Born ‎18 Feb 1599 Durking, Surrey County, England, died ‎6 Mar 1685 Hampton, NH Rockingham County‎, 86 years
Captain Christopher Hussey (Theodate Bachilor)
John Hussey Sr (Rebecca Perkins)
John Hussey Jr (Ann Inskeep)
Theodate Hussey Hodgin (Robert)
Rebecca Hodgin Todd
Stephen Todd (Sabilla Williams)
William Todd (Rachel Lappin)
Elizabeth Todd (Nathan Hoopes)
Charles D Hoopes (Sara Shuler)
Rachel Hoopes (ChesterEwing)
Charles Ewing (Charlotte Bomar)

Christopher Hussey, blown out to sea, is reputed to have killed the first sperm whale in 1712, and thereafter, whalers concentrated on this type of mammal since it’s oil was worth so much more than the ordinary (or “right”) whale. (likely not this Christopher, if true at all)

In 1665 a law was passed by the Massachusetts Colony that no Quaker could reside in that colony. This was the beginning of the terrible persecution of these people and the fore-runner of the settlement of Nantucket, where some of the Quakers fled for safety. In December of 1659, two Quakers, William Robinson, a merchant from London, and Marmaduke Stephenson, from Yorkshire, England, were hanged in Boston as heretics. The next year a woman was hanged there. Tristram Coffin made inquiry of the Island lying southeast of the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a future home free of the intolerance and persecution of the Massachusetts Colony. He found conditions to be satisfactory, and that same year, 1659, he concluded a deal and with other friends, went there to settle. He and these friends were not then Quakers, but they were kindly people and hated the cruelty and oppression suffered by the Quakers, and later they joined them in the faith. Those going to Nantucket were Tristram Coffin, Thomas Folger, Thomas Bernard, James Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Edward Starbuck, John Swain, Peter Pike, John Smith, John Bishop and five others less known.

Early settlers of Nantucket were Baptists and Presbyterians. Toward the end of the 1600s, Quakers made converts on the island