Subjects of the notebooks include Obed Macy's diary; materials of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society relating to Nantucket public schools, streets, whaling, whale oil and other industries, and the fire of 1846; diaries of George F. Worth; home of Miriam Coffin; Quakerism; Benjamin Franklin; Old North Vestry; families of Thomas Macy, Edward Starbuck, and other early residents; Admiral Sir Isaac C