Ancestry of
Henry Clay Folger

Founder of Folger Shakespeare Library and Chairman of Standard Oil

James Coffin Jr.

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Henry Clay Folger — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 180 
  • Father:
  • James Coffin 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Severance   
  • Birth Date:
  • 9 Jul 1664 
  • Birth Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 2 Aug 1741 
  • Death Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Gardner
  • Marriage Date:
  • from 19 Mar 1692 to 19 May 1692 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Nantucket, Nantucket Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  George Coffin (Ahnentafel No:90 )

  Sarah Coffin

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give James Coffin's death date as 8th month indicating OCT and not AUG as death month. However the dates come from private records of the 19th century's William C. Folger and have been interpreted as though written in the 19th century.

• Additional marriages for James Coffin Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Love Gardner
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1690

• Sources for James Coffin Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 283, Birth record for James Coffin.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 1, p. 272, Birth record for son George Coffin.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 5, p. 160, Death record for James Coffin.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Nantucket, Vol. 3, p. 274, Marriage record for James Coffin Jr and Ruth Gardner.
  • ⁵ Nantucket Historical Society, The Barney Genealogical Record, gives James's death date as 02 AUG 1741, (accessed 10/28/2018).
  • ⁶ Reynolds, Cuyler, Hudson-Mohawk Genealogical and Family Memoirs: A Record of the Achievements of the People of the . . ., Vol. 1, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1911), 482.