Tristram COFFIN (Sr.)

ABT 11 Mar 1608 - 2 Oct 1681

• TITLE: Sr.
  
• BIRTH: ABT 11 Mar 1608, England
• BAPTISM: 11 Mar 1608
• DEATH: 2 Oct 1681

• MARRIAGE: ABT 1629, Brixton, England

1.  Peter COFFIN
2. +Tristram COFFIN
3.  Elizabeth COFFIN
4.  James COFFIN
5.  John COFFIN
6.  Deborah COFFIN
7.  Mary COFFIN
8.  John COFFIN
9.  Stephen COFFIN

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[149] Tristram Coffin Sr. came from Devons, England to New England in 1642 with
his wife Dionis Stevens, 5 children, his mother Joanna, and two sisters,
Eunice and Mary Coffin. He was of Haverhill in 1642, of Salisbury, MA
about 1644/5, of Newbury 1648, and then to Nantucket in 1659. Freeman
Haverhill 1645. When Nantucket was formed, Tristram Coffin Sr. moved there
with his wife, mother and four children. Then many Coffins of Nantucket
are descended from Tristram Coffin Sr. The Coffin family in England were
of the "?Canded gentry". They were not Puritans. Tristram Coffin Sr. was
a Royalist by education and environment.

"Through the Generations. A Genealogy of the Coffin Family Including Sir
William Coffin in the Reign of Henry VIII, Tristram
Coffin(1609-1681)Founder of
Nantucket...Shockney...Wasson...Lindberg...Jones Famil(ies)...(1989).
CS/71/C675/1989" Circulating Library as/per NEHGS NEXUS Vol.X, Nos.2&3
Pg.59 Listed in Volume 14 West Country Planters To New England, 1620-1643
Mary & John. (See Nicolas Noyes' note)

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