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Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

Joseph Coffin

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 80 
  • Father:
  • Nathaniel Coffin 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Brocklebank   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Dec 1702 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Sep 1757 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Margaret Morse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Jul 1725 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Charles Coffin (Ahnentafel No:40 )

• Sources for Joseph Coffin

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury Marriages, Vol. 2, p. 109.
  • ² Hoyt, David W., The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts: with Some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill . . . Part 1, Providence, Rhode Island: Snow and Farnham, Printers (1897), 260.
  • ³ Kilpatrick, Marian Douglas Jones, The Kilpatrick Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Marian Douglas Jones and Robert Jackson Kilpatrick, Beatrice, NB: Privately Printed (1930), 234.
  • ⁴ Morse, J. Howard and Miss Emily W. Leavitt, comp., Morse Genealogy Comprising the Descendants of Samuel, Anthony, William and Joseph Morse and John Moss, Springfield, Massachusetts: Springfield Printing and Binding Company (1903), 22.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126, 170.