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Thomas Macy, the first town clerk of Amesbury, erected this house prior to 1654. Persecuted for harboring Quakers, he sold the house and fled to Nantucket, where he became the first white settler, as related in Whittier's poem "The Exiles."
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Amesbury, Massachusetts · United States
