Brief Life History of Barnabas
When Barnabas Starbuck was born in 1673, in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Nathaniel Starbuck I, was 37 and his mother, Mary Coffin, was 28. He married Starbuck in 1698, in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died on 21 September 1732, in his hometown, at the age of 59, and was buried in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.
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English: variant of Tarbuck + a prosthetic S-.
History: The Starbucks chain of coffee houses is named after the first mate of the Pequod in Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Melville deliberately used a genuine whaling surname from Nantucket. It was taken to America by Edward Starbuck, a man from Derbyshire, in the 1630s.
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