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Obed Macy
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Obed Macy (1762–1844) was an American merchant and writer from Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Quotes
In the year 1690, the same in which Ichabod Paddock was sent for from Cape Cod, ... some persons were on a high hill, afterwards called Folly House Hill, observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed "there," pointing to the sea, "is a green pasture where our children's grand-children will go for bread."
The History of Nantucket (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Co., 1835), p. 33. Appended, along with many other cetaceous quotations, to Moby-Dick (1851), "Extracts (Supplied by a Sub-Sub-Librarian)"
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Q109858108
Category:1762 births
Category:1844 deaths
Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States
Category:People from Massachusetts