128 THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKET. 



County, X. Y., where she remained three years, dur- 

 ing the last year employed as an assistant teacher, 

 which shows how great her proficiency had been. 

 Her parents meantime had removed to Philadelphia, 

 where she subsequently joined them in 1809. Two 

 years later, in 1811, at the age of eighteen, she was 

 united in marriage with James Mott, of Philadelphia, 

 who afterwards became a business partner of her 

 father. Thus early settled in life, the womanly duties 

 of wife and mother devolved upon her and were dis- 

 charged with unerring fidelity, five out of six children 

 born to her having arrived at maturity, and lived to 

 the credit of their mother's excellent example. 



She was an approved minister of the Society of 

 Friends, and in 1829 took sides with Elias Hicks and 

 was thereafter known as a " Hicksite." (The Coffin 

 Family, page 62.) 



Mrs. Mott was a philanthropist, a genuine one, and 

 exerted in her sphere a wonderful influence ; she was 

 always foremost in all good works, — a woman of su- 

 perior intellect, tact, and of great endowments. She 

 died mourned sincerely by the whole country. 



Beuben J?. Pinkham 

 Was born at Nantucket, Jan. 1, 1800. He entered the 

 U. S. navy, and early received promotion in the ser- 

 vice. He died Oct. 27, 1839, aged thirty-nine years. 



The following incident, contributed to the Army and 

 Navy Journal by Commodore W. B. Whiting, is here 

 related, as illustrative of the character of the man: — 



" In 1833, the typhoon of the Northern Pacific was 

 not as well understood as it is now, and that sea was 



