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Photo: Sarah Wheldon Kelley, daughter of Levi Kelley and Sally Wheldon. She was a direct descendant of Mayflower passengers George Soule, Myles Standish, George Sampson, John Alden, and Priscilla Mullins. She married Joseph Folger.

Nantucket Scrapbook Shows Mayflower Lines (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on December 8, 2023

Melissa Berry writes more about photos she found in an old Nantucket scrapbook; many of the families shown have direct lines to the Mayflower Pilgrims... (Read More)

Photo: Electra Morton Hinckley Adams. Courtesy of the Nantucket Historical Association.

Nantucket Scrapbook Shows Mayflower Lines (part 1)

By Melissa Berry on December 5, 2023

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about photos in an old Nantucket scrapbook, with many of the families shown having direct lines to the Plymouth Pilgrims... (Read More)

Photo: 1870s Nantucket street scene by C. H. Shute & Son of Edgartown, Massachusetts. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Great Nantucket Bank Robbery & the Haunting of William Coffin (part 3)

By Melissa Berry on December 1, 2023

Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about the men falsely accused of robbing the Nantucket Bank on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, in 1795... (Read More)

Photo: 1870s Nantucket street scene by C. H. Shute & Son of Edgartown, Massachusetts. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Great Nantucket Bank Robbery & the Haunting of William Coffin (part 2)

By Melissa Berry on November 3, 2023

In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry writes more about the ghost of William Coffin that still haunts his home on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts... (Read More)

Photo: 1870s Nantucket street scene by C. H. Shute & Son of Edgartown, Massachusetts. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

The Great Nantucket Bank Robbery & the Haunting of William Coffin

By Melissa Berry on October 24, 2023

In this article, just in time for the approach of Halloween, Melissa Davenport Berry tells ghost stories from the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts... (Read More)

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