .The Whalemen: Vessels, Apparatus, and Methods of the Fishery.. In The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States.
George Brown Goode, ed. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887.

Clark, Howard. .The Whale-Fishery: History and Present Condition.. In The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. George Brown Goode, ed. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887.

Ellis, Richard. Men and Whales.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991.

Gardner, Will. Three Bricks and Three Brothers:
The Story of Whale Oil Merchant Joseph Starbuck. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1945.

Rotch, William. Memorandum Written by William Rotch in the Eightieth Year of His Age. New York
and Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.

Stackpole, Edouard A. The Sea Hunters: The Daring New England Whalemen During Two Centuries, 1653.1853. New York: J. B. Lippincott. 1953.

State Street Trust Company. Whale Fishery of New England: An Account with Illustrations and
Some Interesting and Amusing Anecdotes, of the Rise and Fall of an Industry Which Has Made New England Famous Throughout the World. Boston: P. Walton, Publishers, 1915