Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Colonies (1642-1671)

Looking to remove himself from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Thomas Mayhew purchases the right to settle and set up a government on islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket from the Earl of Stirling, and gradually purchases the land from the Wampanoag. Mayhew settles the Vineyard and later sells off Nantucket to a like minded group of friends and extended relations under Tristram Coffin. Both Island co-exist as separate colonies ran by their proprietors as if it were a joint stock company. Eventually they are annexed by a larger colony... and it's not the one you think.

[@DaveMorgansghost]

When i was in middle school, our gym teacher was a mister Coffin ,of the islands Coffin family, they still reside there today from what ive heard.

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

This was the same Macy family that later on established the famous dept. store.

[@kjmav10135]

My ancestors were among the 18 families who bought land on Nantucket. I had no idea about all this history! Now I have to go back through all the family lines to figure out who brought what when!

[@lindakay9552]

I'll bet you $1,000 we're related.

[@kjmav10135]

@@lindakay9552 I bet we are! I have a ton of colonial Massachussets relatives. I only recently started to investigate my mom’s backwoods Vermont family and they’re all from these sea-faring, Puritan, Salem witch trial, King Philip’s War, Mayflower/Great Migration roots. Absolutely not fancy people we associate with “Old New England Families”! More like ‘72 Plymouth Duster than 1492 Plymouth Rock! 😂

[@michaelsforza6616]

Love these. Binge often.

[@IReallyLikeTreessmileyface]

i went to martha's vineyard once its so pretty i loved learning about the wampanoag myths about natucket and mashuup from both you and my personal research

[@theotherstatesofamericahis5212]

Check out Mashuup's neighbor to the north Glooscap

[@Tom-ln9ic]

Sick content man. Keep it up. Very interesting.

[@Hunter_Nebid]

Like. Totally sick. Bruh.

[@Tom-ln9ic]

@@Hunter_Nebid Yeah sorry didn’t have time for a nuanced response to the video but wanted to help him out with the algorithm.

[@tecumsehcristero]

Omg I thought I saw May stone

[@lindakay9552]

16:33 Someone in my family tree is named Hannah Whipple. That's name is going an index card into my rabbit hole box. Yes I REALLY have a rabbit hole box.

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

What about Gosnold? He was around there in 1601.

[@theotherstatesofamericahis5212]

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[@apollocobain8363]

18:09 Thomas Macy

[@danpride2804]

New Majior research see Joseph Pride of Maine in 1661

[@lindakay9552]

EDIT:Omg my other comment on this post got deleted. Why?😭 I have another comment on this video extensively delving into my relation to the Pease line, through my mother. My 9th great grandfather on my DAD'S side was a founder of Norwich living hundreds of feet from a Pease descendant. Then my 2nd Great grandma from the Pease line would bear the great grandma who would bear my mom, who would marry my dad, who is descend from the 9th great Grandpa who lived near a Pease in Norwich in the 1650s It's ALL a giant interconnected web. 😮 And my post is gone 😭

[@user-gf7in8dy1k]

Still calling Massasoit' people Wampanoag, a name not used until the 1670s. His people were the Pokanoket and they lived in Sowam's today Bristol Rhode Island. The Pocassets were a related tribe and not where Massasoit was from.

[@theotherstatesofamericahis5212]

Wampanoag is the larger socio-geographic name, Pokanoket the more local specific identification. Forms of the term date before the Separatists arrived. Circles within circlesz for example you might be from New York, you are a New Yorker, but in the wider sense you are part of a larger political collective and could also fall under the term American. In the original case this helps differentiate one nation from the collective paramount chiefdomship.

[@user-gf7in8dy1k]

@@theotherstatesofamericahis5212 I will direct you to Roger Williams University publication : First People of the East Bay, which discusses the Pokanoket Tribe, King Phillip and the history of the Pokanoket People in collaboration with the Pokanoket Tribe. Or, perhaps you might want to check out the lecture videos by the Sowams Heritage Area on their website. Wampanoag merely meant Eastern and was never a distinct tribe. Pokanoket was NOT just a local specific identification. It was Pokanoket Nation consisting of about 60 smaller bands and tribes. Just because the tribes that helped the colonists kill their own people got federal recognition, while the ones that fought beside King Philip were punished with enslavement , genocide and dispersement, and like Mashpee glommed on to the name Wampanoag as if they were part of the Confederacy does not change historical fact.

[@theotherstatesofamericahis5212]

@@user-gf7in8dy1k yes this is covered toward the end of the King Phillips War episode