Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Tristam Coffin Jr.

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1138 
  • Father:
  • Tristam Coffin 
  • Mother:
  • Dionis Stevens   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1632 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Feb 1704 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Judith Greenleaf
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Mar 1652/1653 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Judith Coffin

  Deborah Coffin

  Mary Coffin

  Lydia Coffin (Ahnentafel No:569 )

  Stephen Coffin

  Nathaniel Coffin

• Sources for Tristam Coffin Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 1, p. 109, Birth record for daughter Deborah Coffin.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1967, Vol. 121, p. 168.
  • ³ Burrows, Louisa Libby, Genealogy of William French Burrows, Pasadena, CA: Privately Printed (1938), 64.
  • ⁴ Greenleaf, James Edward, Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, Boston: Frank Wood, Printer (1896), 74-75.
  • ⁵ Hinchman, Lydia S., Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company (1896), 122.
  • ⁶ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), Vol. 2, p. 922.
  • ⁷ Jackson, James R., ed., History of Littleton, New Hampshire, Vol. 3, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The University Press (1905), 434.
  • ⁸ Little, George T., Descendants of George Little, Who Came to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1640, Cambridge: University Press (1877), 18-19.
  • ⁹ Macy, Silvanus Jenkins, Genealogy of the Early Generations of the Coffin Family in New England, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1870), 2-3.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 184.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 95, 126, 173.
  • ¹² Sanborn, V. C., Genealogy of the Family of Samborne or Sanborn in England and America, 1194-1898, Albany, New York: The Rumford Press, Joel Munsell's Sons (1899), 82.
  • ¹³ Starbuck, Alexander, The History of Nantucket County, Island and Town including Genealogies of First Settlers, Boston: C. E. Goodspeed and Co. (1924), 698.
  • ¹⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, Early Generations of the Descendants of the Reverend Stephen Bachiler, A.B., 1561-1660, Dublin, New Hampshire: typescript, n.p. (1959), 105.

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