1308. Documentation for Tristram Coffin
(Mar 11, 1604/05 to Oct 02, 1681)
father of Mary Coffin
(Feb 20, 1644/455 to Nov 13, 1717)


 Tristram Coffin(1)(2)(3) born March 11, 1604/05, in Brixton, Devonshire England. He died October 2, 1681, in Nantucket, Massachusetts.(4) He was the son of Peter Coffin and Joanna Thember. He married Dionis Stevens(5) in 1628/30, in Devonshire England. She was christened March 4, 1609/10 in Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England. She died between 1681/82 and November 6, 1684, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was a daughter of Robert Stevens and Dionis (---).
Children of Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stevens are:
i. Peter Coffin(6)(7) was born July 18, 1631, and he died about March 21, 1714/15. He married Abigail Starbuck before 1657. She was born about 1634.
ii. Tristram Coffin, Jr.(8)(9) was born in 1632 in England. He died February 3, 1702/03. He married Judith Greenleaf on March 2, 1652/53, in \ (11 children). She was born September 2, 1625, and she died December 15, 1705, in \ (177 children and grandchildren at time of death).
iii. Elizabeth Coffin(10)(11) was born about 1631 in Brixton, England. She died on November 19, 1678. She married Stephen Greenleaf on November 13, 1651, in Newbury. He was born about 1628 in England. he died October 31, 1690, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia \ (drowned).
iv. John6 Coffin [13820] was born in 1637 in Devonshire, England. He died October 30, 1642, in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts.
v. James Coffin(12)(13)(14) was born August 12, 1640, in Devonshire, England \ Brixton. He died July 28, 1720, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He married Mary Severance on December 3, 1663, in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts \ (prob.). She was born August 5, 1645, in Salisbury, Massachusetts\ (now Andover). She died July 28, 1720, in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
vi. Deborah Coffin(15) was born in 1642 and died in 1642\ (died in infancy).
vii. Mary Coffin was born February 20, 1644/45 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and she died November 13, 1717, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She married Nathaniel Starbuck, Senior in 1662 in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
viii. John Coffin(16)(17)(18)(19) was born October 30, 1647, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He died September 5, 1711, in Edgartown, Massachusetts. He married Deborah Austin in February 1667/68 in Essex County, Massachusetts \ (prob.). She was born in 1651 in Edgartown, Dukes County, Massachusetts. She died between February 4, 1717/18, and April 4, 1718, in Nantucket, Massachussetts.
ix. Stephen Coffin was born July 11, 1652, in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, and died November 14, 1734, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He married Mary Bunker on October 8, 1668, on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

REFERENCES

1. Starbuck, Alexander, History of Nantucket Island, The, (1924).

2. Johnson, Carol Clark, Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Familes, 130-133.

3. Rose Gonnella, Nantucket Native Knowledge, (http://www.nantucketonline.com/Articles/knowledge.shtml, 2001-2).

4. Nantucket, Mass., Vital Records to 1850, 5 vols. Boston, 1925-28, 5:188, (Hereafter Nantucket VR), Coffin, Trustram, Mr., Oct. 2, 1681. [Tristram, "came to New England in 1642 with five children" (Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, James, John) [see also Haverhill and Newbury Vital Records], "of Haverhill, Mass., Nov. 15, 1642; removed to Newbury abt. 1648; thence to Salisbury, in 1664 or 1665; removed to Nantucket in 1660," h. Dionia (d. Robert Stevens of Briston), s. Peter [see birth record] and Joan Thumber [sic], 2d, 10 mo. [dup. Oct. 2] 1681, P.R. 38. 2d, 10 mo., P.R. 63.] (P.R. 63 = private record, from a copy of a manuscript kept by Hon. Isaac Coffin, Judge of Probate, in the possession of the Nantucket Atheneum.)

5. Johnson, Carol Clark, Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Familes, 130-133.

6. Johnson, Carol Clark, Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Familes, 133.

7. No Author, Ancestral Records and Portraits, (The Grafton Press, 1910), 213, PETER COFFIN,9 son of Tristram10 and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, married Abigail, the daughter of Edward and Catharine (Reynolds) Starbuck. Their daughter Elizabeth, married CAPTAIN JOHN GILMAN II. (See pp. 262-264.).

8. Johnson, Carol Clark, Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Familes, 133.

9. Family Records.

10. Johnson, Carol Clark, Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Familes, 133.

11. Greenleaf, James Edward, Genalogy of the Greenleaf Family, (Boston: Frank Wood, 1896.), 78-79.

12. Allen, Orrin Peer, Descendents of Edward Allen of Nantucket, Mass, (Fiske & Co., Massachusetts: 1905), 103-104, James Coffin, b. in England Aug. 12, 1640; m. Dec. 3, 1663, Mary dau. of John and Elizabeth (Kimball) Severence of Salisbury, Mass. He d. at Nantucket July 28, 1720. He spent the last fifty years of his life at Nantucket, where he was judge of the Probate Court. He had fourteen children, all of whom, except two, married and had families. From him descended some of the most noted members of the Coffin family. Among these may be mentioned Admiral, (Sir Isaac8 Coffin, Nathaniel7, William6, Nathaniel5, James4, Tristram3, Peter2, Nicholas1). "He was b. in Boston, Mass., May 16, 1759. Entering the English Navy in 1773, he was commissioned a Lieutenant 1778, Captain 1781; Rear Admiral of the White Squadron, 1804; Baronet and also granted a coat of arms the same year; Vice Admiral 1808, and in 1817 Admiral. He d. at Cheltenham, England, in 1839 without issue." In 1826 he visited Nantucket, when he gave œ1000 for founding a high school there. Afterwards he added to the sum, which now amounts to $50,000.

13. Compiled from Original Applications, Philadelphia, PA, Sons & Daughters of the Pilgrims, (National Society Sons and Daughters Of The Pilgrims, Philadelphia, PA, 1929), 14.

14. American Genealogical Record vol. 2, The Robinson, 193.

15. Donna Lucille Williams, (http://members.fortunecity.com/dlrs/ familytreegenealogysite/index.html, 2002).

16. No Author, American Genealogical Record, The Robinson, (Genealogical Record Publishing Company, San Francisco, 1897), Vol. 2, p. 197.

17. Walter G. Davis, Sybil Noyes, and Charles T. Libby, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 189.

18. Dr. Charles Banks, The History of Martha's Vinyard, (1925), Volume III Family Genealogies: pp. 96-103, THE COFFIN FAMILY.

19. Christopher D. Cooper, Our New Hoosier/Downeast Family, (www.rootsweb.com, 2000).