Nantucket Quaker whalers have continued to fire your imaginations.

Audrey Hills writes to us: 'I came across more evidence of some of them when visiting Nova Scotia a few years ago. It seems that at the end of the war of American independence, a small group of the whalers who wanted to remain under British rule emigrated to Nova Scotia and were given land in Dartmouth, across the harbour from Halifax.' They built timber houses and a Meeting house. 'This no longer exists' says Audrey, 'but one of the houses remains more or less in its original state and is an exhibition centre – complete with a Quaker marriage certificate from the eighteenth century on open display.'

These whaling Quakers only stayed a short while in Dartmouth as they soon had the invitation to go to Milford Haven.

'Presumably they were reunited there with others coming directly from Nantucket,' Audrey guesses. 'If anyone is visiting Halifax, I recommend the boat trip across the harbour to visit 'the Quaker House.'