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From: Earl Taylor <>
Subject: RE: Coffins
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:54:30 -0700
In-Reply-To: <000e01c5692c$690a3000$1346c618@computer>


I have 25 Coffins in my data. Some are ancestors. I also have Starbuck's
book on Nantucket.

Earl H Taylor

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-----Original Message-----
From: lynde randall [mailto:]
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 10:40 AM
To:
Subject: Re: Coffins

Thank you Barbara for info on James and Mary (Severence) Coffin as it
helped
fill in a few voids. When I checked James Coffin I had this information
that Allison Franks had sent way back in 1999 and I thought I could add
to
your information. My line goes from Tristram Coffin to his daughter
Elizabeth. All collateral information is welcome. >:)

Lynde
in Maine

Subj: [MAESSEX] The Quakers of Nantucket- origins from Essex Co. MA
Date: 09/14/1999 6:34:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time

"The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex" by Owen Chase, 1st Mate", a reprint
by
Harcourt Brace and Company 1999. 'The riveting life and death saga of
man
against the deep that inspired the writing of MOBY DICK' These men on
this
whaleship hailed from Nantucket.

In the Vital Records of Nantucket, the entry for death says "lost at
sea".
This Owen was son of Hezekiah, Jr. 6 and Nancy (Bunker) Coffin.

Hezekiah, Sr. 5 and Abigail (Coleman) Coffin - he said to have been the
first to heave tea overboard in Boston Harbor
Zaccheus 4 and Mary (Pinkham)
Joseph 3 and Bethia (Macy) Coffin
James 2 and Mary (Severance) Coffin - she dau of John and Abigail
(Kimball) Severance of Salisbury, MA.!
Tristram 1and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin

Alison Franks
Archivist, Rawson Family Association

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara Myall" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 12:53 PM


> He (James Coffin) came to Nantucket with the first settlers, then
> removed to Dover, NH, where he lived in 1668, being a member of the
> church in 1671, and the same year, 5-31-1668, was made a freeman.
Soon
> after this date, he returned to Nantucket and resided there until his
> death.
>
> Hon. James Coffin was born in England in 1639. He married Mary
> Severance, daughter of John and Abigail Severance of Salisbury,
> Massachusetts, in 1663. James was the first settler to settle on
> Nantucket after the purchase. He later became a leading figure in
> Nantucket politics. He served many terms as Chief Magistrate on the
> Island. James and Mary had fourteen children with twelve surviving
into
> adulthood.
>
>
> While in Salisbury he was courting a young lady by the name of Mary
> Severance, daughter of John and Abigail Severance. While in Dover,
N.H.
> James was living along the Cochecho River near his brother Peter. It
is
> likely that James was involved with shipping lumber back to Nantucket
> for houses during these years. On December 3, 1663, James married Mary
> Severance in Salisbury and the two moved to Nantucket where their
first
> child James Jr. was born. Shortly thereafter James and his family
moved
> off the Island to Dover, New Hampshire. It was during this period that
> I feel James along with his brother Peter became interested in
> practicing law. On March 10 1666, James, along with five others was
> named as an arbitrator to settle disputes in the settlement. In the
> 1670's Peter Coffin owned large tracts of land in what is now downtown
> Dover. Peter's land was on the south side of the Cochecho River, near
> the falls. Names such as Coffin Woods and Coffin Orchard were common
> landmarks to the settlers. Peter also owned a mill on the Lamprey
River
> as well as land by the Cochecho Falls. Peter manufactured masts for
the
> British navy and was paid by grants of land in Dover. Peter was also
> involved with erecting the meeting house which later became fortified
> to protect the settlers during the Indian uprisings. The fort was 100'
> square with a log wall and gate. It was situated on the mound of earth
> that is still visible today in an area that was called "the neck". A
> brief history of Peter taken from the book "Historical Memoranda of
> Ancient Dover" states that Peter was a Selectman in 1660, the town
> treasurer by 1661, a member of the jury of trials in 1666 and a
> lieutenant during King Philip's war. In 1666 Peter was on a committee
> to fortify Portsmouth N.H..


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