. Bulletin. Coffin Court. South-east of house of Joshua Coffin, westfrom Center street fifty rods. This is now called Gay street, and Coffins house wason the corner of Center where later lived George Cobb. Chester Street. Francis Joy house*, west by houses ofTristram Pinkham*, Valentine Pease* and John Brock. Probably the oldest street on the Island. It extendedfrom Capaum to the Great Harbor and is mentioned asearly as 1671. Along its line ran the ditch that drainedthe Lily or Wescoe Pond. Water power on Nantucketwas never of much value but the settlers had to use ithowever weak, so on this d
. Bulletin. Coffin Court. South-east of house of Joshua Coffin, westfrom Center street fifty rods. This is now called Gay street, and Coffins house wason the corner of Center where later lived George Cobb. Chester Street. Francis Joy house*, west by houses ofTristram Pinkham*, Valentine Pease* and John Brock. Probably the oldest street on the Island. It extendedfrom Capaum to the Great Harbor and is mentioned asearly as 1671. Along its line ran the ditch that drainedthe Lily or Wescoe Pond. Water power on Nantucketwas never of much value but the settlers had to use ithowever weak, so on this ditch between Center and NorthWater streets they built a mill, that appears to havebeen a failure no doubt because of the feeble power of thebrook. But being the road that connected the two har-bors it inevitably became the most important of the earlythoroughfares of the Island and for the first half centuryof Nantucket under the English was the principal line ofcommunication between Wannacomet and Wescoe. It. Paddock House — Pearl Street. 249 was on this way that the Meeting House and TownHouse were built, and near it were erected many of thedwellings occupied by the first settlers. The Francis Joy House, demolished within a few yearsstood on the north-east corner of Chester and North streetson the lot now occupied by the house of Dr. J. , and directly across the line of North Water street. The John Brock house is still standing on the south sideof the road opposite the Horseshoe House and is ownedby Peter Brock his grandson. It is a leanto built about1724 for Oapt. Richard Gardner. It closely resembles theMajor Coffin house. Owing to its position the best viewmust be obtained from some point on the west edge ofthe Pond. The Paddock house stands a few yards south-east fromthe Horseshoe house. It is a very ancient looking structure,although it was probably built between 1720 and 1725 byNathaniel Paddock, the owner of the Coffin house. It re-mained in the Paddock family
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