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Naushon Island

Naushon Island has been a Forbes family retreat for some time, where the opium trader John Murray Forbes and his family summered for more than a century. Sen. John Forbes Kerry and his first cousin Brice Lalonde summered there, and at another Forbes family estate in France, at Saint-Brieuc when he was growing up. The family owns the island through the J.M. Forbes Naushon Island Trust. Naushon island is several miles long, just off (SW of) Cape Cod in the Elizabeth Islands, and NW of Martha's Vineyard.

The island is owned by the family and they pay little or no property taxes as the use of the island is deemed agricultural by the local authorities.

• Nashawena island may also be controlled by the family trust.

• All of the Elizabeth Islands except Cuttyhunk are privately owned by the Forbes family.

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