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Maria Mitchell

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Mary Coffin

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Maria Mitchell — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 37 
  • Father:
  • Tristam Coffin 
  • Mother:
  • Dionis Stevens   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Feb 1645 
  • Birth Location:
  • Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Nov 1717 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts  
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Starbuck
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1662 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Starbuck

  Elizabeth Starbuck

  Nathaniel Starbuck

  Priscilla Starbuck

  Eunice Starbuck

  Hepzibah Starbuck

  Jethro Starbuck (Ahnentafel No:18 )

• Sources for Mary Coffin

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 545, Death record for Mary Starbuck.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 546, Death record for son Nathaniel Starbuck.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 547, Death record for spouse Nathaniel Starbuck.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 310, Death record for daughter Mary Gardner.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, pp. 496-509, Birth records for children of Nathaniel and Mary Starbuck.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1870, Vol. 24, p. 152.
  • ⁷ Gardner, Frank Augustine, Thomas Gardner, Planter, (Cape Ann, 1623-1626; Salem, 1626-1674) and Some of His Descendants, Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute (1907), 72.
  • ⁸ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach (1901), 245.
  • 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 New England Historic Genealogical Society, "Stephen King and Amy Poehler", (accessed 09/05/2014).
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 148.
  • ¹² Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 699.
  • ¹³ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 732-733.
  • ¹⁴ Sumner, Edit Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine, and Ninety Allied Families, Los Angeles, California: American Offset Printers (1959), 253.
  • ¹⁵ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 121.