When Captain George Pollard Jr.’s ship was rammed by a whale, he had no idea it would help make literary history.

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Nantucket Historical Association Nantucket is sold to and settled by nine original purchasers: Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne, Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin ...

So went a popular toast when Nantucket, Massachusetts ... The short straw was drawn by Coffin, the captain’s 18-year-old cousin. The young man resigned himself to his grisly fate and Ramsdell ...

It is an old-fashioned amalgam that combines five historic homes under the Jared Coffin name. It is sibling to the more refined White Elephant with many reciprocal privileges available for guests.