Nantucket -- Above is the Quaker meeting hall. In 1659, the group of nine that bought Nantucket (full sharers) did so to escape the bitter Baptist/Quaker feuds in the rest of Massachusetts. (One of them, Thomas Macy had been fined for giving Quakers refuge during a severe thunderstorm.)Some of the first meetings were held in the home of Mary Coffin Starbuck who in 1701 sparked a revival until Quakerism gradually grew to be the dominant religion of the island during the height of the whaling industry.
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