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The Plaskett Family

More than a century on the Big Sur coast

Plaskett family

Nancy Pollard Plaskett

1798, Nantucket, Massachusetts  —  1870

Wife of Captain William Plaskett. Sister of Captain George Pollard Jr., commander of the whaleship Essex which was sunk by a sperm whale in 1820 - the disaster that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.

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Married: Captain William Plaskett (1798-1845)

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