1750-1770 A GROUP OF QUAKER PEOPLE IN NANTUCKETT ISLAND,MA OBTAINED A MAJOR GRANT IN GUILFORD COUNTY,NC AND MOVED TO NC. THEY WERE CONNECTED WITH PEOPLE WHO BECAME GREAT MASTERS OF THE WHALERS OF THE SEA.
1639 THE MACY,MASSEY FAMILY FROM MASS. CAME FROM CHILMARK PARISH, WILTSHIRE, ENGLAND. THE FIRST WAS THOMAS MACY.
THOMAS WAS A CLOTHIER-MERCHANT WHO CAME TO AMERICA AS A SERVANT OF FRANCIS DOW. BUT BECAME QUITE PROSPEROUS.
HE LIVED IN MASS FOR 20 YEARS. THOMAS HIMSELF WAS NOT QUAKER BUT PURITAN. THE FACT HE GAVE SHELTER TO EDWARD WHARTON AND THREE OTHER QUAKERS HE WAS FINED. THOMAS WAS OUTRAGED AND REFUSED TO PAY. SO AN ORDER WAS ISSUED TO JAIL HIM
FOR THIS REASON THOMAS AND EDWARD STARBUCK CHOSE TO ABANDON THE MASS COONY. IN AN SMALL OPEN BOAT THEY SET SAIL WITH THEIR FAMILIES, SAILING AROUND CAPE COD TO THE ISLAND OF NANTUCKETT. THE ISLAND HAD ONLY A FEW INDIANS. OTHERS FORM THE MASS COLONY JOINED THEM, ALL BECOMING QUAKER.
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