Frances Karttunen

" died early in 1855. She had outlived by a few months Abram Quary (1) a decade after the "Indian sickness" killed 222 of Nantucket's 358 Wampanoags. Quary (1) and was a member of the Baptist church. The life of Dorcas's mother (1) at the time of the American Revolution (1) better fit the nineteenth-century image of "the Last Indian" because of the striking painting of him that hangs in the Nantucket Atheneum and because in old age he lived the life of a hermit and supported himself by making baskets and steaming quahogs for (1) biography (4) but also by Abigail Jethro (1) Colonial New England (1) crime (1) Deaf World (1) dictionary (5) DORCAS HONORABLE (1) E5 (1) Hearing World (1) history (9) immigration (1) interpreters (3) language (3) LatAm box #7 (1) linguistics (3) Loc-GS-50 Misc. (1) Mesoamerica (3) Nahuatl (11) Nahuatl texts (1) Nantucket (4) Native American (2) non-fiction (7) on the other hand (1) Sarah (1) section history (1) shelved (1) shipbuilders (1) Translation-Interpreting (1) unread (1) UofO (1) was romanticized just as Abram Quary's has been. She died in 1821 and was survived not only by her daughter Dorcas and by Quary (1) who died in late 1854. Both had been born in the 1770s (1) WHO today is generally recognized as Nantucket's "Last Indian (1) whom the nineteenth-century Nantucket historian Obed Macy considered the island's "last Indian." (1) worked as a domestic (1)