Andrew Craigie Snr

Andrew Craigie Snr, believed to have been born in Orkney about 1703, was shipwrecked in Nantucket and, in 1737, married Elizabeth Gardner, a descendent of some of the early settlers of Nantucket. He became captain of the "John Galley" and traded between Boston and London.

In 1754 he was one of the petitioners to the Massachusetts Governor, William Shirley, for the formation of the Boston Marine Society, the oldest marine society in the world. In 1764 he was made Warden of the Port of Boston and the following year he headed a committee which presented a petition to the General Court to have a light erected on Nantucket. The Great Point Light was finally erected nineteen yeas later. He became treasurer of the Marine Society in 1764 but died in 1766.

In his obituaries he is described as a noted Sea Commander, a noted shopkeeper and "a Gentleman well-respected among us - "being an honest Man".

His son, also Andrew, became America's first Apothecary General.