Nantucket is rich in history. In 1602, an Englishman named Bartholomew Gosnold first sighted the Island and then it was settled in 1659. In the late 1600s whales were found off shore and between 1750 and 1840, the Island was one of the major whaling ports in North America.
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Nantucket settlers European settlement of Nantucket did not begin in earnest until 1659, when Thomas Mayhew sold nine-tenths of his interest to a group of ...
4 days ago · It was settled in 1659, and fishing, boatbuilding, and trading were early activities. It was ceded to Massachusetts in 1692 and named Nantucket ...
The first European settler on the island, Thomas Macy, established a homestead in 1659.
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The first town, established around a natural harbor on the north shore, was called Sherburne, but that harbor silted up and by the end of the eighteenth century ...
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Long after Pilgrims settled on Cape Cod, the island of Nantucket was inhabited primarily by Wampanoag Indians, who had lived on the island for thousands of ...
Beginning with the English settlement, the faraway land, as Nantucket is translated in the Wampanoag language, developed into a community of small farmers and ...
1661 – Settlers arrive from Amesbury and Salisbury, Massachusetts. 1665 – Maddequet Ditch (canal) dug. 1671 – Town incorporated. 1672 – Town ...
Like many English settlements in early New England, the one on Nantucket began as a closed corporation put together by a group of share-holding investors.