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Maria Mitchell

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James Coffin

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Maria Mitchell — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 118 
  • Father:
  • Tristam Coffin 
  • Mother:
  • Dionis Stevens   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Aug 1640 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Jul 1720 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Cape Cod, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Severance
  • Marriage Date:
  • 3 Dec 1663 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  James Coffin

  Mary Coffin

  Abigail Coffin (Ahnentafel No:59 )

  Nathaniel Coffin

  John Coffin

  Dinah Coffin

  Elizabeth Coffin

• Sources for James Coffin

  • ¹ History of North Carolina, Vol. 6: North Carolina Biography, Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1919), 290.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 542, Death record for daughter Dinah Starbuck.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 310, Death record for daughter Mary Gardner.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Salisbury, Vol. 1, p. 477, Marriage record for James Coffyn and Mary Severans.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, pp. 237-312, Birth recs for children of James Coffin and Mary Severance.
  • ⁶ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 283, Birth record for son James Coffin.
  • ⁷ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, pp. 150-151.
  • ⁸ Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 322.
  • ⁹ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 184.
  • ¹⁰ Macy, Silvanus Jenkins, Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1870), 2.
  • ¹¹ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, (accessed 10/28/2018).
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 148, 204.
  • ¹³ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 699.