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Collection Details
- Collection Number:
- MS546
- Title:
- Eben W. Allen Deed
- Date(s):
- 1857
- Creator:
- Allen, Eben W.
- Repository:
- Nantucket Historical Association
- Language:
- Material is in English.
Information for Users
Restrictions to Access: No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use: No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation: [identification of item], in the Eben W. Allen Deed, Nantucket Historical Association.
Acquisitions Information:
Gift of Bill Moynihan of Mandeville, La., in October, 2017 (Acc. RL2017.12).
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Subject Headings
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Personal Name
- Allen, Eben W.
- Sanford, Frederick C.
- Swain, Obed.
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Corporate Name
- Ocean House (Nantucket, Mass.)
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Topical Term
- Real property—Massachusetts—History—19th century.
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Geographic Name
- Nantucket (Mass.)—History—19th century.
Biographical Information
Eben W. Allen (1815-1876) owned the Washington Hall Cloth and Clothing Warehouse under Washington Hall on Main Street in Nantucket, Mass., in the 1840s. In the 1850s, he served as Superintendent of Lights, with oversight of Nantucket lightships and lighthouses. In 1858, Eben W. Allen was appointed by U.S. President James Buchanan to be Collector of Customs for the District of Nantucket, State of Massachusetts. He was the owner of the Ocean House Hotel (now known as the Jared Coffin House) from 1857 to 1872. He married Clara G. Wilson, and they had no children that lived to adulthood.
Scope and Content
The Eben W. Allen deed, dated October 8, 1857, is from Eben W. Allen to Obed Swain and Frederick C. Sanford for the “Swain House” on Broad Street. The deed conveys the “tract of land … with the dwelling house and other buildings standing thereon, called the ‘Ocean House’ …” for the consideration of $2,500.
Contents
- Folder 1 Eben W. Allen deed, 1857
Processing Information
Processed by Alison Barr, July 2018. Finding aid written Alison Barr, July 2018.