• The Starbuck family were prominent in the history of whaling in the United States, based in Nantucket, Massachusetts, from the seventeenth to the nineteenth...
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  • Michael Majalahti ("Starbuck the Canadian Rebel") (born 1973), Finnish professional wrestler and rock singer Starbuck (whaling family) of Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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    families, including the Gardners and the Starbucks, began whaling seriously in the 1690s in local waters, and by 1715 the family owned three whaling ships...
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  • Ocean. By marriage, they were related to the Coffins, another Nantucket whaling family. The aged and eccentric farmer Giles Corey, charged with wizardry during...
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  • this period named Starbuck, as evidenced by the name of Starbuck Island in the South Pacific whaling grounds. The second mate. From Cape Cod, always seems...
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    Starbuck, Alexander "history of the American Whale Fishery, 1989, Castle Books, Secaucus, NJ "Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling". International Whaling Commission...
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    the New World. The Starbuck whaling family would be based in Nantucket. This family would be the inspiration for the name of Starbuck, a character in Moby-Dick...
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    moment of contemplation with Starbuck. Ahab speaks about his wife and child, calls himself a fool for spending 40 years on whaling, and claims he can see his...
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    whaling from prehistoric times up to the commencement of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986. Whaling...
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    involved in the later history of Nantucket during and after its heyday as a whaling center. Almost all notable Americans with roots in Nantucket are descended...
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  • advent of the whaling industry and supplied residents with items such as candles, clothing, fabric, notions, molasses, and knives. The Starbuck business was...
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    Starbuck built the last whaler constructed at Brant Point and named it after himself – the 'Joseph Starbuck'. Whaling Voyage of the Joseph Starbuck –...
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    (2007). Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. W. W. Norton. pp. 98–100. ISBN 978-0-393-06057-7. Starbuck, A. (1878). History of the American...
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    Starbuck whaling family of Nantucket through her paternal grandmother Elizabeth Starbuck Folger. Her mother was notably a member of the Macy family of...
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  • moonlit night ... a pitifully weak Starbuck. But there are marvelous things here ... [such as] nearly all the whaling scenes. Lent a stout overall unity...
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    current Nantucket Whaling Museum. Eliza Starbuck Barney was secretary to Nantucket's Anti-Slavery Society from 1839 to 1840. The families welcomed William...
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    James Coffin, John Smith, Robert Pike, Thomas Look, Robert Barnard, Edward Starbuck, Thomas Coleman, John Bishop and Thomas Mayhew Junior. These twenty men...
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    a loner and newcomer to whaling. Dawn breaks and the call is made for "All Hands!" The crew raises the ship's sails. Starbuck, Stubb, and Flask talk about...
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    Benjamin Franklin. Through her mother, she was also a member or the Starbuck whaling family of Nantucket. Her older brother, Walter Folger, Jr., was a legislator...
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  • George Byron, 7th Baron Byron (category Byron family)
    cousin and fellow-whaler Capt. Obed Starbuck in 1823. Malden may have been the island sighted by another whaling captain William Clark in 1823, aboard...
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  • On his mother's side, he was descended from the Nantucket whaling and merchant Starbuck family. Mayo attended an academy in Potsdam and after choosing a...
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    become unlikely friends. Once aboard the whaling ship the Pequod, Queequeg becomes the harpooner for the mate Starbuck. Queequeg is native to the fictional...
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    (2007). Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America. W. W. Norton. pp. 98–100. ISBN 978-0-393-06057-7. Starbuck, A. (1878). History of the American...
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    Benjamin Franklin. Through his mother he is also a member or the Starbuck whaling family of Nantucket. He attended public schools before studying law. He...
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  • Micajah Coffin (category Coffin family)
    his death. Coffin (whaling family) Coffin (surname) Internet Archive copy of Will Gardner's 1949 "The Coffin Saga" book Starbuck, Alexander (July 26...
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    Down to the Sea in Ships (1922 film) (category Films about whaling)
    American silent romantic drama film about a 19th-century Massachusetts whaling family. Directed by Elmer Clifton, the film stars William Walcott, Marguerite...
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  • of Henry Starbuck and Abigail Borden. His father came to America as a cabin boy on a whaling ship from the Azores and later became a whaling captain,...
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    Nantucket during the American Revolutionary War era relied on whaling, industries that supported whaling, and the trade in oil that resulted from that industry...
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  • Coffin was born in Nantucket in the Province of Massachusetts Bay to a whaling family; his parents were Peleg and Elizabeth (Hussey) Coffin. Coffin's father...
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  • George Blunt White Library. Williams, H. (1964). One whaling family. Boston, Houghton Mifflin. Starbuck, Alexander (1878). History of the American Whale Fishery...
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