Ancestry of
Maria Mitchell

Astronomer

Tristam Coffin

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Maria Mitchell — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 236 
  • Father:
  • Peter Coffin 
  • Mother:
  • Joan Kember   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1609 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Oct 1681 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Cape Cod, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Dionis Stevens
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  Peter Coffin

  Tristam Coffin

  Elizabeth Coffin

  James Coffin (Ahnentafel No:118 )

  John Coffin

  Deborah Coffin

  Mary Coffin

  John Coffin

  Stephen Coffin

• Sources for Tristam Coffin

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Tristam Coffin (m. 1627), pp. 1-8.
  • ² History of North Carolina, Vol. 6: North Carolina Biography, Chicago and New York: The Lewis Publishing Company (1919), 290.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 545, Death record for daughter Mary Starbuck.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, pp. 149-150.
  • ⁵ Cornell, Thomas C., Adam and Anne Mott: Their Ancestors and Their Descendants, Poughkeepsie, New York: A.V. Haight, Printer (1890), 322.
  • ⁶ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 193.
  • ⁷ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1896), 121-122.
  • ⁸ Johnson, Rossiter and John Howard Brown, editors, The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans, Vol. 02, Bro - Cowan, Boston: The Biographical Society (1904).
  • ⁹ Macy, Silvanus Jenkins, Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1870), 2.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174, 184, 204.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 95, 126, 176.
  • ¹² Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 697-699.