Person:Ichabod Paddock (2)

In his book "Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, 1602-1800", Nathaniel Philbrick calls Ichabod Nantucket's "first professional whalerman". He came to Nantucket in 1690, but was back in Yarmouth by 1710. An elaborate myth involves Ichabod hunting a large whale called Crook-Jaw, meeting a mermaid, and ends with the whale being killed with a silver harpoon ("the only metal that will pierce the heart of a witch") by his father-in-law, sent along as a chaperon by Ichabod's wife ("a beautiful woman in her own right and not yet thirty").

1. ↑ Sherman, Robert M. (Robert Moody), and Ruth Wilder Sherman. Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975)
   6.

   Ickabod [ch. of Zachary Paddock] was 17 years on the 2nd of February 1678

2. ↑ Sherman, Robert M. (Robert Moody), and Ruth Wilder Sherman. Vital Records of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Warwick, Rhode Island: Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1975)
   p. 158.

   Icobod Ichobud Paddack died on July 17th 1748.