Tristram COFFYN

1605 - 1681  (76 years)

• Name	Tristram COFFYN  [1]
  Birth	1605	Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England   [2]
  Baptism	11 Mar 1610	Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	1642	Newbury, Massachusetts   [5, 6, 7]
  	Accompanying Tristram were his wife, five small children, his widowed mother, and two unmarried sisters.
  Settled	1660	Nantucket, Massachusetts   [6, 7]
  	he was successively of Haverhill, Newbury, Salisbury and Nantucket. Role: Principal 2
  Settled	1660	Nantucket, Massachusetts   [6, 7]
  	he was successively of Haverhill, Newbury, Salisbury and Nantucket.
  Name	Tristram Coffin  [8, 9]
  Death	3 Oct 1681	Nantucket, Massachusetts   [7, 10]
  Person ID	I94574	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2025

  
  

  Father	Peter COFFYN   d. 1628
  Mother	Johanna
  Marriage	Y  [4, 11]
  Family ID	F22993	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dionis STEVENS,   c. 4 Mar 1609   d. 16 Oct 1676 (Age ~ 67 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1630	(probably) Devonshire, England   [2, 12]
  Children	1. Peter COFFIN,   b. 1631, Brixton, Devonshire, England d. 21 Mar 1715, , Exeter, New Hampshire (Age 84 years)   2. Tristram COFFIN, Jr.,   b. 1632, probably, Brixton, England d. 4 Feb 1704, , Newbury, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)   3. Elizabeth COFFIN,   b. 1634/35, England d. 19 Nov 1678, , Newbury, Massachusetts (Age 43 years)   4. Hon. James COFFIN,   b. 12 Aug 1640, Brixton, Devonshire, England d. 28 Jul 1720, , Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)   5. John COFFIN,   b. England d. 30 Oct 1642, , Haverhill, Massachusetts   6. Deborah COFFIN,   b. 16 Nov 1642, Haverhill, Massachusetts d. 8 Dec 1642, , Haverhill, Massachusetts (Age 0 years)   7. Mary COFFIN,   b. 20 Feb 1645, Haverhill, Massachusetts d. 13 Nov 1717, , Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)   8. Lieutenant John COFFIN,   b. 20 Oct 1647, Haverhill, Massachusetts d. 5 Sep 1711, , Edgartown; Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts (Age 63 years)   9. Stephen COFFIN,   b. 10 May 1652, Newbury, Massachusetts d. 14 Nov 1734, , Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F22992	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jul 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S2351] My Father's Shoes - Our Coffin Story, 2351. (Reliability: 3). [S2426] Nantucket, a History, 2426. (Reliability: 2). Page 59 [S2972] The Coffin Family, 2972. (Reliability: 2). [S2351] My Father's Shoes - Our Coffin Story, 2351. (Reliability: 2). [S2426] Nantucket, a History, 2426. (Reliability: 2). [S2352] Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700, 2352. (Reliability: 2). Page 51 [S2499] Gatherings Toward a Genealogy of the Coffin Family, 2499. (Reliability: 2). [S2352] Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700, 2352. (Reliability: 3). [S2354] The Descendants of Elisha Coffin & Eunice Myrick, 2354. (Reliability: 3). [S2426] Nantucket, a History, 2426. (Reliability: 2). Page 60 [S2475] The History of Nantucket, 2475. (Reliability: 2). [S2972] The Coffin Family, 2972. (Reliability: 2). Page 92