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Stephen Coffin

Stephen Coffin

Male 1652 - 1734  (82 years)


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  • Name Stephen Coffin  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] 
    Birth 11 May 1652  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12] 
    Gender Male 
    FSID 9HKM-W69  [2, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36] 
    Occupation Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Yeoman 
    Death 14 Nov 1734  Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 12] 
    Person ID I45582  footsteps
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

    Father Tristram Coffin,   b. 1605, Brixton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Oct 1681, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Mother Dionis Stevens,   b. 1610, Brixton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1684, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Marriage 1630  Torbay, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6790  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Bunker,   b. 5 May 1652, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 29 May and 10 Jul 1724, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Stephen Coffin,   b. Abt 1670, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1725, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F25116  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

  • Notes 


    • Tristram Coffin's Descendants, pg 309 by Wm. Coffin
      He married Mary Bunker, daughter of George and Jane Bunker about 1668-69. He took care of his father and mother as they grew older and succeeded his father in the management of the estate.

      "Tristram reversed the old English law of leaving to the eldest son his land, but he gave all land to his youngest son, Stephen. Stephen fathered 10 children. Their 5th child married Peter Folger and became the grandmother and grandfather of Benjamin Franklin."

      Sources of information:
      1. Mary Elizabeth Sinnott, Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Carlies, Reeves, Bodine and Allied Families (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1905), pp. 65-84.
      2. Sylvanus J. Macy, “The Coffin Family,” The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 24 (April 1870): 149-154; citing American Ancestors (<https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/11665/149/0>).

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      Some of the information about Richard Swain in this is wrong - including his first wife's name. He did not have a daughter Dorthy - she was a Swan, from a family in NE Mass.

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      Tristram Coffin (1605-1681) married Dionis Stevens and had children according to research before 1944


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