Thomas Macy (1608–1682) was an early settler of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and of Nantucket Island.
While in Amesbury, he built and lived in the Macy-Colby House, today a listed historic building.
[1] He left Amesbury in 1659 after years of conflict with local Puritan leaders, including being fined 30 shillings for providing shelter to Quakers during a rainstorm in 1657.
In 1671, Macy and Coffin were selected as spokesmen for the settlers, going to New York in 1671 to meet with Governor Francis Lovelace and secure their claim to Nantucket.
Macy became the subject of a poem by the 19th-century Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier entitled "The Exiles", depicting the plight of Quakers in the religiously intolerant Puritan society of colonial Massachusetts.