Maggie Coffin
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Wife Maggie Coffin (details suppressed for this person)
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Father: Sean Coffin
Mother: Kerri Malloy
Margaret Coffin
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Wife Margaret Coffin 1
Born: 1769
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Father: William Coffin (1723-1803) 1
Mother: Mary Austin Aston (Abt 1728-Abt 1800) 1
Richard Pinkham and Mary Coffin
Husband Richard Pinkham
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Wife Mary Coffin
Born: 1665
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Died: 1741
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Father: James Coffin (1640-1720) 1
Mother: Mary Severance (1645-Abt 1710) 1
Other Spouse: James Gardner (1664- )
James Gardner and Mary Coffin
Husband James Gardner
Born: 21 May 1664 - Salem, Essex Co., MA
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Father: Richard Gardner (1625-1688)
Mother: Sarah Shattuck (1632-1724)
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Other Spouse: Patience Folger (1656-1717) 1
Other Spouse: Mary Starbuck ( - )
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Alt. Birth, Alt. Birth, 21 May 1664
Wife Mary Coffin
Born: 1665
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Died: 1741
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Father: James Coffin (1640-1720) 1
Mother: Mary Severance (1645-Abt 1710) 1
Other Spouse: Richard Pinkham ( - )
Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin
Husband Nathaniel Starbuck
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Wife Mary Coffin
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1 F Mary Starbuck
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Thomas W. Langston and Mary Coffin
Husband Thomas W. Langston 2
Born: 1861 2
Christened: - Indianapolis, Marion County Indiana 2
Died: 1939 2
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Other Spouse: Nancy Elizabeth (Lizzie) Alsman (1859-1933) 2 - 4 Jul 1888 - Rush County, Indiana 2
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Baptism 2, Memorial Park Cemetery, E. Washington St. Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
Adoption, 1860 - Indianapolis, Marion County Indiana
Adoption, 1860 - Memorial Park Cemetery, E. Washington St. Indianap
Wife Mary Coffin (details suppressed for this person)
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[bobspu.ged]
m1. Nancy Elizabeth (Lizzie) Alsman m2. Mary Coffin
Source: William W. (Bill) Alsman Dec 1998
Adopted: Indianapolis, Marion County Indiana
Adopted: Memorial Park Cemetery, E. Washington St. Indianap
Nathaniel Starbuck and Mary Coffin
Husband Nathaniel Starbuck
Born: 1635 - Dover, New Hampshire
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Died: 6 Aug 1719 - Nantucket Co., MA
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Wife Mary Coffin 1
Born: 20 Feb 1645 - Haverhill, MA
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Died: 13 Nov 1717 - Nantucket Co., MA
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Father: Tristan Coffin (1605-1681) 1
Mother: Dionis Stevens (Abt 1610-1676) 1
Other Spouse: Nathaniel Starbuck Sr. (1638-1719) - 1662 - Nantucket, MA
Noted events in her life were:
Alt. Birth, Alt. Birth Haverhill, MA, 20 Feb 1645
General Notes (Wife)
The Quaker influence was from or began about 1700. Prior to that period the people were mostly Baptists and Presbyterians, for the first fifty years there was no church organization there and most of the marriages were performed by the Justice of the Peace. The Mayhews had Christianized the Indians. In 1704 the first Friends Society was formed and in 1711 the first meeting House was built. Among the first converts to the society was Mary Coffin Starbuck who as I have elsewhere related was a woman of great character and influence and through her nearly the whole population became identified with the movement. It had a far reaching effect on the lives of the Islanders and more than any other form of religion, Quakerism entered into the daily lives of its adherents. Its keynote was simplicity, plain living, high thinking, unworldliness and humility were its tenets. They believed in the "inner light" and that "thought in the word" they were not of it. They wore plain clothes of subdued and neutral colors although of the best material that they could afford avoided all ornaments or display either an their person or in their homes. But they did not take into consideration the temperament and too little account of the natural desire of people. They were to rigid and severe in their discipline, particularity in regard to marriage. No one was allowed to marry outside of the sect on pain of being cast out.. The result was that many close marriages were made cousin to cousin, uncle to niece. With the inevitable results which were handed down to prosperity.
They had a curious custom of not allowing any headstones to mark the graves and in the old Friends Cemetery on the Island are over seven thousand Quakers buried without a single stone to mark their burial places. Later on it was allowed to put up a six inch stone and still later on one a foot high.
The original meeting House is still in existence forming part of the Congregation Church where it was moved to. A memorial stone marks the site of the original spot on where it stood with the following inscription.
Erected 1891 by a descendant of the first settlers in memory of those who are buried on this hallowed spot where stood the "first Meeting House in 1711. Since removed to the spot where it now stands as the vestry of 1st Congregational Church.
1609 Tristram Coffin 1681
1598 Thomas Macy 1682
1604 Edward Starbuck 1690
1617 Peter Folger 1690
1624 John Gardner 1706
1664 John Swain Jr. 1738
1644 John Coleman 1715
1598 Christopher Hussey 1686
1626 Richard Gardner 1688
1640 William Bunker 1712
Many descendants of these worthy sires have been distinguished for their courage energy and left a record for others to emulate. ************************************************************************** *************************************** "Throughout the seventeenth century, English Nantucketers resisted all attempts to establish a church on the island (Nantucket), partly because a woman by the name of Mary Coffin Starbuck forbade it. It was said that nothing of consequence was done on Nantucket without Mary's approval. Mary Coffin and Nathaniel Starbuck had been the first English couple to be married on the island, in 1662, and had established a lucrative outpost for trading with Wampanoag. Whenever an itinerant minister came to Nantucket looking to establish a congregation, he was firmly rebuffed by Mary Starbuck. Then, in 1702, Mary succumbed to a charismatic Quaker minister named John Richardson. Speaking before a group assembled in the Starbucks' living room, Richardson succeeded in moving Mary to tears. It was Mary Starbuck's conversion to Quakerism that established the unique fusion of spirituality and covetousness that would make possible Nantucket's rise as a whaling port." "Quakers or, more properly, members of the Society of Friends, depended on their own experience of God's presence, the 'Inner Light,' for guidance rather than relying on a Puritan minister's interpretation of scripture. But Nantucket's ever growing number of Quakers were hardly free-thinking individuals. Friends were expected to conform to rules of behavior determined during the yearly meetings, encouraging a sense of community that was as carefully controlled as that of any New England society. If there was a difference, it was the Quaker belief in pacifism and a conscious spurning of worldly ostentation - two principles that were not intended to interfere, in any way, with a person's ability to make money. Instead of building fancy houses or buying fashionable clothes, Nantucket's Quakers reinvested their profits in the whale fishery. As a result, they were able to weather the downturns that laid to waste so many mainland whaling merchants, and Mary Starbuck's children, along with their Macy and Coffin cousins, quickly established a Quaker whaling dynasty." "Nantucketers saw no contradiction between their livelihood and their religion. God Himself had granted them dominion over the fishes of the sea. Peleg Folger, a Nantucket whaleman turned Quaker elder, expressed it in verse:"
"Thou didst, O Lord, create the mighty whale, That wondrous monster of a mighty length; Vast is his head and body, vast his tail, Beyond conception his unmeasured strength.
But, everlasting God, thou dost ordain That we, poor feeble mortals should engage (Ourselves, our wives and children to maintain), This dreadful monster with a martial rage."
Source: "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick; Viking, 2000; p.8,9 ************************************************************************** *************************************** "Reverend" Mary Coffin was born February 20, 1644/45 in Haverhill, Massachusetts just two years after her parents' arrival from Devonshire, England. She moved to Nantucket Island with her father, Tristram Coffin, who led the colonization of the island in 1660-1661. In 1662 she married Nathaniel Starbuck, a prosperous farmer, local official, and partner with her father in purchasing the area from the Indians. The son of Edward and Catherine (Reynolds) Starbuck, Nathaniel was born February 20, 1633/34 in Dover, New Hampshire and died June 6, 1719 on Nantucket.
Mother of ten children, of whom five daughters and three sons lived to maturity, Mary and her eldest son Nathaniel helped make Quakerism the leading religion on the island sometime after her own conversion from Puritanism by the Quakers of Providence, RI in 1701 at the age of 56. She was a minister, as were her children and grandchildren.
"The islanders esteemed [Mary Starbuck] as a judge among them, for little was done without her, as I understood," wrote Englishman John Richardson, describing his 1701 visit. He bestowed on her the epithet "the great woman," and in the same journal entry deprecated her husband as "not a man of mean parts but she so far exceeded him in soundness of judgment, clearness of understanding, and an elegant way of expressing herself ... that it tended to lessen the qualifications of her husband."
Mary was a "most extraordinary woman, participating in the practical duties and responsibilities of public gatherings and town meetings, on which occasions her words were always listened to with marked respect." For several years, Meetings or worships as well as Nantucket's political affairs were held in the "great fore-room" of her home which became known as "Parliament House," situated on what is now known as Island View Farm between the Macy's and the north head of Hummock ponds.
Despite Mary's involvement in the weighty matters of religion, she did not neglect domestic issues, as evidenced by a letter which Lydia Hinchman quotes in Early Settlers of Nantucket. In the aftermath of a fire experienced by her granddaughter, Eliza Gorham, Mary wrote to her:
Nantucket 17th of 1st mo 1714
Dear Child E.G. These few lines may certify thee that thou art often in my remembrance, with thy dear husband and children, with breathigs to the Lord for you, that you may find rest in all your visitations and trials: and also that there is a trunk filled with goods which is intended to be put on Eben Stewards vessel, in which are several small tokens from thy friends which thou may particularly see by the invoices here enclosed, and by some other marks that are upon the things.
Thy Aunt Dorcas in a new pair of osanburgs sheets, thy Aunt Dinah in a pair of blankets. Thy Grandfather intends to send thee a bbl. of mutton, but it is not all his own, for cousin James Coffin sent hither 17 pieces. Cousin James said he inteded to send thee two or three bushels of corn.
There is likewise sent from our women's meeting £7 which thy uncle Jethro said he would give an order for, for thee to take to Boston.
Sister James told me she intended to send thee two bushels of corn and some wool and likewise that Justice Worth said he would send thee some corn.
More meat and corn will be sent which will be in larger quantities, which thy uncle Jethro Starbuck will give thee an acct. of or to thy husband.
I should have been glad if he had come over with Steward, but I hope we will see him this summer, if not both of you.
So with my kind love to thee and thy husband, children and to all our frds. committing you to the protection of the Almighty who is the wise disposer of all things and remain thy affectionate grandmother.
Mary Starbuck
Although the first Meeting house on Nantucket was built in 1711, Mary did not live to see the official Nantucket Monthly Meeting be established on May 16, 1780. She died on Nantucket Island September 13, 1717, at the age of seventy-two.
Source: www.rootsweb.com/!nwa/coffin.html
Nathaniel Starbuck Sr. and Mary Coffin
Husband Nathaniel Starbuck Sr.
Born: 1638 - Dover, NH
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Died: 1719
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Father: Edmund Starbuck ( - )
Mother: Catharine Reynolds ( - )
Marriage: 1662 - Nantucket, MA
Wife Mary Coffin 1
Born: 20 Feb 1645 - Haverhill, MA
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Died: 13 Nov 1717 - Nantucket Co., MA
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Father: Tristan Coffin (1605-1681) 1
Mother: Dionis Stevens (Abt 1610-1676) 1
Other Spouse: Nathaniel Starbuck (1635-1719)
Noted events in her life were:
Alt. Birth, Alt. Birth Haverhill, MA, 20 Feb 1645
General Notes (Wife)
The Quaker influence was from or began about 1700. Prior to that period the people were mostly Baptists and Presbyterians, for the first fifty years there was no church organization there and most of the marriages were performed by the Justice of the Peace. The Mayhews had Christianized the Indians. In 1704 the first Friends Society was formed and in 1711 the first meeting House was built. Among the first converts to the society was Mary Coffin Starbuck who as I have elsewhere related was a woman of great character and influence and through her nearly the whole population became identified with the movement. It had a far reaching effect on the lives of the Islanders and more than any other form of religion, Quakerism entered into the daily lives of its adherents. Its keynote was simplicity, plain living, high thinking, unworldliness and humility were its tenets. They believed in the "inner light" and that "thought in the word" they were not of it. They wore plain clothes of subdued and neutral colors although of the best material that they could afford avoided all ornaments or display either an their person or in their homes. But they did not take into consideration the temperament and too little account of the natural desire of people. They were to rigid and severe in their discipline, particularity in regard to marriage. No one was allowed to marry outside of the sect on pain of being cast out.. The result was that many close marriages were made cousin to cousin, uncle to niece. With the inevitable results which were handed down to prosperity.
They had a curious custom of not allowing any headstones to mark the graves and in the old Friends Cemetery on the Island are over seven thousand Quakers buried without a single stone to mark their burial places. Later on it was allowed to put up a six inch stone and still later on one a foot high.
The original meeting House is still in existence forming part of the Congregation Church where it was moved to. A memorial stone marks the site of the original spot on where it stood with the following inscription.
Erected 1891 by a descendant of the first settlers in memory of those who are buried on this hallowed spot where stood the "first Meeting House in 1711. Since removed to the spot where it now stands as the vestry of 1st Congregational Church.
1609 Tristram Coffin 1681
1598 Thomas Macy 1682
1604 Edward Starbuck 1690
1617 Peter Folger 1690
1624 John Gardner 1706
1664 John Swain Jr. 1738
1644 John Coleman 1715
1598 Christopher Hussey 1686
1626 Richard Gardner 1688
1640 William Bunker 1712
Many descendants of these worthy sires have been distinguished for their courage energy and left a record for others to emulate. ************************************************************************** *************************************** "Throughout the seventeenth century, English Nantucketers resisted all attempts to establish a church on the island (Nantucket), partly because a woman by the name of Mary Coffin Starbuck forbade it. It was said that nothing of consequence was done on Nantucket without Mary's approval. Mary Coffin and Nathaniel Starbuck had been the first English couple to be married on the island, in 1662, and had established a lucrative outpost for trading with Wampanoag. Whenever an itinerant minister came to Nantucket looking to establish a congregation, he was firmly rebuffed by Mary Starbuck. Then, in 1702, Mary succumbed to a charismatic Quaker minister named John Richardson. Speaking before a group assembled in the Starbucks' living room, Richardson succeeded in moving Mary to tears. It was Mary Starbuck's conversion to Quakerism that established the unique fusion of spirituality and covetousness that would make possible Nantucket's rise as a whaling port." "Quakers or, more properly, members of the Society of Friends, depended on their own experience of God's presence, the 'Inner Light,' for guidance rather than relying on a Puritan minister's interpretation of scripture. But Nantucket's ever growing number of Quakers were hardly free-thinking individuals. Friends were expected to conform to rules of behavior determined during the yearly meetings, encouraging a sense of community that was as carefully controlled as that of any New England society. If there was a difference, it was the Quaker belief in pacifism and a conscious spurning of worldly ostentation - two principles that were not intended to interfere, in any way, with a person's ability to make money. Instead of building fancy houses or buying fashionable clothes, Nantucket's Quakers reinvested their profits in the whale fishery. As a result, they were able to weather the downturns that laid to waste so many mainland whaling merchants, and Mary Starbuck's children, along with their Macy and Coffin cousins, quickly established a Quaker whaling dynasty." "Nantucketers saw no contradiction between their livelihood and their religion. God Himself had granted them dominion over the fishes of the sea. Peleg Folger, a Nantucket whaleman turned Quaker elder, expressed it in verse:"
"Thou didst, O Lord, create the mighty whale, That wondrous monster of a mighty length; Vast is his head and body, vast his tail, Beyond conception his unmeasured strength.
But, everlasting God, thou dost ordain That we, poor feeble mortals should engage (Ourselves, our wives and children to maintain), This dreadful monster with a martial rage."
Source: "In the Heart of the Sea" by Nathaniel Philbrick; Viking, 2000; p.8,9 ************************************************************************** *************************************** "Reverend" Mary Coffin was born February 20, 1644/45 in Haverhill, Massachusetts just two years after her parents' arrival from Devonshire, England. She moved to Nantucket Island with her father, Tristram Coffin, who led the colonization of the island in 1660-1661. In 1662 she married Nathaniel Starbuck, a prosperous farmer, local official, and partner with her father in purchasing the area from the Indians. The son of Edward and Catherine (Reynolds) Starbuck, Nathaniel was born February 20, 1633/34 in Dover, New Hampshire and died June 6, 1719 on Nantucket.
Mother of ten children, of whom five daughters and three sons lived to maturity, Mary and her eldest son Nathaniel helped make Quakerism the leading religion on the island sometime after her own conversion from Puritanism by the Quakers of Providence, RI in 1701 at the age of 56. She was a minister, as were her children and grandchildren.
"The islanders esteemed [Mary Starbuck] as a judge among them, for little was done without her, as I understood," wrote Englishman John Richardson, describing his 1701 visit. He bestowed on her the epithet "the great woman," and in the same journal entry deprecated her husband as "not a man of mean parts but she so far exceeded him in soundness of judgment, clearness of understanding, and an elegant way of expressing herself ... that it tended to lessen the qualifications of her husband."
Mary was a "most extraordinary woman, participating in the practical duties and responsibilities of public gatherings and town meetings, on which occasions her words were always listened to with marked respect." For several years, Meetings or worships as well as Nantucket's political affairs were held in the "great fore-room" of her home which became known as "Parliament House," situated on what is now known as Island View Farm between the Macy's and the north head of Hummock ponds.
Despite Mary's involvement in the weighty matters of religion, she did not neglect domestic issues, as evidenced by a letter which Lydia Hinchman quotes in Early Settlers of Nantucket. In the aftermath of a fire experienced by her granddaughter, Eliza Gorham, Mary wrote to her:
Nantucket 17th of 1st mo 1714
Dear Child E.G. These few lines may certify thee that thou art often in my remembrance, with thy dear husband and children, with breathigs to the Lord for you, that you may find rest in all your visitations and trials: and also that there is a trunk filled with goods which is intended to be put on Eben Stewards vessel, in which are several small tokens from thy friends which thou may particularly see by the invoices here enclosed, and by some other marks that are upon the things.
Thy Aunt Dorcas in a new pair of osanburgs sheets, thy Aunt Dinah in a pair of blankets. Thy Grandfather intends to send thee a bbl. of mutton, but it is not all his own, for cousin James Coffin sent hither 17 pieces. Cousin James said he inteded to send thee two or three bushels of corn.
There is likewise sent from our women's meeting £7 which thy uncle Jethro said he would give an order for, for thee to take to Boston.
Sister James told me she intended to send thee two bushels of corn and some wool and likewise that Justice Worth said he would send thee some corn.
More meat and corn will be sent which will be in larger quantities, which thy uncle Jethro Starbuck will give thee an acct. of or to thy husband.
I should have been glad if he had come over with Steward, but I hope we will see him this summer, if not both of you.
So with my kind love to thee and thy husband, children and to all our frds. committing you to the protection of the Almighty who is the wise disposer of all things and remain thy affectionate grandmother.
Mary Starbuck
Although the first Meeting house on Nantucket was built in 1711, Mary did not live to see the official Nantucket Monthly Meeting be established on May 16, 1780. She died on Nantucket Island September 13, 1717, at the age of seventy-two.
Source: www.rootsweb.com/!nwa/coffin.html
Mary Coffin
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Born: 1760
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Father: William Coffin (1723-1803) 1
Mother: Mary Austin Aston (Abt 1728-Abt 1800) 1
Thomas Edmondston and Mary Coffin
Husband Thomas Edmondston 1
Born: Abt 1850 - City Of London, , London, England
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Marriage: 19 Oct 1874
Wife Mary Coffin 1
Born: 6 Feb 1852
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Father: Amory Coffin Dr. (1813-1884) 1
Mother: Jessie Mary Edmondston (1821-1886) 1
Henry William Peronneau and Mary Sarah Coffin
Husband Henry William Peronneau 1
Born: Abt 1792
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Died: 30 Mar 1859
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Father: William Peronneau (1768-1848) 1
Mother: Mary Sarah Lightwood (1771-Abt 1847) 1
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Wife Mary Sarah Coffin 1
Born: 5 Nov 1798
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Died: 14 Jul 1864
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Father: Ebenezer Coffin (1765-1817) 1
Mother: Mary Mathewes (1774-1813) 1
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1 M William Henry Peronneau 1
Born: Abt 1819
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Spouse: Martha Washington (Abt 1820- ) 1
2 F Susan Hayne Peronneau 1
Born: Abt 1820
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Died: After 1907
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3 F Mary Coffin Peronneau 1
Born: 10 May 1822 - Charleston, South Carolina
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Died: 19 Dec 1895 - Charleston, South Carolina
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Spouse: Henry William Desaussure (1815-1887) 1
Marr: 19 Mar 1840 - Charleston, South Carolina
4 F Ann Barnwell Peronneau 1
Born: Abt 1840
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Spouse: William Porcher Dubose (1836-1918) 1
Mildred Coffin
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Father: Ernest H. Coffin
Mother: Jessie Belva Jordan (1885- ) 3
Nathaniel Coffin
Husband Nathaniel Coffin 1
Born: 19 Jul 1711
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Father: Nathaniel Coffin (1671-1720) 1
Mother: Damaris Gayer (1673-1764) 1
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Nathaniel Coffin
Husband Nathaniel Coffin 1
Born: 24 Aug 1725
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Father: William Coffin (1699-1774) 1
Mother: Anna Holmes (Abt 1700-Abt 1765) 1
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Nathaniel Coffin and Damaris Gayer
Husband Nathaniel Coffin 1
Born: 1671
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Died: 29 Aug 1720
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Father: James Coffin (1640-1720) 1
Mother: Mary Severance (1645-Abt 1710) 1
Marriage: 24 Oct 1692
Wife Damaris Gayer 1
Born: 17 Oct 1673
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Died: 6 Sep 1764
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1 F Dorcas Coffin 1
Born: 22 Jul 1693
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2 F Christian Coffin 1
Born: 8 Apr 1695
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3 F Lydia Coffin 1
Born: 16 May 1697
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4 M William Coffin 1
Born: 1 Dec 1699
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Died: 1774
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Spouse: Anna Holmes (Abt 1700-Abt 1765) 1
Marr: 3 Sep 1722 - Boston, Massachusetts
5 M Charles Coffin 1
Born: 1 Mar 1701
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6 M Benjamin Coffin 1
Born: 3 Jun 1705
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7 M Gayer Coffin 1
Born: 24 May 1709
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8 M Nathaniel Coffin 1
Born: 19 Jul 1711
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9 F Catherine Coffin 1
Born: 23 Jun 1715
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Parnel Coffin
Husband Parnel Coffin
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Father: Peter Coffin (1630-1715) 1
Mother: Abigail Starbuck (Abt 1633- ) 1
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General Notes (Husband)
Died in infancy.
Peter Coffin and Elizabeth Starbuck
Husband Peter Coffin
Born: 20 Aug 1660
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Died: 1699 - Nantucket Co., MA
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Father: Peter Coffin (1630-1715) 1
Mother: Abigail Starbuck (Abt 1633- ) 1
Marriage: 15 Aug 1682
Wife Elizabeth Starbuck
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Peter Coffin and Abigail Starbuck
Husband Peter Coffin 1
Born: 1630 - England
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Died: 21 Mar 1715 - Exeter, NH
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Father: Tristan Coffin (1605-1681) 1
Mother: Dionis Stevens (Abt 1610-1676) 1
Marriage: Bef 1656
Wife Abigail Starbuck 1
Born: Abt 1633
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Father: Edward Starbuck ( - )
Mother: Katharine Reynolds ( - )
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1 M Eliphalet Coffin
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2 M Parnel Coffin
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3 M Robert Coffin
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Died: 19 May 1710
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Spouse: Joanna Gilman ( - )
4 F Abigail Coffin
Born: 20 Oct 1657
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Spouse: Daniel Davison ( - )
5 M James Coffin
Born: 22 Apr 1659
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Spouse: Florence Hook ( - )
6 M Peter Coffin
Born: 20 Aug 1660
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Died: 1699 - Nantucket Co., MA
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Spouse: Elizabeth Starbuck ( - )
Marr: 15 Aug 1682
7 M Jethro Coffin
Born: 16 Sep 1663
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Died: 1726
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Spouse: Mary Gardner ( - )
8 M Tristan Coffin 1
Born: 1605 - Brixton, England
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Died: 2 Oct 1681 - Nantuckett, Massachusetts
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Spouse: Dionis Stevens (Abt 1610-1676) 1
Marr: Abt 1629 - Brixton, England
9 M Edward Coffin
Born: 20 Feb 1669
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Spouse: Anna Gardner ( - )
10 F Judith Coffin
Born: 4 Feb 1672
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11 F Elizabeth Coffin
Born: 27 Jan 1680
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Spouse: Col. John Gilman ( - )
Marr: 5 Jun 1698
General Notes (Husband)
As a young boy came to New England about 1642. Source: www.rootsweb.com/~hft/dad/coffin/index.html
General Notes for Child Eliphalet Coffin
Died unmarried.
General Notes for Child Parnel Coffin
Died in infancy.
General Notes for Child Jethro Coffin
Will dated 29 July, proved 10 Aug 1727. Source: www.rootsweb.com/~hft/dad/coffin/index.html
General Notes for Child Tristan Coffin
Tristram came with his widowed mother, Joanna, about 1643, to Newbury, Massachusetts. He afterwards resided at Salisbury, Massachusetts and, in 1660, settled at Nantucket (Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families). He was commissioned as Chief Magistrate of Nantucket by Governor Lovelace and by Governor Andres. Source: www.rootsweb.com/~hft/dad/coffin/index.html
"Recorded for Mr. Coffin and Mr. Macy aforesaid Be it known unto all men by those presents that I Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard Merchant. do hereby acknowledge that I have sold unto Tristan Coffin Thomas Macy Christopher Hussy Richard Swayne Thomas Bernard Peter Coffin Stephen Greenleafe John Swayne and William Pike that right and interest I have in ye Land of Nantuckett by Patent; ye wch Right I bought of James Forret Gent. and steward to ye Lord Sterling and of Richard Vines sometimes of Sacho Gent. Steward and Genell unto Sir Georges Knight as by conveyances under their Hands and Seales doe appeare ffor them ye aforesaid to Injoy and their Heyers out Assignes XXX for in consideration of Ye sume of Thirty Pounds of Current Pay unto "whomsoever I ye saw Thomas Mayhew mine Heyers or Assignes shall appoint. And also two Beaver Hatts one for myself and one for my wife &c. Reserving one twentieth part of the Island on to himself"
As titles to Royal Grants were not complete until the Indian Sachems rights were obtained, the new proprietors proceeded to secure them and on May 10,1660, Wanackmanack and Nicka Noose head Sachems of Nantucket Isle, conveyed to Mayhew and his nine associates their rights. There were subsequently other deeds.
It had been agreed upon by the original purchasers that each one should be allowed to choose an associate and Feb. 2, 1659(?) at a meeting hold at Salisbury, Mass. where most of them lived. The following names were added to the proprietary: Nathaniel and Edward Starbuck, Tristman Jr.and James Coffin, John Smith, Thomas Look, Robert Barnard, Robert Pike and Thomas Coleman. Afterwards two half shares were granted to John Bishop and Richard Gardner. One half share each to Peter Folger his son Eleazrir. Thomas Macy, Joseph Coleman, Joseph Gardner, Samuel Stetor, John Gardner, Nathaniel Holland, William Worth and Nathaniel Weir. In all thirty owners.
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mcronin111/hisnantu.htm
Tristram Coffin Tristram was the eldest son of Peter Coffin and his wife Joan Kember, and was born at Brixton, a parish near Plymouth in Devon; he was baptised on 11 March 1610. He became a churchwarden of the parish church (where his customary pew in the front of the chancel was marked on a plan made in 1638) and also a parish constable - holder of one of the offices created under the Elizabethan reforms of parochial administration. In 1630 or thereabouts he married Dionis, daughter of Robert Stevens of the same parish. Tristram may have inherited some property from his father, as he was the executor both of Peter and of his uncle John, whose will was proved in 1628. Records of Devon Quarter Sessions show that he had a legal dispute with a Thomas Maynard, also of Brixton, which in midsummer 1641 was referred for arbitration to Robert Savery and Henry Pollexfen. The subject of the dispute and the outcome of the arbitration are not known. But they may have had a bearing on Tristram's decision in 1642, shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War in England, to embark for America - taking with him his wife and 5 small children, his mother and two unmarried sisters. None of them ever returned. It is thought that they sailed in one of four ships owned by Robert Clement (the Hector, Griffin, Job Clement and Margaret Clement).
Tristram is said to have gone first to Salisbury, in what is now Massachusetts, but to have moved soon afterwards to the new settlement of Pentucket (later renamed Haverhill). Later still he moved to Newbury, and then back to Salisbury (1654-5), from where he set out first to Martha's Vineyard and then to Nantucket, intending (it is said) to report on the disposition of the Indians and the possibility of emigrating thither. His report was satisfactory on all counts.
On his return to Salisbury in 1659, a company was organised for the purchase of Nantucket, and the first settlers arrived later that year - Thomas Macy and his family, Edward Starbuck, Isaac Coleman and James Coffin (Tristram's fourth child, and only 19 years of age at the time).Tristram himself seems to have moved to the island in 1660, and to have been given some priority in choosing his house lot at a meeting in July 1661, when it was agreed among the first purchasers that each should be free to choose a lot of 60 rods square. According to Louis Coffin, author of The Coffin Family, his first home was near the Capaum pond, where he lived until his death.
Of the other members of Tristram's family, his mother Joan died in Boston in May 1661, and never went to Nantucket. His eldest son Peter was among the original purchasers, and like his father was allotted land near Capaum; but if he lived there, it seems to have been only for a short time. Two of Tristram's other children, Tristram Jr. and Elizabeth, were (like Peter) married by this time; but although among the original purchasers, Tristram Jr. and Elizabeth and her husband (Stephen Greenleaf), are not thought to have ever lived on Nantucket. However, James Coffin, the third son, was allotted land bounded on the west by the common, and on the south by the lot of Nathaniel Starbuck. Tristram Sr. and his three eldest sons also bought the neighbouring island of Tuckernuck in their own right.
According to the early accounts, Tristram Coffin Sr. was the leading man on the island, and notably so in his dealings with the American Indians who were its aboriginal inhabitants.He is said to have treated them considerately in all ways, and to have employed numbers of them in farming the land he acquired. However, some white settlers foolishly sold rum to the Indians, who soon became drunk and troublesome as a result. As the first chief magistrate of the island, appointed in 1671, Tristram (with his opposite number from Martha's Vineyard, Thomas Mayhew) had to promulgate a law prohibiting the sale to Indians of intoxicating drink - perhaps the first liquor law on record.
On the marriage of his daughter Mary to Nathaniel Starbuck in 1664, Tristram endowed the couple with one-half of his land. Much of the rest he seems to have left to go to his youngest sons, John (the second of that name - the first, born in England, having died at Haverhill) and Stephen, after the decease of himself and his wife. He also gave 10 acres of land each on Tuckernuck to such of his grandchildren as would cultivate it. He left no will, but died on 3 October 1681. His wife Dionis may have survived him - according to one account she died on 16 Oct 1676, according to another on 6 November 1684. James, John and Stephen Coffin adminstered his estate jointly, and were discharged from their duty by 9 February 1682.
Source: www.ecoffin.freeserve.co.uk/tristram.htm
"I Tristram Coffin of Nantucket, do for divers good considerations, as Also in regard of my Fatherly affections, do give unto my daughter, Mary Starbuck, the one half of my accomodations of my purchase, on Nantucket Island... 14th 4th mo. 1664." [Nantucket Deeds Vol.1, p.197]
"I Tristram Coffin, of Nantucket, Senore, do give...unto my son, Stephen Coffin, the one-half of my land at Cappan, Alies Northam, within the township of Sherborn, situated upon Nantucket Island... all...except... my new dwelling house upon the hill, and my old dwelling house under the hill, by the Erbe garden; now, for and in consideration of the aforesaid premisses, my son, Stephen Coffin, shall always from time to time do the best he can in managing my other half of my lands and accomodation during mine and my wife's life, and that he be helpfull to me and his mother in our old age and sickness, what he can:... the fifteenth of the elventh mone, one thousand six hundred and seventy-six." [Nantucket Deeds, old book, p. 63]
"Tristram Coffin, Senior, in the town of Sherborn, on the Island of Nantucket... in regard to my naturall afections unto my son, John Coffin, now of Sherborn, as also for divers other good and Lawful consideration... I... do freely give unto my son, John Coffin... my new Dwelling house, with all other houses Adjoining unto it, and also the whole half share of land and accomodation... to have and to hold forever, imediatly after the Decease of me... and my now wife Dionis Coffin" 3 Dec. 1678.[Nantucket Deeds Vol.2, p.19]
"I Tristram Coffin of Sherborn... in Regard of my Natural afection unto my Grand Children... give unto every one of them Ten Acres of land to plant or sow English grain on... upon the Island of Tuckernuck... and if they... shall sow their land with english hay seed they shall have liberty to keep four shep upon every acre during their Lifetime... 3d 10th 1678."[Nantucket Deeds- Vol.2, p.17]
"The 8th day of August, 1682, an Inventory being presented to the Court of the estate of Mr. Tristram Coffin, Senior, who departed this life the third day of October, on thousand six hundred eighty one, the Court taking into consideration the present state of the estate, together with the best Information of his mind before his decease: doe order the use of the estate for Ms Dionis Coffin, his widdow, during her life after al Just debts are paid." [Nantucket Records]
Source: http://ucs.orst.edu/~gildenj/coffin/tristram2.html
Tristram married before coming to America and lived, successively at Haverhill, Newbury, Salisbury and finally on Nantucket Island, where he died. On the fifteenth of November, 1642, Passaquo and Saggahew, with the consent of Passaconaway who was leader of the Merrimacs, sold for L3 10s. to the inhabitants of Pentucket,' now Haverhill, a track of land fourteen miles long and six miles wide, with ye isleand and the river that ye isleand stands in' etc. Among the witnesses to this deed was Tristram Coffyn, who had this year, arrived in New England and had moved from Salisbury to Haverhill. Tristram is said to have been the first man to use a plow in Haverhill. He was a royalist, and was one of the few, if not the only early settler to come to New England as a consequence of the success of Oliver Cromwell. In about 1644, Tristram and his family moved to Newbury, where he became a prominent inn keeper and ferryman. In Newbury in 1644 Tristram was granted permission to keep an "ordinary" (saloon), sell wine and keep a ferry on the Newbury side of the Merrimack between Newbury and Carr's island. George Carr ran the ferry from Carr's island to Salisbury. This arrangement was confirmed in the town records on December 26,1647: Tristram Coffin (senior) is allowed to keep an ordinary and retayle wine, paying according to order, and also granted liberty to keep a ferry at Newbury side. In September 1653, Tristram Coffyn's wife Dionis Coffin was presented for selling beer', at his ordinary in Newbury, 'for three pence a quart.' (higher than the set price for beer). Having proved upon the testimony of Samuel Moores, that she put six bushels of malt into a hogshead she was discharged.' Dionis was found to be "doctoring" the beer sold at the ordinary. Contrary to current practice Dionis was making her beer stronger and charging a correspondingly higher price. The law at the time called for beer to be good wholesome beer of four bushels of malt to the hogshead.' Goodwife Coffin is said to have remarked: I'll have better beer than my neighbors and be paid for it. A fig for the law.' In 1654 or 1655, Tristram returned to Salisbury where he signed his name as "Tristram Coffyn Commissioner of Salisbury." In 1659, Tristram and some of his sons were among a company of Salisbury men who purchased nineteen twentieths of the island of Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew. In 1660 Tristram Sr. with wife, mother and some of his children moved to the island where this branch of the Coffin family continued. Tristram Jr. remained in Newbury with his wife and family. See Tristram Coffin Jr. for continuation of Coffins in Newbury Submitted by: Bob Bamford - bob@essexbooks.com © 1997 Heritage Associates
Tristram Coffin (later of Nantucket) was born in Brixton, near Plymouth, Devonshire, in 1605. Although he did not necessarily descend from Portledge, he held estates at Brixton, about 40 miles away. In 1639/40 he was a church warden in Brixton, and in 1641 he was a constable. Tristram was of the landed gentry; he owned property in Dorset and Devon. He married Dionis Stevens, the daughter of Robert Stevens, Esq., of Brixton, in 1630, at age 25. The name Dionis is a diminutive of Dionysia.
Leaving England
During this era Puritanism was growing quickly in England, but Tristram Coffin was not a Puritan. In 1638 the Scots took up arms against King Charles I, and at the same time (around 1642), a conflict developed between Charles and the Parliament. Charles was supported by the nobility, landed gentry, and Catholics, while Parliament was supported by the merchant and middle classes.
It is unclear why Tristram Coffyn left his estates at the age of 37 to move to Massachusetts. Part of the reason may be that he was landed gentry and a Royalist, and Plymouth had fallen under the control of Parliament. Around 1642 "each county, town, and hamlet, was divided into factions seeking the ruin of each other. The two great armies plundered wherever they came, and their example was faithfully copied by smaller bodies of armed men." Tristram's brother died in this war, and he may have been trying to escape the strife. When he emigrated to the Americas with his family, his estates were given to Charles II's illegitimate son during the Restoration. It is said that he emigrated on a ship owned by Robert Clement.
Tristram and his family (Dionis, his 58-year-old mother, his five children, and two unmarried sisters) settled in Haverhill (formerly Pawtucket) in 1642. It is said that Tristram constructed his own plough and was the first to plough land in this area. This settlement began in 1640 and a deed from the Passaconnaway Indians was obtained in 1642. Tristram was a witness to the deed, the signing of which was attended by the sachems Passaquo and Saggahew. The land was purchased for three pounds and ten shillings:
Know all men by these presents, that wee Passaquo and Saggahew wth the consent of Passaconaway; have sold unto ye inhabitants of Pentuckett all ye lands wee have in Pentuckett... And wee ye said Passaquo and Saggahew wth ye consent of Passaconnaway, have sold unto ye said inhabitants all ye right that wee or any of us have in ye said ground and Ileand and Rivver: And wee warrant it against all or any other Indeans whatsoever into ye said Inhabitants of Penuckett, and to their heires and assignes forever Dated ye fifteenth day of november Ann Dom 1642.
Witnes our hands and seales to this bargayne of sale ye day and year above written (in ye presents of us) we ye said Passaquo & Saggahew have received in hand, for & in consideration of ye same three pounds & ten shillings: John Ward, Robert Clements, Tristram Coffyn, Hugh Sherratt, William White, Thomas Davis. [Norfolk Co. Deeds- book 2, p.209]
Dionis the Brewmistress
In 1644 Tristram obtained a license to "keep an ordinary, sell wine, and keep a ferry" in Newbury, where the family had moved. In 1647 he got another license to do the same. The pub, "Coffin's Ordinary," was run by his wife Dionis; at the time brewing beer was a common occupation for women. In 1653 Dionis was charged with violating a law, passed in 1645, which said that beer could not be sold for more than two pence a quart. Her case was presented and dismissed when she showed that she was putting more malt in her beer than was usual, and that the beer should be sold for a proportionately larger fee. Her pub became known as "the place where the best beer was sold."
This recipe for "William Harrison's Wife's Ale" (1577) may be similar to the brews created by Dionis. For more information about Tristram and Dionis's early life in Massachusetts, see http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9210/COFFIN.htm.
Moving to Nantucket
The Coffin family moved to Salisbury in 1654, and Tristram "organized a company for the purchase and settlement of Nantucket." In 1659 Tristram went to Martha's Vineyard with Peter Folger (Ben Franklin's grandfather) along as an Indian interpreter. Together they went to Nantucket, "his object being to ascertain the temper and disposition of the Indians" and check out the island itself. Allen Coffin writes that "Tristram's intercourse with the Indians was frank and kind, and they extended to him a warm welcome." He got along well with them from then on, "a fact which was largely owing to the infusion of his liberal, high-minded and christian character into the practical concerns of life among the Indians." There were about 3000 Indians on Nantucket when he arrived, and they are described as being "kind and hospitable."
After leaving Nantucket, the island was purchased from Thomas Mayhew for the sum of 30 pounds and two beaver hats. There were 19 purchasers, including representatives from the Coffin, Macy and Starbuck families. Their 1659 agreement stated that "No man whatsoever shall purchase any land of any of the Indians upon the said iland for his own private or particular use; but whatsoever purchas shall be made, shall be for the general account of the Twenty owners or purchasers..."
In 1659 Tristram and Thomas Macy also purchased an island from the Sachem of Nantucket:
"This witnesseth that I, Wanochmamack, chife sachem of Nantucket, hath sold unto Mr. Tristram Coffin and Thomas Macy, their heirs and assigns, that whole nack of land called by the Indians, Pacummohquah, being at the east end of Nantucket, for and in consideration of five pounds to be paid to me in English goods or otherwise to my content by the said Tristram Coffin aforesaid at convenient time as shall be demanded. Witness my hand or mark this 22 of June, 1662." [Albany Deeds- Vol.III, p.57] Settlement on Nantucket The first white settlers on Nantucket were Thomas Macy and his family; Edward Starbuck; Isaac Coleman; and James Coffin, Tristram's son. Tristram's other children were Peter, Tristram Jr., John, Mary (who married Nathaniel Starbuck) and Elizabeth, who married Stephen Greenleaf on November 13 1651. Tristram built a home near Capaum Pond, and lived there until his death.
In 1600 there were approximately 2500 natives on Nantucket, all belonging to the Pokanoket nation. At the time of white settlement, in 1660, they lived in four villages, the two largest headed by Wanachmamak and Nickanoose, and the others headed by Attapehat and Spotso. They belonged to the Algonquian language group and subsisted on maize, beans, squash, hunting, fishing, and gathering. Politically, they were allied with the Wampanoag or Pokanoket of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, under the leadership of Massasoit.
Most sources describe the goodwill between the native Nantucket Indians and the settlers. In fact, it was the Indians who introduced the settlers to the whale fishery that sustained them for several generations. When a small right whale came into the harbor in 1672 they showed the settlers how to catch it with a harpoon. In Nantucket: The Far-Away Island (Dodd, Mead & Co. 1937), William Stevens writes,
Unfortunately, not much is known about these Indians. Nobody knows whether they were few or many. It is a credit to both races, however, that they got along together as good neighbors. When King Philip visited the island to incite the Indians to join his revolt against the whites, they refused. And the whites managed to save an Indian that Philip was determined to slay, one "John Gibbs," who later was sent to Harvard to be educated. The Nantucket Indians were quick to convert to Christianity. Many were employed by white settlers, including Tristram. Gradually, they succumbed to disease and alcohol:
The Indians became troublesome only after they had learned to drink rum. The early court records are mainly devoted to trials, convictions and sentences of Indians to be whipped for getting drunk and for petty larcenies, and of fines imposed upon white men and women for selling rum to Indians. ... . The letter of Thomas Macy to Governor Lovelace, 9 May 1676 shows the fear of the Indians if strong drink was allowed to be sold to them and he asked the Governor to prohibit any ship coming into the harbor from selling strong drink to Indians: "Sir, concerning the Peace we hitherto enjoy, I cannot imagine it could have bin if strong Liquor had bin among the Indians, as formerly: for my owne yt I have been to ye utmost an opposed of the Trade these 38 yeares, and I verily believe (respecting the Indians) tis the only Ground of the miserable psent Ruine to both Nations; for tis that hath kept them from Civility, they have been the drunken Trade kept all the while like wild Beares and Wolves in the Wildernesse." [The Coffin Family p.49; from http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/9210/COFFIN.htm.] Epidemics in 1616-19 devastated the native population of Nantucket. The last Nantucket Indian, Abram Quary, died in 1854.
In the late 1600s the community was divided by a feud between Tristram Coffin and John Gardner, concerning the governance of the island. The feud eventually ended and Gardner's daughter Mary married Tristram's grandson, Jethro Coffin. Their house, the oldest house on Nantucket, is now a tourist attraction.
Tristram's mother Joanna died in Boston in May 1661 at age 77. Tristram himself died on October 2 1681, aged 76. His will is linked here.
Source: http://www.onid.orst.edu/~gildenj/coffin/history.html
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