A Brief History of Nantucket, Massachusetts
Friday, January 5th, 2007
In 1602 Captain Bartholomew Gosnold of Falmouth, England sailed his bark Concord past the bluffs of Siaconset. The original residents of Nantucket Island were Wampanoag Indians, who lived there undisturbed until 1641 when the island was deeded by the English to Thomas Mayhew and his son, who were merchants of Watertown and Martha’s Vineyard.
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