{"id":99759,"date":"2024-07-26T09:46:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=99759"},"modified":"2024-09-25T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T17:18:33","slug":"photo-album-cartwright-family-tied-to-mayflower-and-nantucket-lines-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/photo-album-cartwright-family-tied-to-mayflower-and-nantucket-lines-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Photo Album: Cartwright Family Tied to \u2018Mayflower\u2019 and Nantucket Lines (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction:<\/em><\/strong> In this article, Melissa Davenport Berry continues her series about the founders of Nantucket, Massachusetts, and their descendants, focusing on the Cartwright family line. Melissa is a genealogist who has a website, <\/em>americana-archives.com<\/em><\/a>, and a Facebook group, <\/em>New England Family Genealogy and History<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Gertrude A. Pratt Scrapbook<\/a> contains two photos of the Cartwright family of Nantucket, Massachusetts. I did some research and found more photographs and relics housed at the Nantucket Historical Association<\/a> (NHA) as well as in private collections.<\/p>\n

The Cartwright ancestral line has a Mayflower<\/em> passenger, Degory Priest<\/a>, and many Nantucket settlers.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the two Cartwright family photos from the scrapbook are not sharp. In the first photograph, showing the family standing in front of the house, one of the women on the stairs is not identified \u2013 but the rest are labeled. Bejamin Cartwright is in the dark suit. To his right on the stairs are his daughters Edith, Emma Lucretia, and Jean Campbell. To his left are his grandchildren Lemuel, Edith, and Virginia, all born to Emma Lucretia and her husband Dr. Lemuel Cornick Shepherd.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Cartwright family in front of house. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The second photo is titled \u201cAll aboard for Sconset!\u201d The label lists Benjamin C. Cartwright with his daughters, Agnes (Nye) Betteridge, Edith, Virginia, and Lemuel Shepherd, and Getrude (Porter) Pratt (white dress).<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Cartwright family at train station. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whaling Captain Benjamin C. Cartwright (1831-1920) married Agnes Campbell Hamilton (1839-1916), daughter of John and Agnes (Dunn) Hamilton.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Benjamin C. Cartwright, September 1881. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Photo:
Photo: Agnes Campbell (Hamilton) Cartwright, September 1881. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Captain Benjamin and Agnes\u2019s son Archibald \u201cArchie\u201d Cartwright (1883\u20131962) was the last Nantucket man to go whaling. Below is a photo of Archie when he was a young boy.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Archie Cartwright. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was natural to Archie, being the son and nephew of whalers, to take to the sea. He shipped out of New Bedford on the bark Sunbeam<\/em> in 1906, at age 23, for a two-year voyage to the Pacific. He married Austie Avilda Dunham (1884-1918) and left descendants.<\/p>\n

Archie also worked as a carpenter and a crewman aboard the fishing boat Petrel<\/em>. Additionally, he was chief of the Nantucket fire department. In retirement he became the second custodian of the Nantucket Whaling Museum.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Archie Cartwright next to the whaleboat in Sanderson Hall, on the second floor of the Nantucket Whaling Museum. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Archie was among the subjects interviewed by Henry Carlisle Coffin<\/a>. Click here to listen to Archie\u2019s oral history interview: CT-28B Oral History<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here is a photo of Archie with members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of Nantucket, who also descend from the island\u2019s first settlers.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Odd Fellows of Nantucket. Credit: Nantucket Historical Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many of Captain Benjamin\u2019s ancestors are listed on the monuments erected for the Nantucket founders<\/a>. Below is an image of the monument erected in 2009 to honor the wives<\/a> of the men founders, whose power and influence was just as instrumental as their male counterparts.<\/p>\n

\"Photo:
Photo: Nantucket memorial to women founders, Burial Ground, Nantucket, Massachusetts. Credit: John Hodson.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Benjamin C. Cartwright\u2019s lineage:<\/p>\n