Recommended reading regarding Nantucket families.
There are many sources available for this material; I only listed one (each) so the reader can identify the book I was referencing. ~~ This website of digitized information was created for Frantz family information. The “Coffin” family, and collateral lines, is the maternal side of the Lorraine Frantz family tree. ~~ My Coffin family library was donated to The Levi Coffin House, Fountain City, Indiana.
Addison Coffin, Life and Travels of... (Lorraine’s third great uncle.)
Levi Coffin, Reminiscences of… (Levi Coffin: Lorraine’s first cousin, five times removed.)
Earlham: The Story of the College 1847-1962
Peter Folger, The Half-Share Man
Maria Mitchell, The Soul of an Astronomer
Mary Coffin Starbuck and the Early History of Nantucket
Nantucket, The Life of an Island
The Nantucket Way, Untold Legend and Lore of America’s Most Intriguing Island
Digitized Library of Family History 