Ancestry of
Maria Mitchell

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Abigail Coffin

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Maria Mitchell — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 59 
  • Father:
  • James Coffin 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Severance   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1666 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Gardner
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  Hannah Gardner

  Peleg Gardner

  Judith Gardner

  Margaret Gardner (Ahnentafel No:29 )

  Andrew Gardner

• Sources for Abigail Coffin

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 2, pp. 40-50, Birth records for children of Nathaniel and Abigail Gardner.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 237, Birth record for Abigail Coffin.
  • ³ Gardner, Frank Augustine, Thomas Gardner, Planter, (Cape Ann, 1623-1626; Salem, 1626-1674) and Some of His Descendants, Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute (1907), 72.
  • ⁴ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, 2nd Edition, Philadelphia: Ferris and Leach (1901), 196.
  • ⁵ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 672.
  • ⁶ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 1, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1990, 7th printing 2014), 340.