Person:John Coffin (3)

m. Bef 1630
  1. Peter Coffin1630 - 1715
  2. Deacon Tristram CoffinEst 1632 - 1703/04
  3. Elizabeth Coffin1634/35 - 1678
  4. James Coffin1640 - 1720
  5. John CoffinAbt 1641 - 1642
  6. Deborah Coffin1642 - 1642
  7. Mary Coffin1645 - 1717
  8. John Coffin1647 - 1711
  9. Stephen Coffin1652 - 1734
m. 1668
  1. Lydia Coffin1669 -
  2. Deborah Coffin - 1760
  3. Peter Coffin1671 - 1749
  4. John Coffin1673 -
  5. Love Coffin1676 -
  6. Enoch Coffin1678 - 1761
  7. Samuel Coffin1680 - 1764
  8. Hannah CoffinAbt 1683 - 1768
  9. Benjamin Coffin1683 - 1764
  10. Tristram Coffin1685 - 1763
  11. Elizabeth Coffin1688 -
Facts and Events
Name John Coffin
Gender Male
Birth[1] 30 Dec 1647 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 1668 Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United Statesto Deborah Austin
Death? 5 Sep 1711 Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
Burial? Tower Hill Cemetery, Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States

8. JOHN COFFIN, (Tristram,3 Peter,2 Nicholas1), b. at Haverhill, Mass. 30 Oct. 1647, the son of Tristram,3 and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin was the first one of this large and well-known family to take up his residence at the Vineyard. It will not be necessary to rehearse their ancestral history and their origin in Brixton, Devonshire, as numerous publications on the subject by genealogists of the family are available to students. John4 Coffin was a blacksmith and lived in Nantucket with his father until 1682 when he settled in E. and carried on his trade until his death. He m. DEBORAH AUSTIN, dau. of Joseph and Sarah (Starbuck) Austin of Nantucket 1668. He became a considerable owner of real estate in the town and d. 5 Sept. 1711. His widow returned to Nantucket and d. there 1724. (1966 Addenda: John Coffin came to Edgartown from Nantucket. Information about the Coffins and related families may be found in Starbuck: History of Nantucket, and Gardiner: The Coffin Family.) [John Coffin is buried at Tower Hill Cemetery in Edgartown, MA.)

References
  1. Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1925-1928)
    287.

    COFFIN: John, h. Deborah (d. Joseph Austin and Sarah), s. Tristram and Dionis (Stevens), 30th, 10 mo. 1647 [see Haverhill Vital Records], P.R.38.

  2.   John Tristram Coffin, in Find A Grave.