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| Birth |
Abt 1604 |
Drycot, Derbyshire, England [2] |
| Sex |
Male |
| Died |
4 Feb 1689/90 |
Nantucket, MA [3] |
| Person ID |
I13641 |
chambersboothe |
| Last Modified |
18 Aug 2006 |
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| Family 1 |
REYNOLDS Catherine, b. Abt 1615 |
| Married |
1636 [4] |
| Children |
| > | 1. STARBUCK Sarah, b. Abt 1630 |
| > | 2. STARBUCK Dorcas, b. Abt 1631, Dover, Strafford, NH |
| | 3. STARBUCK Leach, b. Abt 1633 |
| > | 4. STARBUCK Abigail, b. Abt 1634 |
| > | 5. STARBUCK Nathaniel Sr., b. 20 Feb 1633/34, Dover, Strafford, NH |
| | 6. STARBUCK Esther, b. Aft 1640, Dover, Strafford, NH |
| | 7. STARBUCK Jethro, b. 1651, Dover, Strafford, NH |
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| Group Sheet |
F3504 |
chambersboothe |
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| Notes |
- [Painter lineage.FTW]
Edward~ Starbuck born say 1604, Derbyshire Co, England, married Katherine~ Reynolds, born Wales [?], died Dover, Strafford Co, New Hampshire. Edward~ died 4 Feb 1690, Nantucket, Nantucket Co, Massachusetts. Edward Starbuck immigrated in 1635 to Dover, Strafford County, New Hampshire. (then a part of the Province of Massachusetts). Edward being a respected citizen of Dover, but having "embraced Baptist sentiments" brought him legal difficulties, and in 1659 Edward Starbuck along with Thomas Macy and his family, James Coffin (age 19), Isaac Coleman (boy of 12) sailed to the Island of Nantucket. "The next spring" Edward returned to Dover to get his family and moved permanently to Nantucket. Edward died at age ±86. "Dover's, Early settlers" does not mention his daughter Shuah, but "Noyes" does. No proof has been found for the maiden name "Reynolds." [Noyes].
References: Genealogical Items relating to the Early Settlers of Dover, New Hampshire. NEHGR. vol. 8, pg. 68 and 129; Noyes, Libby and Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., 1979; Alexander Starbuck's History of Nantucket.
Settlement on Nantucket
The first white settlers on Nantucket were Thomas Macy and his family; Edward Starbuck; Isaac Coleman; and James Coffin, Tristram's son. Tristram's other children were Peter, Tristram Jr., John, Mary (who married Nathaniel Starbuck) and Elizabeth, who married Stephen Greenleaf on November 13 1651. Tristram built a home near Capaum Pond, and lived there until his death.
In 1600 there were approximately 2500 natives on Nantucket, all belonging to the Pokanoket nation. At the time of white settlement, in 1660, they lived in four villages, the two largest headed by Wanachmamak and Nickanoose, and the others headed by Attapehat and Spotso. They belonged to the Algonquian language group and subsisted on maize, beans, squash, hunting, fishing, and gathering. Politically, they were allied with the Wampanoag or Pokanoket of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, under the leadership of Massasoit.
Most sources describe the goodwill between the native Nantucket Indians and the settlers. In fact, it was the Indians who introduced the settlers to the whale fishery that sustained them for several generations. When a small right whale came into the harbor in 1672 they showed the settlers how to catch it with a harpoon. In Nantucket: The Far-Away Island (Dodd, Mead & Co. 1937), William Stevens writes,
Unfortunately, not much is known about these Indians. Nobody knows whether they were few or many. It is a credit to both races, however, that they got along together as good neighbors. When King Philip visited the island to incite the Indians to join his revolt against the whites, they refused. And the whites managed to save an Indian that Philip was determined to slay, one "John Gibbs," who later was sent to Harvard to be educated.
The Nantucket Indians were quick to convert to Christianity. Many were employed by white settlers, including Tristram. Gradually, they succumbed to disease and alcohol:
The Indians became troublesome only after they had learned to drink rum. The early court records are mainly devoted to trials, convictions and sentences of Indians to be whipped for getting drunk and for petty larcenies, and of fines imposed upon white men and women for selling rum to Indians. ... . The letter of Thomas Macy to Governor Lovelace, 9 May 1676 shows the fear of the Indians if strong drink was allowed to be sold to them and he asked the Governor to prohibit any ship coming into the harbor from selling strong drink to Indians: "Sir, concerning the Peace we hitherto enjoy, I cannot imagine it could have bin if strong Liquor had bin among the Indians, as formerly: for my owne yt I have been to ye utmost an opposed of the Trade these 38 yeares, and I verily believe (respecting the Indians) tis the only Ground of the miserable psent Ruine to both Nations; for tis that hath kept them from Civility, they have been the drunken Trade kept all the while like wild Beares and Wolves in the Wildernesse." [The Coffin Family p.49; from http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9210/COFFIN.htm.]
Epidemics in 1616-19 devastated the native population of Nantucket. The last Nantucket Indian, Abram Quary, died in 1854.
In the late 1600s the community was divided by a feud between Tristram Coffin and John Gardner, concerning the governance of the island. The feud eventually ended and Gardner's daughter Mary married Tristram's grandson, Jethro Coffin. Their house, the oldest house on Nantucket, is now a tourist attraction.
Tristram's mother Joan died in Boston in May 1661 at age 77. Tristram himself died on October 2 1681, aged 76. His will is linked here.
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1. [S029164] Painter lineage.FTW
"Date of Import: Dec 28, 2002"
2. [S029164] Painter lineage.FTW
"Date of Import: Dec 28, 2002"
3. [S029164] Painter lineage.FTW
"Date of Import: Dec 28, 2002"
4. [S029164] Painter lineage.FTW
"Date of Import: Dec 28, 2002"
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