116 THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET. 



Abigail Macy. 



About the year 1774, a large number of Nantucket 

 families removed to North Carolina ; among them was 

 a young lady by the name of Abigail Macy. This 

 young lady subsequently married Benjamin Stanton 

 of Beaufort, N. C, removing from thence to Jefferson 

 County, Ohio, where the father of " the great war 

 secretary," Edwin Macy Stanton, was born. The 

 following item is from the Nantucket Inquirer and 

 Mirror of Dec. 17, 1881 : — 



" Nantucket Stock in the Cabinet. —As so much has 

 lately been written concerning the posterity of Tris- 

 tram Coffin and Peter Folger, and it har been demon- 

 strated that the leading treasury officials of the United 

 States and Canada are both connected with our island, 

 the one as native born, the other as an offshoot, 

 a descendant of Thomas Macy desires us again to re- 

 mind our readers that Edwin Macy Stanton, who was 

 the official head of the War Department during the 

 Rebellion, was also of Nantucket origin. Secretar}?- 

 Stanton, according to the authority of the Macy gene- 

 alogy, was the grandson of Benjamin Stanton, who 

 married Abigail Macy, daughter of David Macy and 

 Dinah Gardner. This David was a son of John Macy, 

 Jr., grandson of John Macy, and great-grandson o\ 

 the original Thomas Macy. As the first John Macy 

 married Deborah Gardner, daughter of Richard, the 

 second John married Judith Worth, and David Macy 

 married Deborah Gardner (daughter of Solomon), it 

 may be said that the Nantucket Gardners and Worths, 

 as well as the Macys, may claim relationship with 



