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From: "Leslie Hope" <>
Subject: RE: [Q-R] Nantucket Island Whaling = Folger, Macy, Starbuck
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:06:05 -0700
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There is also a book on this subject by Nathaniel Philbrick, himself a
Nantucket descendant, called In the Heart of the Sea: the Tragedy of the
Whaleship Essex.

Leslie Hoag Hope

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From: edna306 [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:25 PM
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Subject: [Q-R] Nantucket Island Whaling = Folger, Macy, Starbuck


Dear Listers,
Tonight I watched the Discovery Channel (ch. 31 here) and learned about
some Quakers.
The title of the program (tape, below) was Moby Dick:The True Story.

H. Melville's story called Moby Dick, they tell us, was based on some
events that actually happened to a whaling ship called the Essex that sailed
from Nantucket Island (1815?), financed by three Quakers: Folger, Macy, and
Starbuck. I think it was a hundred years (after the publication of Moby
Dick) that an account/diary/manuscript by the cabin boy, Thomas Nickerson,
was found. His story gives us details about ship life and continues after
the ship sank and the three lifeboats were filled, the details of one boat's
survival (I think it was 93 days), and the return to Nantucket and their
reception by the Quaker community.
It makes an interesting story and the beginning and the end provide some
Quaker history.

I'm not into sales--I'm into genealogy--but I do have Folgers in my
family and I remember seeing the name Macy mentioned on this list just last
week. The video is available at 1-800-473-9795 for $19.95 or contact
discovery.com

This week I have had only two letters a day on the Quaker list and none
on my Denmark list. Does anyone know if there is a problem with rootsweb?
Maybe nearly all are on vacation.

Edna Hollingsworth in CA


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