DISTINGUISHED NANTUCKETERS. 95 



From Weweeder to the Hummocks ... 2 246 



The Tower to Copaum 1 318 



Great Point Light to Sancoty Head . . 8 96 



Sancoty to Siasconset 1 38 



Sancoty to Tom Never's Head ... 2 262 



Siasconset to Tom Never's Head ... 1 276 

 Sancoty Head to North Tower, north 



86° west 7 123 



Tom Never's Head to North Tower . . 6 117 



Distinguished Nantticketers. 



Certain it is that Nantucket was never the mother 

 of a President, being unlike Virginia in that re- 

 spect (she may, however have that honor, at no dis- 

 tant day, in the person of Charles James Folger); 

 yet she has sent from her sandy shores men and 

 women who have gained for themselves national rep- 

 utations, and reflected great honor on their birthplace. 

 When any town produces such men and women as 

 Charles James Folger, Lucre tia Mott, Abiah Folger, 

 the mother of Dr. Franklin, Maria Mitchell, Walter 

 Folger, William Rotch, Phebe A. Hanaford, Ferdi- 

 nand C. Ewer, Henry Mitchell, Alfred Macy, George 

 Nelson Macy, Nathaniel Barney, and a host of others, 

 the inhabitants thereof cannot be set down as lacking 

 in brains or intelligence. No town of its size in the 

 Union can produce a more brilliant array of talented 

 men and women than Nantucket. 



Appended are short accounts of a few of Nantuck- 

 et's most distinguished sons and daughters. Several 

 among them were not natives, but for reasons that 



