. Bulletin. ssary toname the streets. In Nantucket this work was under thesupervision of Isaac Coffin, Esq. His list of streets wasrecorded in the Registry of Deeds, and is of the highestvalue for historical purposes, as it not only delineates andnames all existing ways, but designates the owners ofthree hundred houses and localities. This list will be given entire with notes and explanations, the Coffin schedule in heavy type. The housesmarked * are not standing in 1906. Academy Lane. North-east corner of house* of Enoch Coffinthen in a zig-zag course, west, north and west by house^ ofGeorge
. Bulletin. ssary toname the streets. In Nantucket this work was under thesupervision of Isaac Coffin, Esq. His list of streets wasrecorded in the Registry of Deeds, and is of the highestvalue for historical purposes, as it not only delineates andnames all existing ways, but designates the owners ofthree hundred houses and localities. This list will be given entire with notes and explanations, the Coffin schedule in heavy type. The housesmarked * are not standing in 1906. Academy Lane. North-east corner of house* of Enoch Coffinthen in a zig-zag course, west, north and west by house^ ofGeorge Clark to the Academy. Coffins house stood on the west side of Center street;the Clark house on the north side of the Lane directlysouth from the old Vestry on land owned by Miss Made-line Mixter. The Academy was located a few yards north of the pres-ent High School Building on the south side at the westend of Academy Lane. A writer to the MassachusettsHistorical Society in 1807 stated that it was not in use,. Abel Gardner House. 1475177 241 but was employed as a private school. In 1800 tlie landwhereon the Academy stood was sokl by George (Jlark toShubael Ooflin, Kowland Gelston, Jonathan Myricks, Jr.,and Joshua Coffin as a committee for the owners and pro-prietors of the Academy. In 1818 they conveyed theproperty to the First Congregational Church. Angola Street. South Mill street westward on south side ofhouses* of Joseph Painter, Peter Boston and west tohouse- of Benjamin Paddock. In another place New Guiney is described as the Negrotown or village south and east of the wind mills nearhouse of Hezekiah Kussell. Angola street is in thisregion. Boston and Painter were colored families. Ash Lane. North-west corner land Jedidah Fitch, near hishouse* on Centre street, east near house* of Paul Gardner,Jr. This is the narrow street extending from Center toNorth Water north of the Ocean House. The FitchHouse stood on the land connected with the Ocean Houseand Gardners House was on t
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