In 1701, Mary Coffin Starbuck became interested in the faith of the Quakers after hearing itinerant Quaker preacher John Richardson speak before a crowd of Nantucketers.<\/p>\n
It was in her house, situated now at 10 Pine Street, that early Quaker meetings took place. In the years after 1708, the Nantucket Meeting outgrew a series of meetinghouses, the largest being the Great Meeting House on the site of the Quaker Burial Ground at the end of Main Street.<\/p>\n
Quakerism gradually became the dominant religion of a majority of island residents during the most prosperous days of the whaling industry.<\/p>\n
Quakerism declined in the nineteenth century, partly as a result of its own internal divisions. The Nantucket Meeting broke into three different sects, each of which held separate meetings: the Hicksites, the Gurneyites, and the Wilburites.<\/p>\n
The Friends Meeting House on Fair Street, also called the Quaker Meeting House, was erected in 1838 as a school for the Wilburite Sect. It was later converted to a meeting house.<\/p>\n
The NHA purchased the building from the Friends in 1894, and it became the NHA’s first museum. In the 1940s, Quakers on Nantucket formed a worship group, and with the permission of the NHA began to meet, informally, once more in the meeting house.<\/p>\n
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