Away off shore: Nantucket Island and its people, 1602-1890

An island and its altar

Native origins : Maushop, Roqua, Wonoma, and Autopscot

Thomas Macy's great escape

Tristram Coffin, country squire

"An island full of Indians" : King Philip, John Gibbs, and Peter Folger

Gardner versus Coffin : the revolt

The whaling legacy of Ichabod Paddock

Mary Starbuck, high priestess of the company store

Richard Macy, the master builder

Of God, Indians, and getting by : the hireling, Timothy White

Peleg Folger, the poet whaleman

Kezia Coffin's revolutionary rise and fall

The "removals" : from Jethro Coffin to William Rotch

A "nest of love" no longer : William Coffin and the bank, commons, and school wars

The golden boy and the dark man : Obed Starbuck and George Pollard

Absalom Boston and Abram Quary : "of color" on the Grey Lady

Maria Mitchell, the provincial cosmopolitan

F.C. Sanford, the mythmaker

Epilogue.