Ancestry of
John Greenleaf Whittier

American “Fireside” Poet

Elizabeth Coffin

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of John Greenleaf Whittier — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 41 
  • Father:
  • Tristam Coffin 
  • Mother:
  • Dionis Stevens   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1633 
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Nov 1678 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Stephen Greenleaf
  • Marriage Date:
  • 13 Nov 1651 
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  Stephen Greenleaf

  Elizabeth Greenleaf

  John Greenleaf

  Tristram Greenleaf (Ahnentafel No:20 )

  Mary Greenleaf

• Sources for Elizabeth Coffin

  • ¹ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 193, 198-200.
  • ² Macy, Silvanus Jenkins, Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1870), 2.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 174, 184.
  • ⁴ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 698.