Martin House Inn was built in 1803 by sea 
captain and gentleman Nathaniel Sherman 
for his bride Hepsabeth. Situated in the heart 
of Nantucket’s famed “historic district”, this 
resplendent mariner’s mansion will take you 
back to a romantic place and time when the 
new world was still being discovered and
America was hardly yet a notion. William
Worth, patriarch of one of Nantucket’s founding
families, acquired the land on which Martin
House Inn stands in 1692 from its original
owner, a Nantucket Indian named Wassaqual. 

William passed the property to his son Matthew 
Worth, who later deeded it to his daughter 
Hepsabeth and her newlywed husband Nathaniel 
Sherman “in consideration of love and affection, 
20 square rods of land, being half my piece of 
land at a place [then] called No Headed Hill” at 
around the turn of the 19th century.