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“And priest and sheriff, both togetherUpon his threshold stood,When Macey, through another door,Sprang out into the wood.“Now goodwife, haste thee!” Macey cried,She caught his manly arm:—Behind, the parson urged pursuit,With outcry and alarm.Ho! speed the Maceys, neck or nought,—The river course was near:—The plashing on its pebbled shoreWas music to their ear.A grey rock, tasseled o’er with birchAbove the waters hung,And at its base, with every wave,A small light wherry swung.A leap—they gain the boat—and thereThe goodman wields his oar:“Ill luck betide them all”—he cried,—“The laggards upon the shore.””[1]
A poem, not a record. Whittier's ballad of Thomas Macy's flight from Salisbury to Nantucket keeps the spelling "Macey"; its headnote places the events about 1660. The archive's account of Thomas Macy rests on the records, not on the poem. Whittier dated the poem 1841 in his collected works (The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, vol. 1, Narrative and Legendary Poems, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892, 62). Spelling as printed.
Sources
John G. Whittier, "The Exiles" (1841), in Poems (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1850), 113. archive.org
Life
Event:
In 1657 he let four Quakers shelter in his house from a rainstorm; the General Court fined him thirty shillings in 1659.[1][2]
Migration:
One of the purchasers of Nantucket, he left the mainland for the island in 1659.[2][3][4]
Office:
The settlers' agent: in 1671 he went to New York with Tristram Coffin to secure their title from Governor Lovelace.[5]
General Court order, 12 November 1659, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, vol. 4, pt. 1, 407, as quoted in John J. Currier, History of Newbury, Mass., 1635–1902 (Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1902), 145–46. archive.org
Thomas C. Amory, The Life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet: His English and American Ancestors (Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1886), 20. archive.org
Allen Coffin, The Coffin Family: The Life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass. (Nantucket: Hussey & Robinson, 1881), 26, 44–45. archive.org
Allen Coffin, The Coffin Family: The Life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass. (Nantucket: Hussey & Robinson, 1881), 33–36, 47–48. archive.org
Appears On
Nantucket: The Founding Families●Verified10th great-grandfather via the Nantucket line. One of the original purchasers; Macy founder