Thomas Macy

1608 - 1682  (74 years)

• Name	Thomas Macy
  Birth	1608  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	19 Apr 1682	Nantucket, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I19217	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2019

  
  

  Family	Sarah Hopcot,   b. Abt 1612   d. 1706 (Age ~ 94 years)
  Children	1. John Macy,   b. 14 Sep 1655, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 14 Oct 1691, Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age 36 years)   2. Mary Macy,   b. 10 Jun 1648, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts d. 1729, Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F11903	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Sep 2019

  
  

• Notes

  First in Newbury, then Salisbury. In 1659, he and his family were the first European settlers of Nantucket, accompanied by Edward Starbuck and the then 12-year-old Isaac Coleman. The reputed circumstances of his relocation to Nantucket are the subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1841 poem "The Exiles."

  
  

• Sources

  [S2272] Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850. Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1925-1928. Also online here and here. [S526] The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With Some Related Families of Adjoining Towns and of York County, Maine, by David W. Hoyt. Providence, Rhode Island, 1897-1916.