COFFIN FAMILY (Source: “My Father’s Shoes: Our Coffin Story,” by Ross Coffin.) November 18, 2019 March 3, 2016 (The Coffin Family goes back before 1400. Not listed here.) 1. Sir William Coffin 1400-1486 \\ 2. Margaret Cockwowrthy Gifford 1404-1486 \\ 2. Sir Richard Coffin Sheriff 1425-1486 2.a. Alice Gambon 1425-1480 \\ 3. John Coffin I 1475-1566 3.a. Elizabeth Phillippa Hingston 1475-1567 3.a. Philip Hingston 1452-1488 3.a.1. Margaret Cotterall 1455-1508 \\ 3.a. William Hingeston 1422-1458 \\ 3.a.1. Elizabeth de Wonwell 1435-1483 3.a.1. John De Wonwell 1408-1458 \\ Jane Unknown 1412- \\ 4. Richard Coffin 1496-1555 4.a. Ann Wilmot Chudleigh 1488-1569 4.a. Richard Chudleigh 1468-1558 4.a.1. Mary Wadham 1470-1535 4.a. Sir Knight William Chudleigh 1475-1515 4.a.2. Joan Hody 1447- 4.a. Sir James Chudleigh 1444- \\ 4.a.3. Lady Margaret (Margaretha) de Stourton 1433-1474 4.a.1. Sir Nicholas de Wadham 1444-1542 \\ 4.a.1.a. Lady Jane Hill 1470-1557 4.a.2. Sir William Hody 1441-1524 Lady Eleanor Mallet 1425-1510 \\ 4.a.2. John Hody 1396-1441 \\ Unknown \\ 4.a.3. Baron John Strourton 1400-1462 \\ Lady Margery Wadham 1403-1473 \\ 4.a.1.a. Sir Robert Hale 1421-1493 \\ 4.a.1.a.1. Alice Stourton 1432-1490 4.a.1.a.1. Sir John Stourton 1402-1462 \\ Margaretha Wadham 1412-1473 \\ 5.a. Sir James Coffin Coffyn Knight 1514-1566 5.a. Ann Mary Cole 1516- 5.a. William VI Cole 1493- 5.a.1. Catherine Gallegos 1497- 5.a. John V Cole 1467- Elizabeth Martin 1473- \\ 5.a. William V Cole 1441- \\ Unknown \\ 5.a.1. Ferdinand de Gallegos 1473- \\ Unknown 1473- \\ 6. Peter Coffin Sr. 1535-1602 6.a. Maria Boscawen 1542-1622 6.a. Hugh Boscawen Sr. 1485-1559 6.a.1. Phillippa Carminow 1490-1563 6.a. John De Boscawen IV 1439-1515 6.a.2. Elizabeth Lower 1444-1515 6.a. Sir Richard De Boscawen 1402-1489\\ Maud Haslep 1407-1440 \\ 6.a.1. Nicholas Carminow 1469-1538 6.a.1.a. Catherine Wolvedon 1470-1538 6.a.1. Lord John Carminow 1431-1492 6.a.1.b. Philippa Trenowith 1446-1520 6.a.1. LordWalter Carminow 1400-1443 \\ Jane Resprin 1406-1490 \\ 6.a.2. Nicholas Lower 1419-1473 \\ Ann Agnes Tresithney 1419-1480 \\ 6.a.1.a. John Atwater Wolvedon 1449-1537 Cecily Unknown \\ 6.a.1.a. Richard Wolvedon 1420-1500 \\ Maryan Atwater 1425-1500 \\ 6.a.1.b. John Trenoweth IV 1426-1498 6.a.1.b.1. Lady Honor Tregarthen 1432-1465 6.a.1.b. John Trenoweth III 1403-1444 \\ Joanna Nansant 1402-1426 \\ 6.a.1.b.1. Sir William Tregarthen1408-1450\\ Lady Margaret de Hendower 1400-1450 \\ 7. Nicholas Coffin 1561-1613 7.a. Joan Avent Babaut 1560-1614 7.a. Lord John Plympton Avent 1553- \\ Maria Unknown 1535-1587 \\ 8. Cap. Peter Tristram Coffin 1580-1627 NE 1642 8.a. Joanna Kember 1584-1661 NE 1642 8.a. Robert Kember 1556-1612 8.a.1. Anna Coffin 1560-1626 8.a. Johannis Kember 1536-1555 8.a.2. Elizabeth DeKymbeare 1525-1557 \\ 8.a. Stephen Kember 1515- \\ 8.a.3. Alice Ringsall 1510-1557 8.a.1. Peter Coffin Sr. 1535-1602 [See 6.] Maria Boscawen 1452-1622 [See 6.a.] 8.a.2. Thomas DeKymbeare 1465-1541 8.a.2.a. Elizabeth Clavell 1488-1528 8.a.2. John Dacombe/De Kymbeare 1420-1465 \\ Christian Unknown 1430-1500 \\ 8.a.3. Sir William Thomas Ringshall 1485- \\ Unknown \\ 8.a.2.a. Richard Clavell 1460-1500 \\ Johanna Wyot 1460-1500 \\ 9. Tristram Coffin Sr. 1609-1681 NE 1642 9.a. Dionis Stevens 1609-1684 NE 1642 SEE STEVENS 10. Deacon Tristram Coffin Jr. 1632-1704 NE 1642 10.a Judith Greenleaf 1623-1703 NE 1635 SEE GREENLEAF 11. Captain Joseph Little 1663-1740 SEE LITTLE 11.a. Mary Coffin 1657-1725 12. Daniel Little 1692-1777 12.a. Abiah Clemenet 1692-1766 13. William Ayre 1716-1766 13.a. Sarah Little 1717-1807 14. Samuel Harvey 1758-1841 14.a. Agnes Ayers 1754-1786 15. William King 1766-1850 15.a. Jane Harvey 1776-1846 16. Nathaniel Marble III 1800-1845 16.a. Mary "Polly"King 1802-1881 17. Hyrum Austin Marble 1841-1912 17.a. Melinda Andersen 1851-1930 18. Silas Andrew Marble 1883-1961 18.a. Mary Evaline Burbank 1881-1970 19. Merlin Junius Romer 1914-1974 19.a. Emma Margrette Marble 1918-2004 +++   COFFIN FAMILY (Source: “My Father’s Shoes: Our Coffin Story,” by Ross Coffin.) (The Coffin Family goes back before 1400. Not listed here.)   COFFIN\COFFYN From the "Coffin Family Newsletter" of August 1994 comes the following article which also places doubt on the ancestry of Nicholas: "A PEDIGREE FOR TRISTRAM In the time of King Henry VII, the first Tudor King of England there lived in the manor of Northam, two or three miles from Bideford and just five miles northeast of Portledge, John Coffin. John was the 2nd son of William Coffin of Alwington and his wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Gifford and was born somewhere around 1440-1460. John Coffin of Northam had a son Richard born about 1480. Richard Coffin moved to the parish of Plympton St. Mary, in southern Devonshire where in 1523 he paid a subsidy of 4/. He probably occupied some of the property owned by the family of Portledge. In an inquisition post mortem 18th February 2 & 3 Philip & Mary (18 Feb. 1555/56) Richard Coffin, grandson of Richard who was brother of John of Northam, held property in Plympton, adjacent to Brixton as well as in Holbeton, five miles from Brixton. We have not discovered how long this property had been among the Coffin estates. John Coffin, son and heir of Richard Coffin of Portledge and nephew of John of Northam married about 1500 Elizabeth, daughter and coheiress of Philip Hingston. She may have brought the property in Plympton and Holbeton. We have no record of the death of Richard unless he is the Richard who had a will recorded in Stokenham, nearly 20 miles from Plympton. Richard had younger brothers John and Walter and a son John Coffin, born about 1525. John Coffin, son of Richard lived in Brixton but also paid a subsidy in Plympton St. Mary. The administration of the estate of John Coffin was recorded in 1589. John had a son Nicholas born about 1550 in Brixton. Nicholas Coffin lived at Butlers in the parish of Brixton and had a son Peter who became the father of Tristram Coffin who emigrated to New England in 1642 with his mother, his two sisters and his children. The above is a pedigree which has not been, and perhaps never can be proved, so please do not enter it into your pedigree! With more data now available it is more realistic than Amory's discredited theory of Peter and Mary (Boscawen) Coffin as parents of Nicholas. The above proposed pedigree needs much more research but advances a theory which we believe comes closer to the presently known facts than any other we have seen or considered. It accounts for most of the known Coffins in the Brixton area a few generations before Nicholas. We have no proof of the connection between Brixton and Portledge and there were probably many more Coffins in the Brixton area than we have found. And there are certainly more in the Portledge line. We currently have no information about whether John Coffin of Northam had a son Richard or any other children. We have more confidence, but again no proof, that the father of Nicholas was John and his grandfather Richard. Do be on the look-out for any data that will relate to this and might contribute toward proving or disproving the theory. There are several records for the period which we have so far not had an opportunity to study. Hopefully, some worthwhile information is in one of them." Unfortunately, the Coffin Family Newsletter ceased to exist and the Coffin Family Association fell apart with the death of David P. Coffin about 2005 and I have not found that anyone else has delved into the family history of the early Coffyn family of Devon. Another excuse to go to England to do research! Possble Forebears COFFIN CONNECTIONS IN ENGLAND PRIOR TO TRlSTRAM'S GRANDFATHER (information scanned from copy of page 82. Publication name?) No conclusive proof has been found to trace the ancestry of Tristram Coffin (1609-1681) beyond his grandfather Nicholas, except that the descendants of Nathaniel, his grandson through James can positively go back from Nathaniel and his wife Damaris (Gayer) more than fifty generations to the Saxon viking Cerdic born over 1,500 years ago. However, all who can prove descent from Tristram have two probable lines leading back from him respectively four hundred and five hundred years, each supported by reasonable evidence. The Coffins of Portledge, Devonshire in the parish of Alwington near Bideford, 45 miles North of Plymouth and Brixton, Tristram's nearby village, have resided at Portledge Manor at least since A. D. 1254 and even earlier according to a boundary deed seen by the Rev. John Prince who wrote his treatise on “Worthies of Devon” about 1690. It was written in Saxon, says Prince, "about the time of the Conquest" by the Abbot of Tavistock, granting certain lands to Richard Coffin. Tavistock is 15 miles directly north of Plymouth and 30 miles South of Portledge. The unquestioned antiquity of the Family is further indicated by the appearance of the name in Domesday Book, compiled for tax purposes by order of William the Conqueror in 1006. No evidence has been found that a Coffin accompanied William from Normandy twenty years earlier, but many Normans had settled in England under Edward the Confessor, who was King until six months before the Conquest, and were later granted lands taken from the conquered Saxons. The Chateau of Courtitout near Falaise, Norman birthplace of William, was indeed once owned by a Doctor Coffin, but not until after the French Revolution over seven hundred years later. The Portledge connection is fully treated in Allen Coffin's history and is accepted by the family in England (now Pine-Coffin) as shown by the greeting sent to the 1959 Nantucket Reunion by Lt. Col. E. C. Pine-Coffin from Portledge Manor, now owned by the British Government and operated as a resort hotel. A second probable connection has been advocated by Thomas Coffin Amory of Boston, who visited Devonshire and Cornwall after the 1881 Reunion. ln his article published in the Boston Evening Transcript Dec. 20, 1886, he voices the opinion that the Peter Coffin who married Marie Boscawen, daughter of Philipa Carminowe, was the grandfather of Tristram. Extracts from the lengthy article follow: "Mrs. Peter Coffin - born 1551 Nicholas, her son - born 1568 Peter, whose widow died here in Boston 1663 - born 1584 Tristram - born 1609 Nicholas, Peter and Tristram were all eldest sons with sufficient means to Justify the prudence of their assuming the obligations of matrimony." His closing words are: "Mary Boscowen was the mother of Tristram's grandfather Nicholas, which better judges than myself still believe, and shall until stronger reasons than any yet urged can be found against it. T.C.A." With reference to Tristram's birth date being 1609 (as later proved) and not 1605, the article says: "In various memoirs of the Coffins the date of Tristram's birth is set down as 1605. Chase, in his History of Haverhill stated it more probable that Nicholas his grandfather was the son of Peter, whose wife was Mary Boscawen." The English marriage law was 14 years for males, 12 years for females. Tristram's own oldest son was born a month after his twenty-first birthday and one of his grandchildren was born when her father was 19 years old. Mary Boscawen married Peter Coffin, Gent. She was baptized at Penkivel near Falmouth Jan. 20, 1552. She had a brother Nicholas. The marriage of Peter Coffin to Marie Bascawen of Falmouth in Cornwall, forty miles west of Plymouth, Devon, on the English Coast carries the line back to Roger Carminowe as above, if this Peter was the father of Nicholas, father of Peter and grandfather of Tristram. The date on Marie Boscawen's tomb here illustrated which is in the little chapel of Penkivel near Fulmouth, corresponds reasonably with the probable births of Tristram's father and grandfather, and there is a striking series of coincidences in the names of Marie's Coffin husband, Peter, her mother Philippa, her brother Nicholas and grandfather Nicholas when compared with our Tristram's father Peter, his grandfather Nicholas and his grandfather's brother Philip (he had no sisters). Sources • Archdeaconry of Totnes (Exeter), 1613. • Pg. 149 Vol 24, N.E. H.G. Reg. • Early Settlers of N.E. by Hinchman p. 33-36, 309 • Americana Vol 21 p. 290 • Barney Genealogical Record, Nantucket Historical Association Research Library. Personal page - 323 (https://www.nantuckethistoricalassociation.net/bgr/BGR-o/p377.htm#i11309) Coffin Lineage: A Family Living History Worksheet from Richard Coffyn (c1280-??) to Sallie Coffin (1773-1850) [1] Legutki-1 1. ↑ Howard Swain, [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/COFFIN/2002-09/1031421426 "The Boscawan Conjecture, Part 2 of 2" (posted Sept. 7, 2002).   1. SIR WILLIAM COFFIN (1400-1486) \\ 1.a. MARGARET COCKWORTHY GIFFORD (1404-1486) \\ WILLIAM COFFIN was born about 1400 of Alwington, Devonshire, England, to John Coffin of Alwington (1365-1427) and Thomasin Hartley (1376-1427.) He married Margaret Cockworthy Gifford about 1423, of Alwington, Devonshire, England. William Coffin died 11 Septemer 1486, Alwington Manor, Devonshire, England, age 86. William Coffyn (1400 - 1486) was appointed Master of the Horse and attended Ann Boleyn at The Field of the Golden Cloth, as well as her coronation. And subsequently served Jane Seymour similarly. How he managed to keep his head intact is beyond me. Sir William also had an older half-brother, Sir Richard, who I've not been able to find much about. An odd thing, as the Coffyn family almost always had a knightly presence in the king's court uninterrupted for almost 2-3 centuries • Richard and William Sir William Coffin, His career as a courtier The first Coffin to have made a name for himself in English history was William, the younger brother of the Richard Coffin who was lord of the manor of Alwington and High Sheriff of Devon in the late 15th century. Richard Coffin, Was Lord of the Manor of Alwington and High Sheriff of Devon in the late 15th century. Richard9 Coffyn (John8, Richard7, William6, John5, David4, David3, John2, Richard1) was born circa 1475 at Portledge Manor, Brixton, Devon, England. He married Wilmont Chudleigh, daughter of Richard Chudleigh and Maria Wadham, in 1510 at Merifield, Cornwall, England. He died on 24 Dec 1555 at Alwington, Devon, England.Children of Richard9 Coffyn and Wilmont Chudleigh were: James10, born 1514 at Portledge Manor, Brixton, Devon, England; married Mary Cole. William Coffin (younger brother of Richard Coffin)William Coffin, 1515 , EnglandSir William Coffin, Born about 1495, younger brother of Richard Coffin, lord of the manor of Alwington and High Sheriff of Devon in the late 15th century. He joined Henry VIII's household about 1515, and took part, as a gentleman of the privy chamber, in the tournament between Henry VIII and the French King held at Guisnes in 1519. The following year William accompanied the King to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1529 he became a Member of Parliament for Derbyshire, having acquired a connection with that county through his marriage to Margaret , the daughter of the Hereditary Royal Champion, Sir Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire; sister of Sir Edward Dymoke; and the widow since 1517 of Sir Richard Vernon of Haddon Hall. On his way northwards to Derbyshire (according to John Prince, the 17th century antiquarian) William Coffin passed a churchyard where he saw a crowd of people. They told him they had brought a corpse thither to be buried, but that the priest would not bury him without being given the dead man's cow as a mortuary (a traditional gift to whoever officiated at a funeral). William sent for the priest, who again refused to perform his office to the dead; whereupon Sir William ordered him to be put into the grave (which had already been dug) and earth thrown in upon him. The priest persisted in his refusal, so still more earth was thrown in until he was nearly suffocated. Now thus to handle a priest in those days was a very bold adventure; but Sir William Coffin, with the favour he had at court, diverted the storm. In fact, Coffin seems to have represented the mischievous consequences of priests' arbitrary behaviour to such effect that the payment of mortuaries was soon afterwards controlled by statute. At the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1533 he was her Master of the Horse, and seems to have managed to please his mistress - not an easy thing to do, without at the same time incurring the wrath and suspicion of her husband and his sovereign. But after Anne' s trial and execution, he continued in the same office to her successor, Jane Seymour. On 18 Oct 1537 William Coffin was knighted, having by then become steward not only of Queen Jane's manor and liberties of Standon in Herfordshire, but also (in 1535) of Hitchin, another royal manor in the same county. In that capacity, it was his duty on 17 Oct 1538 to receive the surrender to the Crown of the priory of Hitchin from the Prior and his brethren. But within two months, on 8 Dec 1538, Sir William was dead of the plague. His widow wrote from Standon to the King' s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, asking him to inform the King that her husband had "died of the great sickness, full of God's marks all over his body", and begging Cromwell to let her know how she and her servants now stood. A biographical note on William Coffin in Prince's Worthies of Devon (1710) says that he bequeathed to the King all his hawks, his best horses and a cart. But the will made on the day Sir William died, and proved on 17 May 1539 (P.C.C. 27 Dygneley), made no mention of this. It provided for farms, leases and goods to go to his wife Margaret . Two old servants, Henry Ireland and Robert Ros, were to share lands at Bakewell, Derbyshire, between them, and all the Devon lands were to go to Sir William's nephews, William Coffin the elder and William Coffin the younger. His other nephew and residual heir, Richard Coffin, received the park and manor of Heanton in Devon, but was to pay Margaret £29 a year from the rents thereof. Lady Coffin was not left a widow (for the second time) for long after Sir William's death: on 26 Apr 1539 John Husse, a regular correspondent of Lady Lisle, wrote to her that Richard Manners "is to marry my Lady Coffin". Sir William was buried in the parish church of Standon, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, where he is commemorated by an inscription on a slab at the foot of the chancel steps. (Prior to the church's restoration in 1864, this slab had been in the centre of the chancel immediately above the steps). The inscription reads:" Here lies William Coffin, Knight, sometime of the privy chamber with his sovereign Lord King Henry the eighth, Master of the Horse unto queen Jane the most lawful wife unto the aforesaid King Henry the eighth, and high steward of all the liberty [and] manor of Standon in the county of Hertford, which William deceased the eighth day of december Anno domini 1538, [in] the thirtieth year of the reign of King Henry the eighth (.........)" The closing invocation has been cut off. A shield above the inscription bears the arms of Coffin impaling those of Dymoke. The Coffin arms are: 1 & 4 : Azure, semée of cross crosslets or, three bezants (Coffin ancient); 2 & 3 : Argent, a chevron between three voided mullets sable (Coffin of Portledge). The Dymoke impalement bears six quarterings:- 1. Sable, two lions passant argent, crowned or (Dymoke of Scrivelsby) 2. Or, a lion rampant double queued sable, armed and langued gules (Welles) 3. Gules, a fess dancetée between six cross crosslets or (Engayne) 4. Barry of six, ermine and gules, three crescents sable (Waterton) 5. Vair, a fess gules pretty or (Marmion) 6. Ermine, five fusils in fess gules (Hebden) Additional information about this storyDescriptionSir William and Brother Sir Richard CoffinDate1515LocationAlwington Manor, Devonshire, EnglandAttached to o Sir William Coffin (1495 - 1568) Wikitree: William Coffin was the son of John Coffin of Alwington, Devon and his wife Thomasin, daughter and heir of ... Hathey. [1] He married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Giffard, and they had 3 children, Richard, John and Constantia. Constantia married John Wyse. [1] He died on 11 Sep 1486. [1] ALWINGTON MANOR All Saints Church William Coffyn (1400 - 1486) was appointed Master of the Horse and attended Ann Boleyn at The Field of the Golden Cloth, as well as her coronation. And subsequently served Jane Seymour similarly. How he managed to keep his head intact is beyond me. Sir William also had an older half-brother, Sir Richard, who I've not been able to find much about. An odd thing, as the Coffyn family almost always had a knightly presence in the king's court uninterrupted for almost 2-3 centuries MARGARET COCKWORTHY GIFFORD was born about 1404 of Halsbury, Devonshire, England, to Thomas of Halsbury Giffard (1367-1458) and Wilmot Knight (1371-1407.) She married Sir William Coffin about 1423 of Alwington, Devonshire, England. Margaret Gifford passed away about 1486 of Alwington, Devonshire, England, age 84. Devonshire, England Whaddon Hall Old Giffard An early dwelling on the site of the present Whaddon Hall was once the home of the Pigott family, who came to the manor by marriage into the Giffard family. The Giffards had acquired the manor as a reward for their military service at the Conquest and a fine memorial may be seen in Whaddon church. In 1552 William Lord Grey de Wilton acquired the interest but during military service in France he was captured and only secured his release on the payment of a large ransom. His son Arthur therefore inherited a greatly impoverished family fortune when William died in 1552. Children of William Coffin and Margaret Gifford: 1. William Coffin (1423-1486) 2. John Coffin (1425-1445) 3. *SHERIFF OF DEVON SIR RICHARD COFFIN (1425-1486) 4. Richard Coffin (1456-1476) + 2. SIR RICHARD COFFIN KNIGHT SHERIFF (1425-1486) 2.a. ALICE GAMBON (1425-1480) \\ SIR RICHARD COFFIN, SHERIFF OF DEVON, KNIGHT was born about 1425 of Portledge, Near Bideford, Devonshire, England, to Sir William Coffin (1400-1486) and Margaret Cockworthy Gifford (1404-1486. He married Alice Gambon about 1457 of Shropshire, England. Richard Coffin died about 1486 of Portledge House Alwington Parish Alwington, Devonshire, England, age 61. • Richard and William Sir William Coffin, His career as a courtier The first Coffin to have made a name for himself in English history was William, the younger brother of the Richard Coffin who was lord of the manor of Alwington and High Sheriff of Devon in the late 15th century. Richard Coffin, Was Lord of the Manor of Alwington and High Sheriff of Devon in the late 15th century. Richard9 Coffyn (John8, Richard7, William6, John5, David4, David3, John2, Richard1) was born circa 1475 at Portledge Manor, Brixton, Devon, England. He married Wilmont Chudleigh, daughter of Richard Chudleigh and Maria Wadham, in 1510 at Merifield, Cornwall, England. He died on 24 Dec 1555 at Alwington, Devon, England.Children of Richard9 Coffyn and Wilmont Chudleigh were: James10, born 1514 at Portledge Manor, Brixton, Devon, England; married Mary Cole. William Coffin (younger brother of Richard Coffin)William Coffin, 1515 , EnglandSir William Coffin, Born about 1495, younger brother of Richard Coffin, lord of the manor of Alwington and High Sheriff of Devon in the late 15th century. He joined Henry VIII's household about 1515, and took part, as a gentleman of the privy chamber, in the tournament between Henry VIII and the French King held at Guisnes in 1519. The following year William accompanied the King to the Field of the Cloth of Gold. In 1529 he became a Member of Parliament for Derbyshire, having acquired a connection with that county through his marriage to Margaret , the daughter of the Hereditary Royal Champion, Sir Robert Dymoke of Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire; sister of Sir Edward Dymoke; and the widow since 1517 of Sir Richard Vernon of Haddon Hall. On his way northwards to Derbyshire (according to John Prince, the 17th century antiquarian) William Coffin passed a churchyard where he saw a crowd of people. They told him they had brought a corpse thither to be buried, but that the priest would not bury him without being given the dead man's cow as a mortuary (a traditional gift to whoever officiated at a funeral). William sent for the priest, who again refused to perform his office to the dead; whereupon Sir William ordered him to be put into the grave (which had already been dug) and earth thrown in upon him. The priest persisted in his refusal, so still more earth was thrown in until he was nearly suffocated. Now thus to handle a priest in those days was a very bold adventure; but Sir William Coffin, with the favour he had at court, diverted the storm. In fact, Coffin seems to have represented the mischievous consequences of priests' arbitrary behaviour to such effect that the payment of mortuaries was soon afterwards controlled by statute. At the coronation of Queen Anne Boleyn in 1533 he was her Master of the Horse, and seems to have managed to please his mistress - not an easy thing to do, without at the same time incurring the wrath and suspicion of her husband and his sovereign. But after Anne' s trial and execution, he continued in the same office to her successor, Jane Seymour. On 18 Oct 1537 William Coffin was knighted, having by then become steward not only of Queen Jane's manor and liberties of Standon in Herfordshire, but also (in 1535) of Hitchin, another royal manor in the same county. In that capacity, it was his duty on 17 Oct 1538 to receive the surrender to the Crown of the priory of Hitchin from the Prior and his brethren. But within two months, on 8 Dec 1538, Sir William was dead of the plague. His widow wrote from Standon to the King' s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, asking him to inform the King that her husband had "died of the great sickness, full of God's marks all over his body", and begging Cromwell to let her know how she and her servants now stood. A biographical note on William Coffin in Prince's Worthies of Devon (1710) says that he bequeathed to the King all his hawks, his best horses and a cart. But the will made on the day Sir William died, and proved on 17 May 1539 (P.C.C. 27 Dygneley), made no mention of this. It provided for farms, leases and goods to go to his wife Margaret . Two old servants, Henry Ireland and Robert Ros, were to share lands at Bakewell, Derbyshire, between them, and all the Devon lands were to go to Sir William's nephews, William Coffin the elder and William Coffin the younger. His other nephew and residual heir, Richard Coffin, received the park and manor of Heanton in Devon, but was to pay Margaret £29 a year from the rents thereof. Lady Coffin was not left a widow (for the second time) for long after Sir William's death: on 26 Apr 1539 John Husse, a regular correspondent of Lady Lisle, wrote to her that Richard Manners "is to marry my Lady Coffin". Sir William was buried in the parish church of Standon, dedicated to St. Mary the Virgin, where he is commemorated by an inscription on a slab at the foot of the chancel steps. (Prior to the church's restoration in 1864, this slab had been in the centre of the chancel immediately above the steps). The inscription reads:" Here lies William Coffin, Knight, sometime of the privy chamber with his sovereign Lord King Henry the eighth, Master of the Horse unto queen Jane the most lawful wife unto the aforesaid King Henry the eighth, and high steward of all the liberty [and] manor of Standon in the county of Hertford, which William deceased the eighth day of december Anno domini 1538, [in] the thirtieth year of the reign of King Henry the eighth (.........)" The closing invocation has been cut off. A shield above the inscription bears the arms of Coffin impaling those of Dymoke. The Coffin arms are: 1 & 4 : Azure, semée of cross crosslets or, three bezants (Coffin ancient); 2 & 3 : Argent, a chevron between three voided mullets sable (Coffin of Portledge). The Dymoke impalement bears six quarterings:- 1. Sable, two lions passant argent, crowned or (Dymoke of Scrivelsby) 2. Or, a lion rampant double queued sable, armed and langued gules (Welles) 3. Gules, a fess dancetée between six cross crosslets or (Engayne) 4. Barry of six, ermine and gules, three crescents sable (Waterton) 5. Vair, a fess gules pretty or (Marmion) 6. Ermine, five fusils in fess gules (Hebden) Additional information about this storyDescriptionSir William and Brother Sir Richard CoffinDate1515LocationAlwington Manor, Devonshire, EnglandAttached to o Sir William Coffin (1495 - 1568) mWikitree: Richard Coffin was the son and heir of his father William Coffin of Portledge, Alwington, Devon. Richard's father died in 1486, when Richard was 30 years old. [1] He married Alice, daughter of John Gambon of Merston, and they had 4 children, William, Richard, John and Jane. [1] John died in 1523, and is buried at Heaton Punchardon Church in North Devon. [2] Richard Coffyn7. Richard7 Coffyn (William6, John5, David4, David3, John2, Richard1) was born circa 1425 at Portledge, Devonshire, England. He married Alice Gambon, daughter of John Gambon, in 1462 at Merston, Shropshire, England.Children of Richard7 Coffyn and Alice Gambon were:8. i. John8, born 1450 at Portledge, Devonshire, England; married Phillippa Elizabeth Hingston. Portledge Manor Alwington "(Richard Coffyn)... heralded the end of the Wars of the Roses and the beginning of the Tudor age by building a new stone manor house on Alwington lands: he called it Portledge." Notes on Richard CoffinYounger brother to William Coffin, he was lord of the manor of Alwington and High Sheriff od Devon in the late 15th century. "(Richard Coffyn)... heralded the end of the Wars of the Roses and the beginning of the Tudor age by building a new stone manor house on Alwington lands: he called it Portledge:" FROM GENI: About Richard Coffin, Sheriff of Devon Richard Coffin (1456-1523) of Alwington and Heanton Punchardon in North Devon, was Sheriff of Devon in 1511. He was the eldest son and heir of William Coffin of Alwington (d.1486) by his wife Margaret Giffard, daughter of Thomas Giffard of Halsbury in the parish of Parkham, North Devon. Family Richard Coffin married twice: Firstly to Alice Gambon, daughter of John Gambon of Merton in Devon, by whom he had the following progeny: 1. John Coffin (d.1528), eldest son and heir, who married Elizabeth Hingeston, daughter of Philip de Hingeston. 2. Richard Coffin, 2nd son. 3. Sir William Coffin (c.1492-1538), 3rd son, a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to King Henry VIII and Master of the Horse to Queen Jane Seymour, elected MP for Derbyshire in 1529. [13] 4. Jane Coffin, married John Berry of Coleton. Secondly Richard Coffin married a lady named Jacquet or Jacoba, who survived him. Devon Exeter Catherdral English Countryside Richard Coffin’s Tomb Richard Coffin Easter Sepulchre Heanton Punchardon Poltimore Exterior ALICE GAMBON was born about 1425 of Merston, Shropshire, England, to John Gambon (1392-1450) and Elizabeth Kirkham (1396-.) She married Sir Richard Coffin, Sheriff of Devon about 1457 of Shropshire, England. Alice Gambon passed away about 1480, of Shropshire, England, age 55. (15th Century Women) English Countryside FROM ROOTSWEB: • Name: Alice GAMBON • Sex: F • Birth: 1440 in Portledge, Devon, England • Death: 1476 in Mersten, Shropshire, England Father: John GAMBON b: 1407 in Portledge, Devon, England Mother: Idonea UNKNOWN b: 1410 in Portledge, Devon, England Marriage 1 Richard COFFIN b: 1446 in Bideford, Devon, England • Married: BEF 1465 in Mersten, Shropshire, England Children Children of Richard Coffin and Alice Gambon: 1. John Chapyn Coffin (1450-1525) 2. Richard Coffin (1456-1476) 3. Elizabeth Coffin (1462-) 4. Joan Coffin (1462-) 5. Joanna Richard Coffin (1465-1523) 6. *JOHN COFFIN I (1475-1566) + 3. JOHN COFFIN I OF PORTHLEDGE (1475-1566) 3.a. ELIZABETH PHILLIPPA HINGSTON (1475-1567) JOHN COFFIN I OF PORTHLEDGE was born about 1475 of Portledge Manor, Alwington, Bideford, Devonshire, England, to Sir Richard Coffin (1435-1486) and Alice Gambon (1425-1480.) He married Elizabeth Phillippa Hingston about 1496 of Portledge, Devonshire, England. John Coffin died 15 December 1566, Portledge Manor, Alwington, Bideford, Devonshire, England, age 91. Wikitree: John Coffin of Porthledge was the son and heir of Richard Coffin and Alice, daughter of John Gambon of Merston. He married Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Philip de Hingeston. [1] Portledge Manor, Alwington, Bideford, Devonshire, England Portledge Manor, Alwington, Bideford, Devonshire, England Devonshire, England FROM GENI: About John Coffyn, of Portledge These dates do not look right. He was 116 when he died? 46 when he first married? I think a more correct date of birth is c. 1475, the same as Elizabeth Phillipa Hingston, his wife. http://www.mathematical.com/coffinrichard1505.html From website about the Coffyn/Coffin family: Some of the Recorded Coffins. 1154-1189 Sir Richard Coffin under the Reign of King Henry II 1199-1216 Sir Elias Coffin during King Johns Reign 1216-1272 Sir Jeffrey Coffin and Combe Coffin – King Henry III 1307-1327 Sir Richard Coffin – King Edward II 1399-1413 Sir Richard Coffin – King Henry IV 1509-1547 Sir William Coffin – King Henry VIII, “Sheriff of Devonshire”, “Master of the Horse” For the Queens Coronation. One of 18 men who accompanied the King to a Tournament in France. When he died his estate was large and he even left his prize Hawks and Horses to the King. He left land to his two nephews one was Sir Richard of Portledge who received the Manor of East Higgington, Devonshire. [example] ELIZABETH PHILLIPPA HINGSTON was born about 1475 of Portledge Manor, Alwington, Bideford, Devonshire, England, to Philip Hingston (1452-1488) and Margaret Cotterall (1455-1508.) She married John Coffin I about 1496 of Portledge, Devonshire, England. Elizabeth Hingston passed away about 1567 of England, age 92. Elizabeth (Phillippa) HINGSTON about 1475 - Life History about 1475 Born in Devon, England about 1498 Birth of daughter Jacquet Ann COFFIN in Devon, England about 1499 Birth of daughter Alice COFFIN in Devon, England about 1501 Birth of daughter Margaret COFFIN in Devon, England about 1503 Birth of daughter Anne COFFIN in Devon, England about 1503 Birth of son James COFFIN in Devon, England about 1505 Birth of daughter Alice Margaret COFFIN in Devon, England about 1505 Birth of son Richard COFFIN in Devon, England about 1508 Birth of son Thomas COFFIN in Devon, England about 1510 Birth of son William COFFIN in Devon, England Other facts Married John COFFIN Devonshire, England Elizabeth (Phillippa) HINGSTON about 1475 - Life History about 1475 Born in Devon, England about 1498 Birth of daughter Jacquet Ann COFFIN in Devon, England about 1499 Birth of daughter Alice COFFIN in Devon, England about 1501 Birth of daughter Margaret COFFIN in Devon, England about 1503 Birth of daughter Anne COFFIN in Devon, England about 1503 Birth of son James COFFIN in Devon, England about 1505 Birth of daughter Alice Margaret COFFIN in Devon, England about 1505 Birth of son Richard COFFIN in Devon, England about 1508 Birth of son Thomas COFFIN in Devon, England about 1510 Birth of son William COFFIN in Devon, England Other facts Married John COFFIN Children of John Coffin and Elizabeth Hingston: 1. *RICHARD COFFIN (1496-1555) 2. Jacquet Ann Coffin (1498-1578) 3. Alice Coffin (1500-) 4. James Coffyn (1503-) 5. Walter Coffin (1505-) 6. Margaret Coffin (1506-1560) 7. Thomas Coffin (1508-1570) 8. William Coffin (1510-1570) + 3.a. PHILIP HINGSTON (1452-1488) MARGARET COTTERALL (1455-1508) \\ PHILIP HINGSTON was born about 1452 of Wonwell, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, to William Hingeston (1422-1458) and Elizabeth de WOnwell (1435-1483.) He married Margaret Cotterall about 1473 of Devon, England. Philip Hingston died 28 January 148, Portledge Manor, Alwington, Bideford, Devonshire, England, age 36. English Castle MARGARET COTTERALL was born about 1455 of Portledge Manor, Alwington, Bideford, Devonshire, England, to unknown parents. She married Philip Hingston about 1473 of Devonshire, England. Margaret Cotterall passed away 26 October 1508, Portledge Manor, ALwington, BIdeford, Devonshire, Englnd, age 53. Children of Philip Hingston and Margaret Cotterall: 1. *ELIZABETH PHILLIPPA HINGSTON (1475-157) 2. JohnHingston (1475-) 3. Philip-2Hingston (1477-1508) 4. Agnes Hingston (1485-) 5. Elizabeth Hingston (1485-) 6. Joan Hingston (1485-) 7. Margaret Hingston (1485-) + 3.a. WILLIAM HINGESTON (1422-1458) \\ 3.a.1. ELIZABETH DE WONWELL (1435-1483) WILLIAM HINGESTON was born about 1422 of Wonwell, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, to unknown parents. He married Elizabeth de Wonwell about 1455 of Devonshire, England. William Hingeston died about 1458 of England, age 36. ELIZABETH DE WONWELL was born about 1435 of Wonwell, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, to John De Wonwell (1408-1458) and Jane Unknown (1412-.) She married (1) Sir Philip Courtenay about 1454, Molland, Devonshire, England; (2) *William Hingeston about 1455 of Devonshire, England. Elizabeth de Wonwell died about 1483 of England, age 48. Wikitree: Elizabeth de Wonwell was born ca. 1438 at her family's estate at Wonwell Court, Kingston, Devonshire, England. She was the daughter of Sir John de Wonwell, b. ca. 1410 in Wonwell Court, Kingston, Devon, England; and his wife, whose name is Unknown. In about 1451, Elizabeth married William Hyndeston (aka Hingeston or Henston) of Wonwell, b. 1405 in Wonwell, Kingston, Devon, England. He was a lawyer and the leading counsel for the Bishop of Exeter in his suit against the city in 1448. He served as Exeter's MP from 1442 to his death. They had a son, Robert Hyndeston, who was 30 years old at his mother's death in 1482, so he was born ca. 1452. Elizabeth's first husband, William Hyndeston of Wonwell, died in 1458 and she remarried to Sir Philip I (de) Courtenay of Molland, in 1459-60. Sir Philip and Elizabeth (de Wonwell) de Courtenay had 5 children:[1] 1. Elizabeth COURTENAY: b: ABT 1462 in Molland, South Molton, Devon, England; m. Edward COURTENAY 2. Margaret COURTENAY: b: ABT 1465 in Molland, South Molton, Devon, England; m. John CHAMPERNOWNE 3. John COURTENAY of Molland: b: ABT 1467 in Molland; m. Joan Brett 4. Philip COURTENAY of Loughton & Molland: b: ABT 1469 in Molland, South Molton, Devon, England; m. Joan FOWELL. 5. William COURTENAY of Loughton: b. ABT 1471 in Molland; m. UNK Lady Elizabeth (de Wonwell) (de) Courtenay died in 1482 at Molland Manor, South Moulton, Devonshire, England. Her husband survived her and remarried to Elizabeth Ashford in about 1484. He died in December 1489. Children of William Hingeston and Elizabeth De Wonwell: 1. *PHILIP HINGSTON (1452-1488) 2. Jane Hingeton (1456-) 3. Robert Hynderstone (1456-) 4. Elizabeth Hingeston (1459-) + 3.a.1. JOHN DE WONWELL (1408-1458) \\ JANE UNKNOWN (1412-) \\ JOHN DE WONWELL was born about 1408 of Wonwell, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, to unknown parents. He married Jane Unknown about 1432, Wonwell, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England. John De Wonwell died before 1458, of Wonwell, Ivybridge, Devonshire, England, age 50. Child of John and Jane De Wonwell: 1. *ELIZABETH DE WONWELL (1435-1483) + 4. RICHARD COFFIN (1496-1555) 4.a. ANN WILMOT CHUDLEIGH (1489-1569) RICHARD COFFYN was born about 1496 of Portledge (Alwington,) Devon England, to John Coffin I (1475-1566) and Elizabeth Phillippa Hingston (1475-1567.) He married Anne Wilmot Chudleigh in about 1510 of Merrifield, Devon, England. Robert Coffyn died 24 December 1555, Alwington, Devon England, at about 59 years of age. He was Sheriff of Devonshire in 1511. Wikitree: Biography Sheriff of Devon Allen Coffin, in his "Life of Tristram Coffyn" traces the family origin in England back to the days of the Norman Conquest, the ancient seat of the name in England, now called Portledge, in the Parish of Ilwington, near Bideford, County of Devon, having been granted to Sir Richard Coffyn, Knight, for valuable services rendered to William the Conquerer. In 1538, Richard's uncle, Sir William Coffyn, left him the park and manor of 'Heaunton' in his will. (I think this would be Heanton Punchardon.) Biography "Richard, Sheriff of Devon in 1511 (2 Hen. VIII.), married Wilmot, daughter of Sir Richard Chudleigh, famous in legal annals as party in a leading case which bears his name. This marriage took place about 1510." She was buried on 13 June 1569. Name: Richard (Sir) of Porthledge COFFIN (See 1, 2, 3) • Name: Richard (Sir) COFFYN • Birth: ABT 1475 in Portledge (Porthledge, Portlinch, Porthleinch) *House, Alwington Parish, Alwington, Devonshire, England • Death: 24 DEC 1555 • Burial: 25 DEC 1555 Alwington, Devonshire, England • Event: Titled AFT 1516 Sir • Event: Event 1516 Witnessed a Grant of Rentcharge and Feoffment in *Fee Tail in Braunton and Heanton Punchardon, Devon as Richard Coffyn, esquire Sources: ANN WILMOT CHUDLEIGH was born about 1488 of Cornwall, England, to Richard Chudleigh (1468-1558) and Mary Wadham (1470-1535.) She married Richard Coffin. Ann Chudleigh passed away 10 June 1569, Alwington, Devonshire, England, age 81. Buried 13 June 16159, Alwington. Wikitree: Biography "Richard, Sheriff of Devon in 1511 (2 Hen. VIII.), married Wilmot, daughter of Sir Richard Chudleigh, famous in legal annals as party in a leading case which bears his name. This marriage took place about 1510." She was buried on 13 June 1569. 16th Century Cofs . Children of Richard Coffin and Ann Wilmot Chudleigh: 1. Margaret Coffin (1506-1560) 2. John Coffyn (1512-1608) 3. SIR JAMES COFFIN COFFYN KNIGHT (1514-1566) 4. Christian Coffin (1518-) 5. Johanna Coffin (1522-) 6. Margaret Coffin (1524-) 7. Anne Coffin Coffyn (1526-1592) 8. Sir Richard Coffin (1526-) 9. William Coffin (1528-) 10. Elizabeth Coffin (1530-1590) 11. Johanna Coffyn (1532-) 12. Margaret Coffyn (1534-) 13. Tristram Coffin (1535-1602) 14. John Coffin (1536-1608) 15. Edward Coffyn (1538-1608) 16. William Coffyn (1542-1567) (Source: The Coffin Family, By Louis Coffin, 1962, Nantucket Historical Society, Nantucket, Massachusetts.) + 4.a. RICHARD CHUDLEIGH (1468-1558) 4.a.1. MARY WADHAM (1470-1535) RICHARD CHUDLEIGH was born about 1468 of Ashburton, Devonshire, England, to Sir William Chudleigh (1475-1515) and Joan Hody (1447-.) He married Mary Wadham about 1488 of Merrifield, Devonshire, England. Richard Chudleigh died about 1558 of Merryfield, Torridge Distirct, Devonshire, England, age 90. She was buried 26 August 1558, Merryfield. Sir Richard Chudleigh, knight, married Mary, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham, of Merrifield, knight, issue Lawrence, James, (sans issue,) Christopher, Elizabeth, (first wife of Sir John Gilbert, sans issue ; secondly of Sir Henry Thynnc, knight); Margaret, (married to Richard Halse of Keuedon,) Ann, (married to James Coffin of Portledge ; secondly to Edward Whiddon, of Chagford, esq.) Deevonshire, England [example] MARY WADHAM was born about 1470 of Devonshire, England, to Nicholas de Wadham (1444-1542) and Lady Jane Hill (1470-1557.) She married Richard Chudleigh about 1488 of Merrifield, Devonshire, England. Mary Wadham passed away about 1535 of England, age 65. • About Mary Chudleigh (Wadham) • Wadhams genealogy, proceded by a sketch of the Wadham family in England.. ([c1913]) • http://www.archive.org/details/wadhamsgenealogy00stev • http://www.archive.org/stream/wadhamsgenealogy00stev#page/4/mode/1up • . . . . The heir of this fourth Sir John was Nicholas, and another son was William. Nicholas, like his ancestors, was knighted. He married first, Joan, daughter of Robert Hill, of Halsway, and his heir was another John. Nicholas and Joan had also other children : Andrew ; Giles, who married Agnes, daughter of Clauson of Barton ; Mary, who married Sir Richard Chudleigh of Ashdon ; and Elizabeth, who married first, Sir Edward Bampfield, and second, Richard Warr. • Nicholas, four times married, took for his second wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir John Seymour, who was aunt of Queen Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VHI and sister also to the Protector, Edward, Duke of Somerset. The children of Nicholas and Margaret Seymour were Nicholas and a daughter, Jane. Nicholas was knighted in 1494 "at ye creacion of Prince Henry," then two years old, to be Duke of York. In 1498 he, Sir Nicholas, was made Captain of the Isle of Wight. He was also Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset about 1502. • http://www.archive.org/stream/wadhamsgenealogy00stev#page/n28/mode/1up • CHART - PEDIGREE OF WADHAM. • 6. Sir Nicholas, of Merifield, Captain of the Isle of Wright, &c. Will proved Jan. 30, 1542. mar1. Joan, da. of Robt. Hill, of Halfway, by Alice, da. of John Stourton, of Preston, Somerset, and relict of William Daubeny. ch: 1. Laurence, o.s.p.; 2. John, of Merifield and Edge. Will proved mar. 15, 1577/8; buried at Ilminster.; 3. Giles, of Barton, co. Somerset.; Andrew, o.s.p.; Mary mar. Richard Chudleigh, of Ashdon.; Elizabeth mar1. Edw. Bampfield, mar2. John Warr.; Sir Nicholas mar2. Margaret, sister of Sir John Seymour, Knt., and aunt of Queen Jane; buried in Carisbrooke. ch: Nicholas, o.s.p.; buried at Ilton, 1508.; Jane mar. Forster, of Badesley, Hants.; Sir Nicholas mar3. Isabell, d. of T. Baynam, of Gloucestershire and relict of Sir Giles Bridges. Sir Nicholas mar4. Joan, da. of Richard Lyte, widow of William Walton of Barton. Will proved 1557; buried at Ilton. • _____________________________ • A view of Devonshire in MDCXXX, with a pedigree of most of its gentry • http://www.archive.org/details/aviewdevonshire00westgoog • http://www.archive.org/stream/aviewdevonshire00westgoog#page/n481/mode/1up/search/Wadham • Sir James Chudleigh, knight, married, first Margaret, daughter to the Lord William Stourton, and had issue William, Margaret, wife to John Wise, of Sydenham, Devon ; secondly Margaret, daughter of John Tremayn, the relict of Oliver Wise, and had issue Robert, John. William Chudleigh married Joan, daughter of Sir William Hody, of Pillesdon in Dorset, knight, issue Richard; obiit 29th January, 1515, and lieth in Clist Church. • Sir Richard Chudleigh, knight, married Mary, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham, of Merrifield, knight, issue Lawrence, James, (sans issue,) Christopher, Elizabeth, (first wife of Sir John Gilbert, sans issue ; secondly of Sir Henry Thynne, knight ;) Margaret, (married to Richard Halse of Kenedon,) Ann, (married to James Coffin of Portledge ; secondly to Edward Whiddon, of Chagford, esq.) • Christopher Chudleigh married Christian, sole daughter and heir of William Strechlegh of Strechley, and Anne his wife, daughter or sister and one . . . . • http://www.archive.org/stream/aviewdevonshire00westgoog#page/n652/mode/1up/search/Wadham • Sir John Wadham married Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh Stukeley of Affeton, sister of Nicholas, and had issue Nicholas, and William of whom is Ashford; secondly he married a daughter of Cheyney of Pinhoe. Sir Nicholas, knight, married Joan, daughter of Robert Hill of Halsway, issue Laurence, John, Giles, Andrew, Mary, (wife of Sir Richard Chudlegh;) Elizabeth (wife of Richard Bampfield of Poltimore :) secondly he married Margaret, sister to Sir John Seymour, of Somerset, knight, issue Laurence, who married and died sans issue. • _____________________ • A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke • http://books.google.com/books?id=DqkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=Mary+Wadham+Chudleigh&source=bl&ots=w9iqAslKVt&sig=boq1l0SO1lwr51bzmt8zGQtCmIk&hl=en&ei=8jzDTdiLMsjgiAK27fmUAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCDgU#v=onepage&q=Mary%20Wadham%20Chudleigh&f=false • Pg. 115 • WILLIAM CHUDLEIGH, esq. of Ashton, m. Joan, daughter of Sir William Hody, knt. of Dorsetshire and had a son, • SIR RICHARD CHUDLEIGH, knt.* who m. Mary, daughter of Sir Nicholas Wadham, knt. of Merifield, in the county of Somerset, and was s. by his son, • CHRISTOPHER CHUDLEIGH, esq. of Ashton. This gentleman m. Christiana, daughter of William Stretchley, esq. of Stretchley, in the county of Devon, and thus added considerably to his paternal fortune. He left a son and heir, • ________________________ • Mary Wadham1 • F, b. circa 1500 • Father Nicholas Wadham1 b. c 1475 • Mary Wadham was born circa 1500 at of Merrifield, Devonshire, England.1 She married Richard Chudleigh, son of William Chudleigh and Joan (Jane) Hody, circa 1525.1 • Family Richard Chudleigh b. c 1499, d. 26 Aug 1558 • Child • Christopher Chudleigh+1 b. c 1530, d. 1 Oct 1570 • Citations • 1.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives. • From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2917.htm#i87647 • Posted 07 Oct 2016 by Wadham LIne: Families covered: Wadham of Branscombe, Wadham of Edge, Wadham of Merifield (Merrifield or Merefield)This family is still being researched. It has NOT yet been launched formally into the Database but is shown here as DRAFT in the hope that one or more visitors to the site will contribute information that will enable us to develop this Family List to an acceptable standard.First displayed: 13.12.09 Last updated: 13.12.09 Back to 'Can You Help ?' Sir John Wadham of Egge or Edge in Branscombe, Devon1. Sir John Wadham of Edge & Merefield (d 1411, judge, serjeant-at-law) m(2). Joan Wrottesley mother of Margery, presumed also of ... A. Sir William Wadham of Edge Barton & Merifield (Somerset), Sheriff of Devonshire (d 1451) i. William Wadham (dvp?) a. John Wadham of Branscombe & Merifield m1. Elizabeth Popham (dau of Sir Stephen Popham of Popham) (1) Sir John Wadham of Branscombe & Merifield (d 1502) m. Elizabeth Stukeley (dau of Sir Hugh Stukeley by Katherine Affeton) (A) Sir Nicholas Wadham of Merifield & Branscombe, Sheriff of Wiltshire (d 1541) m1. Joan Hill (dau of Robert Hill of Houndston (d 08.09.1493) by Alice (relict of William Daubeney) dau of John Stourton of Preston Plucknett (d 1439) by Katherine Payne) (i) Sir John Wadham of Merifield & Branscombe (d 03.03.1578) m. Joan Tregarthen of Cornwall (d 1583, dau/coheri of John Tregarthen or Tregarthian of Cornwall) (a) Sir Nicholas Wadham of Merifield & Branscombe (b 1532, dsp 20.10.1609, founder of Wadham College, Oxford m. (1555) Dorothy Petre (dau of Sir William Petre by Gerdure Tyrrell) (b) Jane (Johanna) Wadham m1. John Foster of Baddesley m2. Sir Giles Strangeways of Melbury (c) Florence Wadham probably of this generation m. John Wyndham (dvp 25.08.1572) (d) Margaret Wadham m. Nicholas Martin of Athelhampton (son of Robert by Elizabeth, dau/heir of John Kelway of Rockburne) ((1)) Elizabeth Martin apparently of this generation m. Henry Brune of Charlton, Athelhampton, etc. (d 1593-4) ((2)) Anne Martin apparently of this generation m. Anthony Floyer of Floiers Hayes & Stanton Gabriel (d 28.11.1608) (ii) Andrew Wadham of Merrifield (d 1550, Gentleman Usher) m. (1548) Anne Saunders (bur 16.02.1565, dau of Laurence Saunders of Harrington (by Alice, dau of Robert Brokesby of Shoby) , relict of Sir Bartholomew Tate of Delapré Abbey then Sir Thomas Longueville, m4. _ Befford) (iii) Mary Wadham probably of this generation m. Sir Richard Chudleigh of Ashton (iv) Elizabeth Wadham probably of this generation m1. John Warre of Chipleigh m2. Sir Edward Bampfylde of Poltimore (v)+ other issue - Laurence, Giles m2. Margery Seymour (dau of John Seymour) (vii) Nicholas Wadham (viii) Jane Wadham m. Sir William Fogge m3. Isabel Baynham m4. Joan Lyte (B) Sir Edward Wadham of Tormanton, Sheriff of Gloucestershire (d 1547) (C) Sir William Wadham of Ashford (D) Sir Richard Wadham (d 1557) m. Johanna Lyte The following connection was found on various web sites. m2. ?? Cheney (dau of John Cheney of Pinhoe by Elizabeth, dau of John Hill of Spaxton) (2) Elizabeth Wadham m. John Fauntleroy b. William Wadham (a 1483) m. _ Bullesdon (dau of Thomas Bullesdon of Bramley) c. Joan Wadham possibly of this generation m. Thomas Malet of Enmore, Deandon and St. Audries (d 1501/2) ii. Elizabeth Wadham probably of this generation m. (1438) Robert Stawel of Cothelston, etc. (b c1422, d 28.10.1499) B. Margery Wadham apparently of this generation m. (after 1411) John Stourton, 1st Lord (b c1399, d 25.11.1462) C. Isabella Wadham possibly of this generation m. Sir Robert Hilll, 1st of Shilston (a 1400, 1422) Wikitree: Father Sir Nicholas Wadham, Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset, Devonshire, & Wiltshire b. c 1475 Mother Jane Hill[1] b. c 1475 Mary Wadham was born circa 1495 in Merrifield, Devonshire, England. She married Richard Chudleigh, son of William Chudleigh and Joan (Jane) Hody, circa 1510.[2] Family • Richard Chudleigh b. c 1510, d. 26 Aug 1558 Child • Christopher Chudleigh b. c 1530, d. 1 Oct 1570 Children of RichardChudleigh and Mary Wadham: 1. *ANN WILMOT CHUDLEIGH (1488-1569) 2. Larence Chudleigh (1490-) 3. Christopher Chudleigh (1493-1570) 4. Jane Chudleigh (1497-) 5. Lawrence Chudleigh (1517-) 6. Oliver Chudleigh (1519-) 7. Sir Christopher Chudleigh (1520-1570) 8. Nicholas Chudleigh (1521-) 9. Thomaso Chudleigh (1522-) + 4.a. SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM CHUDLEIGH (1475-1515) 4.a.2. JOAN HODY (1447-) SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM CHUDLEIGH was bornabout 1475 of Portledge, Devonshire,England, to James Chudleigh (1444-) and Margaret Stourton (1433-1541.) He married Joan Hody about 1465, Devonshire, England. William Chudleigh died 29 January 1515, Meryfield, Torridge, District, Devonshire, England. Devonshire, England: Wikitree: William Chudleigh, Esq., was born about 1475 in Portledge, Devonshire, England. He was the son of Sir James Chudleigh, Knight, and Margaret Stourton, daughter of Lord Stourton, of Wiltshire. Sir James and Margaret were married in "Anno 15, Edward IV: 1476," according to Burke's Genealogy.[1] William Chudleigh, Esq., was the full brother of Margareta Maria Chudleigh, who married John Wise. In 1498, he married Joan (aka Jane) Hody, daughter of Sir William Hody of Pillesdon, Dorset, and his wife, Eleanor Malet.. Sir William Hody was Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Attorney General of England under King Henry VII. They had a son and heir: Richard Chudleigh, Esquire, b. ca. 1499 in Bickington, Devonshire, England. Other unproven children that have been assigned to William & Joan Chudleigh are: 1. Anna Chudleigh b. in Portledge, Devon, England 2. Margareta Chudleigh b. in Devon, England 3. Elizabeth Chudleigh b. in Kings Wood, Wiltshire, England 4. Wilmot Chudleigh b. in Merifield, Cornwall, England Sir William Chudleigh died on January 29, 1515, and was buried in Clyst church, in Clyst, Devonshire, England.[2] Ekisborn [Exbourne] Church land donation Court Record of 29 July 1507: To all faithful in Christ to whom this present written Indenture shall come, I, William Chudlegh, Esquire, send eternal greeting in the Lord. Know ye that I the aforesaid William Chudlegh have given, conceded, and by this present Indenture have confirmed to Richard ffranke, William Howett, John Downe, John Clerke, John Northcote, William Downe, John Westlake, and Roger Ailecote, a certain parcel of my land, containing in length 44 feet and in breadth 24 feet, lying in Ekisborn between the North Church Stile on the south, and the gate of a garden there called Rokehay Yeate on the north, and a certain garden on the east, and the King's highway there on the west. To have and to hold the aforesaid parcel of land with its appurtenances, to the aforesaid Richard ffranke, William Howett, John Downe, John Clerke, John Northcote, William Downe, John Westlake, and Roger Ailecote, their heirs and assigns for ever, for the use of the Parishioners and their successors, for the purpose of making and of building anew in the same parcel of land one ecclesiastical house for the aforesaid Parishioners and their successors which shall be called A Church House. To pay thereout yearly to me the aforesaid William Chudlegh and my heirs four pennies sterling to be paid at the Feast of Saint Michael the Archangel. To hold of the chief lords of that Fee by the service thence due and of right accustomed, reserving nevertheless to me the aforesaid William Chudlegh, and my heirs all and all kinds of services and free customs, liberties, franchises, and privileges whatsoever which to me the aforesaid William Chudlegh and my heirs of right or in any other way may happen to belong or may be able to accrue by reason of our lordship of Ekisborn, except only the right of brewing of ale and of selling of two brewings of beer in the same parcel of land for the use of said Church of Ekisborn aforesaid twice yearly, for which two brewings of ale and selling there as aforesaid the said Richard ffranke, William Howett, John Downe, John Clerke, John Northcote, William Downe, John Westlake, and Roger Ailecote, their heirs or assigns shall give nothing to me the aforesaid William Chudlegh and my heirs as a fine for the breaking of the assise of beer aforesaid. But if it shall happen that the aforesaid annual rent of 4 pennies sterling shall be in arrear in part or in whole at any Feast of Saint Michael not having been paid for one month that then in that case it shall be lawful for me the aforesaid William Chudlegh and my heirs to distrain on the aforesaid parcel of land, and the distrained property so taken to carry away and retain until the aforesaid annual rent, with its arrears to me the aforesaid William Chudlegh and my heirs shall have been fully paid and satisfied. And if it should happen that the aforesaid annual rent should be in arrears and unpaid after any feast on which it ought to be paid for the space of one year if it be demanded in a lawful manner and no sufficient distraint can thence lawfully be obtained in the aforesaid parcel of land. Then it shall be lawful for me the aforesaid William Chudlegh my heirs and assigns to re-enter upon the said parcel of land with its appurtenances and to possess it in my former status notwithstanding anything to the contrary in these Indentures. And I the aforesaid William Chudlegh and my heirs the aforesaid parcel of land with its appurtenances to the aforesaid Richard ffranke, William Howett, John Downe, John Clerke, John Northcote, William Downe, John Westlake, and Roger Ailecote, their heirs and assigns to the aforesaid use will warrant, acquit and secure for ever. Be it known further that I the aforesaid William Chudlegh have ordained and in my place have placed my beloved in Christ, Simon Gombles, Clerk in holy orders and Andrew Latyer my true and lawful attorneys jointly and severally to deliver to the aforesaid Richard ffranke, William Howett, John Downe, John Clerke, John Northcote, William Downe, John Westlake, and Roger Ailecote full and peaceable possession and seisin of and in the aforesaid parcel of land with its appurtenances, according to the force form and effect of this my present Deed indented. Holding and about to hold ratified and confirmed all and whatsoever my said attorneys shalJ have done or either of them shall have done in the premises. In testimony of which thing both I the aforesaid William Chudlegh and the aforesaid Richard ffranke, William Howett, John Downe, John Clerke, John Northcote, William Downe, John Westlake, and Roger Ailecote have respectively placed our hands and seals, the following being witnesses, Sir Humfrey ffulford Knight, James Chudlegh, esquire, John Bobisshe, Richard Wekys, John Call, and many others. Given on this twenty-ninth day of July in the twenty-second year of the reign of King Henry the Seventh.[A.D. 1507.][3] Sir William Chudleigh, Kt., was buried at St. John the Baptist Church in Ashton, Devon. [sic=other sources say he was buried in Clyst church, Clyst, Devon].[4] [example] JOAN HODY was born about 1447 Pilleston, Dorset, England, to Sir William Hody (1441-1524) and Lady Eleanor Mallet (1425-1510.) She married William hudleigh about 1465, of Devonshie, England. Joan Hody died in England at unknown date. English Countryside Devon, England stowell house Children of William Chudleigh and Joan Hody: 1. *RICHARD CHUDLEIGH (1468-1558) 2. Margaretha Chudleigh (1470-) + 4.a. SIR JAMES CHUDLEIGH (1444-) \\ 4.a.3.LADY MARGARET STOURTON (1433-1474) SIR JAMES CHUDLEIGH was born about 1444 of England and died in England. He married (1) Jane Novant, 1466, Devonshire; (2) *Margaret Stourton about 1476, Portledge, Devonshire; and (3) Christian Paulet. According to the Book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Etinct and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland, and Scotland, James married Margaret Stourton in 1476, and he was the son of Sir James Chudleigh, Knight of Ashton, and Jane, daughter of Sir John De, Knight, and the grandson of John CHudleign of Broadclift, Devonshire and his wife Thomasine Prous, daughter of Richard PRous, Knight and his wife Margaret. Chudleigh & Hilion Family Line (17th- 23rd Generations)[i] The Chudleighs were a renowned aristocratic family in Devon for centuries. The Chudleigh pedigree is recorded in The Visitations of the County of Devon,[ii] and part of their history is preserved in The Worthies of Devon.[iii] The Chudleigh family owned vast lands and titles in Chudleigh, and neighboring Ashton and Broad Clyst. The Chudleigh estates were obtained primarily through marriage. The small market town of Chudleigh is ten miles from Exeter and six miles from Newton-Abbot. Chudleigh is along the main road connecting London to Plymouth. “The scenery around Chudleigh is much diversified with hill and dale; rock and wood, and presents an infinite variety of fine views.” The bishops of Exeter maintained a palace in Chudleigh. A half mile from the town of Chudleigh, is “Chudleigh Rock,” a limestone cliff “celebrated for its picturesque appearance.” Half way down the cliff is a cavern, which, according to local superstition tradition was inhabited by “pixies, a minute variety of the fairy race.”[iv] The first aristocrat to possess the Ashton lands after the Norman Conquest was “that noble Knight Sir Hervius de Hilion, who received them, as a gift from the Conqueror, William of Normandy.” The lands and titles were passed down through seven generations of Hilions, all knights. These lands then passed, by marriage, to the Prowse family when Margarita Hilion married Sir Richard Prowse. When Thomasine Prowse, the daughter of Sir Richard and Margarita Prowse, married Sir John Chudleigh, Sir Richard Prowse deeded the lands to Sir John Chudleigh. This historic transfer of lands took place in 1320. Thereafter, the lands around Ashton remained in the Chudleigh family almost 400 years. When Sir John Chudleigh later married Jane/Johan Beauchamp, the Chudleighs obtained the lands around Broad Clyst originally possessed by the Beauchamps and the Nonants. Having flourished at Ashton and Broad Clyst for about twelve generations, the Chudleighs also married into the noble families of Beauchamp, Prowse, Merton, Pomeroy, Beaumont, Champernon, Pollard, and others.[v] Petronell Chudleigh & Sir Anthony Pollard (17th Generation) Petronell Chudleigh and Sir Anthony Pollard were the parents of Thomasine Pollard. Petronell was born about 1420 in Ashton, Devon. Sir Anthony Pollard was born about 1416 in Ashton.[vi] Sir James Chudleigh II & Radigund (18th Generation) Sir James (Jacobus) and Radigund Chudleigh were the parents of the Petronell Chudleigh. Sir James was born about 1360/1387 in Ashton. Radigund were born about 1391/1402 in Ashton, Devon. They were married in Ashton about 1417. They were the parents of two children: John Chudleigh born in 1418, and Petronell Chudleigh born about 1420. Sir James served as Sheriff of Devon in 1430, 1438, and 1449. Sir James Chudleigh died on 8 February 1456.[vii] Sir James Chudleigh I & Johanna Merton (or Johanna Pomeroy) (19th Generation) Sir James Chudleigh and Johanna Merton (or Johanna Pomeroy) were the parents of Sir James Chudleigh II. [There is considerable confusion regarding the mother of Sir James Chudleigh II. This confusion is caused by the fact that Sir James Chudleigh I married four times, all to “Johannas/Joans.” He married Johanna Pomeroy, Johanna Beaumont, Johanna Merton, and Joan Champernon. In FamilySearch pedigrees and family group records, each of the four wives is listed separately as the mother of our ancestor James Chudleigh II. John Denhalter, in his pedigrees, lists Johanna Pomeroy as our ancestor. It seems clear that in the detailed pedigree in The Visitations of the County of Devon, that the line extends down from the 3rd marriage of James I and Johanna Merton to James Chudleigh II. Since John Denhalter and I disagree on the mother, and there is support for both of our opinions, I have included both pedigrees in this chapter.] Sir James Chudleigh was born about 1331 in Broad Clyst Manor, Devon. Johanna Merton was born in Ashton about 1360. They were married in Ashton about 1386. Sir James served as Sheriff of Devon in 1384 and 1394. Sir James had four wives. With each marriage, Sir James obtained additional lands and power. [We wonder if each of the wives died of natural causes.] Johanna Merton was previously married to John Bamfield.[viii] Sir James Chudleigh’s sepulchral effigy is preserved in the Broad Clyst parish church: On the north and south faces of Broad-Clyst Church tower, Immediately under the belfry windows, are shields quarterly of four, viz. 1. Three lions rampart (Chudleigh); 2 Three bends (Merton); A lion rampart (Nonant), 4 . . . This is the achievement of Sir James Chudleigh who married secondly Joan, daughter and co-heir of Sir Richard Merton, Knt., and relict of John Bamfield of Poltimore. The Chudleighs became possessed of Broadclyst by the marriage of John Chudleigh (father of Sir James) with Jane daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Ryme, whose wife Alice daughter and co-heir of Sir Roger Nonant of Broadclyst . . . .[ix] Sir John Chudleigh III & Joan/Johan Beauchamp (20th Generation) Sir John Chudleigh III and Joan Beauchamp are the parents of Sir James Chudleigh I. Sir John was born about 1307 in Chudleigh, Devon. Joan Beauchamp was born about 1311 in Ryme Intrinsica, Dorset. Sir John Chudleigh served as Sheriff of Devon in 1335 and 1377. Joan died on 16 June 1420 at Broad Clyst Manor. Sir John Chudleigh also died at Broad Clyst Manor. The historic marriage of Sir John Chudleigh II and Johan Beauchamp resulted in the Chudleighs obtaining possession of the lands of Broad Clyst.[x] Sir Richard Merton & Wife (20th Generation) Sir Richard Merton is the father of Johanna Merton. Sir Richard was born about 1330/1334 in Ashton, Devon.[xi] Sir John Chudleigh II & Thomasine Prowse (21st Generation)Sir John Chudleigh II and Thomasine Prowse are the parents of Sir John Chudleigh III. Sir John was born about 1282 in Chudleigh, Devon. Thomasine Prowse was born about 1286 in Ashton, Devon. They were married about 1320.This was an historic marriage because of the real property consequences. In 1320, at the time of the marriage, Sir Richard Prowse deeded the Ashton lands from the Prowse family to the Chudleigh family. The deed was recorded in Latin and was formally witnessed by five prominent aristocrats. The Ashton lands remained in the Chudleigh family for almost 400 years.[xii] Sir Roger/John Beauchamp & Alice Nonant (21st Generation) Sir Roger/John Beauchamp and Alice Nonant are the parents of Johan Beauchamp. The lands of Broad Clyst were originally possessed by the Beauchamp and Nonant families.[xiii] Sir John Chudleigh I & Wife (22nd Generation) Sir John Chudleigh I is the father of Sir John Chudleigh II. Sir John I was born about 1257 in Chudleigh, Devon.[xiv] Margarita Hilion & Sir Richard Prowse (22nd Generation) Sir Richard Prowse and Margarita Hilion were the parents of Thomasine Prowse. Sir Richard was born about 1260 in Ashton, and Margarita was born about 1262 in Ashton. This famous marriage resulted in the Prowse family obtaining the lands of Ashton that had been given to the Hilion family by William “the Conqueror.”[xv] Sir Richard Nonant & Isabell Bonville (22nd Generation) Sir Richard Nonant and Isabell Bonville are the parents of Alice Nonant. Their marriage connected two ancestral families. [xvi] Sir William Prowse & Alice Ferrers (23rd Generation) Sir William Prowse IV and Alice Ferrers were the parents of Sir Richard Prowse. With the married of Sir William Prowse and Alice Ferrers, two powerful aristocratic families were connected. Sir Robert Hilion & Wife (23rd Generation) Sir Robert Hilion was the father of Margarita Hilion. ________________________________________ [i] Chudleigh & Hilion Family Pedigree Connections: 17-Sir Anthony Pollard & Petronell Chudleigh 18-Sir James Chudleigh II & Radigund 19-Sir James Chudleigh I & Johanna Merton or Johanna Pomeroy 20-Sir John Chudleigh III & Johan/Joan Beauchamp 20-Sir Richard Merton & Wife 21-Sir John Chudleigh II & Thomasine Prowse 21-Sir Roger/John Beauchamp & Alice Nonant 22-Sir John Chudleigh I & Wife 22-Richard Prowse & Margarita Hilion 22-Sir Richard Nonant & Isabell Bonville 23-Sir William Prowse & Alice Ferrers 23-Sir Robert Hilion & Wife [ii] “Chudleigh,” The Visitations of the County of Devon, pp. 189-190. [iii] “Chudleigh, Sir George, Baronet,” The Worthies of Devon, pp. 216-218. [iv] The History of Chudleigh, Devon, Chapter IV. [v] The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, by W.H. Hamilton Rogers, Exeter (LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah), pp. 147-148; “Chudlegh, Sir George, Baronet,” The Worthies of Devon, p. 216: “Chudlegh, Sir George, Baronet, was born at Ashton, in this county [Devon], . . . The first possessor of these lands, after the Conquest, was that noble Kt. Sir Hervius de Hilion, who received them, as a gift from the Conqueror, William of Normandy; whom followed, in this place, seven of the name Hilion, all knights, whose names ‘twould be thought too tedious to relate. From them they came to the dignous family of Le Pruz, vulgarly Prous: and a daughter of Richard, second son of Sir William Prous, Thomasin by name, brought them, with other lands, unto her husband John, the son of John Chudlegh of Chudlegh, near adjoining: Unto whom the said Richard Prous (in the life time of John his son) made this conveyance, as by the deed appeareth; a brief whereof followeth. “Sciant, &c. quod nos Richardus Prous & Margarita uxor mea, concessimus, dedimus, &c. Johanni Chuddelegh & haeredibus suis, omnia, terras & tenementa nostra in Asseriston, Shaplegh-Hilion, &c. Testibus, Domino Nich. Kirkham, Johanne de Ferrariis, Rogero de Nonant, militibus; Willielmo de Fisacre, Johanne Tremenet & aliis. Dat apud Gidlegh an. 13 Ed. Filii Ed. 1320.” [vi] “Individual Record: Petronell Chudleigh,” “Pedigree Chart: Petronell Chudleigh,” FamilySearch Ancestral File, familysearch.org. [vii] The Visitations of the County of Devon, p. 189-190; “Family Group Record: James Chudleigh,” “Family Group Record: James (Jacobus) Chudleigh,” “Pedigree Chart: Petronell Chudleigh,” FamilySearch Ancestral File, familysearch.org; “Family Group Record: James Chudleigh,” trees.ancestry.com. [viii]The Visitations of the County of Devon, p. 189-190; “Individual Record: James Chudleigh,” FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File, familysearch.org; “Individual Record: Joan (Johanna) Merton,” FamilySearch Ancestral File, familysearch.org. There is considerable confusion among genealogists regarding the mother of Petronell Chudleigh. One reason is that some genealogists, like John Denhalter, didn't notice that there were two James Chudleighs. Thus, he missed that the mother of Petronell is Radigund. He misplaced one of the grandmothers as the mother. A second reason for the confusion among genealogists is is that this James Chudleigh has 4 wives and two heirs, Jacob and Johanna. Adding to the confusion is that each of James' wives was named Johanna. The Visitations of Devon lists: Wife 1. "= Johanna, 1 da. of Sir Henry de la Pomeroy and sister and heir to Sir John de la Pomeroy, 1 wife.Wife 2. "= Johanna, da of John Beaumont, soro & heres Willi Beaumond, Militis, 2 wife, ob. s.p., wide ped. ante, page 65."Wife 3:" ="Johanna Filia & Cohere Richard Domini Merton, relicta Johis Baunfield, 3 wife, vide. Bampfield ped. ante, p. 38"Wife 4. "= Jone, da. of Alexander Champernowne of Beer Ferrers, 4 wife. remar. Sir John Courtenay of Poderham, vide ped. post." In Family Search, each of these wives is listed as the mother of James, the mother of Petronell. It is clear from the pedigree chart in The Visitations that the line extends down from the 3rd marriage of James and Johanna Merton to James Chudleigh. [ix] The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, p. 148. [x] The Visitations of the County of Devon, p. 189-190; “Pedigree Chart: Petronell Chudleigh,” FamilySearch Ancestral File, familysearch.org. [xi] “Family Group Record: Richard Merton,” FamilySearch Ancestral File. Familysearch.org;“IGI Individual Record: Richard Merton,” FamilySearch International Genealogical Index, familysearch.org. [xii] The Visitations of the County of Devon, p. 189-190; “Pedigree Chart: Petronell Chudleigh,” FamilySearch Ancestral File, familysearch.org. The Ancient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, by W.H. Hamilton Rogers, Exeter (LDS Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah), pp. 147-148; “Chudlegh, Sir George, Baronet,” The Worthies of Devon, p. 216: “Chudlegh, Sir George, Baronet, was born at Ashton, in this county [Devon], . . . The first possessor of these lands, after the Conquest, was that noble Kt. Sir Hervius de Hilion, who received them, as a gift from the Conqueror, William of Normandy; whom followed, in this place, seven of the name Hilion, all knights, whose names ‘twould be thought too tedious to relate. From them they came to the dignous family of Le Pruz, vulgarly Prous: and a daughter of Richard, second son of Sir William Prous, Thomasin by name, brought them, with other lands, unto her husband John, the son of John Chudlegh of Chudlegh, near adjoining: Unto whom the said Richard Prous (in the life time of John his son) made this conveyance, as by the deed appeareth; a brief whereof followeth. “Sciant, &c. quod nos Richardus Prous & Margarita uxor mea, concessimus, dedimus, &c. Johanni Chuddelegh & haeredibus suis, omnia, terras & tenementa nostra in Asseriston, Shaplegh-Hilion, &c. Testibus, Domino Nich. Kirkham, Johanne de Ferrariis, Rogero de Nonant, militibus; Willielmo de Fisacre, Johanne Tremenet & aliis. Dat apud Gidlegh an. 13 Ed. Filii Ed. 1320.” Sir James Chudleigh, knight, married, first Margaret, daughter to the Lord Wilham Stourton, and had issue Wilham, Margaret, wife to John Wise, of Sydenham, Devon ; secondly Margaret, daughter of John Tremayn, the rehct of Ohver Wise, and had issue Robert, John. Wikitree: James Chudleigh 1 •M, b. circa 1444 •Father John Chudleigh1 b. c 1418 •Mother Thomasine Kirkham1 b. c 1422 • James Chudleigh was born circa 1444 at of Ashton, Devonshire, England. 1 He married Margaret Stourton, daughter of Sir William Stourton, 2nd Lord Stourton and Margaret Chidiock, circa 1470 at of Stourton, Wiltshire, England.1 •Family Margaret Stourton b. c 1451 •Child •William Chudleigh+1 b. c 1472, d. 1515 • Sir James Chudleigh, knight, married, first Margaret, daughter to the Lord William Stourton, and had issue William, Margaret, wife to John Wise, of Sydenham, Devon ; secondly Margaret, daughter of John Tremayn, the relict of Oliver Wise, and had issue Robert, John. William Chudleigh married Joan, daughter of Sir William Hody, of Pillesdon in Dorset, knight, issue Richard; obiit 29th January, 1515, and lieth in Clist Church.[1] ________________________________________ •Name: James CHUDLEIGH •Prefix: Sir •Sex: M •Birth: ABT 1432 in Ashton, St. Thomas, Devon, England •Death: bef 1504 •Note: James married (1) Margaret (or Mary) [of] Stourton & (2) Margaret Tremayne.[2] ________________________________________ John, son and heir, married a daughter of Warr, and had issue John: who married a daughter of John Bear, of Hunsham, esq., and had issue Thomas, Jane, (married to Oliver Kelly, of Kelly, esq.;) _____, (wife first to Oliver Wise, secondly to James Chudlegh.[3] Sir James Chudleigh, knight, married, first Margaret, daughter to the Lord William Stourton, and had issue William, Margaret, wife to John Wise, of Sydenham, Devon; secondly Margaret, daughter of John Tremayn, the relict of Oliver Wise, and had issue Robert, John. [4] LADY MARGARET STOURTON was born about 1433 of Stourton, Wilsthire, England, to Baron John Stourton (1400-1462) and Lady Margery Wadham (1403-1473.) She married (1) Sir George Darrell, 1445, Somerset; (2) *James Chudleigh about 1476 of Portledge, Devonshire. [example] Margaret Stourton passed away 27 July 1474, Stourton, Wiltshire, England, age 41. Buried at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, Holy Christ Churchyard. Wiltshire, England Area, England - Stourton, Wiltshire - St Peter's church the parish church St. Peters at Stourton, Wiltshire, England Wikitree: • Margaret Stourton was born circa 1451 at Stourton, Wiltshire, England. •Father Sir William Stourton, 2nd Lord Stourton1 b. c 1430, d. 18 Feb 1478 •Mother Margaret Chidiock1 b. c 1420, d. 12 Mar 1503 She married James Chudleigh, ( b. c 1444 ) son of John Chudleigh and Thomasine Kirkham, circa 1470 at of Stourton, Wiltshire, England. •Child •William Chudleigh b. c 1472, d. 1515 Village of Stourton - Wiltshire England The village of Stourton is famous for its National Trust property, Stourhead House and Garden, which has been owned by the Trust since 1946. Stourton lies on the Wiltshire/Somerset border, and until 1894 the hamlets of Bonham and Gasper were part of Somerset. The soil is sandy; subsoil is gravel, chalk and flint in Stourton, but changes to clay and sandstone in Gasper. Before the Second World War the land was mainly pasture and in 1939 it supported twelve farms. The parish is approximately oval in shape, with woodland in the west and open fields to the east. The village and its hamlets are in the centre, running from north to south. The name Stourton means 'farm on the river Stour'. Gasper is not so easily definable. A 'spur' is a projecting hill, but the origin of the first syllable is unknown. Bonham is a family name. Archaeological sites are often to be found on the parish boundary and Stourton is no exception. On the extreme eastern point are five tumuli and a hill fort. The fort, known as Whitesheet Castle, has three small mounds that were opened by Richard Colt Hoare in the early 19th century. He discovered they were not burial sites, and recent investigations suggest a connection with the hill fort. The other tumuli include bowl barrows that were also opened by Hoare and contained human remains. On the southern boundary is Pen Pits, which covers 700 acres and spreads across the boundary into Zeals. These pits were probably quarries where hard greensand rock was extracted for use as quern stones, which were used for grinding grain. In the middle of the western boundary is an Iron Age hill fort measuring 240 yards by 120 yards, known as Kenwalchs Castle. This large hill fort covers an internal area of 1.6 hectares. The modern road passes through the original entrance. On Park Hill is another Iron Age hill fort. This site covers six acres and includes two phases of construction. The first is an outer ditch; the inner works are a D shape. In the centre of the village, close to the church, is the Bristol High Cross. It was built in 1373 and erected on the Cathedral Green at Bristol. It was given to Henry Hoare in 1765 by his friend the Dean of Bristol, after it was dismantled from College Green in 1762. The cross has figures in niches which used to be ornamented with red, blue and gilt clothing. Close by is the site of a 15th century manor house. It was demolished in 1720 by the 1st Henry Hoare and replaced by the current mansion. The history of the manor of Stourton can be traced back to a Bartholomew of Stourton who was living in the west of England prior to the Conquest. The medieval manor house at Stourton was probably constructed by Robert Stourton in the late 12th century. The manor remained in this family until 1714. Edward, the 13th Baron, was heavily in debt at this time and sold the property to Sir Thomas Meres. Three years later it was held in trust for Henry Hoare, to whom it finally passed in 1720. The property then passed through four generations until it was inherited by Sir Henry Hoare 6th Bt and his wife Alda in 1894. (The house only passed from father to son on two occasions, which is quite unusual). The couple were dealt many hardships, including having to restore the House after a disastrous fire in 1902 and guiding the estate through both World Wars. Sadly they lost their only son Henry in the First World War, a tragedy from which neither of them fully recovered. In 1946, Sir Henry gave Stourhead to the National Trust. He died just one year later, followed six hours later by his devoted Alda. The hamlets of Bonham and Gasper were separate manors. The first Bonham known to have lived there was Sir John de Bonham in 1323. In 1665 the manor was sold to Peter Pytney by Walter Bonham. In 1714 it was sold to the Hon Thomas Stourton and was then bought by Henry Hoare in 1785; the chapel and part of the house were retained by the Stourton family in order to maintain the Catholic faith in the village. The manor of Gasper was bought by Sir Richard Colt Hoare in 1799, from the Rebow family of Essex. Close to the entrance to Stourhead Garden is the village church. The parish church of St Peter dates mainly from the 15th century and has undergone various stages of restoration since that time. In 1720 new flooring and seating was installed and the screen and rood loft were removed. In 1848 a south aisle was added to increase the seating. The Stourton family and the Arundells were the two principal Catholic families in Wiltshire. The Stourton family history goes back to the Conquest and they lived in Stourton until 1714. The manor of Stourton was then sold and they bought the neighbouring property of Bonham. This enabled the chapel to remain open until 1950. A complete list of chaplains has been compiled back to Nicholas Fitzjames in 1609. Stourton has many listed buildings, including the temples, grottos and bridges in the Garden. There are approximately 20 listed houses, farmhouses and cottages dating from the 18th century or earlier. Most of these houses are built of dressed limestone or rubble stone with a tiled roof. Bonham Manor House was formerly a Catholic Chapel and priest's house. The building dates mainly from the 16th century with later alterations; some features have survived from the 14th century. The south facing front clearly shows the division between house and chapel, as the chapel at the east end has three large, pointed windows with Y-tracery. When the chapel closed in 1950 the interior was considerably altered. The building is now one house. The estate office in the High Street is a late 18th century detached house, built of dressed limestone with a Welsh slate roof. In the 19th century this house was known as The Cottage and was the home of the Agent. It was also lived in by the 6th Baronet, Henry Hoare and his wife, whilst Stourhead was being renovated and rebuilt after the fire in 1902. In 1919 the stables in the Spread Eagle yard were converted into a village hall as a First World War memorial. An inscription over the doorway records that Stourton Club was erected in memory of those who fell in the War. The Kennels was built in 1794 as a gamekeeper's house and kennels. One of the rooms in the house has cupboards with hexagonal glazing bars, reputedly by Chippendale who is said to have stayed there whilst working at Stourton House. The history of Stourhead House and Garden is well documented elsewhere. The estate was bought in 1717 by Henry Hoare, a notable merchant banker. This family bank was founded in 1672 by Richard Hoare at the sign of the Golden Bottle in Cheapside. In 1690 he moved the business to new premises in Fleet Street, still within the City of London. Today, C. Hoare and Co. is the sole survivor of the private deposit banks which were established in the 17th and 18th centuries. Henry's first action was to pull down the medieval house that belonged to the Stourtons. When John Aubrey visited this house in 1670, his comment was 'The Lord Stourton's house at Stourton is very large and very old, but is little considerable as to the architecture'. The new house was designed by Colen Campbell, the architect and designer of the day, and was finished in 1724. Between 1741 and 1750 Henry's son, also Henry, laid out the gardens in the fashion of the time with romantic temples, vistas and ornamental trees. His nephew, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, who inherited the estate in 1785, added the twin wings to the house to hold his growing collection of books and art treasures. He was a prolific writer and his studies of the history and archaeology of Wiltshire are classic works. Most Stourton families earned their living working on the land. The 1851 census shows that the Stourton Farm Bailiff was responsible for 2,154 acres of land and employed 223 labourers. There were also five smaller farms employing a further 70 labourers. The Somerset silk industry had spread into south-west Wiltshire by 1813. The silk mill at Bruton supplied silk for spinning, or more probably winding, to workers living in Stourton and Maiden Bradley. In 1851 Isaiah Child was a linen manufacturer employing 5 men, 31 women and 26 children. Most of the women and girls worked at home, while the younger children often attended a school set up for the purpose of spinning, although there does not seem to be any evidence for one here. Only a few men were self employed in 1851. There were four shoemakers, including a master shoemaker at Gasper. There was also a shopkeeper, two grocers, two butchers, a weaver, a coal merchant and a tailor. By 1901 the small businesses had almost disappeared. One family in Top Lane included a boot maker, dressmaker and laundress. Ernest Hankey, who lived at Brook House, was described at the age of 36 as a 'retired woolbroker's agent'. He could afford four servants, so he must have been a very successful businessman. Born in Middlesex, possibly he was a customer of the Hoare Bank, leading him to find a house in Stourton. By 1901 there was no shop in the village and no adverts for any shops appear in the Kelly's trade directory before 1935. Perhaps the villagers shopped at the large Walton's store in neighbouring Mere. At the time of Domesday the population of Stourton was approximately 100-150 people. By 1801, which is the date of the first official figure, it had risen to 306. Stourton does not seem to have been badly affected by the agricultural depression of the early 19th century. Very often a rural community will reach its population peak around 1851 and then steadily decline as families move away in search of work, but Stourton's population remained in the 300s for most of the 19th century. In 1894 the Somerset part of the parish was transferred to Wiltshire, increasing the population to its peak figure of 470 in 1901. This area covers the hamlet of Gasper, and Castle Wood and Greenland Bottom to the west. During the 20th century the population fell to just 201 people by 2001. In 1906 there were seven charities in Stourton. Jane Hoare's charity, dated 1737, gave 3s 6d each to 20 poor families which was paid every Good Friday. Edmund Wadlow's charity, by his will proved in 1725, gave 4 shillings each to ten poor people of Stourton and five people from Gasper, to be distributed on St Thomas's Day (21st December). Nicholas King, who died in 1650, left £5 for the purchase of cloth each year on November 1st to make coats for five aged and poor men. The sum of 20 shillings was given to the churchwardens each year from Michael King's charity, dated 1821, which they used to buy shilling loaves for 20 poor people. Sir Richard Colt Hoare and the Rev. William Partridge's joint charity, dated 1825, distributed blankets and money on Christmas Day. Twenty people with large families received a blanket and another twenty people each received 5s. Henry Hoare, who died in 1724, left money for the purchase of bibles and prayer books as and when they were required. In 1828, 26 bibles, 36 testaments and 44 prayer books were given away to parishioners. This same Henry Hoare also left money for the building of a workhouse. It was first built in 1728 and later replaced by a converted farmhouse called Road Mead. It was only big enough to house three or four families. The building was pulled down in 1802 following complaints by the farmers 'that it was inhabited by disreputable characters, and was a great nuisance to the place'. In 1834 the Union Workhouse was built in Mere. Since 1960 the population of Stourton has dropped by almost 100. Before the Second World War agriculture was the main employer. This changed after the War, when mechanisation meant fewer jobs, and families moved to the towns to look for better paid jobs and better housing. The gift of Stourhead to the National Trust in 1946 must have caused some anxiety among the villagers. In the 1970s the Wessex regional HQ of the Trust was based in Stourton, providing some local employment. The office has since moved to Bishopstrow near Warminster, but the many visitors to Stourhead still provide employment through the shop, restaurant, plant centre and pub. In 2005 a farm shop opened in the High Street, supplying meat, cheese, fruit, vegetables and more. At nearby Stourton House there is another garden that is open to the public. It was originally a rectory, and the gardens were derelict when the house was bought by Anthony and Elizabeth Bullivant 45 years ago. Elizabeth is a leading authority on dried flowers, and the garden hosts a large collection of hydrangeas that are displayed each September at the annual Hydrangea Gala held at Stourhead church. This small parish, with its world famous garden, attracts thousands of visitors every year. Edward Hutton, writing in 1917, described the garden as a 'noble English paradise'. stourton house Holy Cross Churchyard Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England Child of James Chudleigh and Margaret Stourton: 1. SIR KNIGHT WILLIAM CHUDLEIGH (-1515) + 4.a.1. SIR KNIGHT NICHOLAS DE WADHAM (1444-1542) \\ 4.a.1.a. LADY JANE HILL (1470-1557) SIR KNIGHT NICHOLAS DE WADHAM was born about 1444 of Devonshire, England, to John Wadham (1402-1485) and Unknown. He married (1) *Joan Hill; (2) Nicholas De Wadham died about 1541 of Merifield, Somerset, England, age 97. Nicholas Wadham (1472–1542) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search For the founder of Wadham College, see Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609). Arms of Wadham: Gules, a chevron between three roses argent[1] Sir Nicholas Wadham (by 1472–1542) of Merryfield in the parish of Ilton, Somerset and Edge in the parish of Branscombe, Devon was the grandfather of Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609), posthumous co-founder of Wadham College, Oxford whose wife Dorothy Wadham outlived him and, in her advanced old age, saw the project through to completion. Originally taking their name from the manor of Wadham, Knowstone between South Molton and Exmoor in north Devon, Nicholas Wadham was descended from an ancient West Country gentry family with a leaning towards the law. He was the eldest son and heir of John Wadham (died 1502) of Merryfield and Edge and Elizabeth Stucley, daughter of Sir Hugh Stucley of Affeton Castle and Sheriff of Devon in 1449, who had married Katherine de Affeton sole heiress of the Manor of Affeton, Nicholas Wadham's grandmother. Sir Nicholas was Member of Parliament for Somerset as a Knight of the Shire with his kinsman Sir William Stourton, 7th Baron Stourton (c. 1505 – 1548), in the Reformation Parliament of 1529 to 1534.[2] Nicholas Wadham was Esquire of the Body to King Henry VII (1485–1509) in 1503, and knighted in 1504 "at ye creacion of Prince Henry", then only thirteen years of age. He was Sheriff of Devon in 1502 and 1515, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1498 and 1534, and Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1516. He was Captain of the Isle of Wight[3] with residence at Carisbrooke Castle from 1509-1520, and with his uncle Sir Edward Wadham was present with King Henry VIII (1509–1547) at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, in 1520.[4] In 1512, he was one of the Commission for fitting out at Southampton the abortive expedition under Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset (1477–1530) to aid Ferdinand of Aragon in his invasion of France and, from 1521–1523, was Vice Admiral to Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey (1473–1554), High Admiral of England from 1521 to 1525. He was granted a patent in 1524, licensing him "to make a park at Merifield of 200 acres of pasture and 40 acres of woodland".[5] In 1530, he was appointed one of the Commissioners for making inquisition into the estates of Cardinal Wolsey.[6] Both Sir Nicholas and his uncle, Sir Edward Wadham, were jurors in Bristol at the indictment for treason in May 1521 of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham of Thornbury Castle in Gloucestershire.[7] In 1524, he received an honorary admission to the Middle Temple. Marriage and children[edit] He married four times: First to his cousin Joan Hill, a daughter of Robert Hill of Halsway Somerset Bridport Dorset and Houndstone near Yeovil and, of Alice Stourton, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of John Stourton (died 1438) of the manor of Preston Plucknett, today (in 2017) known as the Abbey Farm House and Abbey Barn, Yeovil, and of Brympton d'Evercy. Joan Hill was a great granddaughter of Sir Robert Hill (died 1426) of Shilston Justice of the Common Pleas from 1408 to 1423 and Elisabeth (sometimes called 'Isabella') Wadham. By descent of the Hill, Champernowne and Gilbert families, Nicholas Wadham was a cousin of the Devonshire adventurers Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Richard Grenville. Joan’s sister, Margaret Hill, was married to Sir Hugh Luttrell (b.1456) of Dunster Castle.[8] The Hill sisters were half-sisters maternally of Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney of Barrington Court near Ilminster who, along with the Luttrells and Wadhams, was a firm supporter of Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, later, King Henry VII. Nicholas Wadham's six children with Joan Hill were: • John Wadham (died 1578), the son and heir of Merryfield and Edge, and father of Nicholas Wadham (1531–1609) co-founder with his wife Dorothy Wadham, of Wadham College, Oxford. • Laurence Wadham of Merifield, who died in 1522, and whose only child Nicholas Wadham, married to Dorothy Berkeley of Stoke Gifford, Stoke Park, Bristol died without children.[9] • Giles Wadham, Rector of Barton St David. • Andrew Wadham, "one of the Gentlemen Ushers of the Queen's grace" to Queen Catherine Parr;[10] perhaps, at the behest of her friend and lady-in-waiting, and his kinswoman, Joan Champernowne. He was taken into the household of Sir Thomas Cromwell as a young man. Married to Anne, daughter of Laurence Saunders he died, without children, in 1550, at their home Delapré Abbey. • Mary Wadham, who married Sir Richard Chudleigh of the Manor of Ashton.[11] • Elizabeth Wadham, was married twice: To Sir Edward Bampfield (died 1528) of Poltimore, Devon.[12] Their son Richard Bampfield (1526–1594), Sheriff of Devon in 1576, began construction in 1550 of the Tudor period Poltimore House and, in 1590, Bampfylde House, Exeter; along with The Great House, Bristol one of the finest town houses in the West Country in the Elizabethan era. She was also married to John Warre of Chipleigh (Chipley Park, Somerset), second son of Sir Richard Warre of Hestercombe. Margaret Seymour, Lady Wadham (died 1520), second wife to Sir Nicholas Wadham and also his distant cousin, was a sister of Sir John Seymour (1474–1536) of Wulfhall, married to Margery Wentworth, parents to Queen Jane Seymour and Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset; and thus grandparents to King Edward VI (1547–1553). Margaret Seymour died in 1520, whilst she and Sir Nicholas were still resident at Carisbrooke Castle where he was governor, and there is a fine monument to her memory in St. Mary's Church, Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight. They had three children: • Nicholas Wadham, who died as a baby, in 1508. His monumental chrysom brass is in St Peter's Church, Ilton Somerset, where he lies buried beneath the arms of Wadham... and angel wings of Seymour. • Katherine Wadham, and • Jane Wadham, first cousins to Queen Jane Seymour and Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset. Both Wadham women became reluctant nuns at Romsey Abbey;[13] both appear to have married after the dissolution of the abbey in 1539. Thirdly, Sir Nicholas married Isabel Baynham, daughter of Thomas Baynham of Clearwell, Gloucestershire, widow of Sir Giles Brydges (died 1511) of Coberley, Gloucestershire. He married lastly, Joan Lyte (died 1557), a daughter of Richard Lyte of Lytes Cary Somerset, now maintained by the National Trust (NT), the widow of William Walton of Barton St David. There is a monumental brass to Dame Joan Wadham in St Peter's Church, Ilton. There were apparently no children by his third and fourth marriages[14] although his will, written in 1539, leaves "to my son Nicholas, my third best horse" and a hundred pounds.[15] Given that his son Nicholas by Margaret Seymour died as a baby and was buried at Ilton in 1508, this remains something of a mystery. Wikitree: Sir Nicholas Wadham, Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset, Devonshire, & Wiltshire, son of Sir John Wadham and his wife, Elizabeth Stukeley, married Jane Hill, daughter of Robert Hill and his wife, Alice Stourton[1] in about 1497.[2] Nicholas succeeded his father on 20 April 1502 and was knighted on 18 February 1504 [3]dubbed at the creation of Prince Henry as Prince of Wales.[4] He was appointed Governor of the Isle of Wight in 1509. [5] He was with the King at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 the year that he relinquished the governorship. Nicholas died on 5 March 1542. [6] LADY JANE OF HOUNDSTONE SOMERSET HILL was born about 1470 of Somerset, England, to Sir Robert Hale (1421-1493) and ALie Stourton (1432-1490.) She married Nicholas Wadham about 1465 of Somerset, England. Jane Hill passed away aout 1557 of Merefield, Somerset, England, age 87. Wikitree: Date: ABT 1470 Place: Houndstone, England Father Robert Hill, Esq. d. 8 Sep 1493 Mother Alice Stourton b. c 1432 Jane Hill was born circa 1475 at of Houdston in Odcombe, Somersetshire, England. She married Sir Nicholas Wadham, Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset, Devonshire, & Wiltshire, son of Sir John Wadham and Elizabeth Stukeley, circa 1497.[1] Family • Sir Nicholas Wadham, Sheriff of Somerset, Dorset, Devonshire, & Wiltshire b. c 1475 Child • Mary Wadham b. c 1500 ________________________________________ Will "MANORS OF STOURTON AND WESTBL'RY, CO. WILTS. 4g Hlizaheth, pro\cd [iS Drur\] 19th Marcli, 1590-1, he loa\es /,"io to his cousin, Cicely Fauntleroy, widow ; and we find WilHam, seventh Lord Stourton, son of Edward, sixth Lord Stourton and father of the above William Stourton, of Fauntleroy's Marsh, being an overseer, and Roger Fauntleroy, an executor, to the will dated 25th November, 1539, proved [15 Spert] 30th January, 1542, of Sir Nicholas Wadham, of Merryfield, Co. Somerset, knight, who married Jane, daughter of Robert Hill, of Houndston, Somerset, by Alice, daughter of John or Jenkyn Stourton, o( Preston, uncle to Sir John, first Lord Stourton, who had married Margery, daughter of Sir John Wadham, of Merryfield, knight. The will of Dame Jane Wadham, widow of Sir Nicholas Wadham, was dated 22nd July, 1557, and proved [29 Wrastley] 31st August, 1557. " [2] History of the noble house of Stourton, of Stourton, in the county of Wilts 1899 Will Lord Stourton was an overseer and Roger Fauntleroy was an executor of the will dated 25th November, 1539, proved (15 Spert) on the 30th January, 1542, of Sir Nicholas Wadham, of Merryfield, Somerset, Knight, who had married Jane, (whose will was dated 22nd July, and proved [29 Wrastley] 31st August, 1557), daughter of Robert Hill, of Houndston, Somerset, by Alice his wife, daughter of John Stourton, of Preston and Brimpton, uncle of the first Lord Stourton. [3] Children of Nicholas Wadham and Lady Jane Hill: 1. *MARY WADHAM (1470-1535) 2. Sir John Wadham (1480-1557) 3. Sir Knight Nicholas Wadham (1484-1521) 4. Lawrence Wadham (1489-1512) 5. Andrew Waldham (1493-1577) 6. Elisabethe Wadhams (1501-1528) 7. John of Merifield Edge wsadham (1515-1577) 8. Knight John Wadham (deceased) 9. William Wadham (deceased) + 4.a.2. SIR WILLIAM HODY KNIGHT (1441-1524) \\ LADY ELEANOR MALLET (1425-1510) \\ SIR WILLIAM HODY KNIGHT was born about 1441 of Stawell, Moorlinch, Somerset, England, to Sir John Hody (1383-1441) and Elizabeth Le Jewe (1399-1473.) He married Lady Eleanor Mallet about 1444 of Dorset, England. William Hody died 18 June 1524, Pilleston, Devonshire, England, age 83. A Lord Chief Baron William Hody From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arms of Hody of Pilsdon: Argent, a fess per fess indented vert and sable between two cotises counterchanged of the fess a bordure engrailed (or?), as seen on the monumental brass in Haccombe Church, Devon, of his granddaughter Mary Hody (d.1589), wife of Thomas Carew (d.1586) of Haccombe[1] Sir William Hody (born before 1441, died 1524) of Pilsdon in Dorset,[2] was an English lawyer, judge and politician who served as Attorney General of England and Chief Baron of the Exchequer under King Henry VII.[3] Origins[edit] He was born before 1441,[4] the second son of Sir John Hody (d.1441), Chief Justice of the King's Bench. His sister, Elisabeth Hody, married Sir Robert Strode of Parnham House, Dorset which they re-built from 1522. Career[edit] He was a Member of Parliament for Totnes in 1472, and for Bridgwater in 1483.[3] His name is first mentioned in the year-books in 1476. He procured a reversal of the attainder of his uncle, Sir Alexander Hody of Bowre, Somerset, who had been attainted at Edward IV's accession for adherence to the House of Lancaster during the wars of the Roses.[4] In 1485, shortly after the accession of King Henry VII, Hody became Attorney General for England and Wales. On 29 October 1486 he was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He retired as a judge in 1522.[4] Marriage & progeny[edit] William Hody married Eleanor Malet, a daughter of Sir Baldwin Malet of 'Corypool' (now Curry Mallet) in Somerset, Solicitor General to King Henry VIII, who was the second son of Thomas Malet (died 1502) by his wife Joan Wadham, a daughter of Sir William Wadham. By his wife he had two sons and two daughters: • Reignold Hody,[2] eldest son; • William Hody of Pilsdon, 2nd son,[5] who married twice: firstly to Margery Keyne, daughter and heiress of Anthony Keyne of Kent, by whom he had three sons: Richard, John and William;[2] secondly he married Anne Strode, a daughter of John Strode of Chalmington in Dorset by whom he had a daughter Mary Hody (d.19 November 1588), wife of Sir Thomas Carew (1518-1586) of Haccombe in Devon.[2] The separate monumental brasses of Mary Hody and her husband survive in Haccombe Church. Mary's brass shows the arms of Carew impaling Hody and is inscribed in Latin as follows: Hic jacet Maria Carew uxor Thomae Carew de Haccombe, Arm(igeri) & filia Will(elmi) Huddye de com(itatu) Dorset, Arm(igeri), quae obiit 19 die Nov(embris) A(nno) D(omini) 1588[6] ("Here lies Mary Carew, wife of Thomas Carew of Haccombe, Esquire, and a daughter of William Huddye from the county of Dorset, who died on the 19th day of November in the year of our Lord 1588"). • Joan Hody, wife of Sir Richard Warre (died 1601) of Hestercombe; • Eme Hody,[2] wife of Lawrence Wadham, a son of Sir William Wadham of Merryfield, Ilton in Somerset and of Edge, Branscombe in Devon.[4] Death[edit] Hody died on 18 June 1524.[3] WIkitree: "Sir William Hody, Knight, of Pillesdon, Dorset. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. According to the 1565 Visitation of Dorset, he married Eleanor, daughter of Baldwin Mallet, esquire, of Corypool, Somerset, and by her was the father of Reginald Hody, William Hody, Joan Hody, and Emma Hody (wife of Lawrence Wadham, esquire, of Meryfield, Somerset."[1] "William Hody married Eleanor Malet, a daughter of Sir Baldwin Malet of 'Corypool' (now Curry Mallet) in Somerset, Solicitor General to King Henry VIII, who was the second son of Thomas Malet (died 1502) by his wife Joan Wadham, a daughter of Sir William Wadham. By his wife he had two sons and two daughters:" Sir William Hody, younger son of Sir John, was the same who presented the...petition to the King in Parliament for restoration of the estates of his uncle Sir Alexander. He was a native of Devon as well as his father, and is celebrated by Prince, in his Worthies of Devon...Attorney General 1485, Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer 1486. An inquistion post mortem 2 Sep 16H8, 1524 found Sir William Hody, knt. long before his death was seised in fee of the manor of Kington Parva, one messuage and 10 acres of land in Stour Estover, a fardell of land in Stour Westover, a messuage and 20 acres of land in Gyllyngham, together with a certain rent issuing out of the manor of Kyngton Magna; three burgages in Lyme Regis, and certain land in Colway and Whytecherch...by his will of 6 Jun 1519 he directed trustees to convey the same to William Hody, esq., his son...He settled the manor of Pyllesdon, 100 acres of land, meadow and pasture called Atram, in the parish of Netherbury, one messuage and 18 acres of land at Stodley in Marshwood, 40 acres of land called Gravellshay in Whitchurch, on himself and Ann his wife, and the heirs male of their bodies, remainder to William Hody his son, in tail. He died 18 Jun 1521, and Thomasine, wife of Michael Lytelcote, 24[1?] years old and more, and Elizabeth, wife of Robert Strode, aged 22 and more, daughters of Reginald Hody, son of the said Sir William Hody, were his coheirs... • Birth 1441 Death: 1524 Described as Sir William Hody, Knight, of Pillesdon, Dorset. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. According to the 1565 Visitation of Dorset, he married Eleanor, daughter of Baldwin Mallet, esquire, of Corypool, Somerset, and by her was the father of Reginald Hody, William Hody, Joan Hody, and Emma Hody (wife of Lawrence Wadham, esquire, of Meryfield, Somerset. Family links: Parents: John Hody (____ - 1441) Elizabeth Jewe Cappes (____ - 1473) Spouse: Anne Darcy Hody (____ - 1501)* Children: Joan Hody Sydenham* Sibling: Margaret Hody Baynham* William Hody (1441 - 1524) *Calculated relationship Burial: St Mary Churchyard Pilsdon West Dorset District Dorset, England Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 27 Hody, William by John Andrew Hamilton HODY, Sir William (1441?-1522?), chief baron of the exchequer, second son of Sir John Hody [q.v.], chief justice of the king's bench, was born about 1441. Perhaps he is the William Hody who represented Totnes in the parliament of 1472 (Members of Parl. Official Returns, i. 360). His name is the first mentioned in the year-books in 1476. He was in parliament in 1483, and procured a reversal of the attainder of his uncle, Sir Alexander Hody of Bowre, Somerset, who had been attainted at Edward IV's accession for adherence to the house of Lancaster. In 1485, shortly after the accession of Henry VII, he became attorney-general, and was made a serjeant-at-law at the end of the year. On 29 Oct. 1486 he was appointed chief baron of the exchequer, was still a judge in 1516 (Cal. State Papers, 1515-18, p. 876), and probably died in 1522, when John Fitzjames became chief baron. He married Eleanor, daughter of Baldwyn Mallett of Corypool, Somersetshire, by whom he had two sons, Reginald and John, and two daughters, Joan, who married Richard Warr, and Jane, who married Lawrence Wadham. Sir William Hody (1424-1524), Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Sir William was an English lawyer, judge and politician who served as Attorney General of England and Chief Baron of the Exchequer under King Henry VII. He was born before 1441, the second son of Sir John Hody (d. 1441), Chief Justice of the King's Bench. His sister, Elisabeth Hody, married Sir Robert Strode of Parnham House, Dorset which they re-built from 1522. He was a Member of Parliament for Totnes in 1472, and for Bridgwater in 1483. His name is first mentioned in the year-books in 1476. He procured a reversal of the attainder of his uncle, Sir Alexander Hody of Bowre, Somerset, who had been attainted at Edward IV's accession for adherence to the House of Lancaster during the wars of the Roses. In 1485, shortly after the accession of King Henry VII, Hody became Attorney General for England and Wales. On 29 Oct 1486 he was appointed Chief Baron of the Exchequer. He retired as a judge in 1522. William Hody married Eleanor Malet, a daughter of Sir Baldwin Malet of 'Corypool' (now Curry Mallet) in Somerset, Solicitor General to King Henry VIII, who was the second son of Thomas Malet (d. 1502) by his wife Joan Wadham, a daughter of Sir William Wadham. By his wife he had two sons and three daughters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hody [example] LADY ELEANOR MALLET was born about 1425 of Enmore Castle, Somerset, England, to Baldwin Malet Lord of Enmore (1349-1416) and Elizabeth Trivet (1327-1373.) She married William Hody about 1444 of Dorset, England. Eleanor Mallet passed away about 1510 of Somerset, England, age 85. William Hody reputedly married Eleanor Malet, a daughter of Sir Baldwin Malet of 'Corypool' (now Curry Mallet) in Somerset, Solicitor General to King Henry VIII, who was the second son of Thomas Malet (d. 1502) by his wife Joan Wadham, a daughter of Sir William Wadham. However, this is chronologically impossible. This particular Sir Baldwin Malet, was born circa 1473, almost 50 years as Eleanor is thought to have been born, and died circa 1533. Enmore Castle, Somerset, England Lady Eleanor (Mallet) Hody of Pillesdan's Timeline 1424 1424 Birth of Eleanor Stawell, Moorlinch, Somerset, England 1448 1448 Age 24 Birth of Sir John Hody, Kt. Clovelly, Devon, England 1460 1460 Age 36 Birth of William Hody Bridport, Dorset, England, United Kingdom 1474 1474 Age 50 Birth of Agnes Cary Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 1481 1481 Age 57 Birth of Joan Chudleigh Probably Devon, England 1490 1490 Age 66 Birth of William Huddy Bridport, Dorset, UK 1490 Age 66 Birth of Elizabeth (Hody) Sydenham ???? Birth of Reginold Huddy ???? Birth of Joan Warre Worcestershire England Wikitree: She married "Sir William Hody, Knight, of Pillesdon, Dorset. Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. According to the 1565 Visitation of Dorset, he (William) married Eleanor, daughter of Baldwin Mallet, esquire, of Corypool, Somerset, and by her was the father of Reginald Hody, William Hody, Joan Hody, and Emma Hody (wife of Lawrence Wadham, esquire, of Meryfield, Somerset." Children of William Hody and Eleanor Mallet: 1. Elizabeth or Catherine Hody (1430-) 2. *JOAN HODY (1447-) 3. Sir John Hody (1448-1510) 4. Joan Hody (1460-1509) 5. Reginald Hody (1465-) 6. Sir William Hody (1470-1524) 7. Lady Agnes Baroness Cary (1474-1525) 8. Elizabeth Hody (1490-1555) + 4.a.2. JOHN HODY (1396-1441) \\ Unknown \\ JOHN HODY was born about 1395 of Pillesdon, Dorset, England, to Thomas Hody (1358-1442) and Unknown. He married Unknown. John Hody died about 1441 of Pillesdon, Dorset, England, age 46. John Hody From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arms of Hody (alias Huddy, Huddie, etc) of Stowell, Somerset: Argent, a fess per fess indented vert and sable between two cotises counterchanged of the fess[1] Sir John Hody (died 1441)[2] of Stowell in Somerset and of Pilsdon in Dorset, was Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. Origins[edit] He was the son of Thomas Hody[3] (d. 1442),[4] lord of the manor of Kington Magna in Dorset, Escheator of Dorset in 1419/20. John's mother was Margaret Cole, daughter and heiress of John Cole of Nitheway in the parish of Brixham[5] in Devon,[6] which thus became the birthplace of his children. John's elder brother was Alexander Hody (died 16 May 1461),[7] a strong supporter of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses who was attainted in the first year of the reign of King Edward IV for his adherence to the deposed King Henry VI. Hody was descended from a family of considerable antiquity, though of no great note, in Devon. Jordan de Hode held lands in Hode in the thirteenth century; Richard de Hody was the king's escheator of that county in 1353/54 and 1357/58, and the same office was filled by William Hody in 1400/01. Career[edit] He was educated as a lawyer and is frequently mentioned in the Year Books from 1424/25. Although there is no record of his summons to take the degree of the coif, there is very little doubt that he was by 1435/36 a serjeant-at-law, as his name appears on the list of those called upon to contribute towards the equipment of the army against France in 1435/36. Certainly, he had attained that rank before July 1439. He was elected a Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury in 1421 and again in 1422, 1423, 1425 and 1427. In 1431 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for the prestigious county seat Dorset and in 1433, 1435 and 1437 for the county seat of Somerset. Clearly he was held in high esteem by the House of Commons which during his last tenure selected him to notify the House of Lords of the election of a new Speaker of the House of Commons in the place of John Tyrell, who was incapacitated by infirmity. On the death of Sir John Juyn in 1440 he was appointed Chief Justice of the King's Bench, by patent dated 13 April 1440, which office he held for almost two years, his successor, Sir John Fortescue, being appointed on 25 January 1442. His judicial career was probably terminated by his death, as his will is dated 17 December 1441, although the date of its probate is not recorded. Judicial reputation[edit] Notwithstanding the short period during which he presided in the court, he is stated by Prince (d. 1723)[8] to have won golden opinions by his integrity and firmness in the administration of justice. Sir Edward Coke mentions him amongst the "famous and expert sages of the law" from the decisions of whom Lyttelton had "great furtherance in composing his Institutes of the Laws of England." Marriage & progeny[edit] He married Elizabeth Jewe (d. 1473), daughter and heiress of John Jewel (d. 1415/16)[9] of Whitfield[10] in the parish of Wivelscombe in Somerset,[11] by his wife Alice de Pillesden, daughter and heiress of John de Pillesden, of Pilsdon in Somerset. Elizabeth survived her husband and remarried to Robert Capps, Sheriff of Somerset and Sheriff of Dorset in 1445/46. By his wife he had progeny five sons and several daughters, including: • John Hody, eldest son and heir, seated at Stowell and Nitheway, where his posterity remained for many generations. • William Hody (pre-1441 – died 1524), 2nd son, Attorney General of England and Chief Baron of the Exchequer under King Henry VII. He founded his own branch of the Hody family seated at Pilsdon until the 18th century. • Joan Hody, wife of Sir Nicholas Latimer (d. 1505) of Duntish in the parish of Buckland Newton, Dorset, son and heir of John Latimer and heir male of the body of William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer (1330–1381). Without male progeny.[12] A heraldic shield representing this marriage survives in Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, showing the arms of Latimer impaling Hody (Argent, a fess per fess indented or and sable between two double copies of the last).[13] Landholdings[edit] His early success as an apprentice-at-law brought him the means with which to purchase two parts of the manor of Wydecombe in the 1420s[14] and the whole of the manor of Stowell in Somerset, purchased in 1427 from Reynold Molyns, son of Reynold Molyns (d. 1385).[15] In 1435 he purchased the manor of Wootton Glanville and in 1439 Long Critchell in Dorset.[16] He was seated at his own estate at Stowell and after his marriage also at Pilsdon in Dorset, which came to him, together with the manor of Whitfield in the parish of Wiveliscombe, in Somerset, and other property in both counties, by his marriage to the heiress Elizabeth Jewe.[17] Death & burial[edit] He died before New Year's Day in 1441/42.[18] His will dated 17 December 1441, by which it appears that his father survived him, directs his body to be buried in the Church of St Mary, Woolavington, in Somerset, near the body of "Magister Johannes Hody", his uncle. By a large amount of silver plate and other articles which he gave in legacies, some idea may be formed of the domestic economy of a Chief Justice of England at this period. He made a bequest to the chantry priests of Woolavington Church "for the love that he had to hit for their he began his first learning".[19] In about 1880 during restoration work, a square stone was discovered on the floor of the church beneath the tower, on which is sculpted the monogram "JH".[20] This is believed to be connected to Hody's former monument as the vault in which he and his uncle are believed to have been buried lies under the tower and west end of the church.[21] Child of Mr. and Mrs. John Hody: 1. *WILLIAM HODY (1434-1524) + 4.a.3. BARON JOHN STOURTON (1400-1462) \\ LADY MARGERY WADHAM (1403-1473) \\ JOHN STOURTON FIRST BARON OF STOURTON JUSTICE OF THE PEACE< SHERIFF was born 19 May 1400, Witham Friary, Somerset, England, to Sir William Stourton (1375-1413) and Elizabeth de Moyne (1377-1404.) He married Margery Wadham about 1420 of Warwickshire, England. John Stourton died 25 November 1462, Stavordale Abbey, Somerset, England, age 62. He was buried at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England. Wikitree: He was born 19 May 1400 and was baptized in the font of the church of St. Peter and St. Paul at Stourton. [1] "JOHN STOURTON, son and heir, born about 1399; M.P. for Wilts, 18 November 1421, for Dorset, 11 October 1423, and for Wilts again, 3 April 1425; was granted £26-12-4 for his expenses in capturing some adherents of the Lollard, Sir John Oldcastle, 10 July 1422; Sheriff of Wilts, 12 December 1426-7 November 1427; of Somerset and Dorset, 4 November 1428; of Gloucester, and the adjacent March of Wales, 5 November 1432; of Wilts again, 5 November 1433 and 7 November 1437; of Gloucester again, 9 December 1439; knighted before 5 November 1432; Commissioner for various purposes 1435/6 to 1443; asked to contribute a loan of £40 to enable the King to send an army to France, 14 February 1436; P.C. October, reappointed 12 November 1437; had the custody of the Duke of Orleans at Stourton, 9 July 1438-8 May 1439; he and others had a licence to grant to Margaret, widow of John (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset, 6 manors in Somerset, held in chief, which had been acquired of them in tail male by her and her husband without Royal licence, 19 July 1445; Treasurer of the Household before 18 November 1446. He was granted the castle of Old Sarum and the office of Surveyor of all the King's parks, forests, &c. in Wilts, 17 March 1446/7. He was created, 13 May 1448, BARON STOURTON, of Stourton, co. Wilts, with limitation to the heirs male of his body; and was summoned to Parliament from 2 January 1449 to 24 May 1461. Joint Guardian of Calais for 5 years, 2 April 1450; Commissioner to treat with the Ambassadors of the Duchess of Burgundy re infractions of the truce, 12 January 1450/1, and in other commissions, 1452-62; signed the Ordinances for the regulation of the King's Household, 13 November 1454; was granted the farm of the King's castle of Mere, Wilts, and the custody of the King's park there, 17 May 1461; Commissioner to urge the King's subjects to resist the French, cos. Southampton, Wilts, &c., 28 May, and to supply ships, well equipped with men, &c., for half a year for defence against the French, 23 July 1461. "He married Margery (unmarried and a minor in 1411), daughter of Sir John WADHAM (died 1411), of Merrifield, Somerset, a Puisne Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, 1388-97, by his 2nd wife, Joan, daughter of (----) WROTTESLEY. He died 25 November 1462". [Complete Peerage XII/1:301-2, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)] See additional information about John here John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Arms of Stourton: Sable, a bend or between six fountains John Stourton, 1st Baron Stourton (19 May 1400 – 25 November 1462) of Stourton, Wiltshire, was an English soldier and politician, elevated to the peerage in 1448. Origins[edit] He was born 19 May 1400 at Witham Friary, Somerset, the son of Sir William de Stourton (abt. 1373 – 18 September 1413), Speaker of the House of Commons, by his wife Elizabeth Moigne, daughter and co-heiress of Sir John Moigne of Ower Moigne, Dorset.[1] Career[edit] Stourton served as High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1426, 1433 and 1437, Somerset and Dorset in 1428 and of Gloucestershire in 1439. He was returned to Parliament as knight of the shire for Wiltshire in Dec 1421, 1425 and 1432 and for Dorset in 1423. He was knighted c. 1430. He was also Treasurer of the Household from 1445 to 1453 and fought for five years in the wars in France and Normandy, acting as Lieutenant of Calais from 1450 to 1451. In 1448 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stourton, of Stourton in the County of Wiltshire. Marriage and children[edit] Stourton married Margery Wadham, a daughter of Sir John Wadham (c. 1344 – 1412) of Edge, Branscombe, Devon,[2] of Merryfield, Ilton, Somerset, and of Wadham, Knowstone near South Molton, Devon. Sir John Wadham was MP for Exeter in 1399 and for Devon, as a knight of the shire with Sir Philip Courtenay, in 1401. He was a Justice of the Common Pleas from 1389 to 1398, and ancestor to Nicholas Wadham co-founder of Wadham College, Oxford. Sir John and Margery Stourton had children as follows: • William Stourton, 2nd Baron Stourton (1432 – c. 1477), married Margaret Chidiock (bef. 1428 – 12 March 1502/03), daughter of Sir John Chidiock and Catherine Lumley. • Margaret Stourton (b. 1433), married Sir George Darell of Littlecote, Wiltshire. Their daughter, Elizabeth would marry Sir John Seymour, Warden of Savernake Forest, grandfather of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Elizabeth Seymour, Marchioness of Winchester, and Sir John Seymour, and Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI of England. • Sir Reginald Stourton of Stourton (b. 1434), High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1455–1456 and 1462–1463. • Nicholas Stourton • John Stourton • Joan Stourton (b. 1446), married Richard De La Warr. Death and succession[edit] He died in November 1462 and was succeeded in the barony by his son William. He was outlived by his wife.[3] [example] LADY MARGERY WADHAM (BARONESS/DAME) was born about 1403 of Merrifield, Somerset, England, to John Wadham (1377-142) and Joan Merefeld De Wrottesley (1381-1412.) She married John Stourton about 1420 of Warwickshire, England. Margery Wadham passed away 20 March 1473, Henstridge, Somerset, England, age 70. 15th century In about 1431 Stourton married Margery Wadham, a daughter of Sir John Wadham (d.1412), Justice of the Common Pleas, of Edge, Branscombe in Devon, by whom he had progeny as follows: • William Stourton, 2nd Baron Stourton (1432-abt 1477), married Margaret Chidiock (Bef 1428-12 Mar 1502/03), daughter of Sir John Chidiock and Catherine Lumley. • Margaret Stourton (b. 1433), married Sir George Darell. Their daughter, Elizabeth would marry Sir John Seymour, Warden of Savernake Forest, grandfather of Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, Elizabeth Seymour, Marchioness of Winchester, and Sir John Seymour, and grandfather of Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII and mother of Edward VI of England. • Sir Reginald Stourton of Stourton (b. 1434), High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1455-1456 and 1462-1463. • Nicholas Stourton • John Stourton • Joan Stourton (b. 1446), married Richard De La Warr. Area, England - Ilminster, Somerset - church Witham Friary Biography During John’s minority the wardship of his estates was placed in the hands of his father’s executors: Sir William Hankford, c.j.KB, and his uncle, John Stourton I* of Preston Plucknett. It was no doubt these two who arranged his marriage to a daughter of Hankford’s former colleague on the judiciary, Sir John Wadham. John proved his age on 1 July 1421 and duly obtained seisin of his patrimony in Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset and Essex. He had already served on his first royal commission, and was to enter the House of Commons for the first time only five months later. His uncle, sitting at the same time for Somerset, no doubt familiarized him with parliamentary procedure.2 That Stourton was elected to Parliament so young may be attributed to the size of his inheritance, which in 1412 had been estimated to be worth £200 a year. To these estates were added, in 1429, the bulk of the substantial landed holdings of his maternal grandfather Sir John Moigne; and in 1436 he admitted to receiving an annual income of £600 from land and annuities. By the time of his death he was in possession of over 20 manors in 11 counties, as well as property in London, and Fulham Hall in Middlesex.3 During the early years of his career, John was frequently associated with his uncle, in particular with regard to leases issued at the Exchequer, and when John senior made his will in 1438 he received from him a psalter which had once belonged to his father, as well as vestments and ornaments for his chapel. It was in accordance with his uncle’s instructions that he subsequently conveyed the manor of Thorn Coffin to Stavordale priory. Other close associates in his youth included his brother-in-law, William Carent* of Toomer, and John Hody*, the future chief justice. The record of his royal commissions and shrievalties over the 20 years after he attained his majority is some indication of his growing influence in the localities, and in 1434 his name appeared second only to the sons of Sir Walter (now Lord) Hungerford*, on the list of those gentry of Wiltshire required to take the oath to keep the laws against maintenance. Stourton attended the Wiltshire elections to the Parliaments of 1422, 1426, 1433, 1435, 1442 and 1447, in the meantime representing that county in two more Parliaments and Dorset in one.4 Stourton soon came to the attention of the royal council of regency, which in June 1428 granted him a licence to turn 1,000 acres of land into a park at his seat in Wiltshire. His subsequent preferment may have owed something to the then treasurer of England, Lord Hungerford, on whose behalf he was to be involved in many business transactions as a feoffee of estates and a witness to deeds. On 18 Feb. 1430 Stourton was retained to serve in the war in France with a modest personal contingent of three men-at-arms and 12 mounted archers, and thus provided part of the large entourage which accompanied the young King across the Channel for his coronation in Paris. It may even have been in the course of the celebrations that he was knighted. He was overseas again in the summer of 1436 on the defence of Calais, this time with a much larger following of five men-at-arms and 112 archers.5 He had appeared in the minutes of the Council in February that year, as being asked to contribute £40 towards the war-effort. On 10 Apr. 1437 he was nominated to go on an embassy to treat with the French (although it seems unlikely that negotiations ever took place), and in October he was present at a great council at Sheen. Then, on 13 Nov., King Henry formally appointed him to be one of his regular councillors, with a salary of £40 a year for life. Stourton was now of sufficient standing to take over from the earl of Suffolk custody of the duke of Orleans, a prisoner of war since Agincourt, who had become an important pawn in Anglo-French diplomacy. Sir John kept charge of the duke at Stourton from 9 July 1438 until 8 May following, when, having been appointed one of the commissioners to negotiate with the French and Burgundians, he escorted his prisoner to Calais, where he continued to be responsible for him throughout the envoys’ protracted stay. After their return on 13 Oct. Orléans remained at Stourton until 10 Feb. 1440, a few months before his release.6 Stourton clearly owed much for his position at Court to the Beauforts, whose most senior member, Cardinal Beaufort, had headed the embassy to Calais. In the previous year he had held the muster of the army of the cardinal’s nephew, Edmund, earl of Dorset, before its departure for France, and ‘de sa grand naturesse et propre vouloir’ had made a loan of £20 to help finance the expedition. Sir John’s connexion with the Beauforts was strengthened by the marriage of his cousin, Margaret Beauchamp (daughter of his aunt Edith), to Dorset’s elder brother, John, duke of Somerset, and in July 1443, shortly before his death, the duke named him as one of the trustees of his estates for the execution of his will and for the performance of entails.7 During the 1440s Stourton’s political importance steadily increased. In September 1440 he was one of the nine men suggested as suitable councillors for the duke of York in the latter’s capacity as King’s lieutenant in France, and two months later he was instructed to go to Thomas Courtenay, earl of Devon, to take from him a recognizance in 2,000 marks as guarantee that he would keep the peace towards Sir William Bonville II*. He had recently obtained confirmation of a charter of Henry III, relating to rights in the New Forest, and in May following he was granted another, permitting him to make deer-leaps in his park at Stourton, to hold a yearly fair, and to have free warren in all his demesnes there. After his promotion as treasurer of the Household, he naturally became involved in the desperate measures undertaken to deal with the crisis in the royal finances. He was a member of a group of five men, including the chancellor and the treasurer of the Exchequer, who, in July 1447, were granted for five years all wardships, escheats, forfeitures and fines due to the Crown, the revenues from which were to be used to meet household expenses, and in the same month he alone was granted, from the customs, £5,000 for the same purpose. Meanwhile, in March he had been awarded in tail the decayed castle of Old Sarum and the office of surveyor of the royal parks in Wiltshire, and in September his estate in the bailiwick of the bedelry of Somerset on the western side of the river Parret was formally ratified. Sir John was now moving among the highest in the land, and his status was given weight by his creation in May 1448 as Lord Stourton. In order to help him maintain this new dignity, Henry VI bestowed on him all the crown lands within Grovely forest, Wiltshire, together with other properties in Somerset and Dorset.8 Stourton often attended council meetings, but only on one occasion was his opinion recorded: at a session at Winchester in the summer of 1449 he held that before any attempt was made to relieve Guyenne it was essential to establish law and order at home in England. As treasurer of the Household he had to work in close association with the chamberlain, William de la Pole, duke of Suffolk, and outside their official duties the two men also acted together as co-feoffees of certain premises in Bristol. Even so, Stourton does not seem to have been particularly friendly with the duke, and although his name figured in some of the popular rhymes issued in criticism of the government at the time of Cade’s rebellion, he did not share the opprobrium heaped on Suffolk and his allies. For a time, by Act of Resumption passed in the Parliament of November 1449, Stourton lost the lands given to him with the barony, but his letters patent were renewed in March 1451. He had in the meantime encountered ‘great charges’ while serving in Calais and, furthermore, had made the King a gift of the manor of Brixton Deverill, so that it might form part of the endowment of King’s college, Cambridge.9 Stourton’s military service in Calais had followed after his appointment in April 1450, for a period of five years, as one of the wardens there. In fact, effective responsibility for Calais lay with him, as lieutenant of the town and captain of Rysbank, and with Ralph Lord Sudeley, as captain of the castle of Calais. Their tenure of office lasted until Edmund, duke of Somerset, took over the latter captaincy in September 1451, although Rysbank may have remained in Stourton’s keeping until 1455. At Calais in January 1451 he had been assigned to treat with the Burgundians concerning an infraction of the truce, and in August he negotiated with the same regarding sums of money due to the merchants of the Staple. His efforts in raising loans in Kent to help support the garrison won him a reward of £20 a few months later.10 Despite his connexions with the Beauforts, Stourton seems to have avoided becoming overtly partizan in the quarrels between the duke of Somerset and Richard, duke of York. In February 1452 he was among those sent by the King to Duke Richard and the earl of Devon, commanding them to desist from rebellion, and his replacement as treasurer of the Household in March 1453 did not prevent him continuing to be a councillor throughout the period of the King’s mental illness and during York’s first protectorate. In March 1454 he was a member of the delegation sent to Windsor by Parliament to ascertain whether the King might be fit for affairs of State, and in the following month he appeared among the prelates and Lords appointed to invest Henry’s son, Edward, as prince of Wales and earl of Chester. During the same Parliament, having been formally given joint responsibility for naval defence, he indented to serve in this capacity for three years (although in the event he was discharged after just one). York’s protectorate came to an end early in 1455 and Stourton was present at the Council in February when the King ordered Somerset’s release from the Tower. He was a trustee of the duke’s estates in Dorset, and a co-feoffee with him of property in Salisbury, and it may have been for this reason that he was chosen a month later to be an arbitrator in the vain attempt to settle by peaceful compromise the differences between him and York. There is no record that he took any part in the battle of St. Albans, where Somerset lost his life. In the Parliament which assembled in July following he sat on committees nominated to discuss the problems associated with the strongholds of Calais and Berwick-upon-Tweed, and along with other members of the House of Lords he took an oath of allegiance to Henry VI. In the November session he was one of the eight noblemen who negotiated with the duke of York concerning the terms of his second protectorate.11 After January 1456 Stourton attended few Council meetings, and it would appear that his connexions with such staunch Lancastrians as Leo, Lord Welles (the husband of his cousin Margaret, dowager duchess of Somerset), and Robert, Lord Hungerford, failed to persuade him to lend whole-hearted support to the party growing up around Margaret of Anjou. Similarly, his association with Humphrey, duke of Buckingham (for whom he acted, certainly from 1448 until 1458 and perhaps longer, as steward of estates in Gloucestershire, Hampshire and Wiltshire), did not lead to closer ties with Henry VI, despite the duke’s unwavering support for the monarch. Although he was summoned to great councils in 1457 and 1458 and put on some important commissions in the south-west in this period, it may be that he was beginning to entertain some sympathy for the opposing party. However, in August 1459 he contributed towards a loan of £2,000 to the King, specifically designated to pay for an embassy to the Pope, and he swore his allegiance once more in the Coventry Parliament. That he was considered loyal is clear from his appointment to raise forces to resist the invasion of the Yorkist earls in the summer of 1460. Yet, following their success, he not only served on many of their commissions, but also attended councils controlled by them. Furthermore, in a curious transaction dated that August, his name was linked with those of York, Salisbury, Warwick and March as a feoffee of land in Chicklade, Wiltshire, and in November he was associated with Archbishop Bourgchier, Viscount Bourgchier and other prominent Yorkists in making a settlement of the estates of Sir Thomas Browne†, who had been executed by their faction a few months earlier.12 After the accession of Edward IV, Stourton continued to serve as a commissioner, but there is no record that he ever sat on the new King’s Council. The comparatively few rewards that came his way suggest that he had been no more than a moderate supporter of the Yorkist cause: in May 1461 he was granted the farm of the castle and lordship of Mere and the keepership of the park there; in December he obtained assurances of fresh assignments for the payment of old crown debts for his services at Calais and in the following spring he was appointed as keeper of the Hungerford estates, his appointment being backdated to the previous Michaelmas. During Edward’s first Parliament Stourton’s experience of the administration of Calais was put to good use, following his nomination to the committee authorized to have discussions with the merchants of the Staple about the future funding of the garrison. Stourton was active on the new King’s behalf in the south and west, raising forces to resist an anticipated invasion from France, and holding important sessions of oyer and terminer. In the autumn of 1462 he journeyed north with Edward’s army, and it was probably while at Durham that he died on 25 Nov.13 In the course of his career, Stourton had established close links with several men of influence in Church and State. Besides his connexions with the Beauforts, the Hungerfords and the duke of Buckingham, he also acted as a feoffee of the estates of Ralph, Lord Cromwell, and William, earl of Arundel, and in 1453 and 1456 he had appeared as one of the parliamentary proxies of Bishop Bekynton of Bath and Wells. That he himself dispensed patronage and exerted influence goes without doubt, and his ’good lordship’ may well have been behind the grant to his chaplain, John Hert, a canon of Christchurch, of a papal dispensation to hold benefices, and the return of a servant of his, Giles Dacre, as representative for Wilton in the Parliaments of 1455 and 1460.14 The extent of his territorial holdings alone would have been sufficient to enable him to wield considerable authority in Wiltshire and Somerset, but he had also supplemented his large income from land with the perquisites of high office, the profits of overseas trade in Brittany and France, and the substantial sums made from ransoming prisoners-of-war. According to Leland, a significant part of the house at Stourton, which contained two courts (the front of the inner one being ’magnificent and high embatelid castelle lyke’) was built ‘ex spoliis Gallorum’. It is remarkable that Stourton used none of his wealth for the endowment of religious foundations.15 Lord Stourton was succeeded by his eldest son William, who by then had sat in the Commons for Dorset on at least two occasions. His wife survived him.16 Ref Volumes: 1386-1421 History of Parliament Online stourton castle Wikitree: Margery Wadham was born before 12 March 1411 (she was named in her father's will, which was made on that date[1]). Margery was the daughter of Sir John Wadham of Edge in Branscombe, Devon, and Merrifield in Ilton, Somerset, England, and his second wife, Joan[2] Wrothesley.[3] Originally from Wadham in Devon, Margery's father purchased many properties in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Gloucestershire, including the manor of Merrifield in Somerset, acquired from Cecily Turberville, which he made his chief residence towards the end of his life.[3] He died on 27 July 1412.[3] In his will, made on 12 March 1411, Sir John Wadham left a cash bequest to each of his "infants" (Margery's was £100) which he listed in this order:[1] 1. William;[1] 2. John;[1] 3. Walter,[1] entered the church;[3] 4. Margery;[1] 5. Joan;[1] 6. Elizabeth;[1] 7. Thomas;[1] From her father's marriage to Maude, his first wife, Margery also had an older half-brother, Robert, who died before 12 March 1411.[3] Margery married John Stourton of Stourton, Wiltshire, son and heir of William Stourton, after 1413 and before 1425.[2] Margery and John had four sons and two daughters:[2] 1. William; Margery's husband was created Baron Stourton of Stourton on 13 May 1448.[2] Margery survived her husband, Sir John, Lord Stourton, who died on 25 November 1462, and their oldest son, William, succeeded him.[2] Geni.com: About Margery Stourton • 'Margery Wadham1,2 • F • Father Sir John Wadham, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas1 d. 1411 • Mother Joan Wrottesley1 • ' Margery Wadham married Sir John Stourton, 1st Lord Stourton, Sheriff of Wiltshire & Gloucestershire, son of Sir William Stourton and Elizabeth Moyne, in 1411.1,2 • 'Family Sir John Stourton, 1st Lord Stourton, Sheriff of Wiltshire & Gloucestershire b. c 1399, d. 25 Nov 1462 • Children • ◦Sir William Stourton, 2nd Lord Stourton+3,2 b. c 1430, d. 18 Feb 1478 • ◦Margaret Stourton+4 b. c 1432 Children of John Strouton and Margery Wadham: 1. Avice Amy Stourton (1420-1476) 2. Johanna Joan Stourton (1424-1473) 3. Baron William Stourton (1426-1478) 4. Lady Margaret Stourton (1432-1465) 6. *MARGARET STOURTON (1433-1474) 7. Nicholas Stourton (1434-) 8. Reginald Stourton High Sheriff (1434-) 9. John Stourton (1442-) 10. Reginald Stourton (1442-) 11. Reginald Stourton (1452-) 12. Edward Stourton (1453-) 13. Joan Stourton (1503-1540) + 4.a.1.a. SIR ROBERT III LORD OF HOUNDSTONE HALE (1421-1493) \\ 4.a.1.a.1. ALICE STOURTON (1432-1490) SIR ROBERT III LORD OF HOUNDSTONE HALE was born in April 1421, Houndstone, Somerset, England, to Thomas De Carminow (1396-1442) and Lady Joan Hill (1402-1512.) He married Alice Stourton 14 April ?, Derby Christchurch, Derbyshire, England. Robert Hale died 8 September 1493, Dunster Church, Somerset, England, age 72. ALICE STOURTON was born about 1432 of Peston Plucknet, Somersetshire, England, to Sir John Strourton (1402-1462) and Margaretha Wadham (1412-1473.) She married Sir Robert III Lord of Houndston Hale 14 April? Derby, Christ Church, Derbyshire, England. Alice Stourton passed away 2 August 1490, Preston, Somerset, England, age 58. Wikitree: ather Sir John (Jenkyn) Stourton[1] d. 16 Dec 1438 Mother Katherine Payne d. 6 Mar 1473 Alice Stourton was born circa 1432 at of Preston Plunknett, Somersetshire, England; Age 7 in Oct 1439.[2]A writ was issued on 13 March 1439 for her father's Inquisition Post Mortem at Yeovil. It found that he held no lands or tenements of the king in chief, or any other, in demesne or service. His three daughters, Cecily wife of Sir Thomas Curiell aged 34 years or more, Joan, wife of John Sydenham Esq aged 21 or more and Alice aged 7 or more were his heirs.[3] She married William Daubeney, Sheriff of Cornwall, son of Sir Giles Daubeney, Sheriff of Somersetshire, Dorsetshire, Bedfordshire, & Buckinghamshire and Joan Darcy, circa 1447.[4] Alice Stourton married Robert Hill, Esq., son of Raulfe (Ralph) Hill, after 2 January 1461; They had 1 son (Giles of Honiton) & 2 daughter (Margaret, wife of Sir Hugh Luttrell; & Jane, wife of Sir Nicholas Wadham).[5] Family 1 • William Daubeney, Sheriff of Cornwall b. 11 Jun 1424, d. 2 Jan 1461 Children • Eleanor • Sir Giles • Ellen Family 2 • Robert Hill, Esq. d. 8 Sep 1493 Children • Giles • Margaret • Jane Children of Robert Hale and Alice Stourton: 1. Sir Richard Hill (1442-1556) 2. Joan Hill (1444-1493) 3. John Hill (1447-) 4. Humhrey Hill (1448-1491) 5. Giles Hill (1450-1535) 6. Giles Daubigny Haile (1451-1507) 7. Robert Hill (1452-1564) 8. Jane Hill (1452-) 9. Jane Stourton (1452-) 10. Richard of Devon Hill (1452-) 11. James Daubeney Hill (1453-1564) 12. Lady Margaret Hill (1467-1508) 13. *LADY JANE HILL OF HOUNDSTONE (1470-1557) + 4.a.1.a.1. SIR JOHN STROURTON I PRESTON (1402-1462) \\ MARGARETHA WADHAM (1412-1473) \\ SIR JOHN STROURTON I PRESTON was born 14 May 1402, Preston Plucknet, Somerset, England, to Unknown and Katherine De Beaumont (1354-1435.) He married Margaretha Wadham 18 May? Chideock, Dorset, England. John Strourton died 25 Noavember 1462, Stourhead Estate, Stourton, Wiltshire, England, age 60. MARGARETHA WADHAM was born about 1412 of Collingbourne Kingston, Wiltshire, England, to unknown parents. She married (1) *Sir John Strourton 18 May ? Chideock, Dorset, England; (2) Robert Collingourne 1433 of Collingourne Wiltshire, England.. Margaretha Wadham passed away 20 March 1473, Henstridge, Somerset, England, age 61. Children of John Strourton and Margaretha Wadham: 1. Lady Avice Amy Stourton (1420-1435 or 1476) 2. *ALICE STOURTON (1432-1490) + 5. SIR JAMES RICHARD COFFYN COFFIN KNIGHT (1514-1566) 5.a. ANN MARY COLE (1516-1579) SIR JAMES RICHARD COFFYN COFFIN KNIGHT was born about 1514, of Portledge (Alwington), Devonshire, England to Richard Coffyn (1496-1555) and Ann Wilmot Chudleigh (1488-1569.) He married Mary Cole in about 1534 of Portledge (Alwington), Devonshire, England. James Richard Coffyn died 15 December 1566, Monkleigh, Devon, England. He was buried 17 Dec, 1566. He was about 52 years old. Wikitree: James was the third son named in his father's will. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Ede on 5 Feb 1559/60 at Ashton. [1] He died in 1566 and was buried at Monkleigh on 15 Dec 1566.[2] He left a wife and children who are mentioned in his will. [1] SIR JAMES COFFIN, KNIGHT--1514-1566-HOME-Portledge Manor-Devonshire-England 1566 James Coffyn esq Lord of the Manor Born c1540 in Alwington, son of Richard Coffyn and Wilmot Chudleigh of Ashton He married firstly Mary Cole of Knowston by whom he had 1. Peter Tristram b1555 in Alwington, He married secondly Elizabeth Ede by whom he had, 1. Mary b1560 in Marsh near Honiton 2. Elizabeth 'the Older' b1563 in Marsh 3. Wilmot b1563 in Marsh 4. Elizabeth 'the Younger' b1565 About Sir James Coffyn, Knight • Sir James Coffyn • Birth: unknown • Death: 1566, England • 1566 James Coffyn esq Lord of the Manor • Born c1540 in Alwington, son of Richard Coffyn and Wilmot Chudleigh of Ashton • He married firstly Mary Cole of Knowston by whom he had • 1. Peter Tristram b1555 in Alwington, • He married secondly Elizabeth Ede by whom he had, ,. • 1. Mary b1560 in Marsh near Honiton • 2. Elizabeth 'the Older' b1563 in Marsh 3. Wilmot b1563 in Marsh • 4. Elizabeth 'the Younger' b1565 • Family links: • Spouse: • Anne Knyvett St Leger (1475 - 1559)* • Burial: Monkleigh Cemetery, Bideford, Torridge District, Devon, England • Find A Grave Memorial# 73381608 [type] ANN MARY COLE was born about 1516, of Knoston, Devonshire, England, to William Cole (1493-England) and Catherine de Gallegos, (1497 Spain-.) She married James Richard Coffin in about 1534. Mary Cole passed away in about 1579, in Devon England, age 63. St Peter's Church, Knowstone, North Devon, England Devonshire, England Wikitree: Source: [1] Name: Pedigree of Peter Coffin b. 1535 According to Holly TAMER (holly_tamer@yahoo.com), the source of WC DB:hollye, John COLE and Elizabeth Martin had a son named William COLE b.1493 in Devon who married Catherine de GALLEGOS b.1497 in Spain. They had a daughter named Anne Mary COLE b. 1516 in Knowstone, Devon, England. In 1534 (in Devonshire, England) Anne Mary COLE married James COFFIN b. 1514 in Bideford, Devon, England. In 1510, in Merifield, near St. Germans, in Cornwall, England, the parents of James COFFIN (Richard COFFIN b c1490 in Devonshire, England and Wilmot CHUDLEIGH b c1490) were married. James COFFIN and Anne Mary COLE had 8 children including Peter COFFIN who was born in 1535 in Devonshire, England. Anne Mary COLE is person Cole-50 in WikiTree. /Cole_AnneMary.txt On page 9, the source (book by James Edwin-COLE) mentions the 2nd son of [10] JOHN COLE of Sudbury who married Elizabeth, daughter of John MARTYN and mentions the 2nd son named William. It states: " II. William Cole of Sudbury married Catalina, or Catherine, daughter of Ferdinando de Gallegos, a Spaniard of noble extraction, and had two sons, of whom the elder, Robert, married Anna, daughter of ------- Cooke of Kersey, in Suffolk, and died s. p.; and the second, Roger, was, in 1623, of the parish of St. Saviour's, in Southwark, in the co. of Surrey, gent.; he married Anne daughter of Edward Maisters of Rotherhithe, in Surrey, by whom he had issue, 1 Roger, 2 Roger, 3 John, who all died young, Elizabeth, married to William Oland of London, Susanna married to William Locke of Merton, in Surrey, Anne and Catalina." The full name of the second last daughter, was Anne Mary COLE. NOTE that the information cited above by Holly TAMER incorrectly says that Anne Mary COLE was the daughter of William COLE and Catherine de Gallegos. James Edwin COLE indicates that Anne Mary COLE was their granddaughter. David KC Cole has a copy of the book by James Edwin-COLE. This book is available at Google Books with uneditted OCR text. David Cole has editted this OCR text version. A GEDCOM of the notable persons from this book has been uploaded to WorldConnect as database: ColesOfDevon. Elizabeth Martyn (mentioned above) and others above appear in this database and at WorldConnect. The following information about Mary was from a biography that mentioned Mary Cole and James Coffyn. This information was added when the two sources for Mary were merged in March 2018. This merge of Cole-10554 into Cole-50 was done by David KC Cole. Child of James Richard Coffin and Mary Cole: 1. *PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN SR. (1535-1602) + 5.a. WILLIAM VI COLE (1493-) 5.a.1. CATHERINE GALLEGOS (1497-) WILLIAM VI COLE was born about 1493, of Nythway, Devonshire, England, to John V Cole (1467-) and Elizabeth Martin (1473-.) He married Catherin Gallegos. William Cole died in England at unknown time. CATHERINE GALLEGOS was born about 1497 of Spain to Ferdinand de Gallegos (1473-) and Unknown (1473-.) She married William VI Cole. Catherine Gallegos passed away in England at unknown deate. Child of William Cole and Catherine Gallegos: 1. *ANN MARY COLE (1516-) + 5.a. JOHN V COLE (1467-) ELIZABETH MARTIN (1473-)\\ [example] JOHN V COLE was born about 1467 of Nythway, Devonshire, England, to William V. Cole (1441-) and Unknown. He married Elizabeth Martin John Cole died in England at unknown date. ELIZABETH MARTIN was born about 1473 of Sudbury, Suffolk, England, to unknown parents. She married John V. Cole. Elizabeth passed away in England at unknown date. Child of John Cole and Elizabeth Martin: 1. *WILLIAM VI COLE (1493-) + 5.a. WILLIAM V COLE (1441-) \\ UNKNOWN \\ WILLIAM V COLE was born about 1441 of Nythway, Devonoshire, England, to unknown parents. He married Unknown. William Cole died in England at unknown date. Devonshire, England Child of Mr. and Mrs. William Cole: 1. *JOHN V COLE (1467-) + 5.a.1. FERDINAND DE GALLEGOS (1473-) \\ UNKNOWN (1473-) \\ FERDINAND DE GALLEGOS was born about 1473 of Spain to unknown parents. He married Unknown. Ferdinand De Gallegos died at unknown place and date. Child of Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand De Gallegos: 1. *CATHERINE GALLEGOS (1497-) + 6. PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN SR. (1535-1602) 6.a. MARIA BOSCAWEN (1542-1622) PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN COFFYN was born about 1535 of Portledge, Devon, England to Richard Coffin (1496-1555) and Ann Wilmot Chudleigh (1488-1569.) Peter married Mary Boscawen about 1560 of Brixton, Devonshire England. Peter Coffyn died 16 October 1602. Tornes, Devonshire, England, age 67 Wikitree: Peter Coffyn, of St. Mawgan Parish, Hundred of Pyder, co. Cornwall, gent., whose will was dated 13 April 1605 and who was born in Pelyn(t) Parish, Hundred of West, of the same county, married Mary (Marie), daughter of Hugh Boscawen and Phillipa Carminow, in St. Michael Penkivel, Hundred of Powder, where her memorial brass may be seen in the center of the floor of the church. Peter mentions his wife and a sister, Elizabeth Goldsmith, in his will. Pelyn Patish, incidentally, is only about twenty miles down the coast from Plymouth, Hundred of Roborough, Devonshire. Born 1535 Portledge (Alwington), Devon, Devonshire, England. [2][3][4][5] Died 08 OCT 1613. Devon, Cornwall, England. [6][7] Note: #N70. Marriage Husband Peter Coffin. Wife Mary Boscowen. Child: @I3087@. Marriage 1560[8] Notes Note N70Peter Coffin and his wife Mary Boscowen a re the fourteenth (14th) great grandparents of Michael and Matthew, the Howard brothers from Holland, Michigan. About Peter Coffin Coffin Faimly History • Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts In Fallaise, a town of Normandy. COFFIN stands the old chateau of Courtiton, once the home of the Norman Coffins; the name is now extinct in that vicinage. The chateau is now owned by Mons. Le Clere. (*note; mons. abr for Monseigneur loosely French for 'lord') who is the grandson of the last Miss Coffin who married a Le Clere in 1796. Until her marriage the chateau had always been owned by a Coffin. (The above information came through Admiral Henry E. Coffin, of the English navy, who is the nephew of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, May 16, 1759, made a baronet and granted a coat-of-arms in 1804). The family traces its ancestry to Sir Richard Coffin, Knight, who accompanied William the Conqueror from Normandy to England in the year 1066, to whom the manor of Alwington in the court of Devonshire was assigned. There are various branches of the family in county Devon. The English records show the name as Covin, whence it was changed to Cophin, and is also found as Kophin, Coffyn and Coffyne. lie fore 1254 the family was flourishing at Portledge near the sea, in the parish of Alwington. five miles from Biddeford, England. From the time of Henry VIII to Edward II, for a period of two hundred years, the heir always received the name of Richard, and so the family was perpetuated for many generations through that name. The name was early brought to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and has been borne by many leading men. The revolutionary war record of the family is an especially honorable one. The Portledge family bore these arms: Vert, five cros-crosslets argent, between four plates. These arms are also used by the American families. (I) Tristram Coffin, a descendant of Sir Richard Coffin, mentioned above, lived in Brixton, county Devon, England. In his will he left legacies to Anne and John, children of his son, Nicholas Coffin; Richard and Joan, children of Lionel Coffin; Phillip Coffin and his son, Tristram; appointed Nicholas Coffin, mentioned below, his executor. (II) Nicholas, son of Tristram Coffin, lived in Butler's parish, Devonshire, England, where he died in 1603. In his will, which was proved at Totness, in Devonshire, November 3, 1603, mention is made of his wife and five children, namely: Peter, Nicholas, Tristram, John and Anne. (III) Peter, eldest child of Nicholas and Joan Coffin, was born on the Coffin estate at Brixton, Devonshire, England, about 1580, and died there in 1627-28. He married Joan, or Joanna Thember, and their six children were born and baptized in the parish of Brixton, Devonshire, England, in the order following: 1. Tristram, 1605, see forward. 2. John, about 1607. He was a soldier, and died in the service from a mortal wound received in battle during the four years' siege of the fortified town during the civil war, and he died within the town about 1642. 3. Joan, born in England about 1609, and probably died there. 4. Deborah, died probably in England. 5. Eunice, born in England, came to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her parents; married William Butter and died in 1648. 6. Mary, married Alexander Adams, and had children: Mary, Susannah, John and Samuel. She died in 1677, or thereabouts. Widow Joan, with her children, Tristram, Eunice and Mary, her two sons-in-law, husbands of her daughters who were married in England, her daughter-in-law, Dionis, and five grandchildren, came to Salisbury in 1642. She died in Boston, in May, ;66i, aged seventy-seven years, and in the notice of her funeral it is quaintly stated that the Rev. Mr. Wilson "embalmed her memory." (IV) Tristram, eldest child of Peter and Joan, or Joanna (Thember) Coffin, was born in the parish of Brixton, Dorsetshire. England, probably in 1605. He was of the landed gentry of England, being heir to his father's estates in Brixton, and he was probably a churchman after the order of the time of Elizabeth. He was married to Dionis (the diminutive for Dionysia, and after written Dionys), daughter of Robert Stevens, of Brixton, England. It is a strange fact that the christian name of the immigrant forefather of all the Coffins in America, Tristram, is repeated and multiplied in every family in every generation, while the name of the foremother Dionis is repeated but once in all the generations, and that was when it was given to the eldest daughter of Stephen, the youngest child of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, but when she married Jacob Norton her name appears as Dinah. It is not known on which of the early ships conveying emigrants from England to New England the Coffin family took passage, but it is generally believed that it was the same ship that brought Robert Clement, the emigrant, who owned the ships "Hector," "Griffin," "Job Clement," and "Margaret Clement," and if Robert Clement, the immigrant, took passage in one of his own ships, Tristram Coffin, the immigrant, was a passenger in the same ship, and both men settled in Haverhill in 1642. The early settlers of Salisbury, which town was established October 7, 1640, commenced a settlement at Pentucket the same year, and the Indian deed for this land was witnessed by Tristram Coffin in 1642, and in 1643 he removed to the place which was established as the town of Haverhill, Norfolk county, Massachusetts Bay Colony. He settled near Robert Clement. Tradition has it that Tristram Coffin was the first man to plow land in the town of Haverhill, he constructing his own plow. He changed his residence to the "Rocks" the following year, and in 1648-49 removed to Newbury where he kept an ordinary and sold wine and liquors and kept the Newbury side of Carr's Ferry. In September, 1643, his wife Dionis was prosecuted for selling beer for three pence per quart, while the regular price was but two pence, but she proved that she had put six bushels of malt into the hogshead, while the law only required the use of four bushels, and she was discharged. He returned to Salisbury and was commissioner of the town, and while living there planned the purchase of the estate of Nantucket, where he with his associates removed on account of religious persecution. At least. Thomas Macy, who was the pioneer settler on Nantucket Island, "fled from the officers of the law and sacrificed his property and home rather than submit to tyranny which punished a man for being hospitable to strangers in a rain storm, even though the strangers be Quakers." Macy returned to Salisbury and resided there in 1664. and when he left he sold his house and lands, the story of his "fleeing from persecution" is spoiled and history gives the true reason for the migration, the search for a milder climate and better opportunity for cultivating the soil. Early in 1654 Tristram Coffin took Peter Folyer, the grandfather of Benjamin Franklin, at that time living in Martha's Vineyard, as an interpreter of the Indian language, and proceeded to Nantucket to ascertain the "temper and disposition of the Indians and the capabilities of the island, that he might report to the citizens of Salisbury what inducements were offered for emigration." The land was secured the same year, and James Coffin accompanied Thomas Macy and family, Edward Starbuck and Isaac Coleman to the island later the same year, where they took up their residence. The Coffin family that settled at Nantucket included Tristram, Sr., James, Mary, John and Stephen, and each the head of a family. Tristram Coffin was thirty-seven years old when he arrived in America, and fifty-five years old at the time of his removal to Nantucket, and during the first year of his residence he was the richest proprietor. The property of his son Peter is said to have soon after exceeded in value that of the original proprietor, the family together owning about one-fourth of the island of Nantucket and the whole of Tuckernock. He was appointed the second chief magistrate of the town of Nantucket, succeeding his friend, Thomas Macy, and at the same time Thomas Mayhew was appointed the first chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard, their commissions signed by Governor Lovelace, of New York, bearing date June 29, 1671, and the two chief magistrates, together with two assistants from each island, constitute a general court, with appellate jurisdiction over both islands. The appointment was made by Governor Francis Lovelace, of New York, and his second commission, September 16, 1677, was signed by Edward Andros, governor-general of the Province of New York. He died at his home on Nantucket Island, New York, October 2, 1681, leaving his widow, Dionis, seven children, sixty grandchildren and a number of great-grandchildren, and in 1728 there had been born to him one thousand five hundred and eighty-two descendants, of whom one thousand one hundred and twenty-eight were living. The children of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin were nine in number, the first five having been born in England, as follows: Peter, Tristram, Jr., Elizabeth, James, John, Deborah, Mary, John, Stephen. (V) Tristram (2), second son and child of Tristram (1) and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, was born in England in 1632, and came to America with his parents at ten years of age. He died February 4, 1704, aged about seventytwo. He was the ancestor of all the Coffins originating from Newbury. He married, March 2, 1653, in Newbury, Judith Greenleaf, daughter of Edmund Greenleaf, the emigrant, and widow of Henry Somerby, of Newbury. She died December 15, 1705. Children :Judith, born December 4, 1653; Deborah, November 1, 1655; Mary, December 12, 1657; James. April 2, 1659; John, September 8, 1660; Lydia, April 22, 1062; Enoch, January 21, 1664; Stephen, mentioned below; Peter, July 27, 1667; and Nathaniel, March 26, 16G9. (VI) Stephen, fourth son of Tristram (2) and Judith (Greenleaf) Coffin, was born August 18, 1665, in Newbury, and died in that town, August 31, 1725. He resided in Haverhill from 1686 to 1697, and then returned to Newbury. He married there October 8, 1685, Sarah, daughter of John and Sarah (Mirock) Atkinson, of Newbury, born November 27, 1665, died January 20, 1725. Children: Sarah, born May 16, 1686; Tristram, died young; Tristram, March 6, 1689; Lydia, July 21,1691; Judith, February 23, 1693; John, January 20, 1695; Abigail, September 25, 1696; Stephen. 1698; Daniel, September 19, 1700; Abner. April 29, 1702; Mary, September 26, 1704; Joseph, mentioned below; Benjamin, June 14, 1710. (VII) Joseph, seventh son of Stephen and Sarah (Atkinson) Coffin, was born December 26, 1706, in Newbury, and resided in that town, where he died November 23, 1758. He married (first) in 1729, Elizabeth Collins, of Salisbury, who died in October, 1749. He married (second) February 13, 1750, Olive Fowler, who married (second) March 1, 1763, Joseph Rowell. Children, born in Newbury: Joseph. March 25, 1730; Elizabeth, November 20, 1731; Tristram, September 5, 1733; John, September 5, 1735; Sarah, January 26, 1737; Abel, September 30, 1741; Mary, September 16, 1743; Eunice, August 23, 1744; Michael. May 10, 1746; Enoch, September 13, 1748; Samuel. January 19, 1751; Olive, June 28. 1752; Henry, April 9, 1754; Lemuel, mentioned below; John, August 12, 1757. (VIII) Lemuel, eighth son of Joseph Coffin and fourth child of his second wife, Olive Fowler, was born November 20, 1755, in Newbury, and died there June 29, 1837. He was a soldier of the Revolution, serving in several enlistments. He was a private in Captain Moses Newell's company of minute-men, which marched at the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, and served four days. He was subsequently in Captain Benjamin Parker's company, Colonel Moses Little's (17th) regiment, enlisting May 9, 1775, and serving twelve weeks. The muster roll is dated August 1, 1775, on which his age is given as twenty-one years; and he received an order for a bounty coat or its equivalent in money, dated Prospect Hill, November 14, 1775. His name appears in the return of men made by Major Ralph Cross, sworn to February 16, 1778, in Essex county, among those enlisted for the continental army and the second Essex regiment. He was credited to the town of Newburyport and enlisted for a term of three years. He served on the life guard of General Washington, and appears on the pay account of Lieutenant Colonel William Washington (third) regiment of Light Dragoons, serving from January 1, 1777, to December 13, 1779. He married Catherine Cressal, who died January 24, 1844, having survived her husband six and a half years. Children, born in Newburyport: Eliza, August 18, 1781; John, July 9, 1783; Olive, July 14, 1785; Joseph, March 25, 1788; Rachel, August 9, 1790; Abel, mentioned below; Catherine, January 19, 1795; Sarah, July 29, 1797; Michael, March 17, 1800; Sarah, November 16, 1802. (IX) Captain Abel, third son of Lemuel and Catherine (Cressal) Coffin, was born October 21, 1792, in Newburyport; died St. Helena, August 28, 1837. He was a sea captain. He married, March 25, 1816, Susan Ames Hale; she died September 30, 1837. Their children were: Abel Hale, see forward, and Susan Hale, born December 25, 1822; became the wife of Ephraim A. Hyde, of Freeport, Maine. (X) Abel Hale, son of Captain Abel and Susan Ames (Hale) Coffin, was born August 20, 1820, in Newburyport, died June 21, 1883. He settled in Boston, where he went to sea until age of twenty-eight as supercargo; then for many years wharfinger for Grand Junction Dock & Warehouse Company, which afterwards became property of present Boston & Albany docks. The last ten years of his life he was fuel agent for Eastern railroad before consolidation with B. & M. He was an Episcopalian; ten years senior warden for Christ Church, Boston, always a very staunch church member. He married, May, 1846, Julia Ann Holland, born at Newburyport, December 19, 1826, died at Medford, August 25, 1858. He married (second) November 8, 1859, Mary Ann McKay. Children by first wife: Annie Morrill, died in childhood. John Lambert, see forward, Susan Hyde, died in childhood. Henry, died in childhood. Children of second wife: Abel Augustus, born June 26, 1861; superintendent of the Webster Tannery; resides in Maiden, Massachusetts. Thomas Mair McKay, born January 8, 1864, died October, 1869. (XI) John Lambert, eldest son of Abel Hale and Julia Ann (Holland) Coffin, was born February 20, 1852, in Boston, Massachusetts. He was educated principally in Boston and Wakefield public schools, then attended Wakefield high school, later Tufts College, class of 1871, receiving degree of A. B. and in 1876 that of A. M.; and subsequently Boston University Medical School, graduating in 1876 with degree of M. D. Engaged in general practice in West Medford until 1896," and then engaged in special practice at Boston on diseases of the skin. Dr. Coffin is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, Massachusetts Homoeopathic Medical Society, Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society, Boston Surgical and Gynaecological Society, honorary member of Maine Homoeopathic Medical Society, professor of dermatology at Boston University School of Medicine, chairman of board of trustees of Westboro State Hospital, and while living in Medford was a member of the school committee and board of health. He is a Mason, being affiliated with Mt. Hermon Lodge, attaining the office of junior warden. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa of Tufts. He married, November 8, 1880, Annie Weeman, daughter of Seth and Louisa (Weeman) Jones, of Maiden. Children: Louise Wendte and Julia May (twins), born 1883. Bartlett, October 5, 1888, died September, 1889. Holland, March 25, 1890. ried Abigail, daughter of Edward and Catherine (Reynolds) Starbuck; died in Exeter, New Hampshire, March 21, 1715. 2. Tristram Jr., 1632, married Judith, daughter of Edward and Sarah Dole, and widow of Henry Somerby; died in Newbury, Massachusetts, February 4, 1704. 3. Elizabeth, 1634, married, in Medbury, Massachusetts, November 13, 1651, Captain Stephens, son of Edmund and Sarah (Dole) Greenleaf, and they had five children. She died November 19, 1678, and her husband in 1690. 4. James, August 12, 1640, died in Nantucket, July 28, 1720. 5. John, died in Haverhill, Massachusetts, October 30, 1642, soon after his birth. 6. Deborah, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, November 15, 1642, and died there December 8, 1642. 7. Mary, February 20, 1645, married, in 1662, Nathaniel (1638-1719), son of Edward and Catherine (Reynolds) Starbuck, and they had five children. 8. John (q. v.), October 30, 1647. 9. Stephen, born in Newbury, May 11, 1652, died in Nantucket, May 18, 1734. ., (lll) John, eighth child of Tristram and Dionis (Stevens) Coffin, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, October 30, 1647. He married Deborah, daughter of Joseph and Sarah Austin, and they had eleven children born in Nantucket Island. He removed with his parents to Nantucket in 1660, and after the death of his father settled, about 1682-83, in Edgartown, and from him all the Martha's Vineyard Coffins descended. He died September 5, 1711. He was a lieutenant in the Edgartown militia, and had previously held minor offices in Nantucket. Children: 1. Lydia, born June 1, 1669, married (first) John Logan, (second) John Draper, and (third) Thomas Thaxter, of Hingham, Massachusetts. 2. Peter, August 5, 1671, died October 27. 1749; married (first) Christian Condy, and (second) Hope, daughter of Joseph and Bethia (Macy) Gardner. 3. John Jr., February 10, 1674. 4. Love, April 23, 1676, died unmarried. 5. Enoch, 1678, was chief justice of Dakes county; married Beulah Eddy about 1700, and they had eleven children, all of whom lived to the ages of seventy-six and upwards, and died 1761. 6. Samuel, married Meriam, daughter of Richard and Mary (Austin) Gardner Jr., in 1705, and died February 22, 1764. 7. Hannah, married Benjamin, son of Richard and Mary (Austin) Gardner Jr., and died January 28, 1768. 8. Tristram (q. v.). 9. Deborah, married, June 18, 1708, Thomas, son of John and Deborah (Gardner) Macy, and died September 23, 1760. 10. Elizabeth. 11. Benjamin, born August 21, 1682. (IV) Tristram (2), eighth child of Lieutenant John and Deborah (Austin) Coffin, was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. He was married February, 1714, to Mary, daughter of William and Mary (Macy) Bunker. He lived in Nantucket all his life and died January 29, 1763. Children: David, born 1718. 2. Samuel, 1720. 3. Tristram, 1722, died 1796. 4. Jonathan, 1725, lost at sea 1755. 5. John, 1727, lost at sea 1755. 6. Richard (q. v.), 1729. 7. Timothy, 1731. 8. Mary, 1733, married Jonathan, son of Robert and Hepzibah Coffin Barnard, and died in November, 1855. 9. Matthew, 1735, lost at sea 1755. The three brothers, Jonathan, John and Matthew, were lost at sea when serving as sailors on the same whale-ship. (V) Richard, sixth son of Tristram and Mary (Bunker) Coffin, was born in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 1729. He was captain in the local militia of Addison, Maine, where he lived after his marriage to Mary Cook, of Martha's Vineyard, and he served as high sheriff of Washington county. He had a large family of children, including John (q. v.). (VI) John (2), son of Richard and Mary (Cook) Coffin, was born in Addison, Maine, July 29, 1770. He married Phoebe Coffin, of Nantucket, June 22, 1795; children: 1. Sophronia S., born September 24, 1799. 2. Hannah Ward, April 7, 1802. 3. Simeon (q. v.). (VII) Simeon, third child of John and Phoebe (Coffin) Coffin, was born in Addison, Maine, January 17, 1806. He was an innkeeper and ship-builder, and married Rebecca W., daughter of Uriah and Anna Nash, of Harrington, Maine; children: 1. John W., born March 27, 1828. 2. Mary E., January, 1830, died 1847. 3. Voranus L. (q. v.). 4. Alphonso, October 15, 1833, in Addison, Maine, was a sea captain and farmer, and died at Matanzas, Cuba, while in that port with his ship. Married Mary W. Wilson; children: Ellinor. Annie E., Gertrude W., Alphonso. 5. Sophronia, died aged seventeen years. Rebecca W. (Nash) Coffin, died in 1844. Simeon Coffin married (second) Harriet B. Franklin; two children: Azro ; Leonora, became the wife of Dr. H. Bellamy, of Logansport, Indiana. (VIII) Captain Voranus L., second son of Simeon and Rebecca W. (Nash) Coffin, was born in Addison, Maine, October 3, 1831. He received his primary school training in the public schools of his native place and at Harrington, Maine, and was prepared for college at Waterville Academy, taking a three-years preparatory course. He then taught school at Addison, Harrington and Milbridge, and in 1863 enlisted in the Thirty-first Maine Infantry, and was with the regiment of the Army of the Potomac during the remainder of the war. He was taken prisoner while on picket duty near Cold Harbor, Virginia, a few days after the battle, June 1-3, 1864, in which he participated, and while the opposing armies were idle, except the sharpshooters, who were picking off many men on both sides. He was carried to Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia, where he was in slave confinement for a number of weeks, when he was removed with others to Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia, where he remained July, August and September, 1864. His next prison was at Savannah, Georgia, and his fourth at Charleston, South Carolina, where he was among the prisoners placed under fire of the Union guns then besieging the city. His fifth prison was Camp Sorghum, South Carolina, where he was until Christmas, 1864, when he was removed to the prison stockades in front of the Insane Asylum at Charleston. While in the stockade he connived, with H. L. Bixby, of Maine, a fellow prisoner, to effect their escape, but he was recaptured sixty miles outside the city, and one of his captors was a lieutenant and he was recognized as a brother Mason, and received from him many favors, including a gift of $50 in Confederate money, a liberal supply of rice and flour and many personal favors. This lieutenant was from Grove Station, North Carolina, but after the war no communication was established between them. He was next sent to the military prison at Raleigh, North Carolina, then to Goldsboro, in the same state, and then to Wilmington, North Carolina, where he was paroled. After being allowed a vacation home of thirty days, he was ordered to rejoin his regiment before Petersburg, and while on his way heard of the fall of the city and the surrender of General Lee at Appomattox. He marched in the final grand review at Washington, D. C, and was mustered out at Bangor, Maine, in 1865. He had enlisted as a private, but before leaving, Augusta, Maine, was commissioned second lieutenant, and on June 11, 1864, first lieutenant, his promotion being a reward for his action at Cold Harbor before his capture. He was acting captain of Company B, Thirty-first Maine Regiment, most of the time while with his regiment, and was in command of his company on their return trip from Washington to Bangor. The war over, he engaged in trade and shipbuilding at Harrington, Maine, where he launched a large number of schooners, barks and brigs, the shipyards being owned by Ramsdell, Rumball & Coffin. He subsequently purchased the interests of his partners and conducted the shipbuilding business as V. L. Coffm for about eight years, 1876-84. In 1884 the firm became V. L. Coffin & Son, his partner being his son, Charles A. Coffin. Captain Coffin retired from active business in 1906, his son assuming the active management of the same. His home in Harrington is one of the pleasantest sites in that sightly place, and the hospitality there dispensed is proverbial for its entire freedom from formality or restraint. Captain Coffin holds a high position in the Masonic fraternity. He is a member of Narragansett Lodge, of Cherryfield, member of the St. Elmo Commandery, No. 18, Machias Royal Arch Chapter; Bangor Council, Royal and Select Masters; Delta Lodge of Perfection; Scottish Rite, Princes of Jerusalem, at Machias, and Rose Croix Consistory, in Portland, in which he has attained the thirty-second degree. His service as a soldier in the civil war gained him comradeship to Hiram Burnham Post, No. 50, Grand Army of the Republic, of Cherryville, Maine, and he served the post as commander for three years, and the state of Maine as past senior vice-commander, and the National body by a place on the staff of General Walker, commander-in-chief. His military service also was recognized by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, of which he was a companion, by his being accorded a place on the staff of the state commandery. He represented the fifteenth district in the state senate from 1881 to 1885; member of the executive council of state of Maine in 1897-98, under Governor Llewellen Powers, and for thirty-five years was treasurer of the town of Harrington; he has also filled most of the local offices of his town. His political position in the Republican party is shown by his appointment as a delegate to the National convention at Chicago which nominated Theodore Roosevelt as the Republican candidate for president in 1904. He held the important financial position of treasurer of Washington county, Maine, 1900-04, and his interest in the cause of education was recognized by the trustees of the University of the State of Maine by electing him a member of their body in 1899, for a term of eight years. In matters of religious observance Captain Coffin remained independent. (For preceding generations see Tristram Coffin 1). (VI) Nathaniel, youngest child COFFIN of Tristram (2) and Judith (Greenleaf) Coffin, was born March 26, 1669, in Newbury, and died there February 20, 1749. He resided in the house erected by his father, which was still standing within a few years, and served as deacon of the church; town clerk, representative to the general court, and was a member of the governor's council in 1730. He married, March 29, 1693, Sarah, widow of Henry Dole, of Newbury, and daughter of Samuel and Hannah Brocklebank, of Rowley. The Coffin’s of Portledge, Alwington parish, Devonshire, near Bideford, 45 miles north of Plymouth and Brixton, have resided at Portledge Manor at least since 1254 AD and even earlier according to a boundary deed. Portledge Manor Coffin House 1678 Location: 16 High Road Newbury, MA MARIA BOSCAWEN was christened 20 January 1532, of Penkivel, Cornwall, England. Her parents were Hugh Boscawen (1485-1559) and Phillippa Carminowe (1490-1563.) She married Peter Coffyn about 1560 of Brixton, Devonshire England. Maria Boscawen passed away 4 September 1622, Cornwall, England, age 90. Buried at St. Michaels Church Truro, Cornwall, England: Mary was a 11th generation descendant of Boscawen’s and Carminowe’s that led back to Roger Carminowe. Roger Carminowe held a Knight’s Fee in 1173 AD and was a Witness in 1220. Mary was buried at the church of St. Michael, St. Michael Penkivel, Tresillian, Truro, Cornwall, between Falmouth and Truro, and about 40 miles from Plymouth, Cornwall. The church is small and usually open and unattended. Mary is buried beneath the floor, her grave marked by a 17th century brass plate, which shows a full body likeness of her and states: “Here lyeth the body of Marie the Widdow of Peter Coffin Gent and 4th daughter of Hugh Boscawen of Tregothnan Esq who dyed ye 4th day of September 1622 aged 71 years.” Mary Boscawen passed away about 1622, age 90. Mary was buried at St. Michael’s Church in the rural village of Penkevil between Falmouth and Truro and 40 miles from Plymouth, Cornwall. The church is small and usually open and unattended. Mary is buried beneath the floor, her gave marked by a 17th century brass plate, which shows a full body likeness of her and states: “Here lyeth the body of Marie the Widdow of Peter Cofin Gent & 4th daughter of Hugh Boscawen of Tregothnan Esq. who dyed Ye 4th day of September 1622, aged 71 years St. Michael’s Church, Penkevil, Cornwall, England Children of Peter Coffyn and Mary Boscawen: 1. Phillip Coffin (1556-) 2. Lionel Coffin (1558-1636) 3. Deborah Coffin (1558-) 4. *ANNA COFFIN (1560-1626) 5. *NICHOLAS COFFIN (1561-1613) 6. Tristram Coffin (1563-1602) 7. Thomas Coffyn (1565-1616) 8. Anne Coffin (1578-1583) (Source: The Coffin Family, By Louis Coffin, 1962, Nantucket Historical Society, Nantucket, Massachusetts.) + 6.a. HUGH BOSCAWEN SR. (1485-1559) 6.a.1. PHILLIPPA CARMINOW (1490-1563) [example of time] HUGH BASCAWEN SR. was born about 1485 of Tregothnan, Tresillian, Truro, Cornwall, England, toJohn De Boscawen IV (1439-1515) and Elizabeth Lower (1444-1515.) He married Phillippa Carminow about 1535 of Brixton, Devonshire, England. Hugh Boscawen died 13 October 1515, Tregothnan, Truro, Cornwall, England, age 60. Tregothnan House, home to the Boscawen family since 1325 Wikitree: In 1553, Hugh paid a fine of four marks for not attending at the coronation of Philip and Mary, to receive the honor of knighthood. On 18 Jan 1555, Hugh paid a fine in order to get out of attending Philip of Spain's coronation. Buried at St. Michael Penkivel,, where a brass bears the inscription: "Hugh Boscawen, of Tregothnan, Esqr., aged 80. Died 24th Aug. Anno 1559." Hugh was born about 1515. He passed away in 1559. Hugh Boscawen Memorial Closeup of Millenium Stone Glendurgan Maze PHILLIPPA CARMINOW was born about 1490 of Boconnoc, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England, to Nicholas Carminow (1469-1538) and Catherine Wolvedon (1470-1538.) She married (1) James Trewinnard 1508; (2) *Hugh Boscawen Sr. about 1535 of Brixton, Devonshire, England. Phillippa Carminow passed away 9 August 1563, Saint Michael Penkevil, Truro, Cornwall, England, age 73. Buried at Romford, Hornchurch, Essex, England. Phillippa Carminow Born 1519 in Boconnoc, Cornwall, England Daughter of Nicholas (Carminowe) Carminow and Catherine Wolvedon Sister of Elizabeth (Carminowe) Herle, Jane (Carminow) Penpons and Thomas Carminowe Wife of Hugh Boscawen — married 1536 in Brixton, Devon, , England Mother of Mary Boscawen Died August 9, 1563 in Cornwall, England Philippa Carminowe married Hugh Boscawen. She owned the Village of Plymouth, Devon, a few hundred yards from Tristram Coffin's farm at Butlers (now Butlass) in Plymouth Erle which her daughter carried to the marriage. Boconnoc Parish Church Location: Boconnoc, Cornwall, England return to the male line of the Carminows. John Carminow, son of Walter and grandson of Sir William Carminow and Margaret Kelly, made one of the luckiest marriages of the whole family, since he married, in 1492, Philippa, daughter and co-heiress of John Trenowth of Fentongollan, and with her hand received large estates and accumulated wealth, which, added to that which he had inherited from his immediate ancestors, constituted hom one of the richest Cornishmen of that age. The Trenowths becoming extinct in the male line, their estates were divided between the Carminows, St. Aubyns, and Godolphins, who had married the co-heiresses. John Carminow received the Fentongollan estate. The Trenowths had married into the families of Trejago of Crantock, from whom the Jagoes descend, and also with Tregarthian of Tregarthian, in Gorran, a family long extinct in the male line. This family is not the same as that of Trevarthian Trevarthian, in Newlyn. The last-named family had previously intermarried with Carminow, and are also now extinct. In St. Michael Penkivel Church is a brass to the memory of the previously-named John Trenowth, the last of his name, representing him clad in armour. He died at the age of seventy, on the feast of St. Gregory, March 12th, 1497. Nothing remains of the ancient mansion of Fentongollan. Hals says that by his marriage with Philippa Trenowth John Carminow became more famous for his wealth than any other person then living in Cornwall. He seems to have enjoyed a quiet life as a country squire, without any wish to obtain political power. He left six daughters and two sons. The daughters were married as follows: Eliza to John Bere of Pengelly, Elinor to Nicholas Opie of Bodmin, Philippa to P. Bevil, Katherine to Humphrey Dunsland, Isabel to John Viel, or Vyel, of Trevorder, and Jane to Humphrey Calwoodly of Helland Hall. Of these six families the names of all but Bere and Opie are, I believe, extinct. Of John Carminow's two sons the first, Nicholas, married Catherine, daughter of John Wolvedon, another Cornish family now extinct, by whom he left three daughters: viz., Elizabeth married to Richard Herle, Jane to Richard Penpons, and Philippa married to Hugh Boscawen, from whom the present Lord Falmouth is descended. She was a co-heiress with her sisters to her father's estates. Her husband was fined four marks in 1553 for not attending the coronation of Queen Mary. St Michael's Church Location: St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England Phillipa Memorial Tregothnan House The Tregothnan Estate is located beside the village of St Michael Penkivel 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Truro in Cornwall, England. Tregothnan From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Coordinates: 50.239°N 5.005°W Tregothnan House, in 1880. Published in Morris, Rev. F.O. Picturesque Views of Seats of Noblemen & Gentlemen of Great Britain & Ireland, London, 1880 Tregothnan House, situated above an inlet of the Carrick Roads, at the southern end of which is located the port-town of Falmouth The Tregothnan Estate is located beside the village of St Michael Penkivel 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Truro in Cornwall, England. The house and estate is the historic seat of the Boscawen family, Viscounts Falmouth. The original mediaeval house was sacked in the 17th century during the Civil War. The new house has the date 1652 carved in stone above the side gate. It was enlarged in the early 19th century to the designs of William Wilkins, the architect of the National Gallery in London. Tregothnan is famous for its large private botanical garden and arboretum. Tregothnan is not open to the public, but guided visits to the garden may be arranged. A tea plantation has recently been started on the grounds. Tregothnan is home to the first outdoor Camellias in the UK, around 1800. The first commercial tea was developed from Camellia sinensis, the "Chinese tea plant", in 2001. The first 'English tea' was then sold in November 2005 to Fortnum and Mason of Piccadilly.[1] The Tregothnan Estate plans on marketing a brand-named tea house franchise called Festival of Tea, to be opened as far afield as China. Also a quantity of custom-made bee hives are situated in amongst Leptospermum "Manuka Bushes" producing Manuka honey with measurable methylglyoxal content.[2] In 1872 the land holdings of Viscount Falmouth, of Mereworth Castle, Maidstone, Kent, were listed in the top ten land holdings in Cornwall, with an estate of 25,910 acres (10,490 ha), 3.41% of the total area of Cornwall.[3] Boconnoc-House Carmarthen Castle Wikitree: She was age 19 at her father's death in 1538. Co-heiress of Courtenay Estates According to Thomas C. Amory, Philippa was co-heiress of that part of the Courtenay estates in Penkevil, England which escaped forfeiture when the Marquis of Exeter, next to the crown, was beheaded. [1] Philippa owned the village of Plympton a few hundred yards from Tristram Coffin's farm at Butlass in Plympton Erle which her daughter carried to Peter Coffin. Burial She is buried at St. Michael Penkivel, next to her husband, where a brass bears the inscription: "Philipa, Daughter & coheire of Nicholas Carminow, Esqr." Children of Hugh Boscawen and Phillippa Carminow: 1. Rogwerr Boscawen (1525-) 2. Petronel Boscawen (1531-1607) 3. Joan Boscawen (1538-1625) 4. Elizabeth Boscawen (1539-1599) 5. Alice Boscawen (1539-1604) 6. Catherine Boscawen )1540-1622) 7. Nicholas Boscawen (1541-1626) 8. William Boscawen (1542-1605) 9. MARIA BOSCAWEN (1542-1622) 10. John Boscawen (1545-1564) 11. George Boscawen (1548-1609) 12. Edward Boscawen (1549-1619) 13. Hugh Boscawen (1558-1618) 14. Margaret Boscawen (1558-1618) + 6.a. JOHN DE BOSCAWEN IV (1439-1515) 6.a.2. ELIZABETH LOWER (1444-1515) JOHN DE BOSCAWEN IV was born about 1439 of Tregothnan, Truro, Cornwall, England, to Richard De Boscawen (1402-1489) and Maud Haslep (1407-1440.) He married Elizabeth Lower about 1478, Tregothnan, Cornwall, England. John De Boscawen died 13 October 1515, Tregothnan, Truro, Cornwall, England, age 76. Tregothnan Estate Tregothnan House, home to the Boscawen family since 1325 Tregothnan_Cornwall Cornwall, England Mt St Michel's, Cornwall, England Wikitree: John was age 50 at his father's death. [1] Children They had three sons & five daughters. Sons John, Hugh, Lawrence (d.s.p.). Daughters Jane (m. 1 Richard Trevener, 2 Richard Courtenay); Christian (m 2 Walter Burlace); Isabel (m. Samson Mannington); Elizabeth (m. Richard Curteis); Grace (m. William Kempe). [2] Family Background The Boscawens were a minor gentry family who acquired the Tregothnan estate in Fal in 1334/5 when John Boscawen of Boscawen Rose married Joan, only daughter and heir of John Tregothnan of Tregothnan. His descendants continued to marry into other Cornish gentry families, adding to their property when possible by soaking up available heiresses. The Boscawens tried not to trouble themselves with matters outside Cornwall: Richard Boscawen paid £5 on 4 July 1505 to avoid going to court to be made a knight of the Bath for "the creac'on of my Lo. Prince Henrie" (Vivian and Drake, 19), while Hugh Boscawen (d. 1559) did likewise on 18 January 1555 in order to get out of attending Philip of Spain's coronation. However, they did resort to the courts of exchequer and Star Chamber from time to time to settle property disputes and benefited from the dissolution of the monasteries. Situated at the head of the Fal Estuary, in the heart of Cornwall, close to the historic city of Truro, Tregothnan has been the home of the Boscawen family since 1300 and the garden surrounding this historic home has been of lasting interest to successive generations. As a private botanic garden and arboretum, Tregothnan is unequalled offering scale, diversity, rare collections, sweeping vistas and secluded groves. This following biography was published in DNB in 1885: "Boscawen, Family of. According to Hals, one of the Cornish historians, the first Boscawen who settled in Cornwall was an Irishman whose name does not appear to be now known; but whatever it may have been, it was soon exchanged for that of the place (which still bears the same name) in the parish of St. Buryan, a few miles from the Land's End, where he took up his abode, viz. at Boscawen Ros—the valley of elder trees. Other branches of the Boscawens settled in later times at Tregameer, in St. Columb Major, and at Trevallock in Creed, or St. Stephen's. All traces of the marriages of the earliest Boscawens seem to be lost until we reach the reign of Edward I, when Henry de Boscawen (about 1292) took to wife Hawise Trewoof. In 1335 John de Boscawen, by marrying an heiress, Joan de Tregothnan, acquired the Tregothnan property on the banks of the river Fal, where the family seat still is; the present building, however, dating only from 1815. John's son likewise married an heiress, Joan de Albalanda, or Blanchland, whose lands were situated on the opposite side of the river to Tregothnan, in the parish of Kea; and other marriages between members of this family and Dangrous of Carclew, the Tolvernes, the Trewarthenicks, and the Tregarricks, extended and consolidated the interests of the Boscawens on and near the banks of the Fal. They also intermarried with other Cornish families, such as the Arundells, the Bassetts, the St. Aubyns, the Lowers, the Godolphins, the Carminows, the Trenowiths, and the Trevanions. At the coronation of Henry VII, Richard Boscawen paid a fine of 5l. in order to escape the trouble and expense of going to court, and of being made a knight of the Bath; and his grandson, Hugh, did the same at the coronation of Queen Mary. "All the earlier Boscawens, though wealthy, were unambitious and undistinguished. The first who claims notice is Hugh, the great-grandson of the last-named Hugh Boscawen, who appears to have formed that intimate connection between Truro and his family which has so long subsisted. This Hugh was recorder of the borough, knight of the shire for Cornwall in 1626, and was ‘Chief of the Coat Armour’ at the herald's visitation of 1620. He married Margaret Rolle, and died in 1641. Of his sons, (1) Edward, a rich Turkey merchant, was M.P. for Truro in each of Charles II's parliaments; married Jael Godolphin, and their son Hugh [q.v.] became the first Viscount Falmouth. Another son, (2) Nicholas, a parliamentarian officer, died unmarried when only twenty-two years of age, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. At the Restoration his remains were flung into a common pit in St. Margaret's churchyard. " Sources Playfair's British Family Antiquity (1809), ii. 11–13; Sir E. Brydges' Collins's Peerage, vol. vi.; Chester's Registers of Westminster Abbey; Vivian's Annotated Visitations of Cornwall, pt. ii. p. 46, &c.; Lysons's Magna Britannia (Cornwall); Lake's Parochial History of Cornwall; Tregellas's Cornish Worthies. Per "British History Online": "Boscawen, Viscount Falmouth. This ancient family were originally of Boscawen-Rose, in the parish of Burian, where they are traced to about the year 1200. They removed to Tregothnan, in St. Michael-Penkevil, in consequence of the marriage of John Boscawen with the heiress of Tregothnan, about the year 1330. The descendants of this John have ever since continued at Tregothnan, having married the heiresses of Albalanda, Brett, and Trevanion, and coheiresses of Halep, Carminow, Trethurfe, Clinton, and Godfrey. The elder branch of the Boscawens became extinct in 1701, by the death of Hugh Boscawen, who married one of the coheiresses of Theophilus, Earl of Lincoln. Bridget, a daughter, and eventually sole heiress of Hugh Boscawen, married Hugh Fortescue, Esq., of Filleigh in Devonshire, on whom the title of Lord Clinton and Say was conferred by King George I. (fn. 2) The male line of the Boscawens was continued by Edward, a younger son of Hugh Boscawen, who died in 1641. Hugh Boscawen, Esq., of Tregothnan, son and heir of Edward, was in 1720 created Baron Boscawen-Rose, and Viscount Falmouth. Edward, the present and fourth Viscount Falmouth, is grandson of Admiral Boscawen, a most distinguished naval officer, who was a younger son of the first Viscount." Arms: Ermine, a rose, Gules, barbed and seeded, proper. The ancient arms of the family were, Vert, a bull Arg. with a chief, containing the arms now used. Crest: On a wreath, a falcon, close, proper. Supporters: Two sea-lions Argent, guttée de larmes. Boscawen-ros in this parish, compounded of Bocawen-ros, is a name given and taken from the natural circumstances of the place, and signifies in Cornish-British “a valley notable for skeawe or scawen” trees. And indeed this place, being naked and exposed to the sea on the cliffs of the British Channel, anciently as it seems, produced no other trees than scawen, (i.e. elder,) proper to that part of the country; neither, I think, are there any other trees at present that grow there. From this place was transnominated an Irish gentleman that settled here either by marriage or purchase, in the latter end of the reign of Edward IV., who discontinued his paternal name and styled himself John de Boscawen, which latter name hath been the hereditary name of his posterity ever since: who from hence transplanted their dwellings to Tregameer in St. Columb Major, and Trevallock in Creed or S. Stephens; and from thence by marriage with the daughter and heir of Tregothnan by Lawrence Boscawen, gentleman, attorney-at-law, temp. Henry VII., who died 1567, and lieth buried in the north aisle of S. Michael Penkivell Church, as is testified by a brass inscription on his gravestone, there lately extant, upon which, on a lead escutcheon, was engraved his paternal coat armour, viz., in a field vert a bull passant argent, armed or; on a chief ermine, a rose gules; crest, a boar argent,—out of a supposed allusion to their present name, as if it had signified a white bull and a rose. In the reign of James I. his posterity discontinued this bearing, and gave only for their arms, ermine, a rose; which, I take it, also is the hereditary coat armour of Beverley. Since the writing hereof this place is become the hereditary honorary title of Hugh Lord Boscawen, Baron of Boscawen-rose, and Viscount of Falmouth. ELIZABETH LOWER was born about 1444 of St. Winnow, Cornwall, England, to Nicholas Lower (1419-1473) and Agnes Tresithney (1419-1480.) She married John De Boscawen about 1478, Tregothnan, Cornwall, England. Elizabeth Lower passed away about 1515 of Tresillian, Truro, Cornwall, England, age 71. Cornwall, England *Elizabeth Lower (Loare) born after 1444 Tregothnan, Cornwall, England died after 1482 father: *Nicholas Lower (Loare) born before 1443 St. Winnow, Cornwall, England died after 1471 mother: *Amy or Agnes Tresithney born before 1447 St. Winnow, Cornwall, England siblings: unknown spouse: *John Boscawen born about 1439 Tregothnan, Cornwall, England died 13 October 1515 married 1479 grandchildren?: Jane Boscawen born about 1454? (1494?) Tregothnan, Cornwall, England died 10 November 1517 Thomas Boscawen born 1494 Tregothnan, Cornwall, England died 15 February 1554 John Boscawen born 1494 Tregothnan, Cornwall, England died 15 February 1524 Laurence Boscawen born 1496? Tregothnan, Cornwall, England Christian Boscawen born about 1500 England Isabell Boscawen born about 1502 England Grace Boscawen born about 1504 Tregothnan, Cornwall, England Elizabeth Boscawen born about 1506 England *Hugh Boscawen born about 1515 Tregothnan, Cornwall, England died 24 August 1559 Tregothnan, Cornwall Children of John De Boscawen and Elizabeth Lower: 1. Jane De Boscawen (1483-1517) 2. Christian Boscawen (1483-) 3. HUGH BOSCAWEN SR. (1485-1559) 4. Elizabeth Boscawen (1492-1566) 5. John Boscawen (1494-1524) + 6.a. SIR RICHARD DE BOSCAWEN (1402-1489) \\ MAUD HASLEP (1407-1440) \\ SIR RICHARD DE BOSCAWEN was born about 1402 of st. Michael Penkivel, Truro, Cornwall, England, to Hugh De Boscawen (1374-1466) and Joan De Trenoweth (1378-1443.) He married Maud Haslep. Richard De Boscawen died about 1489 of St. Michael Penkivel, Truro, Cornwall, England, age 87. English Castle Cornwall, England This Hugh's son and heir was RICHARD Boscawen, Esq. who, on July 4th, 1505, paid a fine of 5 /. to be excused from being made a Knight of the Bath. He married two wives ; first, Elizabeth, daughter of Godfry St. Albin; and, second, Maud, daughter and coheir of Laurence Haslep, of Trewonwall, by Eleanor his wife, daughter and heir of William Trevillan, and son of William Haslep, by his wife, Plascasia, daughter and heir of Trewythyneck, in the county of Cornwall, Esqrs.; (Phi- lippa, the other daughter and coheir of Laurence Haslep, being the wife of James Trefusis, of Trefusis, in the same county, E=q.) By his first Lady he had no issue : but by his second, who brought him part of the lands of Haslep and Trevillan, as also the lands of Trewythyneck, he had two sons, John, his heir, and Bennef, who rlied without issue. JOHN, the eldest son and heir, was seated at Tregothnan, in. the county aforesaid; and, by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Nicholas Lower, who was living in 1482, had issue, three sons, and five daughters 5 first, Jane, who died on November 10th, 1517, was successively wedded to Richard Trevenor, and Courtney, Esq.; second, Christum was first married to Thomas Ninnis, and secondly, to Walter Burlace, Esqrs.; third, Isabel was the wife of Samson Manington, of Cornwall, Esq.; fourth, Elizabeth, of Richard Curtis, Esq.; and fifth, Grace, of Richard Kcmpe, of Blisland, Esq. The three sons of the aforesaid John Boscawen, Esq. were. First, John Boscawen, of Tregothnan, Esq. Second, Hugh, contiuuator of the family; and Third, Laureate, who died unmanned. Tregothnan Estate MAUD HASLEP was born about 1407 of Trewonwall, Cornwall, England, to unknown parents. She married Richard De Boscawen Maud Haslep passed away about 1440 of Cornwall, England, age 37. Ladies Medeval Ancestors in the Hall-Murray-Duggan- Edwards Child of Richard De Boscawen and Maud Haslep: 1. JOHN DE BOSCAWEN IV (1439-1515) + 6.a.1. NICHOLAS CARMINOW (1469-1538) 6.a.1.a. CATHERINE WOLVEDON (1470-1538) [example] NICHOLAS CARMINOW was born about 1469 of Fentongollan,m Saint Michael Penkivel, Truro, Cornwall, England, to John Carminow (1431-1492) and Philippa Trenowith (1446-1520.) He married Catherine Wolvedon about 1490 of Boconnoc, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England. Nicholas Carminow died 17 January 1538, Saint Michael Penkevil, Truro, Cornwall, England, age 69. Nicholas Carminow formerly Carminowe Born 1490 in Cornwall, , England Son of John Carminowe and Philippa (Trenowith) Carminowe Brother of Thomas Carminow, Elizabeth Carminow, John Carminow, Jane Carmynowe, Elizabeth Carminow, Katherine Carminow, Isabella Carminow and Phillipa Carminow Husband of Catherine Wolvedon — married 1525 in Boconnoc,,Cornwall,England Father of Elizabeth (Carminowe) Herle, Phillippa Carminow, Jane (Carminow) Penpons and Thomas Carminowe Died January 7, 1538 in Cornwall, England Boconnoc Boconnoc CarminoweCrossat Bodmin Cornwall, England cornwall st ives harbour CATHERINE WOLVEDON was born about 1470 of Wolvedon, Probus, Cornwall, England, to John Atwater Wolvedon (1449-1537) and Cecily Unknown (1450-1514.) She married Nicholas Carminow about 1490 of Boconnoc, Lostwithiel, Cornwall, England. Catherine Wolvedon died 28 February 1538, Saint Michael Penkevil, Truro, Cornwall, England, age 68. Wolvaden, Probus Wolvedon, Cornwall English Countryside Wavendon Manor Golden Manor Probus, Cornwall, England Probus_st_probus_and_st_grace Probus (Cornish: Lamprobus) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is famous for having the tallest church tower in Cornwall. The tower is 129 feet (39 m) high, and richly decorated with carvings. The place name originates from the church's dedication to Saint Probus. There was a monastery here before the Norman Conquest which continued to exist until the reign of Henry I. King Henry gave the church of Probus to Exeter Cathedral and the clergy of Probus thereafter were a dean and five canons (the deanery was abolished in 1268 and the canonries in 1549). The first vicar was instituted in 1312; the parish had dependent chapelries at Cornelly, Cornwall and Merther. The church was built mainly in the 15th century but the tower was still under construction in 1523. In the church is the brass of John Wulvedon and his wife, 1512. Catherine Wolvedon Born 1495 in Of, Boconnoc, Cornwall, England Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown] [sibling(s) unknown] Wife of Nicholas (Carminowe) Carminow — married 1525 in Boconnoc,,Cornwall,England Mother of Elizabeth (Carminowe) Herle, Phillippa Carminow, Jane (Carminow) Penpons and Thomas Carminowe Died February 28, 1538 in England Children of Nicholas Carminow and Catherine Wolvedon: 1. *PHILLIPPA CARMINOW (1490-1563) 2. Elizabeth Carminow (1517-1563) 3. Thomas Carminow (1520-) 4. Jane Carminowe (1522-) + 6.a.1. LORD JOHN CARMINOW (1431-1492) 6.a.1.b. PHILIPPA TRENOWITH (1446-1520) JOHN CARMINOW LORD OF TRELOWITH was born about 1431 of Fentongolian, Saint Michael Penkivel, Truro, Cornwall, England, to Walter Carminow (1400-1443) and Jane Resprin (1406-1490.) He married Philippa Trenowith about 1469 of Fentongollan, Saint Michael Penkivel, Truro, Cornwall, England. John Carminow died 14 September 1492, Bodmin, Cornwall, England, age 61. John Carminow, son of Walter and grandson of Sir William Carminow and Margaret Kelly, made one of the luckiest marriages of the whole family, since he married, in 1492, Philippa, daughter and co-heiress of John Trenowth of Fentongollan, and with her hand received large estates and accumulated wealth, which, added to that which he had inherited from his immediate ancestors, constituted hom one of the richest Cornishmen of that age. The Trenowths becoming extinct in the male line, their estates were divided between the Carminows, St. Aubyns, and Godolphins, who had married the co-heiresses. John Carminow received the Fentongollan estate. The Trenowths had married into the families of Trejago of Crantock, from whom the Jagoes descend, and also with Tregarthian of Tregarthian, in Gorran, a family long extinct in the male line. This family is not the same as that of Trevarthian Trevarthian, in Newlyn. The last-named family had previously intermarried with Carminow, and are also now extinct. In St. Michael Penkivel Church is a brass to the memory of the previously-named John Trenowth, the last of his name, representing him clad in armour. He died at the age of seventy, on the feast of St. Gregory, March 12th, 1497. Nothing remains of the ancient mansion of Fentongollan. From: Extinct Cornish Families, Part II by Mr. W.C. Wade (Read December 18th, 1890. Published in Transactions of the Plymouth Institution & Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, 1890-1891.) Wikitree: ohn, died in 1497, married Phillipa Trenwith, daughter of John Trenwith of Trenoweth of Fentongollan in St Michael Penkevel. They in turn had three sons and six daughters. [1] With his marriage to Philippa, he received large estates and accumulated wealth, which, added to that which he had inherited from his immediate ancestors, constituted him one of the richest Cornishmen of that age. The Trenowths becoming extinct in the male line, their estates were divided between the Carminows, St. Aubyns, and Godolphins, who had married the co-heiresses. John Carminow received the Fentongollan estate. The Trenowths had married into the families of Trejago of Crantock, from whom the Jagoes descend, and also with Tregarthian of Tregarthian, in Gorran, a family long extinct in the male line. Hals says that by his marriage with Philippa Trenowth, John Carminow became more famous for his wealth than any other family then in Cornwall. He seems to have enjoyed a quiet life as a country squire, without any wish to obtain political power. He left six daughters and two sons. The daughters were married as follows: Eliza to John Bere of Pengelly, Elinor to Nicholas Opie of Bodmin, Philippa to P. Bevil, Katherine to Humphrey Dunsland, Isabel to John Viel, or Vyel, of Trevorder, and Jane to Humphrey Calwoodly of Helland Hall. Of these six families the names of all but Bere and Opie are, I believe, extinct. Of John Carminow's two sons the first, Nicholas, married Catherine, daughter of John Wolvedon, another Cornish family now extinct, by whom he left three daughters: viz., Elizabeth married to Richard Herle, Jane to Richard Penpons, and Philippa married to Hugh Boscawen, from whom the present Lord Falmouth is descended. She was a co-heiress with her sisters to her father's estates. He died sometime before 1520. His wife was executrix of his will, which was dated 14 Sep 1492. PHILIPPA TRENOWITH was born about 1446 of St.Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England, to John Trenoweth IV (1426-1498) and Lady Honor Tregarthen (1432-1465.) She married (1) William Kayle about 1467; (2) John Carminow about 1469 of Fentongollan, Saint Michael Penkivel, Truro, Cornwall, England. Philippa Trenowith passed away 31 July 1520, St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England, age 74. According to Dr Jo Mattingly, an expert on Cornwall’s medieval churches, the St Winnow window probably dates from the 1460s and was likely to have been donated by the family of William Kayle esquire of Ethy in St Winnow. William is almost certainly the male donor figure shown in armour in light 2b together with his wife, Philippa Trenoweth, in the adjoining panel. [Fig 4] William Kayle founded a chantry in the church after his wedding to Philippa in 1463 and it is possible that the Lady Chapel and its east window were made then. After William’s early death, Philippa remarried and had nine children by her second husband, John Carminow of Bodmin. At least one of her daughters (and her husband) have been identified as the most likely donors of the still extant late medieval Passion of Christ window at another important Cornish site, St Kew church, near Bodmin. Fentongollon Manor, St Michael Penkevil St Michael, Penkevil Gwithian's Cliffs Cornwall, England Fentongollan Farm from Trewonnal Hill, Cornwall, England 1460 Dress Philippa Carminowe formerly Trenowith aka Trenowith Born before 1478 in Fentongollon, St Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England Daughter of John (Trenowith) Trenouth and Honor Tregarthen Sister of Maude Matilda Trenouth, Catherine Trenowith and Margaret (Trenouth) Trenowyth Wife of John Carminowe — married 1460 in , Cornwall, , England Mother of Thomas Carminow, Elizabeth Carminow, John Carminow, Jane Carmynowe, Elizabeth Carminow, Katherine Carminow, Isabella Carminow, Phillipa Carminow and Nicholas (Carminowe) Carminow Died July 31, 1520 in Cornwall, England After her father, John Trenoweth died, the Manor of Fentongollan in Cornwall was inherited by Philippa. It was bourht into the marriage of John Carminow of Resprin. They were a very known as very wealthy,hospitable and respectable Eldest daughter & co-heir, along with her three sisters, of her father's estate. She inherited Fentongollan. "' Phillippa,' the daughter and co-heir of John Trenewith, of Fentongollen, who died in 1520, became the wife of John Penfound, whom she outlived"[1] John Carminow, son of Walter and grandson of Sir William Carminow and Margaret Kelly, made one of the luckiest marriages of the whole family, since he married, in 1492, Philippa, daughter and co-heiress of John Trenowth of Fentongollan, and with her hand received large estates and accumulated wealth, which, added to that which he had inherited from his immediate ancestors, constituted hom one of the richest Cornishmen of that age. The Trenowths becoming extinct in the male line, their estates were divided between the Carminows, St. Aubyns, and Godolphins, who had married the co-heiresses. John Carminow received the Fentongollan estate. The Trenowths had married into the families of Trejago of Crantock, from whom the Jagoes descend, and also with Tregarthian of Tregarthian, in Gorran, a family long extinct in the male line. This family is not the same as that of Trevarthian Trevarthian, in Newlyn. The last-named family had previously intermarried with Carminow, and are also now extinct. In St. Michael Penkivel Church is a brass to the memory of the previously-named John Trenowth, the last of his name, representing him clad in armour. He died at the age of seventy, on the feast of St. Gregory, March 12th, 1497. Nothing remains of the ancient mansion of Fentongollan. From: Extinct Cornish Families, Part II by Mr. W.C. Wade (Read December 18th, 1890. Published in Transactions of the Plymouth Institution & Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, 1890-1891.) St. Peter Church Thomas Carminow and Wife Children of John Carminow and Philippa Trenowith: 1. Walter Carminow (1455-1500) 2. Elizabeth Carmynaw (1455-1546) 3. Elinor Carminow (1435-1546) 4. Jane Carminow (1462-) 5. daughter Carminow (1464-) 6. Joanna Carminow (1466-1537) 7. *NICHOLAS CARMINOW (1469-1538) 8. Elinor Carmimow (1470-1546) 9. Isabella Carmino (1470-) 10. Phillippa Carminow (1472-) ? 11. Jane Carminow (1464-1537) 12. Thomas Carminow (1478-1528) 13. Katherine Carminow (1478-1578) 14. John Carminowe (1482-1547) 15. William Carminow (1482-) 16. John Carminow (1490-1528) 17. Elizabeth Carminowe (1490-1538) 18. Philippa Carmino (1490-1545) 19. Isabella Carminow (1501-1546) + 6.a.1. WALTER CARMINOW LORD OF TRELOWITH (1400-1443) \\ JANE RESPRIN (1406-1490) \\ WALTER CARMINOW LORD OF TRELOWITH was born about 1400 of Tresowyth, Cornwall, England, to William Carminow (1351-1407) and Margaret Kelly (1372-1420.) He married Jane Resprin about 1430 of St. Winnow, Cornwall, England. Walter Carminow died 26 July 1443, St. Winnow, Cornwall, England, age 43. Walter Carminowe Born 1400 in Tresowyth, Cornwall, , England Son of William Carminow and Margaret Kelly Brother of John Carminow and Thomas Carminow Husband of Jane Resprin — married [date unknown] [location unknown] Father of John Carminowe Died July 26, 1421 in Cornwall, , England Trewan_hall Trenowyth, Cornwall, Castle Boconnoc & the Carminows Added by BERGERT on 28 Aug 2008 Originally submitted by mcromwellperry to Cromwell/Garrett/Hastings/Parke Tree on 24 Apr 2008 Boconnoc The parish is named after the Old Cornish for 'Dwelling place of Conoc' (Cornish: Boskennek). It is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Bochenod. At that time, it is recorded as having land for 8 ploughs but only one plough there with one slave. There were 2 villagers and 6 smallholders. The parish then consisted of 100 acres of woodland and 40 acres of pasture. Boconnoc is situated in the Deanery and Hundred of West; it has on its north Broadoak (Braddock), on the east Lanreath, on the south St Veep, and on the west St Winnow. The parish essentially covers the Park and Estate of Boconnoc House, of which the parish church is part. The parsonage and glebe of Boconnoc were annexed to the park and grounds of Boconnoc House, by Act of Parliament, in 1806 when a new rectory house was built at Broadoak (Bradock) to serve both parishes. The old parsonage became the home of the Steward of the Boconnoc Estate, and is located behind Boconnoc House in a secluded valley, among majestic trees. Three miles east of Lostwithiel, Boconnoc can trace its history back to the Normans. The estate and house were taxed in the Domesday Roll A.D.1087. The first recorded owners were the De Cant family (1268) and in 1320 - 1386, the Manor was owned by the Carminows. Latterly by Sir Oliver Carminow who married a daughter of Joan Holland (The Fair Maid of Kent), a grand-daughter of Edward I who then married the Black Prince as her second husband, for whom the Duchy of Cornwall was created. Through the centuries, Boconnoc has been associated with many of this country's famous names and history-makers including Lord Russell, Earl of Bedford who sold Boconnoc in 1579 to Sir William Mohun who rebuilt it. Later, Thomas Pitt purchased the estate with the proceeds of the famous Pitt Diamond which he sold to the Regent of France where it ended up in the hilt of Napoleon's sword. Pitt's grandson, William, became Prime Minister. Eventually, the estate was bequeathed to the Fortescue family who still own it although, since 1969 the house has not been lived in due to deterioration and subsidence. Castle Boconnoc Walter Carminow and Jane Resprin Monuments at Church St. Winnow, Cornwall, England [example] JANE RESPRIN was born about 1406 of St. Winnow, Cornwall, England, to Richard Resprin (1380-1470) and Jane Unknown (1385-1406.) She married Walter Carminow about 1430 of St. Winnow, Cornwall, Englandl Jane Resprin passed away about 1490 of St. Winnow, Cornwall, England, age 84. St. Winnow, Cornwall Jane Resprin Born 1406 in St Winnow, Cornwall, , England Daughter of Richard Resprin and Unknown (Unknown) Resprin [sibling(s) unknown] Wife of Walter Carminowe — married [date unknown] [location unknown] Mother of John Carminowe Died [location unknown] The Manor of Resprin Carminow Monument Wakter Carminow andJane Resprin Children of Walter Carminow and Jane Resprin: 1. Margaret Carminow (1422-1447) 2. Margaret Carminow (1423-1412) 3. *JOHN CARMINOW (1431-1492) 4. Thomas Carminowe (1433-) 5. John Carminow (-1510) 6. Reginald Carminow (deceased) + 6.a.2. NICHOLAS LOWER (1419-1473) \\ ANN AGNES TRESITHNEY (1419-1480) \\ NICHOLAS LOWER was born about 1419 of St. Winnow, Cornwall, England, to John Lower (1392-1450) and Jane Moyle (1394-1450.) He married Ann Agnes Tresithney about 1438 of Cornwall, England. Nicholas Lower died about 1473 of St. Winnow, Cornwall, England, age 54. St Nectan's Chapel, near Lostwithiel, Cornwall St Winnow Parish Church ANN AGNES TRESITHNEY was born about 1419 of St. Winnow, Cornwall, England, to Richard Tresithney (1394-1450) and Unknown. She married NicholasLower about 1438 of Cornwall, England. Ann Tresithney passed away about 1480 of Cornwall, England, age 61. 1470 Men and Women St Winnow Cornwall England Child of Nicholas Lower and Ann Tresithney: 1. *WILLIAM LOWER (1469-1534) + 6.a.1.a. JOHN ATWATER WOLVEDON (1449-1537) CECILY UNKNOWN \\ JOHN ATWATER WOLVEDON was born about 1449 of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England, to Richard WOlvedon (1420-1500) and Maryan Atwater (1425-1500.) He married (1) *Cecily Unknown about 1470 of Wolvedon, Probus, Cornwall, England. John Wolvedon died 20 August 1537, Probus, Cornwall, England, age 86. Probus Probus_st_probus_and_st_grace Probus (Cornish: Lamprobus) is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is famous for having the tallest church tower in Cornwall. The tower is 129 feet (39 m) high, and richly decorated with carvings. The place name originates from the church's dedication to Saint Probus. There was a monastery here before the Norman Conquest which continued to exist until the reign of Henry I. King Henry gave the church of Probus to Exeter Cathedral and the clergy of Probus thereafter were a dean and five canons (the deanery was abolished in 1268 and the canonries in 1549). The first vicar was instituted in 1312; the parish had dependent chapelries at Cornelly, Cornwall and Merther. The church was built mainly in the 15th century but the tower was still under construction in 1523. In the church is the brass of John Wulvedon and his wife, 1512. Wolvedon Witness 1499 Child of John and Cecily Wolvedon: 1. *CATHERINE WOLVEDON (1470-1538) + 6.a.1.a. RICHARD WOLVEDON (1420-1500) \\ MARYAN ATWATER (1425-1500) \\ RICHARD WOLVEDON was born about 1420 of Probus, Cornwall, England, to unknown parents. He married Maryan Atwater about 1448. Richard Wolvedon died about 1500 of Truro, Cornwall, England, age 80. Wolvedon, Cornwall MARYAN ATWATER was born about 1425 of Royton, Lenham, Kent, England, to unknown parents. She married Richard Wolvedon about 1448. Maryan Atwater passed away about 1500 of Lenham, Kent, England, age 75. Mary Atwater Honywood cemetary Child of Richard Wolvedon and Maryan Atwater: 1. *JOHN ATWATER WOLVEDON (1449-1537) + 6.a.1.b. JOHN TRENOWETH IV (1426-1498) 6.a.1.b.1. LADY HONOR TREGARTHEN (1432-1465) [15th century men] JOHN TRENOWETH IV wasd born 8 September 1426, St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England, to John Trenoweth II (1403-1444) and Joanna Nansant (1402-1426.) He married Lady Honor Tregarthen about 1445 of Fentongollan, Cornwall, England. OHN TRENOWTH, of Fentongollan, who married Jane, daughter and co-heir of Jacob Nansan, of Trethewel in St Evall, in the hindred and deanery of Ryder, near St Columb and Padstow, descended from Nansan of Nansan, an ancient and eminent Cornish family. By thiis lady he had two sons, JOHN and WILLIAM. John Trenoweth died 13 March 1498, St. Michael Penkevil, Corwal, England, age 72. Fentongollon Manor, St Michael Penkevil John Carminow, son of Walter and grandson of Sir William Carminow and Margaret Kelly, made one of the luckiest marriages of the whole family, since he married, in 1492, Philippa, daughter and co-heiress of John Trenowth of Fentongollan, and with her hand received large estates and accumulated wealth, which, added to that which he had inherited from his immediate ancestors, constituted hom one of the richest Cornishmen of that age. The Trenowths becoming extinct in the male line, their estates were divided between the Carminows, St. Aubyns, and Godolphins, who had married the co-heiresses. John Carminow received the Fentongollan estate. The Trenowths had married into the families of Trejago of Crantock, from whom the Jagoes descend, and also with Tregarthian of Tregarthian, in Gorran, a family long extinct in the male line. This family is not the same as that of Trevarthian Trevarthian, in Newlyn. The last-named family had previously intermarried with Carminow, and are also now extinct. In St. Michael Penkivel Church is a brass to the memory of the previously-named John Trenowth, the last of his name, representing him clad in armour. He died at the age of seventy, on the feast of St. Gregory, March 12th, 1497. Nothing remains of the ancient mansion of Fentongollan. From: Extinct Cornish Families, Part II by Mr. W.C. Wade (Read December 18th, 1890. Published in Transactions of the Plymouth Institution & Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, 1890-1891.) St Michael Penkivel Church, Cornwall The Brass of ''John Fentogallan Trenouth'' His body lays below the brass. Parish: St Michael Penkivel: Wikitree: John was born circa 1403, as he was shown as age 24 at his father's death in 1427. [Writ] of diem clausit extremum, after the death of the following persons, directed to the escheators in the counties named... John Trenewith the elder, esquire; Devon and Cornwall. Per the Celtic Casimir website: Aged 23 years in 1428 ________________________________________ 29 May 1426, Leicester Commission of oyer and terminer to William Cheyne, knight, John Martyn, William Westbury, John Trelawny, knight, John Bozon and John Crocker, or to any two or more of them, including either Cheyne or Martyn, or Westbury, on complaint byRobert Hall, late one of the king's justices of the Common Bench, that William Bodrugan of Neweham, co. Cornwall, knight, and Philippa, his wife, William Antron of Antron, in the same county, 'gentilman,' John Trenewyth of Fentengollen in the same, 'gentilman,' John Lerchedeken of Truru,in the same, ' gentilman,' William Hychecombe of Newehamin, the same, 'yoman' Henry Rossaund of Truru, 'yoman,' John Nicoll of the same, ' tanner,' Edward Nicholl of the same, ' tanner,' and Henry Nanskayek of Neweham, ' shipman,' and other malefactors, broke the close and houses of the said Robert at Bodrugan, assaulted, beat and wounded him until his life was despaired of, took and led away 20 horses,100 oxen, 40 cows, and 300 sheep of his, value 200 marks, there found,also 20 marks in told moneyand other goods and; chattels to the value of 100l. For 1 mark paid in the hanaper. Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. VI, vol. 1, p. 360 ________________________________________ 6 Jun 1428, Westminster Order to the escheator in the county of Cornwall ; pursuant to an inquisition taken before him showing that Joan late the wife of Robert Hulle, the daughter and heir of Otes Bodrugan, on the day of her death held 2 messuages and 70 acres of land in Fententynyn and Ewyssall in dower of the inheritance of Ralph Trenowyth, sometime her husband, with reversion to John Trenowyth, the kinsman and heir of Ralph, to wit, the son of Ralph the son of John the son of the said Ralph Trenowyth ; and that the said John Trenowyth is 23 years of age and more ; arid that the said messuages and land are held of the king as of his manor of Tybesta as of the duchy of Cornwall in socage by rent of 2d. a year for all service ; to take the fealty of the said John Trenowyth and cause him to have full seisin of the said messuages and land, if they are in the king's hand by the death of the said Joan and for no other cause. 24 Jun 1428 ...John Cheynduyt ... died ... without heir of his body ; after whose death the said messuages and land descended to the said John Trenewyth and Thomas Rescarrek, as kinsmen and heirs of the said John Cheynduyt, by the form of the gift, to wit, to John Trenewyth as son of the said Ralph Trenewyth the son of Joan the daughter of Joan one of the sisters of Thomas the son of the said William and Elizabeth, and to Thomas Rescarrek as son of Thomas the son of Alice the other sister of Thomas son of William and Elizabeth Calendar of Fine Rolls, 6 Hen. VI, pp. 228, 231 ________________________________________ 18 Dec 1444 [Writ] of diem clausit extremum, after the death of the following persons, directed to the escheators in the counties named... John Trenewith the elder, esquire; Devon and Cornwall Calendar of Fine Rolls, 23 Hen. VI, p. 300 ________________________________________ Inquistion Post Mortem. 24 Hen. VI [1445], C, 42 ________________________________________ 30 Oct 1445 Commitment... to John Denyssh and Thomas Porthelyn, - by mainprise of William Peyto of the county of Warwick, knight, and George Densyll of the county of Cornwall, esquire, - of the keeping of all the lands late of John Trenewith, who held of the king in chief by knight service on the day of his death; to hold from the time of the death of the said John until the full age of John his son and heir, together with the marriage of the said heir... Calendar of Fine Rolls, 24 Hen. VI, p. 4 ________________________________________ 28 Nov 1445 Writ of diem clausit extremum to the escheator in the counties of Devon and Cornwall after the death of John Trenewith the elder, esquire, who held of the king in chief; since, as has been sufficiently proved in the Chancery, a like writ addressed on 18 December last to the then escheator was accidentally lost. Calendar of Fine Rolls, 24 Hen. VI, p. 22 ________________________________________ 16 Feb 1448, Westminster Commission of oyer and terminer to Richard Neuton, knight, Nicholas Asshton, William Bonevile, knight, and John Basset to make inquisition in the counties of Cornwall and Devon touching all intrusions and entries into the lands late of John Trenowith in those counties, the keeping whereof and of John, son and heir of John Trenowith, with his marriage, was granted to John Nanfan, esquire, by letters patent dated 12 December, 25 Henry VI [1446], and touching trespasses and offences committed therein ; John Nanfan having been expelled therefrom. Calendar of Patent Rolls, Hen. VI, vol. 5, p. 138 12 Dec 1446 - "Appointment of John Nanfan esquire, on the mainprise of William Peyto of Warwickshire, knight, and George Densyll of Cornwall, esquire, in the Exchequer, to the keeping of the lands late of John Trenowith, tenant in chief by knight service on the day of his death in the king's hands by his death and by reason of the minority of John, his son and heir,with the marriage of the heir, to hold from the said death during the said minority, rendering 40 l. therefor finding competent sustenance for the heir, maintaining the houses closes and buildings and supporting all other charges."[1] 16 Feb 1447 - "Commission of oyer and terminer to Richard Neuton, knight, Nicholas Asshton, William Bonevile, knight, and John Basset to make inquisition in the counties of Cornwall and Devon touching all intrusions and entries into the lands late of John Trenowith in those counties, the keeping whereof and of John, son and heir of John Trenowith, with his marriage, was granted to John Nanfan, esquire, by letters patent dated 12 December, 25 Henry VI, and touching trespasses and offences committed therein; John Nanfan having been expelled therefrom."[2] Assession Roll of 1469 shows an acre of land in Trenowith being held by "John Trenowith and Stephen Brode, as kinsmen and heirs of Ralph de Trenowith", at the same rent as that shown back in 1337 as being held by their ancestor Ralph de Trenowith.[3] "He died at the age of seventy, on the feast of St. Gregory, March 12th, 1497, without male issue, at which time the possessions of this, the eldest branch of the family, devolved on his four daughters and co-heirs who married Carminow, St. Aubyn, Raynward, Stradling and Godolphin. Nothing remains of the ancient mansion of Fentongollan. The male line of the family was continued by his younger brother William."”[4] In St. Michael Penkivel Church is a brass to the memory of John Trenowth, the last of his name, representing him clad in armour. It is on the floor of the south aisle. It bears the following inscription, “HERE LYETH JOHN TRENOWYTH, SQUEYER, THE WHICH DEPARTYD THE XIIJ DAY OF MARCH, THE YEERE OF OURE LORD GOD MCCCCLXXXXVIJ, AND IN THE YERE OF KYNG HARRY, THE VIJ., THE XIIJ., ON WHOSE SOUL JHU HAVE MERCY. AMEN. IN DOMINE CONFIDO.[4] "Devon.— John Trenowyth, Armiger, sued Thomas Tresithny and Margaret, his wife, for the manor of Alwynestone....John Trenowyth, plaintiff, son of John, son of Ralph, son of John, son of Elizabeth, daughter of John Bushelle, seised temp. E. 3."[5] LADY HONOR TREGARTHEN was born about 1432 of St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England, to Sir William Tregarthen (1408-1450) and Lady Margaret De Hendower (1400-1450.) She married John Trenoweth about 1445 of Fentogollan, Cornwall, England. Lady Honor Tregarthen passed away about 1465 of St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England, age 33. Cornwall, England Fentongollan Farm from Trewonnal Hill, Cornwall, England Honor Tregarthin Tregothnan Tregothnan, St Michael Penkivel, near Probus, Cornwall The arrow points to the public entrence of Tregothnan and the house is only the gate house and not the main mansion. John perhaps lived at the main house when marring a Tregothnan daughter? Children of John Trenoweth and Lady Honor Tregarthen: 1.*PHILIPPA TRENOWITH (1446-1520) 2. William Trenowith (1452-) 3. Katherine Trenowith (1455-1512) 4. Matilda Trenowith (1456-1512) 5. Catherine Trenowith (1458-1483) 6. John Trenowith (1460-1503) 7. Margaret Trenowith (1464-1486) + 6.a.1.b. JOHN TRENOWETH III (1403-1444) \\ JOANNA NANSANT (1402-1426) \\ JOHN TRENOWETH III was born about 1403 of Trenoweth, Cornwall, England, to Ralph Trenoweth II (1373-1427) and Jane Basset (1372-1430. He married Joanna Nansant about 1420 of Cornwall, England. John Trenoweth died 26 November 1444, St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England, age 41. Cornwall England JOANNA NANSANT was born about 1402 of St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England, to Jacob Nansant (1380-1460) and Honor Tregarthan (1380-1430.) She married John Trenoweth about 1420 of Cornwall, England. Joanna Nansant passed away about 1426 of St. Michael Penkevil, Cornwall, England, age 24. Fentongollon Manor, St Michael Penkevil Children of John Trenoweth and Joanna Nansant: 1. William Trenowth (1426-1496) 2. *JOHN TRENOWETH IV (1426-1498) + 6.a.1.b.1. SIR WILLIAM TREGARTHEN (1408-1450) \\ LADY MARGARET DE HENDOWER (1400-1450) \\ [example] SIR WILLIAM TREGARTHEN was born about 1408 of Treleigh, Redruth, Cornwall, England, toJohn William Tregarthen (1350-1444) and Maria verch Jenkin (1360-.) He married Lady Margaret de Hendower about 1420 of Cornwall, England. William Tregarthen died about 1450 of Gorran, Cornwall, England, age 42. Treleigh,,Cornwall Tregarnedd, Llangfni, Angelsey LADY MARGARET DE HENDOWER was born1400 of England, to Richard Hendower (1380-1460) and Catherine Chamberlayne (1380-1460.) She married William Tregarthen about 1420 of Cornwall, England. Margaret De Hendower passed away about 1450 of Corwall, Englnd, age 50. 15th Gorran Cornwall • Name: Margaret De HENDOWER 1 2 • Sex: F • Birth: in Of "Court" Manor in Brannel Parish, Co Cornwall, England 2 • Death: ABT 1506 1 • Change Date: 10 JAN 2002 Father: Richard De HENDOWER Mother: Katherine CHAMBERLAYNE Marriage 1 Thomas TREGARTHEN Children 1. John (Tredruffe) TREGARTHEN (TREGARTHIAN) b: in Of "Court in Brannel Manor", Parish of Creed, Co Cornwall, England 2. Margaret TREGARTHEN b: ABT 1450 3. Catherine TREGARTHEN Children of William Tregarthen and Margaret de Hendower: 1. *LADY HONOR TREGARTHEN (1432-1465) 2. Thomas Tregarthin, High Sheriff (1435-1509) 3. Margaret Tregarthin (1450-1474) + 7. NICHOLAS COFFIN (1561-1613) 7.a. JOAN AVENT BABAUT (1560-1614) NICHOLAS COFFIN was born November 1561, Butler’s Parish, Brixton, Devonshire, England to Peter Coffin (1535-1602) and Mary Boscawen (1542-1622.) He married Joan Avent Babaut about 1577 of Brixton, Devonshire, England. Nicholas Coffin died 8 October 1613, Butler’s Parish, Brixton, Devonshire, England, age 52. He was buried 3 November 1613, Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. Wikitree: Nicolas has been detached from Peter Coffyn and [[Boscawen-5|Mary/Marie Boscawen. It has been clearly demonstrated that it is very unlikely that they were his parents: "In the 100 plus years since Mr. Amory's proposal [that Nicholas Coffin was the son of Peter Coffyn], there has not been (as far as I know) one shred of evidence found to support it. On the other hand, we have the distance problem, the timing problem, and the fact that no children show up for Peter and Mary in parish registers, visitations, or his will. Most of what I have written above is probably known to veteran Coffin researchers. But I hope it is useful to newcomers to see the origin of the Boscawen conjecture and the total lack of evidence in support of it."[1] From the "Coffin Family Newsletter" of August 1994 comes the following article which also places doubt on the ancestry of Nicholas: "A PEDIGREE FOR TRISTRAM In the time of King Henry VII, the first Tudor King of England there lived in the manor of Northam, two or three miles from Bideford and just five miles northeast of Portledge, John Coffin. John was the 2nd son of William Coffin of Alwington and his wife Margaret, daughter of Thomas Gifford and was born somewhere around 1440-1460. John Coffin of Northam had a son Richard born about 1480. Richard Coffin moved to the parish of Plympton St. Mary, in southern Devonshire where in 1523 he paid a subsidy of 4/. He probably occupied some of the property owned by the family of Portledge. In an inquisition post mortem 18th February 2 & 3 Philip & Mary (18 Feb. 1555/56) Richard Coffin, grandson of Richard who was brother of John of Northam, held property in Plympton, adjacent to Brixton as well as in Holbeton, five miles from Brixton. We have not discovered how long this property had been among the Coffin estates. John Coffin, son and heir of Richard Coffin of Portledge and nephew of John of Northam, married, about 1500, Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Philip Hingston. She may have brought the property in Plympton and Holbeton. We have no record of the death of Richard unless he is the Richard who had a will recorded in Stokenham, nearly 20 miles from Plympton. Richard had younger brothers John and Walter and a son John Coffin, born about 1525. John Coffin, son of Richard lived in Brixton but also paid a subsidy in Plympton St. Mary. The administration of the estate of John Coffin was recorded in 1589. John had a son Nicholas born about 1550 in Brixton. Nicholas Coffin lived at Butlers in the parish of Brixton and had a son Peter who became the father of Tristram Coffin who emigrated to New England in 1642 with his mother, his two sisters, and his children. The above is a pedigree which has not been, and perhaps never can be proved, so please do not enter it into your pedigree! With more data now available it is more realistic than Amory's discredited theory of Peter and Mary (Boscawen) Coffin as parents of Nicholas. The above-proposed pedigree needs much more research but advances a theory which we believe comes closer to the presently known facts than any other we have seen or considered. It accounts for most of the known Coffins in the Brixton area a few generations before Nicholas. We have no proof of the connection between Brixton and Portledge and there were probably many more Coffins in the Brixton area than we have found. And there are certainly more in the Portledge line. We currently have no information about whether John Coffin of Northam had a son Richard or any other children. We have more confidence, but again no proof, that the father of Nicholas was John and his grandfather Richard. Do be on the look-out for any data that will relate to this and might contribute toward proving or disproving the theory. There are several records for the period which we have so far not had an opportunity to study. Hopefully, some worthwhile information is in one of them." Unfortunately, the Coffin Family Newsletter ceased to exist, and the Coffin Family Association fell apart with the death of David P. Coffin about 2005, and I have not found that anyone else has delved into the family history of the early Coffyn family of Devon. Another excuse to go to England to do research! Biography Above date of death is actually the date he was buried. Will In the name of God, Amen the twelveth day of september in the eleaventh yeere of the Raigne of our Sovraigne Lord James... Anno Dni 1613 I Nicholas Coffyn of Buttlers wth in the pysh of Brixton in the countye of Devon Husbandman beinge weake of bodye but pfect in minde thankes bee therefore given to Allmightie God do make this my last Will and Testamt... Itm I give and bequeath to Ann Meader the Daughtr of Eliner Meader five shillings Itm I give and bequeath to Peter Coffyn my eldest Sonne my greatest brasse pann and my minde is that my Wief shall have the use thereof during her lief Itm I give & bequeath to Tristram Coffyn my Sonnes Sonne one yearling Bollock Itm I give & Bequeath to Johun Coffyn my Sonnes Daughtr one sheepe Itm I give and bequeath to every of my God-children twelve pence apeece Itm I give & bequeath to Johan Coffyn my Wief one bay nag wch we use to call Rowse Itm I give bequeath will and devise unto Nicholas Coffyn my Sonne All such right term of yeares intrest and demand as I myself my Executors or Assignes now have or here after may or ought to have of & in one tenemt with his appttennce sett lying and being in Plimton Earle in the Countye of Devon aforesaid wherein one Thomas Spurwell there now dwelleth to githr three closes or pcells of land therunto belonging whereof the first is Called or knowen by the name of Fortie Acres the second Wallford als Woodpke and the third the Meadow belowe the waie all wch recited prmisses I have and hold of and by the demise & grante of Willm Moulton of Plimpton Earle aforesaide Gent.... And in consideracon hereof My Will and intent is that my said Son Nicholas Coffyn shall within one whole yeere after my decease well & truely content and paie unto my Daughtr Ann Coffyn thirteene pounds sixe shillings and eight pence of lawfull money of England... And likewise the said Nicholas my Sonne shall after my decease paie unto my Sonne John Coffyn eight shillings yeerely during there naturall lives or as long as they two shall live togither. The residue of all my goods and chattles moveable and unmoveable as well quickstuffe & corne as implemts of household & all other goods of what quality soever the same bee not before by these presents given nor bequeathed I give & bequeathe to the foresaid Nicholas Coffyn & John Coffyn my Sonnes whome I make & ordaine to be my joynt Executors of this my last Will & Testamt Provided allwaies that my Wief shall have the bed steed bedd & bedd clothes thereunto belonging wherein I do usually lie one brasse pann & one brass crock to use the same duringe her lief and after her decease the same shall remaine to my said Executors And I do hereby appointe & entreat my well beloved Friends Bartholomew Clevanger & Nicholas Edwards to bee the over-seeres of this my last Will & Testamt... Proved on 3 November 1613. Possible Forebears COFFIN CONNECTIONS IN ENGLAND PRIOR TO TRlSTRAM'S GRANDFATHER (information scanned from copy of page 82. Publication name?) No conclusive proof has been found to trace the ancestry of Tristram Coffin (1609-1681) beyond his grandfather Nicholas, except that the descendants of Nathaniel, his grandson through James can positively go back from Nathaniel and his wife Damaris (Gayer) more than fifty generations to the Saxon Viking Cerdic born over 1,500 years ago. However, all who can prove descent from Tristram have two probable lines leading back from him respectively four hundred and five hundred years, each supported by reasonable evidence. The Coffins of Portledge, Devonshire in the parish of Alwington near Bideford, 45 miles North of Plymouth and Brixton, Tristram's nearby village, have resided at Portledge Manor at least since A. D. 1254 and even earlier according to a boundary deed seen by the Rev. John Prince who wrote his treatise on “Worthies of Devon” about 1690. It was written in Saxon, says Prince, "about the time of the Conquest" by the Abbot of Tavistock, granting certain lands to Richard Coffin. Tavistock is 15 miles directly north of Plymouth and 30 miles South of Portledge. The unquestioned antiquity of the Family is further indicated by the appearance of the name in Domesday Book, compiled for tax purposes by order of William the Conqueror in 1006. No evidence has been found that a Coffin accompanied William from Normandy twenty years earlier, but many Normans had settled in England under Edward the Confessor, who was King until six months before the Conquest and were later granted lands taken from the conquered Saxons. The Chateau of Courtitout near Falaise, Norman birthplace of William, was indeed once owned by a Doctor Coffin, but not until after the French Revolution over seven hundred years later. The Portledge connection is fully treated in Allen Coffin's history and is accepted by the family in England (now Pine-Coffin) as shown by the greeting sent to the 1959 Nantucket Reunion by Lt. Col. E. C. Pine-Coffin from Portledge Manor, now owned by the British Government and operated as a resort hotel. A second probable connection has been advocated by Thomas Coffin Amory of Boston, who visited Devonshire and Cornwall after the 1881 Reunion. ln his article published in the Boston Evening Transcript Dec. 20, 1886, he voices the opinion that the Peter Coffin who married Marie Boscawen, daughter of Philipa Carminowe, was the grandfather of Tristram. Extracts from the lengthy article follow: "Mrs. Peter Coffin - born 1551 Nicholas, her son - born 1568 Peter, whose widow died here in Boston 1663 - born 1584 Tristram - born 1609 Nicholas, Peter and Tristram were all eldest sons with sufficient means to Justify the prudence of their assuming the obligations of matrimony." His closing words are: "Mary Boscowen was the mother of Tristram's grandfather Nicholas, which better judges than myself still believe, and shall until stronger reasons than any yet urged can be found against it. T.C.A." With reference to Tristram's birth date being 1609 (as later proved) and not 1605, the article says: "In various memoirs of the Coffins the date of Tristram's birth is set down as 1605. Chase, in his History of Haverhill stated it more probable that Nicholas his grandfather was the son of Peter, whose wife was Mary Boscawen." The English marriage law was 14 years for males, 12 years for females. Tristram's own oldest son was born a month after his twenty-first birthday and one of his grandchildren was born when her father was 19 years old. THE CARMINOWE FAMILY (Page 83. Publication name?) Roger Carminowe held a Knight's fee A. D. l173 and was a witness l220 Robert Carminowe was a witness l235, l256 and 1263 Roger Carminowe married Sara Hornicote, daughter and co-heir of Gervas de Tintagel or de Homicote. Henry II granted the whole County of Cornwall to Henry Fitzcount who granted Tintagel (the traditional birthplace of King Arthur) and Hornicote to Gervas, who left them in 1208 to Robert Tintagel. King John, who had confirmed all the Fitzcount grants in fee in 12l5-16, in l220 ordered their resumption into the King's hands, except the lands of Robert de Tintagel. According to tradition Tristran (or Tristram) and Isolde were buried at Tintagel. Sir Roger Carminowe married Joanna -- He was a Crusader. Sir John Carminowe married Joanna Glyn dr of Sir John Glyn."When Sir John married the daughter and heir of Sir John Glyn, her family estates were added to the already great possessions of the Corminowes, who at one time or another seem to have held more manors in Cornwall than any other three Cornish families." Sir Walter Carminowe married Alice Tinten, daughter of Stephen Tinten. Sir William Carminowe married Margaret Kelley. He was Sheriff of Devon 1391 and M. P. for Cornwall 1407 At the famous suit in which Scrape, Grosvenor, and Carminowe all claimed the same shield, the Court of six Knights found Carminowe to descend from this lineage since King Arthur, and could bear the Shield Entire. The suit was brought in 1389, lasted four years and the verdict in favor of Scrope was confirmed on appeal to the King. Walter Carminowe married Jane Resprin. John Carminowe married Philippa Trenwith. By this marriage became the most famous resident of Cornwall, for his wealth. Nicholas Carminowe married Catherine Wolvedon. Philippa Carminowe married Hugh Boscawen. She owned the village of Plympton, Devon, a few hundred yards from Tristram Coffin's farm at Butlers (now Butlass) in Plympton Erle which her daughter carried to Peter Coffin. (TCA in Life of Adm. Sir lsaac Coffin). Mary Boscawen married Peter Coffin, Gent. She was baptized at Penkivel near Falmouth Jan. 20, 1552. She had a brother Nicholas. The marriage of Peter Coffin to Marie Bascawen of Falmouth in Cornwall, forty miles west of Plymouth, Devon, on the English Coast, carries the line back to Roger Carminowe as above, if this Peter was the father of Nicholas, father of Peter and grandfather of Tristram. The date on Marie Boscawen's tomb here illustrated which is in the little chapel of Penkivel near Falmouth, corresponds reasonably with the probable births of Tristram's father and grandfather, and there is a striking series of coincidences in the names of Marie's Coffin husband, Peter, her mother Philippa, her brother Nicholas and grandfather Nicholas when compared with our Tristram's father Peter, his grandfather Nicholas and his grandfather's brother Philip (he had no sisters). Nicholas Coffyn with the Parish of Brixton, County of Devon, made his will the 12th of September, 1613, and died shortly thereafter, as the will was proved at Totnes Devonshire on the 3rd of November 1613. Four brothers: Tristram, Phillip, Lionel, and Thomas were recorded with no sisters. The will mentions his wife Johan and eldest son Peter with other children Ann, John, and Nicholas, as well as Peter’s son Tristram and daughter Johan. Land in Plympton Erle also mentioned. About Nicholas Coffin He "belonged to an ancient family of gentry in Devonshire. During the thirteenth century one Richard Coffyn was granted free warren in the manor of Alwington by King Henry III, and early in the next century the manor was settled upon another Richard Coffyn, from whose day, until the present time the lordship of the manor has remained in the Coffin family. It is one of the rare instances of an English estate being retained for a period of nearly eight hundred years in one family and continuing the original name. The grounds belonging to the manor comprise most of the parish of Alurington, about three thousand seven hundred acres, near the borough of Bideford in North Devon, which Charles Kingsley so graphically describes in his Westward Ho."2 ___________________ The Coffin line of America can be traced with certainty only to Nicholas Coffyn. Pre-Nicholas lineage is uncertain at best. When ADMIRAL SIR ISAAC COFFIN (Born in America, fought for Britain in Revolutionary war) was being considered for Baronet, He put his best foot forward so to speak, and presented his lineage as nobly as he could, which required some assumptions and suppositions. Apparently the crown bought it, because he got his Baronet, with a new coat of arms. Because no one seems to refer back to the source material, I have plagiarized it here: This is not a primary source, but it is a compilation of various sources, that are the basis for the "Pre-Nicholas Lineage" The life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin: baronet, his English and American ... By Thomas Coffin Amory http://books.google.com/books?id=XC3QAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA5&output=text THE LIFE OF ADMIRAL SIR ISAAC COFFIN, BART. Copyright, 1886, By THOMAS C. AMORY This memoir, in its original form of a discourse, had its limitations of time and topic. Much else might have been added connected with the subject had the occasion allowed. The several histories of Nantucket, the "Life of Tristram Coffin," by Mr. Allen Coffin; of " General John Coffin," by his son, Henry Edward; "The Arms of the Family," by Mr. John Coffin Jones Brown, are well known and accessible. Other sources of information exist in print and manuscript. Bearing in mind that many readers of these pages will find them more instructive if they have at hand what will better explain them, I have borrowed from their pages, under marks of quotation, in the larger part by permission and with grateful acknowledgments. If I have been too bold, I pray their forgiveness. Let me also express my sense of the kindness of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, in permitting me to read what portions of this memoir their limits permitted, in their course, and to have these portions, somewhat extended, inserted in their January Record. Boston, March i, 1886. I. ANCESTRY. The name of Coffin is so widely spread over our continent, so many thousands of men and women of other patronymics take pride in their descent from Tristram, its first American patriarch, that what concerns them all, any considerable branch or distinguished individual of the race, seems rather history than biography. Space forbids my repeating here, as I well might wish, all that has been recorded of their existence in the new world, or that beyond the sea. But what sheds light on Sir Isaac and his immediate progenitors is too germane to my subject to be wholly overlooked. To trace back Tristram to Alwington, follow his fortunes from Plympton in old England to the Merrimack in the new, bring his checkered career to its honored close at Nantucket; to pay due homage to his son James, the upright judge; to his son Nathaniel, the dauntless master mariner, and his wife, Damaris Gayer, the eloquent preacher; to their son William, the much-loved merchant of Boston, senior warden of Trinity; to his son, another Nathaniel, graduate of Harvard and Yale, King's treasurer, and father of Sir Isaac—six generations with Tristram of admirable men, with much to praise and little to censure, is our legitimate purpose, so far as our limits prescribed will permit, before proceeding to our more immediate subject. Though unlike in character, and of very different experiences from his ancestors, Sir Isaac was too remarkable a man to pass into oblivion. His long life, commencing in 1759 m Boston, and ending eighty years later in Cheltenham, England, was crowded with events, many of historic importance. By his native vigor, doughty deeds, and eminent services he rose to distinguished rank in the British navy, became captain of a line-of-battle ship at the age of twenty-two, and was created a baronet at the age of fortyfour. This not from large means, family influence, or court favor, but that his character and conduct afloat and ashore entitled him to such preferment. Throngs of heroic officers won glory in the same wars that he did, attracted attention by more conspicuous achievements; but his fearless daring, zeal, and ability, and what he accomplished, inscribes his memory high up on the roll of honor, if not on the scroll of fame. How far life and character are moulded by circumstances, how far by heredity, is a complicated problem, and the horoscope is too largely affected by maternal influences for these to be disregarded. Though bearing all the marks of his paternal stock, Sir Isaac doubtless owed something to the blood mingling in his veins from other sources, and it has been my endeavor to discover these infusions where I can, and one instance should be preserved for the criticism of coming genealogists—a supposed link that may be of use. Nicholas, father of Peter and grandfather of Tristram, has been regarded as their most remote paternal ancestor ascertained. According to tradition, their line was an offshoot of Alwington, but how, continued a puzzle. Many years ago I bought an old edition of Collins (1758), and while seeking some other information, my eyes fell on the name of Peter Coffin, who about 1560 married Mary, fourth daughter of Hugh Boscawen. Hugh died 1559, at the age of eighty. As the homes of the Boscawens, Tregothnan and Penkeville, lay near Brixton, the home of Tristram, this awakened curiosity, the more that Peter's name was not in the index, and might have escaped the notice of previous genealogical inquirers. Hugh Boscawen, of one of the most affluent and influential families of Cornwall, married Phillippa Carniinow, of large possessions and royal descent, inheriting, through Philip Courtenay, the unfortunate Marquis of Exeter, Plympton, and other estates near Plymouth, part of which we find the inheritance of Tristram. Hugh had seven sons and seven daughters. The third son, Nicholas, eighty-six when he died in 1626, was the successor of his parents in their estates. His sister Mary, who married Peter Coffin, must have been born about 1545, as there were nine younger children than herself born before 1559, when her father died at the age of eighty. Her brass at Penkeville gives her death in 1622. Her age is not very clearly stated, but apparently as seventy-seven. Her son Nicholas, if grandfather of Tristram, would have been of an age, in 1582, to have been father of Peter, who died 1628, and whose wife Joanna, mother of Tristram, died in Boston, 1661, aged seventy-seven, having been born in 1584. If thus, or in any other way, connected with the Coffins, the house of Tregothnan is too historical, and associated with too many important events in our colonial annals, not to make it worthy of note. Lord Falmouth, under Queen Anne, Edward, the commander of the British fleet in the second reduction of Louisbourg, in more recent days, have added to the lustre of a name prolific in naval heroes and eminent statesmen. The importance we attach to this supposed connection is that it affords clews to ascertain the relation of Tristram to Alwington, and as Petronel, the sister of Mrs. Peter Coffin, married Peter Mayhowe, a possible explanation how Thomas Mayhew and Tristram Coffin here together planted Nantucket. Tuckett's Devon Visitations, full as to the main male line of Alwington, are being carried back, extended out, and brought down by Colonel Vivyan, who is approaching the Coffins. My suggestions may help his researches, and they are given for what they are worth. But who was the father of Peter Coffin, who married Mary Boscawen? He must have been born about 1500. If among the recorded members of the family are found individuals whose dates or other known circumstances are inconsistent with the parentage of Peter, that reduces the field of investigation. Sceptical minds reject hypothesis in such researches, but often hypothesis, fairly tested, is the only path to the truth. At Monkley, about ten miles east from Portlege, one of the homes of its junior branches, dwelt at the time James, son of Richard and Miss Chudleigh, whose brother John married Mary Cary. His wife, Mary Cole, was the near kinswoman of William, who married Radigan, daughter of Nicholas Boscawen. Tristram named his sons after his ancestors. James was his fourth son. These circumstances amount to nothing as proof, but may lead to it, or perhaps confirm the conclusion of Mr. Allen Coffin, that the connection with Alwington, if any, is much more remote. Near the close will be found an article on this and other kindred topics, portions of which by his permission I insert. In the sequel will be found the visitation of the Coffins of Portlege. Its examination will show other grounds on which we rest our faith as to the parentage of Peter. It will be seen that in the sixth generation John Coffin married Philippa, daughter and co-heiress of Phillip Hingston. His eldest son Richard, Sheriff of Devon in 1511 (2 Hen. VIII.), married Wilmot, daughter of Sir Richard Chudleigh, famous in legal annals as party in a leading case which bears his name. This marriage took place about 1510. The Sheriff had three sons, John, James, and Edward. The second, James, born as late as 1512, might well have been father of Peter, who, about 1562, married Mary Boscawen. Their son Nicholas, if born in 1563, would have been old enough in 1585 to have been father of Peter, who, the father of Tristram, died in 1628. Wedlock came early when there were few other distractions. Under favorable circumstances life was often prolonged beyond the average limit; but war, exposure, perhaps inferior medical skill, backwardness of medical science, sufficiently explain why so many failed to live out their allotted span. As the line consists mainly of eldest sons, less time embraced these several generations. The best known of the brothers of the Sheriff, Sir William, born about 1480, going to Court, stood high in the estimation of Henry the Eighth. Like Raleigh, later from the same province, he won his way by his wit and courage. He was selected in 1519 by the King as one of the eighteen English knights to take part in the tournament before Guines, in France, with a like number of French gentlemen, practised in arms and renowned for prowess. He was Master of Horse at the coronation of Anne Boleyn, and appointed one of the gentlemen of the King's Privy Chamber, filled to the monarch's satisfaction a position of distinction and influence much coveted at Court. He married Margaret, the daughter of Sir George Dimock, the champion of England, and from her, after his death the wife of Richard Manners, descended the later Dukes of Rutland. Sir William took a prominent part in the Parliament, one ecclesiastical abuse being done away with at his instance.* At Standon, a royal manor, of which he was high steward when he died in 1538, stands his monument. He left no children, and by his will devised his lands to his brother Richard's sons, bequeathed his hawks, hounds, and hunting gear to the King. His brothers James and Thomas had children, but the dates confirm the view that his nephew, James, and Mary Cole were the parents of Peter, who married Mary Boscawen. Doubtless there were other branches of the name, from among which we might look for the ancestry of Tristram. His earliest progenitors in England came over with the Conqueror in 1066. Captain Henry Coffin, in his memoir of General John Coffin, 1880, says that several years before he had visited Falaise, in Normandy, and near that place lay estates owned eight centuries earlier by the Coffins, before they crossed over the Channel to the land of promise. These estates were still the property of their descendants in the female line. Falaise will be remembered as the birthplace of the Conqueror. It is said that the name of Coffin was a corruption or translation of Colvinus, signifying a basket or chest, and that from • This act, limiting the amount of mortuaries, the fees of the parish priest for burial, has been counted one of three statutes mentioned by the historians as ecclesiastical reforms which, from the abuses done away and the debates they provoked, helped to bring about the Reformation. charge of the King's treasure—such employment, like royalty itself, being hereditary—the name attached to the family. The confidence implied by its responsible duties seems explained by the integrity which has been characteristic of all their successive generations. Such virtue was its own reward, and if too generous to be noted for many instances of affluence, they even in that regard were prospered as they multiplied and spread over the earth. Of the first who came over to England little seems known. Westcote tells us that Alwington in 1085, according to Domesday, was possessed by David De la Bere, and that the heiress of that name brought it to the Coffins. On a subject less grave this might be suspected for a jest, but the authority is proof. Sir William Pole, page 386, states that Sir Richard Coffin held two knights' fees there from Robert, the King's son, in the reign of Henry II. Whether earlier than this or later, flourished branches of that name at Combe Coffin, now Combe Pine, in the east of Devon; at Coffin Well, in the south, and at Ingarley in the west, Sir Hugh, Sir Elias, Sir Geoffry, are mentioned in the records later than the first of a long line of Richards who, with some breaks in the continuity of name and knighthood, held Alwington and dwelt there. At Coffin's Ingarley once stood a noble mansion, with a church near by, surrounded by an extensive deer park. Its lord, Sir Elias, about 1200, bore gilded spurs in token of his military rank, and Sir Hugh, of Combe Coffin, his contemporary, was similarly distinguished. They may have been offshoots of Alwington, or that branch of theirs. From among them might possibly have proceeded our branch in this country, but we think not. It must not be forgotten that in the pedigree of Coffin in "the Devon Visitations" there is mention made of a Nicholas, who, so far as regards dates, could not have been Tristram's grandfather. Richard, the sheriff, 1511, was born in all probability thirty years at the least before he was made sheriff. His son John, born about 1510, married Mary Cary, and their second son, John, born after 1569, was not of an age before 1589 to be married. His wife was Grace Berry, daughter of Richard of Berrynarbor. Their third son, Nicholas, aged seven when the visitation was made, probably in 1620, must have been born in 1613, in which year Nicholas, father of Peter, who died in 1628, and grandfather of our Tristram, passed away. It is well also to bear in mind, in connection with this inquiry as to the ancestry of Tristram, that Anna, daughter of Sir William Chudleigh, who died in 1515, married James Coffin, of Portlege, brother of the Sheriff. Her niece Wilmot, daughter of Sir Richard Chudleigh, who died 1558, was the wife of the Sheriff. As the eldest son of Sir Richard Chudleigh, Christopher, was thirty years and more at his father's death, Wilniot might seem to have been much younger than her husband. Still, the expression, " thirty years and more," in legal documents, at the period, was very indefinite. It seemed to leave open the question whether James Coffin and Anna Chudleigh are among the possibilities for the parentage of Peter, great-grandfather of Tristram, James, the Sheriff's son, and Mary Cole, or others yet to be discovered. II. ALWINGTON. But why seek to trace Tristram's lineage to Alwington? The beauty of the place, the character of its long line of proprietors through seven hundred years—one of the very few instances, even in England, in which an estate has remained for so great a length of time in the same family—which has never been sold, sequestered, or confiscated, or passed except by inheritance, will, or family settlement, which has continued not only their chief but constant habitation, suggests a home so enduring, qualities so sterling, that in a world changeable as this it is solacing to every conservative element in our nature to believe we too belong to it. Alwington extends along the Severn Sea, south of the boundary between Somerset and Devon, fronting the broad Atlantic. The mighty billows roll in majestic force against its cliffs and crags. The domain now embraces thirty-eight * hundred acres, part in fertile farms with substantial steadings; part in park and pleasure-grounds, studded with forest trees in clumps and woods. Its area may have expanded in prosperous days, or been shorn down to provide for junior branches; but its grounds are substantially the same now as under the Plantagenets, or when it first came to the Coffins with the heiress of the De la Beres. When we call to mind what this beautiful region embraces from the Severn Sea to its southern shores, Exmoor and Dartmoor, which Blackmore and Kingsley have so brilliantly described, its romantic streams and majestic hills, with their wild sublimity—and who has not read " Lorna Doon "—we can well consider it a privilege that such associations cluster about our-own ancestral memories, that the Coffins and so many Americans from Devon have such good reason to be proud of their mother-country, feel deeper interest in their progenitors that they dwelt amid scenes so picturesque. Our kinswoman, Mrs. Johnson, will pardon me if I draw in- part from her own eloquent account of Portlege what will convey a more perfect idea of the place. The approach from Bideford in Somersetshire south to Portlege, the manor-house of Alwington, extends for four miles along a shaded road, lined on either side with luxuriant hedges, brambled vines, and grasses. Half a mile from the house the road reaches the great gateway, which opens on grounds tastefully disposed; for time and taste and means effect marvels about the old homes of England. Lawns and gardens in a fine state of cultivation spread around, with that depth of verdure and coloring peculiar to the proximity to the sea; for in Devon the grape and peach, if protected, ripen beside the pear and plum. • Late census. The house sets low for shelter from the blasts, and is not conspicuous until closely approached. The spirit of repose that it breathes, of the times that have passed, of the various vicissitudes of sorrow and enjoyment that have cheered or tried its generations, noted for their culture and refinement as they have come and passed from infancy to age, cannot escape your attention in the photograph of the edifice. About the same distance from the house, along the shore, stretches a beach looking out over the Atlantic, to which a shaded walk from the house winds among ferns and groves thick with shrubs and rich with various verdure. Seats judiciously disposed afford a resting-place for the enjoyment of the view and the breeze. About a mile away stands the old church, bosked in mossy foliage, quiet and secluded, no dwelling in sight, venerable with age, if too substantial for decay. Its pews of oak, black with time, are richly carved, as often seen in these ancient shrines. Here more than twenty generations have brought their children in arms to the font, their dead for sepulchre. Here their blooming maidens, their own or their tenants', have come to be joined in wedlock. The walls and floors of the edifice, as the burial ground around it, are crowded with slabs and monuments that relate, with the same touching simplicity, the annals of them all. Within the walls of the mansion, which are of stone, with coigns and buttresses and battlements, windows varied but harmonious, is a large, square entrance hall with gallery on the level of the second floor. This and the spacious dining-room are lined with family portraits; men and women in antiquated garb, representing the blue eyes and characteristic features of the race. Carved doors abound of stately dimensions, and ceilings of faded grandeur, displaying in many colors the emblazonments and quarterings of the family arms and of others of the best, connected with them by marriage. Many are derived from royal and noble progenitors— Pomeroys, Beaumonts, Chudleighs, Courtenays, Prideaux, Carys, Champernouns, Cliffords, Bassets, Damerels, of Devon or adjacent counties. Imagination conjures up the throng of these personages, long mouldered, as on festal occasions they gathered to the banquet or the dance, roamed and wooed by the moonbeams, shot arrows at the targe, let loose the falcon, or rode after the hounds. The ancient forms and arrangements of the mansion, modified to meet as well the requirements of modern taste and comfort as to retain what is old or quaint, combine to constitute Portlege a most agreeable home to dwell in. It was once famous for its precious and extensive library, its archives rich with the accumulations of many generations. Sad to say, about 1800, in the transfer under a settlement to another branch, the books were mostly sold and many documents dispersed. .There still remain vast coffers of manuscript treasures, which in time must perish, but which should, before too late, be arranged, copied, translated into intelligible language, calendared, catalogued, and indexed. Some antiquary of the family may yet be born to the faith that he can devote his days to no better field of service to posterity than such a task. Before taking leave of Alwington, as Tristram's progenitors passed off from the ancestral stem, an enumeration of the succeeding generations from John and Mary Cary may be of interest. Their second son wedded Grace, daughter of Richard Berrie, of Berrianarbor; Richard, the oldest, 1569-1617 (forty-eight), Elizabeth, 1571-1651 (aged eighty), daughter of Leonard Loveis, of Cornwall. With the eight sons and seven daughters of Richard, as they grew into life, Portlege must have been gay, and as the daughters, at least, followed in rapid succession to their nuptials, not even what was disagreeable in the Stuart monarchs or the contentions of the land could have cast a shadow so remote from the court and battle-field. When the mother died, in 1651, James, the fifth son and last survivor, erected in the church of Alwington a monument to the memory of his parents, with an inscription which tells in rude rhymes their story. The eldest of the two sons left two daughters, Jane and Elizabeth, and the inheritance passed to a second Richard, 1622-99, "Without an enemy while living, and universally lamented when dead." His wife was Ann Prideaux, daughter of Edmund, of Padstow, 1645-1705, who died at the age of sixty. He was much esteemed, and in 1686 was sheriff of Devon under James II. The children of the sheriff and Ann Prideaux were Bridget, John, Honora, and Richard. The eldest son married Ann Kellond, travelled extensively over Europe, stood well for character and scholarship, but died at the age of twenty-five in 1703. Honora married Richard Bennett; Dorothy, Richard Pyne, from whom came the Pyne Coffins. Richard, who succeeded his brother John in 1703, for seventy-three years was lord of Alwington, and died there m 1776 unmarried. He settled the estates first on the Bennetts, Robert and Richard, who died without children; and the eversion went to the Pynes descended from Honora, who took the name of Coffin. The present proprietor, born 1841, was the grandson of Richard, great-grandson of the youngest daughter of the sheriff, who died 1699, and Ann Prideaux, who died 1705. As Mr. Pyne Coffin has a large family of fine healthy children, there seems no chance of any of the male line of the Coffins ever succeeding to Alvvington. It is believed the male representation of the family rests in some descendant of Peter Coffin, who about 1560 married Mary Boscawen. A few words remain to be said about them. Phillippa Carminow, mother of Mrs. Mary Coffin, was, as already mentioned, co-heiress of that part of the Courtenay estates which escaped forfeiture when the Marquis of Exeter, next to the crown, was beheaded. Plympton, near the home of Tristram, formed part of the Courtenayinheritance which Phillippa Carminow carried to Hugh Boscawen, of Tregothnan, 1469-1559, as his wife. Their home was at Penkevil, not far up the river from Brixton, and is still the home of the Lords of Falmouth, their representatives. Evidence is found in an inquisition of William and Mary, 1558, of the Coffins, of Portlege, holding lands at Plympton, which may have come through the Boscawen's by this marriage, or perhaps may have led to it. At Plympton and Brixton Nicholas, grandfather of Tristram, and Peter, his father, resided ; and Tristram took, by the will of his father, Peter, subject to his mother's life estate, these lands, or a part of them, which it would seem likely came in this way or through the Hingstons. Many have searched for the ancestral line of Tristram among the records of Devonshire. No one has as yet been able, as already stated, to trace with certainty his pedigree beyond that of his grandfather, Nicholas Coffyn. Sir Isaac, in memorializing the College of Arms, in 1804, for the grant of a coat for himself, represented that he was by tradition descended from the family of Coffin, of the west of England, but that he was unable to ascertain his descent. No doubt seems entertained, however, that the proper investigation of the matter will some time reveal Tristram's true pedigree extending much further back; if not that suggested, what is now unknown will prove as honorable as that which we now know with reasonable certainty. Tristram Coffyn, of Butler's Parish, of Brixton, County of Devon, England, made his will November 16, 1601, which was proved at Totness, in the same county, in 1602. He left legacies to Joan, Anne, and John, children of Nicholas Coffyn; Richard and Joan, children of Lionel Coffyn; Philip Coffyn, and his son Tristram; and appointed Nicholas, son of Nicholas Coffyn, his executor. He was probably the great-uncle of the first of the race in America. Nicholas Coffyn, of Brixton (one account says Butler's Parish), in Devonshire, in his will, dated September 12, 1613, and proved November 3, 1613, mentions his wife Joan, and sons Peter, Nicholas, Tristram, John, and daughter Anne. He was the grandfather of the emigrant to New England, and born about 1560, probably the son of Mary Boscawen. He lived to the end of the reign of the Tudors, and saw the reign of the Stuarts commenced in the person of James VI. of Scotland and I. of England. He died in the reign of James I. (1613). His eldest son, Peter, doubtless succeeded to his estates; and his youngest son, John, acquired some estate, as he made our Tristram his executor. The other sons, Nicholas and Tristram, have not been accounted for; neither has his daughter Anne. Peter Coffyn, of Brixton, in his will, dated December 1, 1627, and proved March 13, 1628, provides that his wife Joan (Thember) shall have possession of the land during her life, and then the said property shall go to his son and heir, Tristram, "who is to be provided for according to his degree and calling." His son John is to have certain property when he becomes twenty years of age. He mentions his daughters Joan, Deborah, Eunice, and Mary, and refers to his tenement in Butler's Parish, called Silferhay. He was the father of the emigrant. John Coffyn, of Brixton, an uncle of the emigrant, who died without issue, in his will, dated January 4, 1628, and proved April 3, 1628, appoints his nephew, Tristram Coffyn, his executor, and gives legacies to all of Tristram's sisters, all under twelve years of age. 2 III. NEW ENGLAND. What motives induced Tristram, in 1642, to dispose of so pleasant an abode and come to America can be conjectured, but are not positively known. It has been said that he had been employed as colonel in command of the garrison at Plymouth, but this is not authenticated, and may have referred to his uncle Tristram; but we do know that in its defence his only brother, John, had been slain. Tristram had married, at the early period customary in those primitive times, Dionis Stevens, and had already five children—Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, James, and John. As his brother John was killed at Plymouth Fort, it may be that Tristram was in the fight. The Stuarts made sorry kings, and the resistance they provoked to their arbitrary rule seems justified. But England was seething on the verge of twenty years of contention, and Tristram, not over-fond of either party, and imperilled by the part he had taken, with ten women and children in his charge, may have been glad to escape persecution for them and himself in America. Two of his four sisters married in Devon. Two, Mary and Eunice, with their mother, his wife, and five children, accompanied him in 1642, the year King Charles placed himself in open array against the parliament. That he came in that of the four vessels—Hector, Griffin, Job Clement, and Margaret Clement, belonging to Captain Robert Clement, that came over in 1642, which Captain Clement himself commanded—is well authenticated. It is known that after a brief residence at Salisbury, he moved up the river that year to what is now the next town, Haverhill, to form that settlement with Clement, on land bought from the Sachem Pasconaway. With this large and dependent family of nine women and children, Tristram crossed the sea, disembarking at the mouth of the Merrimac, where they so long made their home. The births of his other children born in America show the different periods he resided in Salisbury, Haverhill, on the north of the river, and at Newbury, to its south. We have no knowledge of his going far from that neighborhood during the next sixteen years, till he went to Nantucket, though it seems reasonable to suppose that he did so. The property they brought sufficed to support in comfort the families of his mother and his own, and to establish respectably in marriage, as they grew up, his sisters and his sons. He first settled himself at Salisbury, in the three-mile space between the Merrimack and the New Hampshire border, as fixed by the patent; but removed that year to Haverhill, adjoining Salisbury, up the river, for in 1642, in November, his name is attached to an Indian deed there. There Mary, afterward Mrs. Starbuck, was born, and John the first having died, another took his place. In 1648 Tristram removed to Newbury, where his youngest son, Stephen, was added to the family group. After residing there for several years, during which he was licensed to keep an inn and a ferry over the Merrimack, Tristram returned to Salisbury, where he became a county magistrate. Salisbury was close to the border of New Hampshire, and his eldest son, Peter, a merchant and king's counsellor in Dover, in that province, not far removed from Salisbury, married, about 1657, Abigail, daughter of Edward Starbuck; and his second son, Tristram, in 1653, Judith, daughter of Captain Edmund Greenleaf, widow of Henry Somerby. The descendants of this marriage of Tristram, Jr.'s, have ever since occupied this fine old mansion which Somerby had left her, or her father, Captain Greenleaf, bestowed. Edward Starbuck had come over from Derbyshire in 1640, and established himself at Dover. Elder of the Church and Representative, he became a Baptist, and soon after a Quaker. Both he and Thomas Macy are said to have been among the chief promoters of the settlement of Nantucket.* It was no doubt often discussed, and perhaps slowly brought about. Nantucket, an island fifteen miles by four, embracing an area of about thirty thousand acres, lay at the southern extremity of what is now Massachusetts. It was then part of New York, and so remained till 1692. When the project was ripe, and it was concluded to purchase, Tristram, early in 1659, made a voyage of inquiry and observation to the group of islands off the Massachusetts coast with this view. He first visited Martha's Vineyard, whither Thomas Mayhew (1591-1681-90), formerly a merchant in Southampton in England, had, in 1647, removed from Watertown to preach to and convert the Indians. The name of his first wife, Martha Parkurst, he doubtless gave to the vineyard where he so long dwelt gathering souls from the heathen. • Fifteen miles by eleven in the widest part, and twenty miles south of the peninsular of Cape Cod, iso miles S.S.E. of Boston. Latitude 41° 13' to 410 21'N.; longitude 69° 56* to 70° 13'. Population, 1820, 7,266. In 1824 Sir Isaac was there; in 1826, 352 vessels engaged in the fisheries, 2,392 in the coasting trade, entered its port. This was before the era of steam.—Lieber*s Enc. Am. We are inclined to believe, though we have no conclusive proof, that the attention of Tristram was first called to Nantucket by Mayhew, and the question suggests itself whether it had not been from consanguinity that Mayhew proposed or urged the settlement. He held, in 1649, a conveyance of Nantucket, as he did of Martha's Vineyard, from Lord Sterling. Born in 1591, Petronel Boscawen, sister of Mary, may have been his mother or grandmother. That Mary Boscawen was Tristram's great-grandmother seems more than probable. Southampton, by sea, is not far from Plymouth. It is the seaport of Wiltshire. Mayhew named two towns on the Vineyard from places in that county. Mayhew and Mayhowe bear the same arms, and are corruptions or variations of the same name. If Thomas Mayhew, born 1591, was son or grandson of that Petronel Boscawen, sister of Mrs. Peter Coffin, who married Peter Mayhowe, as mentioned in Collins, Mayhew would have been kinsman of Tristram not remote. Whether this be so or not, Thomas Mayhew, having procured for himself and son, in 1641, from Lord Sterling and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, conveyances of both the islands, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, eighteen years later (July 2, 1659) conveyed Nantucket to Tristram Coffin and his associates, reserving about a tenth part for himself. He sent Peter Folger, grandfather of Benjamin Franklin, who had come with him from Watertown, and was familiar with the Indian languages, with Tristram to explore. Tristram, soon after reaching Nantucket, purchased of Potinot, an Indian sagamore, the island of Tuckernuck, at its westerly end, containing a thousand acres. Whether James Coffin came with his father, Tristram, at that time, or later in the fall with Thomas Macy, Edward Starbuck, and Isaac Colman, after his father's return to Salisbury, is not clear, but James remained through the winter on the island as they did. May 10, 1660, the sachems of Nantucket conveyed to the associates for j£So a large part of the island,*Peter Folger being witness. IV. NANTUCKET. Early in 1660, Tristram, with his family, came to Nantucket. Possibly some delay took place, as regarded them, in providing habitations. It was not long, however, before enough of the settlers and their families had arrived for their security and to plant their crops. Besides Tuckernuck, the Coffins had thus a quarter of the island, and much more in the sequel became theirs. Tristram took the lead from the first among the settlers, and was frequently selected to transact important public business. His letters to the colonial government of New York, of which province Nantucket was then a dependency, are preserved in the archives of the Department of State at Albany. Biography Above date of death is actually the date he was buried. Will In the name of God, Amen the twelveth day of september in the eleaventh yeere of the Raigne of our Sovraigne Lord James... Anno Dni 1613 I Nicholas Coffyn of Buttlers wth in the pysh of Brixton in the countye of Devon Husbandman beinge weake of bodye but pfect in minde thankes bee therefore given to Allmightie God do make this my last Will and Testamt... Itm I give and bequeath to Ann Meader the Daughtr of Eliner Meader five shillings Itm I give and bequeath to Peter Coffyn my eldest Sonne my greatest brasse pann and my minde is that my Wief shall have the use thereof during her lief Itm I give & bequeath to Tristram Coffyn my Sonnes Sonne one yearling Bollock Itm I give & Bequeath to Johun Coffyn my Sonnes Daughtr one sheepe Itm I give and bequeath to every of my God-children twelve pence apeece Itm I give & bequeath to Johan Coffyn my Wief one bay nag wch we use to call Rowse Itm I give bequeath will and devise unto Nicholas Coffyn my Sonne All such right term of yeares intrest and demand as I myself my Executors or Assignes now have or here after may or ought to have of & in one tenemt with his appttennce sett lying and being in Plimton Earle in the Countye of Devon aforesaid wherein one Thomas Spurwell there now dwelleth to githr three closes or pcells of land therunto belonging whereof the first is Called or knowen by the name of Fortie Acres the second Wallford als Woodpke and the third the Meadow belowe the waie all wch recited prmisses I have and hold of and by the demise & grante of Willm Moulton of Plimpton Earle aforesaide Gent.... And in consideracon hereof My Will and intent is that my said Son Nicholas Coffyn shall within one whole yeere after my decease well & truely content and paie unto my Daughtr Ann Coffyn thirteene pounds sixe shillings and eight pence of lawfull money of England... And likewise the said Nicholas my Sonne shall after my decease paie unto my Sonne John Coffyn eight shillings yeerely during there naturall lives or as long as they two shall live togither. The residue of all my goods and chattles moveable and unmoveable as well quickstuffe & corne as implemts of household & all other goods of what quality soever the same bee not before by these presents given nor bequeathed I give & bequeathe to the foresaid Nicholas Coffyn & John Coffyn my Sonnes whome I make & ordaine to be my joynt Executors of this my last Will & Testamt Provided allwaies that my Wief shall have the bed steed bedd & bedd clothes thereunto belonging wherein I do usually lie one brasse pann & one brass crock to use the same duringe her lief and after her decease the same shall remaine to my said Executors And I do hereby appointe & entreat my well beloved Friends Bartholomew Clevanger & Nicholas Edwards to bee the over-seeres of this my last Will & Testamt... Proved on 3 November 1613. Nicholas Coffin Birth: Nov., 1561 Brixton South Hams District Devon, England Death: Oct. 8, 1613 Brixton South Hams District Devon, England Son of Peter Coffin b. 1535 and Mary Boscawen Coffin (1545-1622). Nicholas was Christened in 1568 at Butler's Parish, Brixton, Devon, England. Nicholas married Joan Avent Babaut (b.Sep, 1560) in abt 1579. Children were (1)Eleanor Coffin b.1578, (2)Peter b.Jan, 1580 m. Joanna Kember, (3)Joane Coffin b.1582 d.1610 (4)Tristram b.1584, (5)Nicholas b.Mar,1587 d. aft 1628, (6)John b.Mar,1586, (7)Anne b.May,1588. Nicholas Coffin died October 8th,1613 in Brixton, and was buried 3 November,1613 in Brixton, Devon, England. Family links: Spouse: Joan Avent Babaut Coffin (1560 - 1614)* Children: Peter Coffin (1580 - 1628)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Unknown Specifically: Unknown GPS (lat/lon): 39.436, 122.9411 Created by: Robert Dunbar Austin Jr Record added: Mar 05, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 86300610 What a grand reunion we will have. Julie - julie Added: Apr. 4, 2018 14th great grandfather - aquila Added: Mar. 22, 2018 In memory of my 10th great grandfather. - Carol Yeatman Added: Mar. 12, 2018 There are 22 more notes not showing... Click here to view all notes... JOAN AVENT BABAUT was born in September 1560, Brixham, Devonshire, England, to John Plympton Avent (1553-) and Marla Avent (1535-1587.) She married Nicholas Coffin about 1577 of Brixton, Devonshire, England. Joan Avent Babaut passed away 5 February 1614, Brixton, Devonshire, England, age 54. Devonshire, England Joan Avent was born circa 1560 at Butler, Brixton, Devonshire, England. She married Nicholas Coffin, son of Tristram Coffin and Joan, circa 1579. Joan Avent was buried on 5 February 1614 at Butler, Brixton, Devonshire, England. Family Nicholas Coffin b. Nov 1561, d. 8 Oct 1613Child • Peter Coffin+ b. c 1580, d. 13 Mar 1628 Children of Nicholas Coffyn and Joan UNKNOWN: 1. Eleanor Coffin (1578-1623) 2. *CAPTAIN PETER TRISTAM COFFIN was born about 1580, of Portledge, Iwlington Parrish, Devon, England, to Nicholas Coffyn (1561-1613) and Joan Unknown (1550-1614.) He married Joanna Kember about 1602. He was a Church warden in Brixton, Devon, England, 1614-1615. Peter Coffyn’s will was probated 13 Mar 1627, Brixton, Devon, England. He was about 43 years old. 3. Joan Coffin, b. 1582; d. 27 Dec 1610. 4. Eunice Coffin (1582-) 5. John Coffin (1586-1624) 6. Tristram Coffin (1586-1624) 7. Nicholas Coffin, b. 1587; d. 1628 8. Anne Coffin (1588-) + 7.a. LORD JOHN PLYMPTON AVENT (1553-) \\ MARIA UNKNOWN (1535-1587) \\ LORD JOHN PLYMPTON AVENT was born about 1553 of Brixton, Devonshire, England, to unknown parents. He married (1) *Marla Avent; (2) Ionisia Stevens. John Avent died at unknown date of Penshurst, Kent, England. Child of John and Maria Avent: 1. *JOAN AVENT BABAUT (1560-1614) + 8. CAPTAIN PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN (1580-1627) 8.a. JOANNA KEMBER (1584-1661) CAPTAIN PETER TRISTRAM COFFIN COFFYN was born about 1580, of Brixton, Devon, England, to Nicholas Coffyn (1561-1613) and Joan Avent Babaut (1560-1614.) He married Joanna Kember about 1604 of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. Peter Tristram Coffin died Between 21 December 1627 and 13 March 1627/28, Briston, Devonshire, England, age 47. He was a Church warden in Brixton, Devon, England, 1614-1615. Peter Coffyn’s will was probated 13 Mar 1627, Brixton, Devon, England, and proved by his widow on the 13th of March 1627/8. He was about 43 years old. About Peter Coffin Ancient Coffins in France Peter Coffin was born in 1584 at Brixton, Devon, England and died Dec 1 1627. Parents were Nicholas Coffin and Joan Avent He married Joan Kember, daughter of Robert Kember and Anne (--?--), in 1604 at Brixton, Devon, England. Children of Peter Coffin and Joan Kember were as follows: 1. Christian; married Thomas Davis; born 1605; died 1688. 2. Tristam, born 1609 at Plymouth, Devonshire, England; married Dionis Stevens. 3. Joan; married Joseph Hull; born 1611 at Brixton, Devonshire, England; died 2 Oct 1681 at England. 4. Peter; born 1613. 5. Deborah; died at England; born 1616 at Brixton, Devonshire, England; married William Stevens, son of Robert Stevens and Dionis (--?--), 25 Jun 1640 at England. 6. Eunice; born 1617 at Brixton, Devonshire, England; married William Butler after 1642; died 1648. 7. Mary, born 1619 at Brixton, Devonshire, England; married Alexander Adams. 8. John; born 1625 at England; died 1642 at Plymouth Fort. Will proved Mar 13 1628: To Joan, land during her life, and at her decease to go to his son and heir Tristam, ' who is to be provided for according to his degree and calling '. To son John certain property when 20 years of age. mentions daughters, Joan, Deborah, Eunice, Mary. He refers to tenement in Butlers parish called Silverhay. • May 1661- His widow Joan died in Boston Mass. The Rev. Mr. Wilson who preached the funeral sermon spoke of her as a woman of remarkable character. One Hundred Sixty Allied Families by John O. Austin ** His will was proved 13 March 1628[1] Will Summary: Bequests to: wife Joan, son and heir Tristram, son John not yet 20 years of age, daughters Joan, Deborah, Eunice and Mary under 20, mentions brother Nicholas.[1] In the name of God, Amen, ye 21st day of December in ye third yeare of the raigne of our Sovraigne Lord Charles... I peter Coffyn of the Parish of Brixton in ye County of Devon being sick of body but in perfect minde and memory (thanks be to God) doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament... Item I give and bequeath unto Tristram Coffyn my Sonne one feather bedd... my best brasen panne and my best brasen crocke Item I give and bequeath unto Johan Coffyn my Wife ye issues pfitts and comodities of all my lands tenements & hereditaments wth in ye sayd Parish of Brixton dureing her widdowhood she yeelding and payinge therefor yearly unto the sayd Tristram my Sonne his heirs and assignes the summe of Fifty shillings of lawfull English money at ye four most usual feasts of the year and also sufficient meat drink & clothes and convenient lodgings unto ye sayd Tristram according to his degree and callinge dureing her Widdowhood onely And if it happen ye sayd yearly rent of Fifty shillings or any part thereof to be behinde and unpayd that then and from thenceforth itt may and shall be lawfull to and for the sayd Tristram Coffyn his heirs and assignes unto all and singular the said prmises to enter and distraine and the distress so there taken from thence to lead drive carry away & empound and impound to detaine and keepe untill ye sayd rent of Fifty shillings with the arrearages of the same (if any bee) shall bee to him or them fully answered and payd. And further it is my Will that if the sayd Johan my Wife shall happen to marry that she shall immediately thereupon loose all ye pfitts commodities and right of that one tenement called Silferhey lying in Butlers in ye parish of Brixton aforesayd which duringe her Widdowhood by my Will she is to have and ye same to redound & be immediately in the possession of my Sonne Tristriam his heirs and assignes Item I doe give and bequeath unto my Sonne Tristriam All my lands rents reversions services & hereditamts with the appurtenances whatsoever sett lying & being wthin ye sayd County of Devon To have and to hold ye same and every part and parcel thereof to ye sayd Tristriam Coffyn his heirs and assignes forever to ye only pfitt & behoof of the said Tristriam Coffyn his heirs and assignes to be holden of the chiefe Lord and Lords of the Fee thereof by the rents and services therefor yearly due and payable and my Will farther is that if the said Tristriam my Sonne shall chance to dy without an heir male lawfully begotten or to be begotten of his body that then all the prmisses last mentioned I given to him shall redound unto John Coffyn my Sonne his heirs and assignes accordingly and in ye same manner that it should to ye said Tristriam my Sonne Item I doe give and bequeath unto Johan Coffyn Deborah Coffyn Eunice Coffyn and Mary Coffyn my four Daughters to each of them severally Thirty pounds in money that is to say amongst them CXX£ to be payd when they or each of them severally shall be of the full age of twentie years Itm I give and bequeath unto John Coffyn my Sonne Fourty pounds in money to be payd him when hee shall be of the age of twenty years. Item I give & bequeath unto the child wc my Wife now goeth withal the sume of Thirty pounds in money to be payd when he or she shall be of the age of twentie years. Provided always & my mind & will is that if either Johan Coffyn Deborah Coffyn Eunice Coffyn Mary Coffyn John Coffyn of ye child my Wife goeth withal happen to dy before he she or they doe come to ye age of twenty years that then his her or their portion or portions shall be equally divided amongst the survivors Item All ye rest of the goods chattels and cattells not before given nor bequeathed I doe give and bequeath unto Johan Coffyn my Wife whome I make constitute and ordaine my full and whole Executrix...I doe intreat... my brother in law Phillip Avent and my Brother Niclas Coffyn to ye Overseers..." Proved on 13 March 1627/8. The inventory amounted to £236/5/17. Wikitree: Peter Coffin, was a resident of Brixton, co. Devonshire, in 1628, when he made his will.[1] Birth Date: ABT 1580 Place: Portledge, Parish of Ilwington, England[2] Marriage Peter Coffin married Joana Thember[1] Children listed in will Child: Tristam Coffin b. in England 1609; d. in Nantucket 2 Oct 1681[1] Johan/Joan Coffyn, prob. d. in England[1] Deborah Coffyn, who probably died in England[1] Child: Eunice Coffin b. England; m. William Butler of New England.[1] Child: Mary Coffin b. in England; m. Alexander Adams; had five children; Samuel b. 1656, John, Mary, Susannah, and Elizabeth, who m. William Parkman, of Boston.[1] John Coffyn b. England; d. in Plymouth-Fort.[1] ye child my Wife goeth with. No further record. Marriage: Date: BEF 1610 DATE 31 DEC 1609 Place: England[3] Death His will was proved 13 March 1628[1] Will Summary: Bequests to: wife Joan, son and heir Tristram, son John not yet 20 years of age, daughters Joan, Deborah, Eunice and Mary under 20, mentions brother Nicholas.[1] In the name of God, Amen, ye 21st day of December in ye third yeare of the raigne of our Sovraigne Lord Charles... I peter Coffyn of the Parish of Brixton in ye County of Devon being sick of body but in perfect minde and memory (thanks be to God) doe make and ordaine this my last Will and Testament... Item I give and bequeath unto Tristram Coffyn my Sonne one feather bedd... my best brasen panne and my best brasen crocke Item I give and bequeath unto Johan Coffyn my Wife ye issues pfitts and comodities of all my lands tenements & hereditaments wth in ye sayd Parish of Brixton dureing her widdowhood she yeelding and payinge therefor yearly unto the sayd Tristram my Sonne his heirs and assignes the summe of Fifty shillings of lawfull English money at ye four most usual feasts of the year and also sufficient meat drink & clothes and convenient lodgings unto ye sayd Tristram according to his degree and callinge dureing her Widdowhood onely And if it happen ye sayd yearly rent of Fifty shillings or any part thereof to be behinde and unpayd that then and from thenceforth itt may and shall be lawfull to and for the sayd Tristram Coffyn his heirs and assignes unto all and singular the said prmises to enter and distraine and the distress so there taken from thence to lead drive carry away & empound and impound to detaine and keepe untill ye sayd rent of Fifty shillings with the arrearages of the same (if any bee) shall bee to him or them fully answered and payd. And further it is my Will that if the sayd Johan my Wife shall happen to marry that she shall immediately thereupon loose all ye pfitts commodities and right of that one tenement called Silferhey lying in Butlers in ye parish of Brixton aforesayd which duringe her Widdowhood by my Will she is to have and ye same to redound & be immediately in the possession of my Sonne Tristriam his heirs and assignes Item I doe give and bequeath unto my Sonne Tristriam All my lands rents reversions services & hereditamts with the appurtenances whatsoever sett lying & being wthin ye sayd County of Devon To have and to hold ye same and every part and parcel thereof to ye sayd Tristriam Coffyn his heirs and assignes forever to ye only pfitt & behoof of the said Tristriam Coffyn his heirs and assignes to be holden of the chiefe Lord and Lords of the Fee thereof by the rents and services therefor yearly due and payable and my Will farther is that if the said Tristriam my Sonne shall chance to dy without an heir male lawfully begotten or to be begotten of his body that then all the prmisses last mentioned I given to him shall redound unto John Coffyn my Sonne his heirs and assignes accordingly and in ye same manner that it should to ye said Tristriam my Sonne Item I doe give and bequeath unto Johan Coffyn Deborah Coffyn Eunice Coffyn and Mary Coffyn my four Daughters to each of them severally Thirty pounds in money that is to say amongst them CXX£ to be payd when they or each of them severally shall be of the full age of twentie years Itm I give and bequeath unto John Coffyn my Sonne Fourty pounds in money to be payd him when hee shall be of the age of twenty years. Item I give & bequeath unto the child wc my Wife now goeth withal the sume of Thirty pounds in money to be payd when he or she shall be of the age of twentie years. Provided always & my mind & will is that if either Johan Coffyn Deborah Coffyn Eunice Coffyn Mary Coffyn John Coffyn of ye child my Wife goeth withal happen to dy before he she or they doe come to ye age of twenty years that then his her or their portion or portions shall be equally divided amongst the survivors Item All ye rest of the goods chattels and cattells not before given nor bequeathed I doe give and bequeath unto Johan Coffyn my Wife whome I make constitute and ordaine my full and whole Executrix...I doe intreat... my brother in law Phillip Avent and my Brother Niclas Coffyn to ye Overseers..." Proved on 13 March 1627/8. The inventory amounted to £236/5/17. Joanna (Joan) Coffin formerly Kember aka Thember Born about Apr 1584 in Brixton, Devon, England Daughter of Robert Kember and Anna (UNKNOWN) Kember Sister of Jane Kember, Unknown (Kember) Bartlett and John Kember Wife of Peter Coffin — married 1608 in Brixton,,Devon,England Descendants Mother of Joane Coffin, Christian (Coffin) Davis, Tristram Coffin Sr., Agnes Coffin, Peter Coffyn, Deborah (Coffin) Stevens, Joanna Coffin, Eunice Coffyn, Mary (Coffin) Adams, Ruth Coffin, John Coffin and Infant Coffin Died 30 May 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Profile managers: Loren Fay [send private message], Grant Glover [send private message], Glenn York [send private message], Kevin Gerald Ryan [send private message], John Putnam [send private message], and Douglas Coldwell [send private message] Kember-3 created 14 Apr 2010 | Last modified 8 Feb 2017 • 1 Biography • 1.1 Name • 1.2 Birth • 1.3 Event • 1.4 Source • 1.5 Note • 1.6 Marriage Biography Peter Coffin of Brixton married Joan Thember or Thumber, and died in 1627-8; she came to New England with her son, and died at Boston 30 May 1661[1] She came to New England with her son Tristriam on the ship Hector in 1642 settling in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Name Name: Joanna /Kember/ Source: #S1439304415 Note: http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=agbi&h=2258958&ti=5543&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1584Birth place: Eng, Massachusetts APID: 3599::2258958 Source: #S-2130452364 Note: http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=millind&h=10167639&ti=5543&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1586Birth place: Brixton, Devon, England APID: 7249::10167639 Source: #S1408038301 Note: Coffin Marriages http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=8ee740c2-ba94-4e1e-8a94-bb039eac73c3&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Marriage Husband: Peter Coffin Wife: Joanna Kember Child: Tristram Coffin Relationship to Father: Natural Relationship to Mother: Natural Child: Joanna Agnes Coffin Relationship to Father: Natural Relationship to Mother: Natural Child: Eunice Coffin Relationship to Father: Natural Relationship to Mother: Natural Child: Mary Coffin Relationship to Father: Natural Relationship to Mother: Natural Child: John Coffin Relationship to Father: Natural Relationship to Mother: Natural Child: Deborah Coffin Relationship to Father: Natural Relationship to Mother: Natural Marriage: Date: 1608 Place: Brixton, Devon, England Source: #S1408038301 Page: Source number: 643.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DJC. Note: http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=worldmarr_ga&h=681855&ti=5543&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1584Birth place: EnMarriage date: 1608Marriage place: En APID: 7836::681855 Source: #S1408038301 Page: Source number: 643.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: DJC. Note: http://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=worldmarr_ga&h=253583&ti=5543&indiv=try&gss=pt Peter Coffin Birth: Jan., 1580 Brixton South Hams District Devon, England Death: Mar. 13, 1628 Brixton South Hams District Devon, England Son of Nicholas Coffin b.1561 and Joan Babaut Coffin b.1560. Married Joanna Kember 3-1608 in Brixton, Devon, England.b Children were Tristram b.1605, Joane b.6-1611, Peter b.abt 2-20-1613, Deborah b.abt 1613, Deborah b.3-1616, Eunice b.abt 3-22-1617, Mary b.2-1620, Ruth b.9-10-1623 d.11-11-1623, John b. 11-1625, Child Coffin b.12-21-1627 d.12-21-1627 Family links: Parents: Nicholas Coffin (1561 - 1613) Joan Avent Babaut Coffin (1560 - 1614) Spouse: Joanna Kember Coffin (1584 - 1661)* Children: Joanna Coffin Hull (1602 - 1632)* Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681)* Eunice Coffin Butler (1617 - 1648)* Mary Coffin Adams (1621 - 1691)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Unknown Specifically: Unknown Created by: Robert Dunbar Austin Jr Record added: Mar 07, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 86394078 [1642] JOANNA KEMBER was born about 1584, of Butler’s Parish, Braxton, Devon, England, to Robert Kember (1556-1612) and Anne Moullinge (1560-1626.) She married Peter Coffyn about 1604 of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. She immigrated in 1642 from England to Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, with her son Tristram and family, and two daughters Enice and Mary. She was 58 years old. Nicholas Coffyn, of Brixton (one account says Butler's Parish), in Devonshire, in his will, dated September 12, 1613, and proved November 3, 1613, mentions his wife, Joan, and sons Peter, Nicholas, Tristram, John, and daughter Anne. He was the grandfather of the emigrant to New England. Peter Coffyn, of Brixton, in his will, dated December 1, 1627, and proved March 13, 1628, provides that his wife, Joan (Thember) shall have possession of the land during her life, and then the said property shall go to his son and heir, Tristram, "who is to be provided for according to his degree and calling." His son John is to have certain property when he becomes 20 years of age. He mentions his daughters Joan, Deborah, Eunice and Mary, and refers to his tenement in Butler's Parish called Silferhay. He was the father of the emigrant. Joanna Kember passed away 30 May 1661, in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, at about 77 years old. FROM GENI: COFFIN Nicholas and Joan Coffin and their children, Peter, Tristram Nicholas and Anne, were born in the Coffin homestead, in the praish of Bixton, five miles from Plymouth, Devonshire, England. The homestead had been in the possession of the Coffin family for five hundred years when Tristram Coffin, the progenitor of the American Coffins, was born, and it is now (1908), after eight hundred years, still in possession of a descendant, John Pine Coffin, who in 1907 had a family of ten children under its roof. As the mother of the immigrant Tristram came with the family to America representing a generation, we name her husband, although he never saw America, as the first generation, in the order of our custom. He was a man of wealth and belonged to the gentry of the shire, and his eldest son, Tristram, inherited his estate. (I) Peter Coffin, son of Nicholas and Jane Coffin, was born on the Coffin estate at Brixton, Devonshire, England, about 1580, and died there in 1627-28. He married Joan, or Joanna, Thember, and their six children were born and baptized in the Parish of Brixton, Devonshire, England, in the order following: 1. Tristram (q.v.), b. 1605. 2. John, b. abt. 1608. He was a soldier and died in the service from a moral wound received in battle during the four years siege of the fortified town during the civil war, and he died within the walls of the town about 1642. 3. Joan, born in England about 1609, probably died there. 4. Deborah, died probably in England. 5. Eunice, born in England, came to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her parents; married William Butter and died in 1648. 6. Mary, married Alexander Adams, and had children: Mary, Susannah, John and Samuel. She died in 1677, or thereabouts. Widow Joan, with her children, Tristram, Eunice, and Mary, and her two sons-in-law, husbands of her daughters who were married in England, her daughter-in-law, Dionis, and five grandchildren, came to Salisbury in 1642. She died in Boston in May, 1661, aged seventy-six years, and in the notice of her funeral it is quaintly stated that the Rev. Mr. Wilson "embalmed her memory." " Peter Coffin of Brixton married Joan Thember or Thumber, and died in 1627-8; she came to New England with her son, and died at Boston 30 May 1661[1] Came to New England 1642, with children Tristram, Mary, Eunice. Joan died May 1661 age 77 years (b.c. 1584).[2] About Joanna Coffin As a widow: Joanna Coffin (Thember) arrived New England 1642. The Coffin family: the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder ... By Allen Coffin http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA18&dq=Joan%20coffyn%20peter%20coffyn&ei=zYOjTfXFF82cgQea4rjaBQ&ct=result&id=X9AUAAAAYAAJ&output=text Nicholas Coffyn, of Brixton (one account says Butler's Parish), in Devonshire, in his will, dated September 12, 1613, and proved November 3, 1613, mentions his wife, Joan, and sons Peter, Nicholas, Tristram, John, and daughter Anne. He was the grandfather of the emigrant to New England. Peter Coffyn, of Brixton, in his will, dated December 1, 1627, and proved March 13, 1628, provides that his wife, Joan (Thember) shall have possession of the land during her life, and then the said property shall go to his son and heir, Tristram, "who is to be provided for according to his degree and calling." His son John is to have certain property when he becomes 20 years of age. He mentions his daughters Joan, Deborah, Eunice and Mary, and refers to his tenement in Butler's Parish called Silferhay. He was the father of the emigrant. John Coffyn, of Brixton, an uncle of the emigrant, who died without issue, in his will, dated January 4, 1628, and proved April 3, 1628, appoints his nephew, Tristram Coffyn, his executor, and gives legacies to all of Tristram's sisters, all under 12 years of age. Nicholas Coffyn, the grandfather of Tristram, was probably born, about the middle of the sixteenth century, in the reign of Edward . (1550). He lived to the end of the reign of the Tudors, and saw the reign of the Stuarts commenced in the person of James VI. of Scotland and I. of England. He died in the reign of James I. (1613). His eldest son, Peter, doubtless succeeded to his estates; and his youngest son, John, acquired some estate, as he made our Tristram his executor. The other sons, Nicholas and Tristram, have not been accounted for, neither has his daughter Anne. Peter Coffyn, the father of Tristram, must have been born during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, about the year 1580. He died about the close of the year 1627 or early in the year 1628. At present we know of but little more of Tristram's father than we do of his grandfather, save that he married Joan Thember (or Thumber) and had two sons and four daughters, of whom Tristram was the eldest, the other son, John, having died in Plymouth Fort, England, after receiving a mortal wound. Tristram Coffyn was born at Brixton, near Plymouth, county of Devon, England, during the reign of James I., in the year 1605, as previously stated. He married Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens, Esq., of Brixton, about the year 1630. The particular causes or circumstances which induced his emigration to America have been a subject of profound study and mature deliberation. If we look at the contemporaneous history of England we shall find that the time which covers Tristram's mature life in England, about fifteen years, marks a most eventful period—the moment when intellectual freedom was claimed unconditionally by Englishmen as an inalienable right, and when ecclesiastical forms were not spared by the revolutions of the time. ________________________________________ http://www.archive.org/stream/coffinfamilylife00coff#page/17/mode/1up Pg 18 Refers to Nicolas Coffyn's wife as "Joan" Tristram Sr's father Peter Coffyn's wife is refered to as "Joan Thember" ________________________________________ Birth: 1584 Brixton Devon, England Death: May 30, 1661 Boston Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA Joanna Kember was the daughter of Anna and John Thember (Kember). She was the wife of Peter Coffin, married 3-1608 in Brixton, Devon, England. Children were Tristram b.1605, Joane b.1611, Peter b.2-20-1613, Deborah b.1616, Eunice b.abt 3-2-1617, Mary b.2-1620, Ruth b.9-10-1623, John b.11-1625, child Coffin B.12-21-1627 d. 12-21-1627 Family links: Spouse: Peter Coffin (1580 - 1628) Children: Joanna Coffin Hull (1602 - 1632)* Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681)* • Calculated relationship Burial: Unknown Specifically: Unknown Created by: Robert Dunbar Austin Jr Record added: Mar 07, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 86394544 attached document quote "COFFIN Nicholas and Joan Coffin and their children, Peter, Tristram Nicholas and Anne, were born in the Coffin homestead, in the praish of Bixton, five miles from Plymouth, Devonshire, England. The homestead had been in the possession of the Coffin family for five hundred years when Tristram Coffin, the progenitor of the American Coffins, was born, and it is now (1908), after eight hundred years, still in possession of a descendant, John Pine Coffin, who in 1907 had a family of ten children under its roof. As the mother of the immigrant Tristram came with the family to America representing a generation, we name her husband, although he never saw America, as the first generation, in the order of our custom. He was a man of wealth and belonged to the gentry of the shire, and his eldest son, Tristram, inherited his estate. (I) Peter Coffin, son of Nicholas and Jane Coffin, was born on the Coffin estate at Brixton, Devonshire, England, about 1580, and died there in 1627-28. He married Joan, or Joanna, Thember, and their six children were born and baptized in the Parish of Brixton, Devonshire, England, in the order following: 1. Tristram (q.v.), b. 1605. 2. John, b. abt. 1608. He was a soldier and died in the service from a moral wound received in battle during the four years siege of the fortified town during the civil war, and he died within the walls of the town about 1642. 3. Joan, born in England about 1609, probably died there. 4. Deborah, died probably in England. 5. Eunice, born in England, came to Massachusetts Bay Colony with her parents; married William Butter and died in 1648. 6. Mary, married Alexander Adams, and had children: Mary, Susannah, John and Samuel. She died in 1677, or thereabouts. Widow Joan, with her children, Tristram, Eunice, and Mary, and her two sons-in-law, husbands of her daughters who were married in England, her daughter-in-law, Dionis, and five grandchildren, came to Salisbury in 1642. She died in Boston in May, 1661, aged seventy-six years, and in the notice of her funeral it is quaintly stated that the Rev. Mr. Wilson "embalmed her memory." " She came to New England with her son Tristram on the ship Hector in 1642 settling in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Died 30 May 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Birth Birth: Date: 1584 Place: Brixton, Devon, England[3][4][5] Links to pages posted at Ancestry Note: joan Kemper http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a8a725f-231b-4004-93e5-3d5344f1e805&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Note: peter&tristam http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=bc55a9cb-dab5-4947-a3bc-7fc3d5cd784d&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Note: Coffin Marriages http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=8ee740c2-ba94-4e1e-8a94-bb039eac73c3&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Marriage Husband: Peter Coffin Wife: Joanna Kember married 1608 in Brixton, Devon, England[6] Child: Tristram Coffin b. in England 1609; d. in Nantucket 2 Oct 1681[2] Child: Joanna (no Agnes) Coffin prob. d. in England[2] Child: Eunice Coffin b. England; m. William Butler of New England.[2] Child: Mary Coffin b. in England; m. Alexander Adams; had five children; Samuel b. 1656, John, Mary, Susannah, and Elizabeth, who m. William Parkman, of Boston.[2] Child: John Coffin b. England; d. in Plymouth-Fort.[2] Child: Deborah Coffin who probably died in England[2] ye child my Wife goeth with (in will) No further record. Joanna (Joan) Coffin formerly Kember aka Thember Born about Apr 1584 in Brixton, Devon, England Daughter of Robert Kember and Anna (UNKNOWN) Kember Sister of Jane Kember, Unknown (Kember) Bartlett and John Kember Wife of Peter Coffin — married 1608 in Brixton,,Devon,England Descendants Mother of Joane Coffin, Christian (Coffin) Davis, Tristram Coffin Sr., Agnes Coffin, Peter Coffyn, Deborah (Coffin) Stevens, Joanna Coffin, Eunice Coffyn, Mary (Coffin) Adams, Ruth Coffin, John Coffin and Infant Coffin Died 30 May 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA Profile managers: Loren Fay [send private message], Grant Glover [send private message], Glenn York [send private message], Kevin Gerald Ryan [send private message], John Putnam [send private message], and Douglas Coldwell [send private message] Kember-3 created 14 Apr 2010 | Last modified 8 Feb 2017 • 1 Biography • 1.1 Name • 1.2 Birth • 1.3 Event • 1.4 Source • 1.5 Note • 1.6 Marriage Biography Peter Coffin of Brixton married Joan Thember or Thumber, and died in 1627-8; she came to New England with her son, and died at Boston 30 May 1661[1] She came to New England with her son Tristriam on the ship Hector in 1642 settling in Salisbury, Massachusetts. The Coffin family: the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder ...,By Allen Coffin, Pg 18 Refers to Nicolas Coffyn's wife as "Joan" Tristram Sr's father Peter Coffyn's wife is refered to as "Joan Thember" ________________________________________ Birth: 1584 Brixton Devon, England Death: May 30, 1661 Boston Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA Joanna Kember was the daughter of Anna and John Thember (Kember). She was the wife of Peter Coffin, married 3-1608 in Brixton, Devon, England. Children were Tristram b.1605, Joane b.1611, Peter b.2-20-1613, Deborah b.1616, Eunice b.abt 3-2-1617, Mary b.2-1620, Ruth b.9-10-1623, John b.11-1625, child Coffin B.12-21-1627 d. 12-21-1627 Peter Coffin of Brixton married Joan Thember or Thumber, and died in 1627-8; she came to New England with her son, and died at Boston 30 May 1661[1] Came to New England 1642, with children Tristram, Mary, Eunice. Joan died May 1661 age 77 years (b.c. 1584).[2] Wikitree: She came to New England with her son Tristram on the ship Hector in 1642 settling in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Died 30 May 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts[3] [4] Birth Birth: Date: 1584 Place: Brixton, Devon, England[5][6][7] Links to pages posted at Ancestry Note: joan Kemper http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a8a725f-231b-4004-93e5-3d5344f1e805&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Note: peter&tristam http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=bc55a9cb-dab5-4947-a3bc-7fc3d5cd784d&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Note: Coffin Marriages http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=8ee740c2-ba94-4e1e-8a94-bb039eac73c3&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Marriage Husband: Peter Coffin Wife: Joanna Kember married 1608 in Brixton, Devon, England[8] Child: Tristram Coffin b. in England 1609; d. in Nantucket 2 Oct 1681[2] Child: Joanna (no Agnes) Coffin prob. d. in England[2] Child: Eunice Coffin b. England; m. William Butler of New England.[2] Child: Mary Coffin b. in England; m. Alexander Adams; had five children; Samuel b. 1656, John, Mary, Susannah, and Elizabeth, who m. William Parkman, of Boston.[2] Child: John Coffin b. England; d. in Plymouth-Fort.[2] Child: Deborah Coffin who probably died in England[2] ye child my Wife goeth with (in will) No further record. The will of Peter Coffyn of Brixton, 21 Dec (3rd year of the reign of Charles) Proved on 13 March 1627/8. The inventory amounted to £236/5/17 and names the following: Tristram Coffyn my Sonne Johan Coffyn my Wife John Coffyn my Sonne (not yet 20) Johan Coffyn, Deborah Coffyn, Eunice Coffyn, and Mary Coffyn my four Daughters when they or each of them severally shall be of the full age of twentie years unto the child wc my Wife now goeth with my brother in law Phillip Avent and my Brother Niclas Coffyn to ye Overseers..." These children are not named in Peter's will - Where do they belong? Children who diedbefore the will? Or the children of someone else? Christian (Coffin) Davis, Agnes Coffin, Peter Coffyn, Ruth Coffin, Wikitree: Peter Coffin of Brixton married Joan Thember or Thumber, and died in 1627-8; she came to New England with her son, and died at Boston 30 May 1661[1] Came to New England 1642, with children Tristram, Mary, Eunice. Joan died May 1661 age 77 years (b.c. 1584).[2] She came to New England with her son Tristram on the ship Hector in 1642 settling in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Died 30 May 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts[3] [4] Birth Birth: Date: 1584 Place: Brixton, Devon, England[5][6][7] Links to pages posted at Ancestry Note: joan Kemper http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a8a725f-231b-4004-93e5-3d5344f1e805&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Note: peter&tristam http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=bc55a9cb-dab5-4947-a3bc-7fc3d5cd784d&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Note: Coffin Marriages http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=8ee740c2-ba94-4e1e-8a94-bb039eac73c3&tid=13989820&pid=1195898085 Marriage Husband: Peter Coffin Wife: Joanna Kember married 1608 in Brixton, Devon, England[8] Child: Tristram Coffin b. in England 1609; d. in Nantucket 2 Oct 1681[2] Child: Joanna (no Agnes) Coffin prob. d. in England[2] Child: Eunice Coffin b. England; m. William Butler of New England.[2] Child: Mary Coffin b. in England; m. Alexander Adams; had five children; Samuel b. 1656, John, Mary, Susannah, and Elizabeth, who m. William Parkman, of Boston.[2] Child: John Coffin b. England; d. in Plymouth-Fort.[2] Child: Deborah Coffin who probably died in England[2] ye child my Wife goeth with (in will) No further record. The will of Peter Coffyn of Brixton, 21 Dec (3rd year of the reign of Charles) Proved on 13 March 1627/8. The inventory amounted to £236/5/17 and names the following: Tristram Coffyn my Sonne Johan Coffyn my Wife John Coffyn my Sonne (not yet 20) Johan Coffyn, Deborah Coffyn, Eunice Coffyn, and Mary Coffyn my four Daughters when they or each of them severally shall be of the full age of twentie years unto the child wc my Wife now goeth with my brother in law Phillip Avent and my Brother Niclas Coffyn to ye Overseers..." These children are not named in Peter's will - Where do they belong? Children who diedbefore the will? Or the children of someone else? Christian (Coffin) Davis, Agnes Coffin, Peter Coffyn, Ruth Coffin, Joanna Kember Coffin Birth: 1584 Brixton South Hams District Devon, England Death: May 30, 1661 Boston Suffolk County Massachusetts, USA Joanna Kember was the daughter of Anna and John Thember (Kember). She was the wife of Peter Coffin, married 3-1608 in Brixton, Devon, England. Children were Tristram b.1605, Joane b.1611, Peter b.2-20-1613, Deborah b.1616, Eunice b.abt 3-2-1617, Mary b.2-1620, Ruth b.9-10-1623, John b.11-1625, child Coffin B.12-21-1627 d. 12-21-1627 Family links: Spouse: Peter Coffin (1580 - 1628) Children: Joanna Coffin Hull (1602 - 1632)* Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681)* Eunice Coffin Butler (1617 - 1648)* Mary Coffin Adams (1621 - 1691)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Unknown Specifically: Unknown Created by: Robert Dunbar Austin Jr Record added: Mar 07, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 86394544 - Daniel M. Parkman, Sr. Added: Sep. 25, 2017 What a grand reunion we will have. Julie - julie Children of Peter Coffyn and Joanna Kember: 1. *TRISTRAM COFFIN was born 4 Mar 1609 at Brixton Parish near Plymouth, Devonshire, England to Peter Coffyn (1584-1627) and Joan Kember (1584-1661.) He was baptized 11 March 1610. Tristram Coffin died 3 October 1681, Nantucket, Massachusetts, at age 72. 2. Joanna Coffin (1611-1632) 3. Peter Coffin(1614-) 4. Deborah Coffin (1616-1627) 5. Eunice Coffin (1618-1648 6. Mary Coffin (1619-1664) 7. Mary Coffin (1620-1678) 8. Ruth Coffin (1623-1623) 9. John Coffin (1625-) 10. Child Coffin (1627-) + 8.a. ROBERT KEMBER (1556-1612) 8.a.1. ANNA COFFIN (1560-1626) (See 6. and 6.a. for parents) ROBERT KEMBER was born about 1556 of Brixton, Devonshire, England, to Johannis Kember (1536-1555) and Elizabeth DeKymbeare (1525-1557.) He married Anna Coffin about 1579 of Brixton, Devon, England. Robert Kember died 12 January 1612, at Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England, age 56. Biography ==Robert Kember, born probably about 1555, died in Brixton, Devon, England, between 29 Dec. 1612 and 23 Jan. 1612-13. The Will of Robert Kember"The Will of Robert Keymber of Lower Harston in the parish of Brixton,Devon, yeoman, dated 29 Dec. 10 James I (1612). To wife Ann 40 marks. To son John Keymber £4 and 8 bushells of barley. To John, son of my brother Thomas Keymber £5. To Dorathy, Agnes, and Thomasine, daughters of said Thomas 5s. each. To my brother Thomas, clothing. To my daughter Jane, wife of Christopher Snelling, a ewe sheep and to her daughters, Mary and Jane, a ewe sheep each. "Itm. I gyve& bequeathe unto Joane my Dawghter the Wyfe of Peter Cawfing twoe yoesheepe. Itm. I gyve and bequeath unto Tristram and Joane the childrenof Peter Cawfing to eche of them one yoe sheepe." To Joane, daughter of my son John Keymber a ewe sheep. To William Head, sometime my servant, a sheep. To Robert Bartlett my grandchild. 2 ewe sheep. To Elizabeth, daughter of George Ellis, one sheep. To all my godchildren living at my death, 4d. each. Residuary legatee and executor, my son in law, Xpofer Snelling. Good friends Thomas Wynston of Brixton and John Aventof Harston, yeomen, overseers, and to each 12d. Proved at Plympton Morris, 23 Jan. 1612-13. (Arch. Totnes. 1612.)"Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938),2:619. (Arch. Totnes, 1612) Wikitree: Robert Kember, born probably about 1555, died in Brixton, Devon, England, between 29 Dec. 1612 and 23 Jan. 1612-13. The Will of Robert Kember "The Will of Robert Keymber of Lower Harston in the parish of Brixton, Devon, yeoman, dated 29 Dec. 10 James I (1612). To wife Ann 40 marks. To son John Keymber £4 and 8 bushells of barley. To John, son of my brother Thomas Keymber £5. To Dorathy, Agnes, and Thomasine, daughters of said Thomas 5s. each. To my brother Thomas, clothing. To my daughter Jane, wife of Christopher Snelling, a ewe sheep and to her daughters, Mary and Jane, a ewe sheep each. "Itm. I gyve & bequeathe unto Joane my Dawghter the Wyfe of Peter Cawfing twoe yoe sheepe. Itm. I gyve and bequeath unto Tristram and Joane the children of Peter Cawfing to eche of them one yoe sheepe." To Joane, daughter of my son John Keymber a ewe sheep. To William Head, sometime my servant, a sheep. To Robert Bartlett my grandchild. 2 ewe sheep. To Elizabeth, daughter of George Ellis, one sheep. To all my godchildren living at my death, 4d. each. Residuary legatee and executor, my son in law, Xpofer Snelling. Good friends Thomas Wynston of Brixton and John Avent of Harston, yeomen, overseers, and to each 12d. Proved at Plympton Morris, 23 Jan. 1612-13. (Arch. Totnes. 1612.)"[1] Robert Kember, born probably about 1555, died in Brixton, Devon, England, between 29 Dec. 1612 and 23 Jan. 1612-13. The Will of Robert Kember "The Will of Robert Keymber of Lower Harston in the parish of Brixton, Devon, yeoman, dated 29 Dec. 10 James I (1612). To wife Ann 40 marks. To son John Keymber £4 and 8 bushells of barley. To John, son of my brother Thomas Keymber £5. To Dorathy, Agnes, and Thomasine, daughters of said Thomas 5s. each. To my brother Thomas, clothing. To my daughter Jane, wife of Christopher Snelling, a ewe sheep and to her daughters, Mary and Jane, a ewe sheep each. "Itm. I gyve & bequeathe unto Joane my Dawghter the Wyfe of Peter Cawfing twoe yoe sheepe. Itm. I gyve and bequeath unto Tristram and Joane the children of Peter Cawfing to eche of them one yoe sheepe." To Joane, daughter of my son John Keymber a ewe sheep. To William Head, sometime my servant, a sheep. To Robert Bartlett my grandchild. 2 ewe sheep. To Elizabeth, daughter of George Ellis, one sheep. To all my godchildren living at my death, 4d. each. Residuary legatee and executor, my son in law, Xpofer Snelling. Good friends Thomas Wynston of Brixton and John Avent of Harston, yeomen, overseers, and to each 12d. Proved at Plympton Morris, 23 Jan. 1612-13. (Arch. Totnes. 1612.)"[1] Robert Kember was born circa 1556 at of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. He married Anna circa 1580. Robert Kember died before January 1612 at of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. Devon Castle Family Anna b. c 1554, d. 1626Child • Joanna Kember+ b. c 1584, d. 30 May 1661 The Will of Robert Keymber of Lower Harston in the parish of Brixton, Devon, yeoman, dated 29 Dec. 10 James I (1612). To wife Ann 40 marks. To son John Keymber £ 4 and 5 bushells of barley. To John, son of my brother Thomas Keymber £5. To Dorathy, Agnes, and Thomasine, daughters of said Thomas Keymber 5s. each. To my brother Thomas, clothing. To my daughter Jane, wife of Christopher Snelling, a ewe sheep and to her daughters, Mary and Jane, a ewe sheep each. Itm. I gyve & bequeathe unto Joane my Dawghter the Wyfe of Peter Cawsing twoe yoe sheepe. Itm. I gyve and bequeath unto Tristram and Joane the children of Peter Cawsing to eche of them one yoe sheepe. To Joane, daughter of my son John Keymber a ewe sheep. To William Head, sometime my servant, a sheep. To Robert Bartlett my grandchild, 2 ewe sheep. To Elizabeth, daughter of George Ellis, one sheep. To all my godchildren living at my death, 4d. each. Residuary legatee and executor, my son in law, Xpofer Snelling. Good friends Thomas Wynston of Brixton and John Avent of Harston, yeoman, overseers, and to each 12d. Proved at Plympton Morris, 23 Jan. 1612-13. (Arch. Totnes, 1612) ANNA COFFIN was born about 1560 of Plymouth, Devonshire, England, to Peter Coffin Sr. (1535-1602) and Maria Boscawen (1542-1622.) She married Robert Kember about 1579 of Brixton, Devonshire, England. Anna Coffin passed away 14 April 1626, Plymouth, Devonshire, England, age 66. Children of Robert Kember and Anna Coffin: 1. Jane Kember (1580-1612) 2. Daughter Kember (1582-) 3. *JOANNA KEMBER (1584-1661) 4. John Kember (1586-) + 8.a. JOHANNIS KEMBER (1536-1555) 8.a.2. ELIZABETH DeKYMBEARE (1525-1557) \\ JOHANNIS KEMBER was born about 1536 of Brixton, Devonshire, England, to Stephen Kember (1515-) and and Alice RIngsall (1510-1557.) He married Elizabeth Dekymbeare about 1550, of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. Johann Kember died about 1555 of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. ELIZABETH DEKYMBEARE was born about 1525 of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England, to Thomas DeKymbeare (1465-1541) and Elizabeth Clavell (1488-1528.) She married Johannis Kember about 1550, of Brixton, Plymouth, Devonshire, England. Elizabeth De Kymbeare passed away about 1557 of Brixton, Devonshire, England, age 35. Devonshire, England Children of Johann Kember and Mrs. Elizabeth Dekymbeare: 1. *ROBERT KEMBER (1556-1612) 2. Thomas Kember (1557-) + 8.a. STEPHEN KEMBER (1515-) \\ 8.a.3. ALICE RINGSALL (1510-1557) STEPHEN KEMBER was born about 1515 of Brixton, Devonshire, England, to unknown parents. He married Alice Ringsall. Stephen Kember died of Brixton, Devonshire, England, at unknown date. ALICE RINGSALL was born about 1510 of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, to Sir William Thomas Ringshall (1485-) and Unknown. She married (1)William Halsey I about 1530 of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England; (2) *Stephen Kember. Alice passed away 2 December 1557, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, age 47. Halsey" Church, St. John the Baptist Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire Gaddesdon Parsonage Child of Stephen Kember and Alice RIngsall: 1. *JOHANN KEMBER (1536-1555) + 8.a.1. PETER COFFIN SR. (1535-1602) [SEE 6.] MARIA BOSCAWEN (1452-1622) [SEE 6.a.] 8.a.2. THOMAS DeKYMBEARE (1465-1541) 8.a.2.a. ELIZABETH CLAVELL (1488-1528) THOMAS DeKYMBEARE was born about 1465 of Devonshire,England, to John Dacombe/De Kymbeare (1420-1465) and Christian Daacombe (1430-1500.) He married Elizabeth Clavell. Thomas DeKymbeare died1 January 1541 of Devonshire, England, age 73. ELIZABETH CLAVELL was born about 1488 of Corfe Castle, Dorset, England, to Frichard Clavell (1460-1500) and Johanna Wyot (1460-1500.) She married Thomas DeKymbeare. Elizabeth Clavell passed away 12 September 1528, England, age 40. Corfe Castle, Dorset, England Child of Thomas DeKymbeare and Elizabeth Clavell: 1. *ELIZABETH DeKYMBEARE (1525-1557) + 8.a.2. JOHN DACOMBE/De KYMBEARE (1420-1465) \\ CHRISTIAN UNKNOWN (1430-1500) \\ JOHN DACOMBE/De KYMBEARE was born about 1420 of England to unknown parents. He married Christian Unknown John DeKymbeare died about 1465 of Chilworth, Dorset, England, age 45. Child of Mr. and Mrs.John De KymbeareL 1. THOMAS DeKYMBEARE (1465-1541) + 8.a.3. SIR WILLIAM THOMAS RINGSHALL (1485-) \\ UNKNOWN \\ SIR WILLIAM THOMAS RINGSHALL was born about 1485 of Redbourn, Hertfordshire, England, to unknown parents. He married Unknown. William RIngshall died of Rebourn, Herfordshire, England, at unknown date. Child of Mr. and Mrs. William Ringshall: 1. *ALICE RINGSALL (1510-1557) + 8.a.2.a. RICHARD CLAVELL (1460-1500) \\ JOHANNA WYOT (1460-1500) \\ RICHARD CLAVELL was born about 1460 of Corfe Castle, Dorset, England, to unknown parents. He married Johanna Wyot. Richard Clavell died about 1500 of Corfe Castle, Dorset, England, age 40. Corfe Castle, Dorset, England JOHANNA WYOT was born about 1460 of England to Unknown parents. She married Richard Clavell. Johanna Wyot passed away in about 1500 of England, age 40. Child of Richard Clavell and Johanna Wyot: 1. *ELIZABETH CLAVELL (1498-1528) + 9. TRISTRAM COFFYN SR. (1609-1681) (first immigrant) 9.a. DIONIS STEVENS (1609-1684) (See: STEVENS FAMILY) [1642] TRISTRAM COFFYN SR. was born 4 Mar 1609 at Brixton Parish near Plymouth, Devonshire, England to Peter Coffyn (1584-1627) and Joan Kember (1584-1661.) He was christened 11 March 1609, St. Mary’s Church, Brixton, Devonshire, England. He was their oldest child. He married Dionis Stevens about 1630 of St. Mary’s Church, Briston, England. Tristram Coffin died 2 October 1681, Nantucket, Massachusetts, age 72. Buried at Founders Burial Ground, Cliff Road, Nantucket, Massachusetts. St. Mary’s Church, Brixton, Devonshire, England Tristram Coffin’s early years in England were during a very eventful time. Intellectual freedom was being claimed as a right for each individual. This period was during the reign of James I. Among the names of the day were William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, and Oliver Cromwell. It was a period when the Puritans were making large gains in the Parliament. Tristram had one younger brother, John, and four sisters. When Tristram was 19 his father, Peter, died (1627). In the will it was declared that Tristram was to be provided for according to his degree and calling. Tristram was a farmer and therefore most likely took control of his father’s estate near Plymouth. Two years later (1629) Tristram courted and wed Dionis Stevens, daughter or Robert Stevens of Brixton. Shortly after their marriage, their first child, Peter, was born in 1631 followed by their son Tristram, Jr., born in 1632. During the early 1630’s England entered into a storm of conflict with the death of James I and the succession of Charles I. In 1638 the Scots took up arms against the King. The Presbyterians took control of the Commons, and this was followed by an all-out civil war in 1642. During this period of time Tristram and Dionis had two more children Elizabeth (birth date unknown) and James (born 12 Aug 1639.) Dionis was also pregnant with their fifth child. He was a church warden in Brixton in 1639-40 and a constable in 1641. Shortly after November 1640, he leased his farm that was located at Butlass. With the civil war closing in on his family and the wounding and eventual death eight days later of his brother John (15 Nov 1642) at Plymouth Fort, Tristram decided to take his family to America. He immigrated in 1642 (age 32) from England to Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. He brought with him his wife, four small children (their fifth child, John, apparently was born aboard the ship,) his widowed mother age 58, and two unmarried sisters, Enice and Mary. Tristram’s friend Robert Clement (Marble ancestor also) was leaving for America shortly aboard a small fleet of ships, some of which were owned by Clement. Tristram quickly put his affairs in order and embarked on his journey with his family aboard Clement’s ship named “Hector Clement” in the spring of 1642. This proved to be the last time Coffyn was to see his home in England. The crossing of the Atlantic took between 60 and 90 days before they arrived in Newburyport, Massachusetts, during the summer of 1642. Shortly after their arrival, Tristram secured living quarters for his family and started exploring up the Merrimack River with Robert Clement in search of a good location for a more permanent home. He arrived in a soon to be called settlement named Pentucket, now known as Haverhill. Clements’ son, Job Clements, had already settled in the area a year earlier. A large population of wolves were a problem with the flocks of sheep and a guard had to be posted at all times. In 1641 there were only six homes built in Pentucket (Haverhill.) Tristram’s group of settlers negotiated with the Indians for the property rights and secured a twenty-square-mile area for the sum of three pounds ten shillings. (Dated 15 Nov 1642; Tristram’s name was spelled “Coffyn.”) He was the first white settler to plow land with a plow he had made with his own hands. He was a blacksmith in Haverhill with his son John for a while. It was also during this period that John, their youngest child, fell ill and died. Dionis was also pregnant with their sixth child who was later named Deborah. She was born the first Coffin child in America, and the third child born in the tiny settlement, but was destined for the same fate as the other newborns and died three weeks later. These deaths give evidence to the harsh conditions that the first immigrants must have encountered upon their arrival in the new world. The living conditions were primitive and unforgiving and many families suffered greatly. A few years late their daughter Mary was born, becoming the first Coffin child to be born and survive to adulthood in America. Shortly after Coffyn’s arrival, the settlement was threatened when Indian war parties decided to target the settlers’ homes. They wanted to halt the white invasion but they feared the firepower of the settlers’ muskets. The Indian plan was to send a small group to each of the settler’s homes at the same time and gain entrance to the houses by way of pretending to want to trade with each of the settlers. Upon a predetermined signal, the Indians would then jump the white men, cut their throats and ransack the house looking for weapons. What the Indians didn’t know was that one of their members was a Colonial informant who revealed the plan to British intelligence. The British soldiers along with about forty settlers disarmed the Indians before they could set the plan in motion. After farming for a few years, he moved back to Newburyport, where he operated a ferry and kept “Coffyn’s Ordinary,” a tavern and inn managed by his wife. In the 1650’s he sold his property and moved to Salisbury, where he became Commissioner. Toward the mid 1650’s the ferry crossing was replaced by a floating bridge leaving Tristram little choice but to sell his holdings. He moved across the river to Salisbury where records show his name on some documents as Commissioner of Salisbury. It was during these years in the late 1650’s that the first plans to relocate his family to a more desirable location were first laid out. He may have left because the Puritan rule was harsh and prejudice against freedom of choice both religiously and politically. It was also true that the desire to move to an area where fences were not needed for the livestock (that an island would provide) would be of some benefit, mainly monetary. In the end, Tristram’s desire to keep his family together around him and in their own community outside of the smothering rules of Puritans could have been the driving factor behind his decision to locate to a new home. Haverhill, Newbury, and Salisbury were successively habitations of Tristram until he went to Nantucket, 2 July 1659. In the late 1650’s he and others purchased Nantucket Island (30 miles off the shore of Cape Cod) from Thomas Mayhew for the price of 30 pounds and two beaver hats, which were made by his son Tristram, Jr. Mayhew insisted that if Coffyn’s group wanted to purchase Nantucket, the Indians on the island would have to be included in the negotiations. There were 700 Narragansett Indians living in six villages, mostly on the east shore. The first winter on Nantucket proved to be one full of hardships. The crossing was reported to have been a rough one in which the tiny craft was almost lost. During the first winter the Indians were said to have been most helpful in seeing to the needs of the first white settlers on the Island. In the spring of 1660 Edward Starbuck returned to Salisbury to update the rest on the progress of Nantucket. The reports were favorable and others made preparations to relocate quickly. The freedom enjoyed in Nantucket, by being independent from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was the lure that attracted many from Salisbury. But along with their freedom certain laws and regulations had to be drawn up to keep the new settlement from deteriorating. For instance, one guideline was that Indian land could not be purchased by any individual except for use by all its original purchasers. This would ensure a balanced ownership. Among the eight original owners of Nantucket Island, he became the most prominent. He was granted first choice of land and in 1659, he settled on the eastern slope of what is now called Trott’s hills, near Capaum Pond, toward the western end of the island. He was a leader among the first settlers and was often asked by other inhabitants to transact important public business. He and Thomas May were the spokesmen for the settlement and were selected by the settlers to go to New York and meet with Governor Lovelace and secure their claim to the Island in 1671. His letters to the Colonial Government of New York are preserved in the Archives of the Department of State at Albany. He built a corn mill and employed many Native Americans who were the aboriginal inhabitants of the island. Tristram Coffyn was the governor of the island The first years of settlement consisted of building houses along with shelters for their livestock—mainly sheep and oxen as well as developing pastures and common buildings. The Indians helped to develop the farms and taught the settlers a great deal about living on the island. In turn they were given employment and some formal education. The first years were often regarded as the best years upon Nantucket, in terms of creating a society that flowed in harmony, where one could rely on their neighbours as though they were family. The great grandson of Thomas Macy would later write, “The little community was kind and courteous to each other and hospitable to strangers. The prevalence of good feeling was remarked and felt by all who came among them.” In 1671 he was appointed governor of Nantucket, serving again in that office from 1674 to 1680. He died the following year and was buried on Nantucket Island on the private property he purchased in 1659 (at Trott’s Hills, near Capaum Pond, toward the western end of the island.) According to the Nantucket Historical Society, the grave is unmarked and its exact location has been lost over the years. In 1676 Thomas Mayhew became Chief Magistrate on Nantucket with Peter Coffin, a new resident on the Island becoming Assistant Magistrate. Peter and James Coffin had returned to the island as a result of the conflict on the mainland between the Indians and white settlers known as King Philip’s War. In the aftermath, once all was said and done, Tristram had succeeded with his wish to live out his days in a free society surrounded by his friends and family. The year was 1681, and autumn was closing in. Coffyn had made the arrangements that were to follow his death back in 1678. He made no will be instead disposed of his rather large estate through deeds to his family, mainly his youngest sons John and Stephen. To his numerous grandchildren, 60 in all, he granted 10 acres of land to each one upon the Coffyn’s Island of Tuckernuck, off the west coast of Nantucket. In 1681 Tristram owned two houses on his property the first dwelling house he deeded to Stephen and the new house upon the hill was to go to John. His son Stephen was asked to care for their mother, Dionis, up until her death. On October 3, 1681, Tristram Coffyn died. He was 72 years old at the time of his death. His funeral brought out all the islanders to mourn his passing. It has been recorded that his of friend Edward Starbuck read from the Bible and then Tristram’s body was taken to a favorite location on his property and buried. Through the years the exact site of his grave has wondered from memory. Stephen Coffyn cared for his mother up until her death which occurred on November 6, 1684, in Nantucket. Just 40 years after his death his descendants numbered 1,138 born in America. In 1728 the number had increased to 1,582--all of them descendants from one couple, Tristram and Dionis Coffyn. A monument was erected to honor the founders of Nantucket Island in 1881. The monument is located in the Nantucket Founders Cemetery (also referred to as the First Settlers’ Burial Ground and the Forefathers’ Cemetery.) While none of the founders are actually buried in the cemetery, the monument bears the names of the founders and the location is open to the public. Tristram’s name is inscribed on the monument as “1609 – Tristram Coffin – 1681.” (Bio. by Cindy K. Coffin.) In 1881 a monument was erected at the Founders Burial Ground containing the names and dates of ten early settlers of Nantucket, all men. Each of these men had a wife and these women gave birth to a total of eighty children. At the rededication of the site in July 2009, there was a groundswell of support to erect a second monument of equal size and the same proportions listing the names and dates of the wives. The plan is to dedicate this monument before the end of 2009 as one more event marking the 350th anniversary of the arrival of English settlers on Nantucket in 1659. The monument will honor Nantucket’s wives, mothers, and children. Our ancestor’s inscription will read: “ca. 1610 – Dionis Stevens Coffin – Ca. 1682.” She is the first person listed on the monument. These women bore a total of eighty children. Among the English women laid to rest on this hilltop were the foremothers of many generations of offspring who have people the island since 1659.   Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers Posted 18 Dec 2013 by DJRSonntag Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers: Somerby, Abiel, Newbury, s. of Anthony, freem. 1669, m. 13 Nov. 1661, Rebecca, d. of deac. Richard Knight, had Henry, b. 13 Nov. [p.140] 1662; Eliz. 20 Dec. 1664; Abiel, 2 Aug. 1667; Abigail, 25 Jan. 1670; and Anthony and Rebecca, tw. posthum. 2 une 1672; for he d. 27 Dec. 1671. From him descends Horatio G. Somerby, the assid. enquir. for geneal. in Eng. ANTHONY, Newbury, s. of Richard, gr. s. of Henry of Little Bytham, 8 ms. from Stamford, in Co. Linc. where he was bapt. 16 Aug. 1610, came in theJonathan, 1639, was freem. 18 May 1642, the first sch. master, town clk. from 1648 to his d. at the end of July 1686, aged 76. By w. Abigail, wh. d. 3 June 1673, he had Abiel only, b. 8 Sept. 1641. HENRY, Newbury, br. of the preced. with wh. he came, was bapt. 17 Mar. 1612, m. Judith, d. of Capt. Edmund Greenleaf, had Sarah, b. 10 Feb. 1645; Eliz. Nov. 1646; John, 24 Dec. 1648, d. within 2 yrs.; and Daniel, 18 Nov. 1650, wh. d. on serv. in Philip's war 1676; was freem. on 18 May 1642, and d. 2 Oct. 1652. Hi wid. m. 2 Mar. 1653, Tristram Coffin. Eliz. m. 25 Nov. 1663, Nathaniel Clark; and next, 8 Aug. 1698, Rev. John Hale of Beverly. Genea From WIKITREE: Biography If any one man may be considered the patriarch of Nantucket, to whom more than to any other person, the descendants of old Nantucket families may trace a common origin, that man is Tristram Coffin. In 1639/40, he became a church warden of the parish church (where his customary pew in the front of the chancel was marked on a plan made in 1638) and in 1641 a parish constable-holder of one of the offices created under the Elizabethan reforms of parochial administration. A difficulty arose between him and Thomas Maynard of Brixton, gentleman, which in midsummer of 1641 was referred to the arbitration of Robert Savery and Henry Pallexfeu, Esquires. How this was decided is unknown, but if adverse to Tristram it may have been one of the reasons why he left the parish for New England. Tristram belongs in that class of early immigrants for whose departure from England there seems to be little reason. Like Robert Clements, with whom he is said to have come, he had estates in England for he owned property in Dorset as well as in Devon. He was of the landed gentry and before his departure not of the Puritan faith. One would expect to find him allied with the Royalist forces, yet in the very year of the crisis between Charles I and Parliament he left England for the colonies bringing with him his wife, five children and his mother. Apparently he was moved neither by a desire for property nor freedom in religion in emigrating. The times were troubled ones and it is possible that he could see no peace in prospect for England for some time while perhaps America offered a chance of security and freedom that attracted him. It is stated that his younger brother John was wounded at the battle of Plymouth Fort and died eight days later. If true it may have been a factor in Tristram's decision to emigrate. Tradition in both the Clement and Coffin families places the men as coming together on a ship owned by Robert Clement, but nothing exists to prove the name of the vessel. Tristram settled at Salisbury for a few months moving shortly to Haverhill (Pentucket) where with the other inhabitants he obtained of the Indian Sachems the deed of the township. "Know all men by these presents, that wee Passaquo and Saggahew wth the consent of Passaconaway; have sold unto ye inhabitants of Pentuckett all ye lands wee have in Pentuckett... And wee ye said Passaquo and Saggahew wth ye consent of Passaconnaway, have sold unto ye said inhabitants all ye right that wee or any of us have in ye said ground and Ileand and Rivver: And wee warrant it against all or any other Indeans whatsoever into ye said Inhabitants of Penuckett, and to their heires and assignes forever Dated ye fifteenth day of november Ann Dom 1642. Witnes our hands and seales to this bargayne of sale ye day and year above written (in ye presents of us.) we ye said Passaquo & Saggahew have received in hand, for & in consideration of ye same three pounds & ten shillings: John Ward, Robert Clements, Tristram Coffyn, Hugh Sherratt, William White, Thomas Davis."(1) Tristram settled in Haverhill near to the Clements and tradition states again that he was the first person to plough land in the town, having constructed his own plough. With Robert Clement he was made a freeman in Haverhill in Nov. 1645. About 1643 he moved to another part of Haverhill called the Rocks where he was licensed to keep a tavern "Coffins Ordinary" and before 1647 he moved to Newbury then in 1648 to Salisbury, in 1649 to Newbury again and finally in 1654 to Salisbury.(2) In 1644 Tristram was allowed to keep an ordinary, sell wine and keep a ferry on the Newbury side and George Carr on the Salisbury side of Carr's Island.(3) "Dec. 26, 1647- Tristram Coffin is allowed to keep an ordinary and retayle wine, paying according to order, and also granted liberty to keep a ferry at Newbury side."(4) With Samuel Winsley of Salisbury he sued Richard Ayre of Salisbury about a hogshead of beef and was in Court again in 1649. In 1653 his wife Dionis was presented in Court for selling beer for threepence per quart. She proved by the testimony of Samuel Mooers that she put six bushels of malt into the hogshead and hence was discharged by the Court. The law which she was supposed to have violated was passed in 1645: "Every person licensed to keep an ordinary, shall always be provided with good wholesome beer of four bushels of malt to the hogshead, which he shall not sell above two pence the ale quart, on penalty of forty shillings the first offence and for the second offence shall lose his license."(5) Dionis doubtless intended to make a better beer than was afforded at other ordinaries and as three pence per quart bore the same relation to six bushels of malt as 2d per quart did to four bushels she could see no reason why her beer should not sell for 3d per quart. Proof of this fact secured her discharge and her beer gained a good reputation from this proceeding and Coffyn's ordinary became distinguished as the place where the best beer was sold. In 1653 Tristram acted as attorney for William Furber and in 1654 he served on the jury and signed a petition in Haverhill.(6) This same year he was sued by Theophilus Satchwell for not "insuring him three acres of accomodation according to promise" and won the case.(7) On 18 Jan. 1655 Tristram Coffin of Newbury sold some meadow in Salisbury to William Osgood.(8) While a resident of Salisbury, before his departure for Nantucket he was a commissioner or Justice of the Peace and signed a Salisbury petition in 1658.(9) "The 20th of November 1647. These prsents wittness yt Tristram Coffyn of Nubery have bargained & sould unto Richard Littlehale one dwelling house & house Lott situate in Haverhill wch lately was belonging unto Willi Duglas now of Boston... fower acres... in the ye playne... & also fower acres of Medow... & also all Comonage for Cattell & hoggs & all other beasts... & also all privilidg of tymber & wood wth all accomodacons to ye say'd house & lott apytaining..."(10) "I Tristram Coffyn of Salisbury... for a certaine Sum... have... sold unto Samuel Gile of Haverhill one dwelling house & houselot... in Haverhill... 1648."(11) "I Tristram Coffyn Senr of the Towne of Nubery in ye County of Essex Planter... for fiveteen pounds..by me received of Richard Ormsby of... Salisbury... have wth ye full & free consent of Dionis my wyfe... sell unto ye said Richard Ormsby a certaine dwelling house wth a frame standing att ye end of it together with one halfe of yt houselott on wch ye said house standeth...being... in... Haverhill...ye twenty forth day of ye ninth Mo: one thousand six hundred forty nine."(12) "Tristram Coffyn aged about forty six years testifyeth yt aboute five, six or seven years agoe att Nuberie I herd Ms Cutting make a bargaine wth Josiah Cobham & Richard Currier for two pcells of meadow lying in Salisbury Township & ye aforesaid Ms Cutting did... affirme that she had a letter of Attorney made to hir by hir husband mr John Cutting before he went to sea that gave her full power to act & doe in settling any pt of his estate here in New England duering his absence The price & all ye pay I doe not now remember only one Cowe was to be part of ye pay... Sworn in Court att Salisbury ye 12d 2d mo: 1655."(13) "Tristram Coffin of Newbury... for... eighteen pounds... have sould unto Samuel Poore of Newbury... all his house & houselott... in Newbury... next Mr. Cuttings land... with all & singular the glass, boards, plancks, the dung or soyle, with fences priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonging... Aprill ye fifteenth one thousand Six hundred fifty & two."(14) "I Tristram Coffin of Salisbury... & Dionis my wife... for... twenty eight pounds...sell... unto Lionel Worth of Newbury... forty acres of upland... in Newbury... being part of the farme formerly granted by the towne of Newbury unto Mr. Edward Rawson... which I the said Tristram Coffin lately purchased of the above named Mr. Rawson" 12 Apr. 1659.(15) About 1658 Tristram became interested in the island of Nantucket forming a company for its purchase and moving there in 1659. It is disputed why Tristram went to Nantucket. The probability is that it came through his acquaintanceship with Thomas Macy a cousin of Thomas Mayhew who owned the island by purchase from the agents of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Lord Sterling. Thomas Macy was a deputy to the General Court from Salisbury in 1654. Thomas Mayhew was a resident of Watertown, before moving to Martha's Vineyard, and was a deputy of the General Court from that place. Mayhew who was governor of Martha's Vineyard probably wanted Nantucket settled and offered the land very cheaply to Coffin, Macy and their associates. The first records of the proceedings in regard to Nantucket were kept at Salisbury but after the island came under the jurisdictin of New York the records were kept at Albany where they are still to be found. Early in 1659 Tristram went to Martha's Vineyard where he took Peter Folger the Grandfather of Benjamin Franklin as an interpreter of the Indian language and went to Nantucket to ascertain the temper of the Indians and the capabilities of the island so that he could report to the citizens of Salisbury. He was apparently favorably impressed by what he saw and heard, for when he returned to Salisbury, a company was formed and the purchase of the island was determined. At Martha's Vineyard he entered into preliminary negotiations with Thomas Mayhew for the purchase of the island before visiting it. After his visit to the island he made additional arrangements for its purchase and returned to Salisbury where his report upon the condition of the island, the character of the Indians and the advantages of a change of residence, was laid before his friends and associates. A company was organized for the immediate purchase of the whole island allowing Thomas Mayhew to retain a one-tenth portion with some other reservations. Several meetings of the purchasers were held at Salisbury and general rules for the government of the island were adopted. "July 2d, 1659- These people after mentioned did buy all right and enterest of the Island of Nantucket that did belong to Sr Ferdinando George and the Lord Sterling, Mr. Richard Vines, Steward, Gentleman to Sir Ferdinando George, and Mr. James Ferrett, Steward to Lord Sterling, which was by them sold unto Mr. Thomas Mayhew, of Marthers Vineyard; these after mentioned did purchas of Mr. Thomas Mayhew these Rights: namely, the pattent Right belonging to the Gentleman aforesaid; and also the piece of Land which Mr. Mayhew did purchass of the Indians at the west end of the Island of Nantucket as by their grant or bill of sale, will largely appear with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof; the aforementioned Purchasers are Tristram Coffin, Senyr, Thomas Macy, Richard Swain, Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Stephen Greenleaf, John Swain, William Pile; the Mr. Thomas Mayhew himself also becom a Twentieth part purchaser so that they... had the Sole Interest, Disposell, power, and privilege of said Island and appurtenances thereof."(16) "Bee it known unto all Men by these Presents, that I, Thomas Mayhew, of Martha's Vineyard, Merchant, doe hereby acknowledge, that I have sould unto Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleafe, John Swayne, and William Pike, that Right and Interest I have in ye Land of Nantuckett, by Patent; ye wch Right I bought of James fforrett, Gent. and Steward to ye Lord Sterling, and of Richard Vines sometimes of Sacho, Gent., Steward-Genrll unto Sir Georges, Knight, as by Conveyances under their Hands and Seales doe appeare, ffor them ye aforesaid to Injoy, and their Heyres and Assignes forever, wth all the Priviledges thereunto belonging, for in consideration of ye Sume of Thirty Pounds of Current Pay, unto whomsoever I ye said Thomas Mayhew... shall appoint. And also two Beaver Hatts, one for myselfe, and one for my wife... and to hold one-twentieth Part of all Lands purchased... And in Witness hereof, I have hereunto sett my Hand and Seale this second Day of July, sixteen hundred and fifty-nine."(17) "At Salysbury, February, 1659- At a meeting of the purchasers... it was agreed and Determined and approvd as followss, vizt: tht the ten owners will admitt of Ten more partners who shall have equall power and Interest with themselves, and tht either of the purchasers aforementioned shall have liberty to take a partner whome he pleases not being mostly excepted against by the rest. At that meeting Robert Pike was owned partner with Christopher Hussey, Robert Barnard was owned partner with Thomas Barnard, Edward Starbuck was owned to be Thomas Macy's partner, and Tristram Coffin, jur., partner with Stephen Greenleaf, James Coffin partner with Peter Coffin- at the same meeting it was mutually and unanimously agreed upon... that no man whatsoever shall purchase any land of any of the Indians upon the said iland for his own private or particular use; but whatsoever purchas shall be made, shall be for the general account of the Twenty ownners or purchasers... at the same meeting it was ordered and Determined that there shall be ten other Inhabitants admitted into the Plantation who shall have such accomodation as the Owners or purchasers shall judge meet- as namely necessary tradesman and Seaman."(18) "At a meeting of these owners of the Island of Nantucket at Salisbury it was Debatted, and after debatted, determed and concluded, that as ther had ben a former meeting in Salisbury at the House of Benjamin Cambell, in February, 1659, in which meeting orders was made for Prohibiting of any Person from the purchasing any land from any of the Indians upon the Island of Nantucket except for the use of the Twenty owners or purchasers, the Order shall stand Inviolable unalterable as that which also as that which is likely necessary to the continuance of the well being of the place and the Conturary, that which tends to the confusion and Ruine of the whole and the Suverting of the rules and orders allready agreed upon and the depriveing of the said owners of there Just rights and Interest. Also it was ordered at the same meeting that all the Land that is fit for areable land convenient for House lot shall be forthwith measured, that the quantity thereof may be known, which being done, shall be divided by equel preportions, that is to say Four Fifths parts to the owners or purchasers; and the other Fifth unto the Ten other Inhabitants, whereof John Bishop shall have two parts or shares, that is to say of that Fifth part belonging to the Ten Inhabitant. Also at the same meeting it was ordered that Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Edward Starbuck, Thomas Barnard, Peter Folger of Mathers Vineyard, shall have power to measure and lay out said Land according to the above said awder, and whatsoever shall be done and concluded in the said Case by or any three of them, Peter Folger being one, shall be accounted Legall and valid."(19) Late in the season of 1659 the first settlers arrived including Thomas Macy and his family, Edward Starbuck, Isaac Coleman, and James Coffin. The first village grew up to the south and east of Capaum Pond where many of the cellar indentations are still visible. Tristram built his home near Capaum Pond and resided there until his death. "May the 10th, 1661- At a meeting at Salisbury it was ordered and concluded that the aforementioned parties, vizt: Tristram Coffin, seny., Thomas Macy, Edward Starbuck, Thomas Barnard, Peter Folger, shall also measure and lay out all the rest of the Land, both meadows, Woods and upland, that is convenant to be appropriated within the bounds of the first Plantation; also it is determined that the above mentioned persons, together with Mr. Mayhew, Richard Swain, John Bishop or whatever others of the owners or puchasers that are present, shall have power to Determing what land is convenient to be improved and Laid out, and what should be common or Remain Common, and also, to Lay out the bounds of the Town and record it, provided always that the land being measured, they shall first lay out a convenant quantity of Land with suitable accomodations of all sorts which shall be Particularly reserved for the public use of the Town. Also it was ordered at the same meeting that an authentick Record shall be kept of all that is don about the proseeding and actions about the said Island, both the Island and on the main, untill further orders be taken. At the same meeting it was ordered, that for the particuler apointing which Lot every man shall have it shall be don be casting Lots excepting only those persons that have already taken there Lots, namly, Thomas Macy, Tristram Coffin, Seny., Edward Starbuck and Richard Swain. At the same meeting Robert Pike was appointed to keep the Records concerning the Island of Nantucket at Salisbury, and Thomas Macy to keep the Records at the Island, as in the above said orders expressed at present until further orders be taken by the owners or purchasers."(20) At a meeting held at Nantucket, 15 July 1661, of the owners residing there it was agreed that each man choose his house-lot within the limits not previously occupied and that each lot shall contain sixty rods square. Tristram appears to have been allowed to make the first selection: "Tristram Coffin, Sen., had his house lot layed out at Cappammet, by the aforesaid Lot layers, at Cappamet Harbour head, sixty rods squar, or thereabouts, the east side line part of it bounded by the highway; the south side bounded by a rock southward of the pond; the north by the harbour head; the west side bounded by the lot of Tristram Coffin, Jr., more or less, as it is lay out."(21) "Tristram Coffin, Junior, had his house lot layd out by the aforesaid Lot layers at Coppammet, sixty rods squar, or thereabouts, on the east side by the lot of his father, Tristram Coffin, on the south side by the common; on the west by the lot of William Pile, more or less, as it is layed out."(22) "The one half of the accomodation to Tristram Coffin, sen., being assigned to Mary Starbuck and Nathaniel Starbuck, Tristram also being present at the place commonly called the Parliament House, Sixty rod square, bounded with the land of Thos. Mayhew on the south; and with the land of James Coffin on the north; and on the east with the land of Stephen Greenleaf; on the west by the common-Same land allowed at the east end with reference to rubbage land, more or less."(23) "Tristram Coffin, sen., had an acre of meadow lay out by Edwd Starbuck, Thos. Macy, himself being present, and Peter Folger agreeing thereto, on the neck commonly called Nanna hamak Neck, at the south end of the woodland. At the same time Tristram Coffin, junior, had an acre lot laid out at the same place."(24) "Tristram Coffin, Sen., had a twenty acre lot; being a Second Division answerable to the lot laid out in the five pound purchases, thirty rod in breadth, lying a Long from the north side of the house lot of the said Tristram Coffin lot, by Cuppammet head to the sea, more or less."(25) "Tristram Coffin, Jr., had twenty acre lot layed out by Tristram Coffin, Edward Starbuck & Peter Folger, answerable to the twenty acres on the five pound purches."(26) Tristram was 37 years old upon his arrival in America and 55 years old at the time of his moving to Nantucket. It does not appear that his mother, Joan Coffyn ever lived in Nantucket since she died in Boston in May, 1661. The Rev. Wilson who preached the funeral sermon spoke of her as a woman of extraordinary character. Sewall's Diary which recorded her death says that he "embalmed her memory". For several years after this Tristram, with his sons, held the controlling interest in the Islands, he being conceded to be the richest man there except for his son Peter. With his sons he bought the island of Tuckernuck after trying to have his other associates join in the purchase. "The tenth Day of October, one thousand six hundred fifty and nine; These presents Witness, That I, Thomas Mayhew, of Martin's Vineyard, Mercht, doe Give, Grant, Bargaine, and Sell, all my Right and Interest in Tuckannuck Island, als Tuckannuckett, which I have had, or ought to have, by Vertue of Patent Right, purchased of ye Lord Stirling's Agent and of Mr Richard Vines, Agent unto Sir fferdinando George, Knight, unto Tristram Coffin Sr, Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin Jur, and James Coffin, to them and their Heyres forever, ffor and in consideracon of ye just Sume of six Pounds in Hand paid, and by mee Thomas Mayhew, received in full Satisfaction of ye aforesaid Patent Right, of ye aforesaid Island."(27) "This witnesseth that I, Wanochmamack, chife sachem of Nantucket, hath sold unto Mr. Tristram Coffin and Thomas Macy, their heirs and assigns, that whole nack of land called by the Indians, Pacummohquah, being at the east end of Nantucket, for and in consideration of five pounds to be paid to me in English goods or otherwise to my content by the said Tristram Coffin aforesaid at convenient time as shall be demanded. Witness my hand or mark this 22 of June, 1662."(28) Tristram assumed the obligation to construct a cornmill, built and maintained it. He employed large numbers of Indians on his land. Benjamin Franklin Folger, the historian of Nantucket, says of him: "The christian character which he exhibited and which he practically illustrated in all the varied circumstances and conditions of that infant colony, is analogous to that which subsequently distinguished the founder of Pennsylvania so that the spirit of the one seemed to be but the counterpart of the other." The Indians were divided into bands and sometimes had quarrels among themselves and sometimes were at variance with the settlers. The Indians became troublesome only after they had learned to drink rum. The early court records are mainly devoted to trials, convictions and sentences of Indians to be whipped for getting drunk and for petty larcenies, and of fines imposed upon white men and women for selling rum to Indians. The first General Court for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard composed of Tristram Coffyn, first chief magistrate of Nantucket and Thomas Mayhew, first chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard and two associates from each island enacted a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks to Indians. The law was occasionally enforced and John Gardner (whose gravestone alone marks the spot where the settlers were first interred) complained to Governor Lovelace, 15 Mar. 1676 that a half barrel of rum had been taken from him by Thomas Macy. Gardner also said that the Indian Sachems stated they would fight if the laws against them were enforced. The letter of Thomas Macy to Governor Lovelace, 9 May 1676 shows the fear of the Indians if strong drink was allowed to be sold to them and he asked the Governor to prohibit any ship coming into the harbor from selling strong drink to Indians: "Sir, concerning the Peace we hitherto enjoy, I cannot imagine it could have bin if strong Liquor had bin among the Indians, as formerly: for my owne yt I have been to ye utmost an opposed of the Trade these 38 yeares, and I verily believe (respecting the Indians) tis the only Ground of the miserable psent Ruine to both Nations; for tis that hath kept them from Civility, they have been the drunken Trade kept all the while like Wildernesse."(29) It also seems that the Court on one occasion took possession of all the liquor on the island and dispenced it in small quantities to the settlers. "Whereas ye Honble Coll: Lovelace, Governour of New Yorke, gave forth his Summons for ye Inhabitants of ye Isle of Nantuckett to make their Appearance before his Honor at New Yorke, either in their own Person or by their Agent, to shew their Claymes in respect to their Standing or Clayme of Interest on ye aforesaid Island. Now wee whose Names are underwritten having intrusted our ffather Tristram Coffin to make Answer for us, Wee doe Empower our ffather Tristram Coffin to act and doe for us wth Regard to our Interest, on ye Isle of Nantuckett and Tuckanuckett. Witness our Hands ye 2d Day of ye fourth Month, sixteen hundred and seventy-one, 1671." Signed by James, John, Stephen Coffin and Nathaniel Starbuck.(30) Tristram as the chief magistrate of Nantucket and Thomas Mayhew as chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard with two assistants from each island were to constitute a General Court with appellate jurisdiction over both islands. "Imprimis, Wee humbly propose Liberty for ye Inhabitants to chuse annually a Man or Men to be Chiefe in ye Governmt, and chosen or appointed by his Honor to Stand in place, contantly invested wth Power of Confirmacon by Oath or Engagemt, or otherwise as his Honor shall appoint, one to be Chiefe in ye Cort and to have Magistraticall Power at all times wth regard to ye Peace and other necessary Consideracon. 2ly. Wee take for granted yt ye Lawes of England are Standard of Governmt, soe farre as wee know them, and are suitable to or Condicon not repugnant to ye Lawes of England. 3ly. In Point of carrying on ye Governmt from Time to Time, wee are willing to joyne with or Neighbor Island ye Vineyard, to keep together one Cort every Yeare, one Yeare at or Island, ye next wth them, and Power at Home to End all Cases not exceeding 20lb; And in all cases Liberty of Appeale to ye Genrll Cort in all Actions above 40lb. And in all Actions amounting to ye vallue of 100lb Liberty of Appeale to his Highnesse his Cort at ye Citty of New York; And in Capitall Cases, or such Mattrs as concerne Life, Limbe, or Banishmt. All such cases to be tryed at New Yorke. 4. And feeling ye Indians are numerous among us, Wee propose that or Governmt may Extend to them, and Power to Summon them to our Corts wth respect to Mattrs of Trespass Debt, and other Miscarriages, and Try and Judge them according to Lawes, when published amongst them. And Lastly, some Military Power committed to us, respecting our Defence, either in respect of Indyans or Strangrs invadeing, &c."(31) The town voted to have a harrow for the use of the inhabitants and Tristram was to provide the harrow and he along with Thomas Macy were empowered to see that every man sowed seed "according to order". "Francis Lovelace, Esq., &c.: Whereas upon address made unto mee by Mr. Tristram Coffin and Mr. Thomas Macy on ye behalfe of themselves and ye rest of ye inhabitants of Nantuckett Island concerning ye Mannor and Method of Government to be used amongst themselves, and having by ye advice of my councell pitcht upon a way for them; That is to say, That they be governed by a person as Chiefe Magistrate, and two Assistants, ye former to be nominated by myselfe, ye other to be chosen and confirmed by ye inhabitants as in ye instructions sent unto them is more prticularly sett forth. And having conceived a good opinion of ye fitness and capacity of Mr. Tristram Coffin to be ye present Chiefe Magistrate to manage affayres with ye Ayd and good advice of ye Assistants in ye Islands of Nantuckett and Tuckanuckett, I have thought fit to nominate, constitute, and appoint, and by these presents doe hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Mr. Tristram Coffin to be Chief Magistrate of ye said Islands of Nantuckett and Tuckanuckett. In ye management of which said employment hee is to use his best skill and endeavour to preserve his Maties Peace and to keep ye Inhabitants in good Order. And all Persons are hereby required to give ye said Mr. Tristram Coffin such respect and obedience as belongs to a Person invested by commission from authority of his Royall Highness in ye place and employment of a Chiefe Magistrate in ye Islands aforesaid. And hee is duly to observe the Orders and Instructions which are already given forth for ye well governing of ye Place; or such others as from time to time shall hereafter bee given by mee: And for whatsoever ye said Mr. Tristram Coffin shall lawfully Act or Doe in Prosecution of ye Premises, This my Commission which is to bee of fforce until ye 13th day of October, which shall bee in ye yeare of our Lord, 1672, when a new Magistrate is to enter into the employment shall be his sufficient Warrant and Discharge. Given under my Hand and Seale at fforte James, in New Yorke, this 29th day of June, in ye 22d yeare of his Maties Reigne, Annoq Dni. 1671."(32) Between 1675-6 there was a dispute in court between Thomas Macy then chief magistrate and William Worth his son-in-law on one side and John Gardner, Peter Folger and others on the other side. The islanders lined up on one side or the other. The matter was a question of land and superior authority, for Massachusetts vs. New York. Tristram was of Macy's party and aligned against Gardner although subsequently he again became friends with Gardner. "Testimony of Tristram Coffin aged 67 years: That on the 6th day of June 1677, the General Court being set in the town of Sherburne, and Capt. John Gardner being brought into Court, and sot down on a chest where I sat, ther being of the members of the Court that spake to him concerning the contmptuous carriages in regard to the King's authority then and there present, and he accused and brought as a delinquent. I spake to him and told him I was very sorry that he did not behave himself. The aforesaid Capt. John Gardner replied and said: 'I know my business and it may be some of these that have meddled with me had better have eaten fier.' Witnes my hand to the verity of this Tristram Coffin."(33) The feeling for accepting the jurisdiction of Massachusetts instead of New York grew stronger and Governor Andros, who had succeeded Lovelace, again made Tristram governor perhaps in hope of settling the controversy. This commission is on the Nantucket Records instead of the New York ones: "Edmund Andros, Esqr., seigneur of Sausmarez, Lieut. & Governour General under his Royall Highnesse James, Duke of Yorke and Albany, &c., of all his Territories in America: Whereas an undue or illegall returne of the Chief Magistrate of Nantuckett hath been make two yeares successively from thence, the one being by law wholly incapable thereof: Therefore by advice of my Counsell, by vertue of Majesties Letters Pattents, & authority from his Royall Highnesse, I doe hereby in his Majesty's names, nominate, constitute, and Authorize Mr. Tristram Coffin, Senr., to be Chief Magistrate of the said Island of Nantucket and dependencyes for the ensuing yeare, or further order, in the place and stead of Mr. Thomas Macy, late Chiefe Magistrate, and being thereunto sworn by him, or next in place, to act as Chiefe Magistrate according to Law and lawfull custome and practice, requiring all persons who it may concern, to conform themselves thereunto accordingly. Given under my hand and seale of the Province of New Yorke, this sixteenth day of September 1677. E. Andross."(34) He was appointed Chief Magistrate of Nantucket by Governor Andros in 1667, and again by Governor Lovelace on 29 June 1671. Tristram held the office of Governor until 1680 when John Gardner was appointed. During his entire residence on Nantucket he resided near Capsum, for the most part at a house that he built and named Northam. His house lot was a tract of the usual dimensions, bounded on the north by Cappam Harbor. The spot where his house was placed is marked by a stone monument. The interests which he and his sons and sons-in-law represented gave him power to control, to a large extent, the enterprises of the island. "I Tristram Coffin of Nantucket, do for divers good considerations, as Also in regard of my Fatherly affections, do give unto my daughter, Mary Starbuck, the one half of my accomodations of my purchase, on Nantucket Island... 14th 4th mo. 1664."(35) This unusual gift to a daughter was probably due to the fact that his sons were all co-purchasers with him in the island. Later he gave to his sons the remainder of his real estate. "I Tristram Coffin, of Nantucket, Senore, do give... unto my son, Stephen Coffin, the one-half of my land at Cappan, Alies Northam, within the township of Sherborn, situated upon Nantucket Island... all... except... my new dwelling house upon the hill, and my old dwelling house under the hill, by the Erbe garden; now, for and in consideration of the aforesaid premisses, my son, Stephen Coffin, shall always from time to time do the best he can in managing my other half of my lands and accomodation during mine and my wife's life, and tht he be helpfull to me and his mother in our old age and sickness, what he can:... the fifteenth of the elventh mone, one thousand six hundred and seventy-six."(36) "Tristram Coffin, Senior, in the town of Sherborn, on the Island of Nantucket... in regard to my naturall afections unto my son, John Coffin, now of Sherborn, as also for divers other good and Lawful consideration... I... do freely give unto my son, John Coffin... my new Dwelling house, with all other houses Adjoining unto it, and also the whole half share of land and accomodation... to have and to hold forever, imediatly after the Decease of me... and my now wife Dionis Coffin" 3 Dec. 1678.(37) "I Tristram Coffin of Sherborn... in Regard of my Natural afection unto my Grand Children... give unto every one of them Ten Acres of land to plant or sow English grain on... upon the Island of Tuckernuck... and if they... shall sow their land with english hay seed they shall have liberty to keep four shep upon every acre during their Lifetime... 3d 10th 1678."(38) Tristram in 1680 was brought into Court for an infringement of the Admiralty law. A ship having been cast away was salvaged by the people of the Island while he was magistrate and he neglected to make an accounting satisfactory to the Court. He was penalized for the full amount of her estimated value and this after he had parted with all of his property excepting enough for the old age of himself and his wife. The court evidently thought the fine excessive and remitted a part of it, Capt. John Gardner standing his friend in this. "At a Court of Admiralty, held at the Island of Nantuckett ye twenty-eighth day of August, by his Maties Athority, in the thirty-second Yeare of the Reiagne of our Sovereigne Lord King Charles the Second, and in the Yeare of our Lord on thousand six hundred and eighty. Present, Captn Cesar Knapton, Captn Richard Hall, Mr. John West, Capt John Gardner, Magistrate. Mr. Tristram Coffin, late Magistrate, being called to give an Accoumpt of what was saved out of the Rack of a French Ship, cast away on this Island by some of Capt. Bernard Lamoyn's Men about the latter Part of the Yeare seventy-eight, declared he had formerly given an Accoumpt, which being produced and read, it appeared that thare ware saved out of the said Rack two thousand and sixteen Hydes, which he confesseth are disposed of by his Order, Alowance and Aprobation and by Information given, we valleu at fouer Shillings per Hyde, which amounts toe fouer hundred and three Pound fouer Shillings; and also one Cable and a Pece, likwise sold by the said Tristram Coffin at forty fouer Pounds; and one Sayle at six Pounds ten Shillings; and two Pecis of Hafers at eleven Pounds, and an Ancker at thirteen Pounds; which in all amounts toe fouer hundred seventy-seven Pounds fourteen Shillings, for which no Claime hath bin make according to Law. This Court tharefore, taking into Consideration the Allowance of Salvage of said Goods, and understanding the Difeculty and Hardship the Savers endured, doe alow on fifth Part thareof for Salvage, according to Law, which amounts toe ninety-five Pounds ten Shillings And for what was disburred by the said Tristram Coffin on Accoumpt of some Duch Prissoners left one the Island, and what was paid by him to William Worth, for his Wound, forty Pound one Shilling. In all, on hundred thirty-five Pounds eleaven Shillings; which being deducted out of the said Sum of fower hundred seventy seaven Pounds fourteen Shillings. They doe adjudge and determine that the said Coffin doe make Payment and Sattisfaction toe the Governor or his Order, on Accoumpt of his Royall Highness to whom by Law it doth appertain the Remainder of the said Sum, being three hundred forty-three Pounds ten Shillings. And as for what Guns or Rigeing or other Things that are undisposed of, toe be apprised and Salvage to be alowed as above, and to be sent to New York for his Royall Highness use, the Salvage toe be lickwise paid by the said Coffin, to be deduckted out of the three hundred fourty-three Pounds ten Shillings. The Court lickewise declare thare Opinion that the said Coffin's Actings Proceedings in disposing of the said Goods, are contrary to Law."(39) "To the Right Honrabell Ser Edmund Andros, Knight, Signeur of Safmaryoe, Lieut. Generall under his Royall Hynes James Duke of York and Albany, and Governor Generall of his Royal Hynes Territorys in America. These present. Nantuckett, 30th of August, 1680. Right Honerabell Sir: My humbell Service presented unto your Excellencye humblie shewing my hartie Sorow yt I should in any way give your Excelency just occasion of Offence, as I now plainly see, in actinge contrary to the Law, as I am convinced I did, throw Ignorance in regard to not beinge acquainted with the maretime Lawes, and yet I humblie intreat your Exclency to consider yt in on Respect my weeackness I hope may bee a littell born with: for I did tender diverse Persons theone halfe to save the other halfe, and I could not get any to doe it: and for the Hides I could not get any to goe but for to tacke all for their Labor, because it was judged by many yt the weare not worth the saving; so I was nesesetated to doe as I did or else the had bin quite lost. Thare fore I humblye intreat your Excelency not to think yt I did it for any bye Respects or selfe Ends; for I doe assure your Excelency yt theare was not any on Person yt did indent with me for any on Shillinge Proffit, only I did tell foure of them yt if I should bee by any cal'd to accot, the should bee accountabell to me. But now the will not owne it and I can not prove it, so I by Law am caust to beare all, only my hop is yt your Excelency will bee pleased out of your Leniency and Favor to me to except of int Money, and Bill is sent for the answeringe of the Judgement of the Court; for had not my Sonn James Coffyn borrowed Money and ingaged for the rest of my Bill, I could not have done it, but must have gone to Prison. Now I humblye intreat your Excelency to heare my loving Nighbor, Capt John Gardner, in my behalfe, and wth your Excelency shall bee pleased to order Concerning the Case, I shall thankfulye except, knowing your Excelency to be a compashonate mercyeful Man. And I hop I shall for Time to com... to be more wiser and doe kept your Excelency's humbell Sarvant whylst I live to my Power. Tristram Coffyn."(40) The court accepted £150 in full payment, 6 Nov. 1680. Less than a year later Tristram died leaving a very small estate as he had given most of it away to his sons and daughter and the fine inflicted by the Court of Admiralty took a large amount of the residue. "Mr James Coffin, John Coffin, Steven Coffin doe bind ourselves, Joyntly and severally, in the some of an hundred pounds starlinge, to performe the trust in administering on our father's estate, and to baer the Court harmless according to law."(41) "The 8th day of August, 1682, an Inventory being presented to the Court of the estate of Mr. Tristram Coffin, Senior, who departed this life the third day of October, on thousand six hundred eighty one, the Court taking into consideration the present state of the estate, together with the best Information of his mind before his decease: doe order the use of the estate for Ms Dionis Coffin, his widdow, during her life after al Just debts are paid."(42) Ref: (1) Norfolk Co. Deeds- book 2, p.209 (2) History of Haverhill- pp.49-50 (3) A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury- p.43 (4) Ibid- p.49 (5) The Coffin Family- p.40 (6) Mass. Archives- Vol.10, p.300 (7) Essex Co. Court Files (8) Mass. Archives- Vol.15b, p.41 (9) Ibid- Vol.10, p.45 (10) Norfolk Co. Deeds- Vol.1, p.30 (11) Ibid- p.74 (12) Ibid- p.41 (13) Ibid- p.42 (14) Ipswich Deeds- Vol.1, p.117 (15) Ibid- p.240 (16) The Coffin Family- p.44 (17) Albany Deeds- Vol.III, p.56 (18) The Coffin Family- pp.44-5 (19) Ibid- p.45 (20) Ibid- pp.45-6 (21) First Book of Nantucket Records (22) Ibid- (23) Ibid- (24) Ibid- (25) Ibid- (26) Ibid- (27) Albany Deeds- Vol.III, p.57 (28) Ibid- (29) The Coffin Family- p.49 (30) Albany Deeds- Vol.III, p.58 (31) Ibid- p.59 (32) Ibid- p.62 (33) Publication of the Nantucket Historical Society- p.36 (34) Nantucket Records- Vol.1, p.101 (35) Nantucket Deeds- Vol.1, p.197 (36) Ibid- old book, p.63 (37) Ibid- Vol.2, p.19 (38) Ibid- Vol.2, p.17 (39) New York Colonial MSS, XXIX (40) Ibid- p.29 (41) Nantucket Records (42) Ibid- Christening Christening: Date: 11 Mar 1609 Place: , Brixton, Devonshire, England Will "I Tristram Coffin of Nantucket, do for divers good considerations, as Also in regard of my Fatherly affections, do give unto my daughter, Mary Starbuck, the one half of my accomodations of my purchase, on Nantucket Island... 14th 4th mo. 1664." [Nantucket Deeds Vol.1, p.197] "I Tristram Coffin, of Nantucket, Senore, do give...unto my son, Stephen Coffin, the one-half of my land at Cappan, Alies Northam, within the township of Sherborn, situated upon Nantucket Island... all...except... my new dwelling house upon the hill, and my old dwelling house under the hill, by the Erbe garden; now, for and in consideration of the aforesaid premisses, my son, Stephen Coffin, shall always from time to time do the best he can in managing my other half of my lands and accomodation during mine and my wife's life, and tht he be helpfull to me and his mother in our old age and sickness, what he can:... the fifteenth of the elventh mone, one thousand six hundred and seventy-six." [Nantucket Deeds, old book, p. 63] "Tristram Coffin, Senior, in the town of Sherborn, on the Island of Nantucket... in regard to my naturall afections unto my son, John Coffin, now of Sherborn, as also for divers other good and Lawful consideration... I... do freely give unto my son, John Coffin... my new Dwelling house, with all other houses Adjoining unto it, and also the whole half share of land and accomodation... to have and to hold forever, imediatly after the Decease of me... and my now wife Dionis Coffin" 3 Dec. 1678.[Nantucket Deeds Vol.2, p.19] "I Tristram Coffin of Sherborn... in Regard of my Natural afection unto my Grand Children... give unto every one of them Ten Acres of land to plant or sow English grain on... upon the Island of Tuckernuck... and if they... shall sow their land with english hay seed they shall have liberty to keep four shep upon every acre during their Lifetime... 3d 10th 1678."[Nantucket Deeds- Vol.2, p.17] "The 8th day of August, 1682, an Inventory being presented to the Court of the estate of Mr. Tristram Coffin, Senior, who departed this life the third day of October, on thousand six hundred eighty one, the Court taking into consideration the present state of the estate, together with the best Information of his mind before his decease: doe order the use of the estate for Ms Dionis Coffin, his widdow, during her life after al Just debts are paid." [Nantucket Records] Born 11 MAR 1609. Plymouth, Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England. [1][2][3] Died 02 OCT 1681. Nantucket Co., Massachusetts. [4][5][6] Event: Baptised 11 MAR 1610. Brixton, Surrey, England. Residence Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA. [7] Buried Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. [8][9] Note: #N212. Marriage Husband (Gov) Tristram Coffin. Wife Dionis Stephens. • (Lt) John Coffin. Marriage 1630 Braxton Parish, Devonshire England. [10][11] Notes Note N212Tristram Coffin & his wife Dionis Stephens had two sons who were both ancestors to Seth Way, husband of Sarah Cranor. James Coffin was the 3rd great grandfather of Seth Way, their nearest common relative was James' son John Coffin. This is the line: 1. James Coffin & Mary Severance 2. Richard Coffin & Ruth Bunker 3. Lydia Coffin & James Anthony 4. Charlotte Anthony & Henry Way 5. Seth Way & Sarah Cranor His brother, John Coffin, was also the 3rd great grandfather of Seth Way, their nearest common relative was Deborah Coffin. This is the line: 1. John Coffin & Deborah Austin 2. Deborah Coffin & Thomas Massey 3. Joseph Massey & Hannah Hobbs 4. Mary Massey & Paul Way Sr. 5. Henry Way & Charolette Anthoney 6. Seth Way & Sarah Cranor. Notes "He was the emigrant ancestor of this family. He was born in Brixham (Brixton) parish, Plymouth, England, in 1609, baptized March 11, 1610, being the son of Peter and Joanna Coffin. His father died about 1640, it is supposed; and the son taking his mother, sisters, Eunice and Mary, his wife Dionis and children, Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, James, and John came to New England in 1642. His mother died in May 166, aged 77. After a brief stay at Salisbury and Haverhill, he settled in Newbury abut 1648. In 1654, he returned to Salisbury, remaining there until 1660, when he removed to Nantucket. He was an enterprising and intelligent man. It is said that he was the first to use a plow in Haverhill. In Salisbury, he was commissioner to try small causes and otherwise honored. In 1659, he united with others in forming a company to purchase and settle the island of Nantucket. They paid for in L30 and two beaver hats. Here he spent the remainder of his life, dying December 2, 1681, aged 72. He became one of the leaders of the company and was commissioned, June 22, 1671, by Francis Lovelace, Chief Magistrate of the Island. This commission testified to the fitness and capacity of Mr. Coffin. In several instances and probably always spelled his name Coffyn." Source: Book, The Ancestors of Jane Maria Greenleaf, 1906, by, William F.J. Boardman, pages 85 and 86. Tristram and his family plus his mother and his two sisters had moved to Newbury by 1647. Tristram was authorized by the General Court to, "keep and ordinary and also a ferry" to carry passengers from Newbury to Salisbury. By 1652, he was taxed in Salisbury where he signed his name "Commissoner of Salisbury until 1660. In Salisbury, Tristram, along with Peter Folger, organized a company of 10 proprietors for the purchase and settlement of Nantucket. On 2 July 1659, they agreed to purchase nine-tenths of the island from Gov. Thomas Mayhew for 10 pounds and other considerations plus two beaver hats, one for Mayhew, the other for his wife. At the time, beaver hats were the fashion in Europe and in America. The ten proprietors included Christopher Hussey and Stephen Greenleaf. Stephen was Trstram's son-in-law. In July 1661, house lots were awarded and Tristram Coffin was given first choice. For many years, Trstram lived there and he with his son Peter, held controlling interest in the island. At that time, Nantucket was under the jurisdiction of New York and Tristram was appointed Governor of the Island in 1671(Albany Deeds, volume 3, 26). Two years later his commission is found in the Massachusetts Records. He held this office until 1680. N37Tristam always spelled his name "Coffyn" but his descendants used "Coffin" as do most sources on his life He was a Brixton church warden from 1639 to 1640, and was a constable in 1641 Tristram Coffin sailed to Boston in 1642 with his wife and children, his two sisters and his mother. For a short time he ran an inn in Salisbury, Massachusetts. He then moved to the new settlement of Pentucket, now Haverhill, Massachusetts. His name appears on a deed dated 15 November 1642 recording the sale of the land for the settlement by the local American Indian people. He is said to have used a plow that he had made himself to cultivate the land. It was here that his last four children were born. In 1648 he left the farm and moved to Newbury, Massachusetts. Here he operated a ferry across the Merrimack River and he and his wife ran a tavern. In 1653 his wife was "presented" for selling beer above the legal price of two pennies per quart. However, she was acquitted when it was found that her beer was much stronger than the ordinary.] Coffin sold the inn and ferry in 1654 or 1655 and moved to Salisbury, Massachusetts, where he signed himself "Tristram Coffyn, Commissioner of Salisbury. Tristram Coffin and other Salisbury investors bought Nantucket island from Thomas Mayhew on 2 July 1659. The purchase price was 30 pounds plus two beaver hats made by his son, also called Tristram. Coffin was the prime mover of the enterprise and was given first choice of land. In 1659 he settled near the western end of the island near Capaum pond. His sons Peter Coffin, Tristam Coffin Junior and James Coffin also received land on the island. Soon after settling, Tristam Coffin purchased the thousand-acre Tuckernuck Island at the western end of Nantucket. On 10 May 1660 the sachems conveyed title to a large part of the island to Coffin and his associates for eighty pounds. He built a corn mill in which he employed many of the local Native Americans, and he employed others on his farm. In 1671 Coffin and Thomas Macy were selected as spokesmen for the settlers, going to New York in 1671 to meet with Governor Francis Lovelace and secure their claim to Nantucket. As the most wealthy and respected of the settlers, Coffin was appointed chief magistrate of Nantucket on 29 June 1671. In 1677 he was again appointed chief magistrate for a term of four years. Tristram Coffin died on 2 October 1681 at the age of 76. During the years before his death, he had bestowed much of his property on his children and grandchildren. He was buried on his property on Nantucket Island. At his death he left seven children, 60 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. One of his grandchildren calculated that by the year 1728, the number of his descendants was 1582,of whom 1128 were still alive. HISTORICAL EVENTS: A feud broke out amongst the early settlers of Nantucket. On one side, the Coffin’s and their friends, on the other side, the brothers Richard and John Gardner and their friends. The feud is thought to have developed from the divergent temperaments of Tristram and Capt. John Gardner. Tristram was a natural leader, but had tendencies to be irritable and despotic. Capt. John Gardner was a man of physical courage, rugged honesty and democratic in his dealings, traits that gained him public confidence. The estrangement between the Coffin and the Gardner families ended soon after Tristram’s death in 1681. Tristram’s eldest grandson Jethro and Jethro’s brother, Edward, married Mary and Anna Gardner. After 1681, James, another grandson of Tristram, married Love Gardner and later married, Ruth Gardner. Six other children of Richard Gardner married grandchildren of Tristram Coffin, among these, Tristram’s grandson, Samuel Coffin, married Richard Gardner’s daughter, Miriam and became my direct ancestors. Several of his descendants achieved prominence. His daughter Mary Coffyn Starbuck became a leader in introducing Quaker practices into Nantucket. A grandson, James Coffin, was the first of the Coffinsto enter into the whaling business. A poem by Thomas Worth written in 1763 says six Captains named Coffin were sailing out of Nantucket. Sir Isaac Coffin (1759-1839) served during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars and became an admiral in the British Royal Navy. He founded a school on the island in 1827 to educate descendants of Tristram Coffin - which included almost all thechildren on the island - with emphasis on nautical skills. Some branches of the Coffin family were prominent in New England, grouped among the so-called Boston Brahmins. For example, Elizabeth Coffin, daughter of a wealthy merchant from Nantucket, was mother of the prominent Massachusetts industrialists Henry Coffin Nevins and David Nevins, Jr.. Charles A. Coffin (1844-1926) born in Somerset, Massachusetts, became cofounder and first President of General Electric corporation.[26] Some retained the family links to Nantucket after the whaling industry had collapsed and many people had left the island. In the eighth generation, Elizabeth Coffin (1850-1930), an artist, educator and Quaker philanthropist, was known for her paintings of Nantucket and for helping revive Sir Isaac Coffin's school with a new emphasis on craft. Wikipedia: Tristram Coffin (settler) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tristram Coffin Born Tristram Coffyn ca. 1609 Brixton, Devon Died 2 October 1681 (aged 76) Nantucket Nationality English Occupation Farmer and magistrate Known for Purchase of Nantucket England, 1605-1642: Tristram Coffin (or Coffyn) (ca. 1609 – 2 October 1681) was an immigrant to Massachusetts from England. In 1659 he led a group of investors that bought Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew for thirty pounds and two beaver hats. He became a prominent citizen of the settlement. A great number of his descendants became prominent in North American society, and many were involved in the later history of Nantucket during and after its heyday as a whaling center. Almost all notable Americans with roots in Nantucket are descended from Tristram Coffin, although Benjamin Franklin was an exception. Tristram Coffin was born to Peter and Joanna (Kember) Coffin and baptized in the parish of Brixton near Plymouth, England, on 11 March 1609/10.[1] He belonged to the landed gentry. He married Dionis Stevens in 1630 and they were to have nine children, the first five born in England. Coffin was a Brixton church warden from 1639 to 1640, and was a constable in 1641. Charles I inherited the throne of England in 1625 and initiated a long struggle with his parliament, which wanted to abolish bishops from the House of Lords and limit the king's powers. Things came to a head when Charles raised his royal standard at Nottingham in August 1642, and England soon descended into Civil War (1642–1651). Tristram Coffin's only brother John received a mortal wound at Plymouth fort, although it is not known exactly when or even which side he was fighting on. Perhaps for reasons associated with these political upheavals, Tristram Coffin decided to leave his estates in England and emigrate to the new world. Massachusetts, 1642–1659; Tristram Coffin sailed to Boston in 1642 with his wife and children, his two sisters and his mother. For a short time he ran an inn in Salisbury, Massachusetts. He then moved to the new settlement of Pentucket, now Haverhill, Massachusetts. His name appears on a deed dated 15 November 1642 recording the sale of the land for the settlement by the local American Indian people. He is said to have used a plow that he had made himself to cultivate the land. It was here that his last four children were born. In 1648 he left the farm and moved to Newbury, Massachusetts. Here he operated a ferry across the Merrimack River and he and his wife ran a tavern. In 1653 his wife was "presented" for selling beer above the legal price of two pennies per quart. However, she was acquitted when it was found that her beer was much stronger than the ordinary. Coffin sold the inn and ferry in 1654 or 1655 and moved to Salisbury, Massachusetts, where he signed himself "Tristram Coffyn, Commissioner of Salisbury." Nantucket, 1659–1681: Tristram Coffin Jr. House, built in Newbury circa 1678 Jethro Coffin House, built in 1686 for Jethro Coffin, Tristam Coffin's grandson, and now the oldest house on Nantucket Tristram Coffin and other Salisbury investors bought Nantucket island from Thomas Mayhew on 2 July 1659. The purchase price was 30 pounds plus two beaver hats made by his son, also called Tristram. Coffin was the prime mover of the enterprise and was given first choice of land. In 1659 he settled near the western end of the island near Capaum pond. His sons Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin Junior and James Coffin also received land on the island. Soon after settling, Tristram Coffin purchased the thousand-acre Tuckernuck Island at the western end of Nantucket. On 10 May 1660 the sachems conveyed title to a large part of the island to Coffin and his associates for eighty pounds. He built a corn mill in which he employed many of the local Native Americans, and he employed others on his farm. In 1671 Coffin and Thomas Macy were selected as spokesmen for the settlers, going to New York in 1671 to meet with Governor Francis Lovelace and secure their claim to Nantucket. As the most wealthy and respected of the settlers, Coffin was appointed chief magistrate of Nantucket on 29 June 1671. In 1677 he was again appointed chief magistrate for a term of four years. Legacy: Tristram Coffin died on 2 October 1681 at the age of 76. During the years before his death, he had bestowed much of his property on his children and grandchildren. He was buried on his property on Nantucket Island. At his death he left seven children, 60 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. One of his grandchildren calculated that by the year 1728, the number of his descendants was 1582, of whom 1128 were still alive. Several of his descendants achieved prominence. His daughter Mary Coffyn Starbuck became a leader in introducing Quaker practices into Nantucket. A grandson, James Coffin, was the first of the Coffins to enter into the whaling business. A poem by Thomas Worth written in 1763 says six Captains named Coffin were sailing out of Nantucket. Sir Isaac Coffin (1759–1839) served during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars and became an admiral in the British Royal Navy. He founded a school on the island in 1827 to educate descendants of Tristram Coffin – which included almost all the children on the island – with emphasis on nautical skills. Lucretia Coffin Mott was a Quaker born on Nantucket, who became a prominent abolitionist and women's rights activist. She helped write the Declaration of Sentiments during the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, and will be included on the U.S. $10 bill to be newly designed by 2020. Some branches of the Coffin family were prominent in New England, grouped among the so-called Boston Brahmins. For example, Elizabeth Coffin, daughter of a wealthy merchant from Nantucket, was mother of the prominent Massachusetts industrialists Henry Coffin Nevins and David Nevins, Jr. Charles A. Coffin (1844–1926) born in Somerset, Massachusetts, became cofounder and first President of General Electric corporation. Some retained the family links to Nantucket after the whaling industry had collapsed and many people had left the island. In the eighth generation, Elizabeth Coffin (1850–1930), an artist, educator and Quaker philanthropist, was known for her paintings of Nantucket and for helping revive Sir Isaac Coffin's school with a new emphasis on crafts. Among the ninth generation, Robert P. T. Coffin(1892-1955) was an American Poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1936 for his book of collected poems called "Strange Holiness.” FROM GENI: About Tristram Coffin, Sr. Tristram Coffyn The First in The Race That Settled America In 1642 Tristram emigrated to America with his wife Dionis and five small children as well as his widowed mother and two unmarried sisters. What was the cause of this emigration is not known. Tristram was of the landed gentry and had inherited from his father. But there was political trouble between the king and Parliament and the New World was calling with an ever stronger voice. It is thought that they sailed in one of four ships owned by Robert Clement (the Hector, Griffin, Job Clement and Margaret Clement). The Coffyn family settled in Salisbury, Massachusetts for a while and then moved to Haverhill which had been founded in 1640. In 1659 Tristram investigated Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. With some others they dealt with the Indians and purchased the island of Nantucket. Tristram always got along well with the Indians. By this time some of his children were married and did not move to Nantucket, but some of them moved with Tristram and Dionis. Tristram was appointed the first chief magistrate of Nantucket in 1671. ________________________________________ Tristram married before coming to America and lived, successively at Haverhill, Newbury, Salisbury and finally on Nantucket Island, where he died. On the fifteenth of November, 1642, Passaquo and Saggahew, with the consent of Passaconaway who was leader of the Merrimacs, sold for L3 10s. "to the inhabitants of Pentucket," now Haverhill, a track of land fourteen miles long and six miles wide, "with ye isleand and the river that ye isleand stands in" etc. Among the witnesses to this deed was Tristram Coffyn, who had this year, arrived in New England and had moved from Salisbury to Haverhill. Tristram is said to have been the first man to use a plow in Haverhill. He was a royalist, and was one of the few, if not the only early settler to come to New England as a consequence of the success of Oliver Cromwell. In about 1644, Tristram and his family moved to Newbury, where he became a prominent inn keeper and ferryman. In Newbury in 1644 Tristram was granted permission to "keep an ordinary (saloon), sell wine and keep a ferry on the Newbury side of the Merrimack between Newbury and Carr's island." George Carr ran the ferry from Carr's island to Salisbury. This arrangement was confirmed in the town records on December 26,1647: "Tristram Coffin (senior) is allowed tto keep a ferry at Newbury side." In September 1653, Tristram Coffyn's wife Dionis Coffin was presented for selling beer, at his ordinary in Newbury, "for three pence a quart." (higher than the set price for beer). Having proved "upon the testimony of Samuel Moores", that "she put six bushels of malt into a hogshead" she was discharged. Dionis was found to be "doctoring" the beer sold at the ordinary. Contrary to current practice Dionis was making her beer stronger and charging a correspondingly higher price. The law at the time called for beer to be "good wholesome beer of four bushels of malt to the hogshead." Goodwife Coffin is said to have remarked: "I'll have better beer than my neighbors and be paid for it. A fig for the law." In 1654 or 1655, Tristram returned to Salisbury where he signed his name as "Tristram Coffyn, Commissioner of Salisbury." In 1659, Tristram and some of his sons were among a company of Salisbury men who purchased nineteen twentieths of the island of Nantucket from Thomas Mayhew. In 1660 Tristram Sr. with wife, mother and some of his children moved to the island where this branch of the Coffin family continued. Tristram Jr. remained in Newbury with his wife and family. __________________ Tristram Coffyn was born in 1609 in Brixton Parish, town of Plymouth, Devonshire, England and baptized March 11, 1610. He was the eldest child of Peter and Johanna Coffin. Coffyn's early years in England were during a very eventful time. Intellectual freedom was being claimed as a right for each individual. This period was during the reign of James I. Among the names of the day were William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and Oliver Cromwell. It was a period when the Puritans were making large gains in the Parliament. Tristram had one younger brother, John and four sisters, Johanna, Deborah, Eunice and Mary. When Tristram was 19 his father Peter, died. His will was dated December 21, 1627 and was proved by his widow Johanna on March 13, 1628. In the will it was declared that Tristram was to be provided for according to his degree and calling. Tristram was a farmer and therefore most likely took control of his fathers estate near Plymouth. Two years later Tristram courted and wed Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens of Brixton. Dionis Stevens was born in 1609 although other accounts say 1613. Shortly after their marriage, their first child Peter was born in 1631 followed by their son Tristram Jr., born in 1632. During the early 1630's England entered into a storm of conflict with the death of James I and the succession of Charles I. In 1638 the Scots took up arms against the King. The Presbyterians took control of the Commons and this was followed by an all out civil war in 1642. During this period of time Tristram and Dionis had two more children Elizabeth (d.o.b. unknown) and James born August 12, 1639. Dionis was also pregnant with their fifth child. In 1640 Coffyn was selected as a Warden of Brixton Parish. Shortly after in November 1640, he leased his farm that was located at Butlass. With the civil war closing in on his family and the wounding and eventual death eight days later of his brother John at Plymouth Fort, Tristram decided to take his family, including his mother and two unwed sisters to safety in Colonial America. Tristram's friend Robert Clement was leaving for America shortly, aboard a small fleet of ships, some of which were owned by Clement. Tristram quickly put his affairs in order and embarked on his journey with his family aboard Clement's ship named "Hector Clement" in the spring of 1642. This proved to be the last time Coffyn was to see his home in England. The crossing of the Atlantic took between 60 and 90 days before they arrived in Newburyport Massachusetts, during the summer of 1642. It was a mere twenty years since the pilgrims, aboard the Mayflower had landed at Plymouth. Shortly after their arrival, Tristram secured living quarters for his family and started exploring up the Merrimack River with Robert Clement in search of a good location for a more permanent home. He arrived in a soon to be called settlement named Pentucket, now known as Haverhill Ma. The book "The History of Haverhill" by George Chase states that Clements son, Job Clements had already settled in the area a year earlier, if so, this could be the reason that Coffyn and Clements chose this area. They found the area to have fertile soil with the necessary resources to build a farm, however, it was recorded that the large population of wolves were a problem with the flocks of sheep and a guard had to be posted at all times. In 1641 there were only six homes built in this area Tristram's group of settlers negotiated with the Indians for the property rights and secured a twenty square mile area for the sum of three pounds ten shillings. A copy of this deed is still on record and bares witness to the signatures of Robert Clement and Tristram Coffyn, dated November 15, 1642. Not only is this the first record of the first Coffin immigrant in America, but it also indicates how Tristram spelled his surname, Coffyn, with a "y" instead of an "i". It was also during this period that John, their youngest child fell ill and died. Dionis was also pregnant with their sixth child who was later named Deborah. She was born the first Coffin child in America, and the third child born in the tiny settlement but was destined for the same fate as the other newborns and died three weeks later. These deaths give evidence to the harsh conditions that the first immigrants must have encountered upon their arrival in the new world. The living conditions were primitive and unforgiving and many families suffered greatly. It was noted that Coffyn was the first white settler to plough land in the area, having made his own plough from materials at hand. A few years after his arrival in Pentucket, his daughter Mary was born, becoming the first Coffin child to be born and survive to adulthood in America. The settlements survival was threatened in the early 1640's when Indian war parties decided to target the settlers homes. They wanted to halt the white invasion but they feared the firepower of the settlers muskets. The plan was to send a small group of Indians to each of the settlers homes at the same time and gain entrance to the houses by pretending to want to trade with each of the settlers. Upon a predetermined signal, the Indians would then jump the homeowners, cut their throats and ransack the house looking for weapons. What the Indians didn't know was that one of their members was a Colonial informant who revealed the plan to British intelligence and the British soldiers along with about forty settlers disarmed the Indians before they could set the plan in motion. The Indians backed away knowing that it would be foolish to try again in the near future. After only a few years of farming in Pentucket, Tristram embarked on a new direction. It would seem that not only was he a farmer, but he was also a businessman. When the opportunity arose to operate a ferry back in Newbury, he decided to move his family once again. The History of Newbury states that in 1644 Tristram Coffin Sr. is allowed to keep an Ordinary (Tavern) which consisted of selling wine and keeping a ferry and Inn on the Newbury side of the Merrimack River. George Carr kept a ferry on the Salisbury side across from Carr Island. These ferries crossed from Newbury on the south side, between Carr Island and Ram Island, over to the north side of Salisbury. The ferry was operated by Tristram and most likely his older sons Peter and Tristram Jr. in the early years, and as the older boys developed other interests, James took over. In the 1650's Peter left Newbury to go to Dover, New Hampshire, where he became involved in the lumber business. Tristram's daughter Elizabeth wed Stephen Greenleaf in 1651 and resided in Newbury. Tristram Jr. married Judith Somerby in 1653 and became a weaver/tailer and Deacon of the First Parish of Newbury. Tristram Jr. is also the person who brought the Coffin name to the old Coffin mansion in 1654, which still stands in Newbury, housing over eight generations of Coffin descendants up to the 1850's. In 1997 I had the pleasure of visiting Newbury and the Coffin house which is now a historical site. The Coffin house is one of the earliest homes made of wood still standing in New England. It is believed that the father, Tristram Sr., lived here shortly before moving to his new home in Nantucket. In 1735 the first centennial of Newbury was celebrated by the town in the front yard of the Coffin house, under two gigantic elm trees. The Tavern and Inn in Newbury was operated mainly by Dionis, Tristram's wife, and was called "Coffins Ordinary". Not only did she serve the patrons but she was also responsible for making the beverages of the day, which eventually got the Coffyns into confrontation with the law. The laws of 1645 stated clearly that "every person licenced to keep an Ordinary (Tavern) shall always be provided with good wholesome beer of four bushels of malt to the hogshead, which he shall not sell above two pence the ale quart, on penalty of forty shillings the first offence and for the second offence shall lose his licence". Dionis' ale was made with six bushels, giving it a kick that kept them coming back for more. For her troubles she increased the price by one pence and in turn had to stand before the court to defend her actions. Eventually the charge was dismissed, but word spread quickly through Newbury as to where to go for a quality ale. According to the book "Ould Newbury" by John Currier, the Coffins owned forty acres across from Carr Island. In later years the road to the Inn was known as Coffin Lane and was on the west side of present day Jefferson St.. Toward the mid 1650's the ferry crossings were replaced by a floating bridge leaving Tristram little choice but to sell his holding. He moved across the river to Salisbury where records show his name on some documents as Commissioner of Salisbury. It was during these years in the late 1650's that the first plans to relocate his family to a more desirable location were first laid out. Depending on which source one would believe, there are many arguments that have been brought forward as to why Tristram decided to leave Massachusetts. All would have been valid arguments. It was true that the Puritan rule was harsh and prejudice against freedom of choice both religiously and politically. It was also true that the desire to move to an area where fences were not needed for the livestock (that an Island would provide) would be of some benefit. However, In the end, Tristram's desire to keep his family together around him and in their own community outside of the smothering rules of the Puritans probably could have been the driving factor behind his decision to locate to a new home. In talking to his friends and neighbours he found he was not alone in his thinking. Others were also anxious to leave, many for the same reasons as Coffyn. After a short time their ideas took shape and later after meeting it was decided to form a group of associates to pursue matters further. The idea of common pastures and buildings were appealing to many, especially the farmers who were advancing in age. The back breaking life of maintaining a farm could now be shared among the group with common mills and labour supplied by the Indians. How the Island of Nantucket, thirty miles off the south shore of Cape Cod ever came forth as a choice, is once again debatable. Some point out that the connection lies with Thomas Mayhew, the owner of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, was a cousin of one of the associates in Tristram's group, a man named Thomas Macy. Others think that Nantucket simply came up in a passing conversation and caught Coffyn's imagination. At one meeting the decision was made to send Tristram Coffyn, possibly his son James, Edward Starbuck and cabin boy Isaac Coleman on a fact finding mission to meet with Mayhew and view Nantucket to assess its suitability as a home. Early in 1659 the men set out for Edgartown in Martha's Vineyard, the home of Thomas Mayhew. Thomas Mayhew came to New England before 1632 from Wiltshire England. By 1637 Mayhew was in the town of Watertown, Massachusetts, where he was operating a grist mill. His business enterprises were flourishing by the time the family of John Folger arrived in Watertown. Mayhew had a son named Thomas Jr. who was very religious. Folger's son Peter was close to the same age as Thomas Jr. and the two became friends. They both shared an appetite for adventure, so when the opportunity came forth for the Mayhew's to purchase an Island named Nantucket, from the Earl of Stirling in 1641 for forty pounds, the adventure began. After seeing the Island it was concluded that Nantucket Island was too far off shore and that Martha's Vineyard would be a more suitable island to inhabit, so shortly after Mayhew also bought Martha's Vineyard. Thomas Mayhew Jr. moved quickly to establish his home on Martha's Vineyard bringing Peter Folger along with him. His mission was to teach the Indians that inhabited the Islands' Christianity. Folger was to be a school master and surveyor. The work was quite successful and the elder Mayhew came to join them in Edgartown. In 1657 Thomas Jr. found it necessary to go to England to stimulate more financial support, however, his ship was lost in a gale on the crossing and he was never heard from again. Mayhew was devastated by the loss of his son, however he decided to continue with his son's mission. Folger on the other hand was looking for a change. His chance came in the form of a shallop sailing into the harbour at Edgartown with Tristram Coffyn on board. It's interesting to note that this simple twist of fate with Coffyn arriving in Edgartown while Folger was searching for a new adventure, brought about the circumstance to which American statesman, scientist and writer, Benjamin Franklin would later be born into. In later years, Folger's daughter, Abiah, of Nantucket, married Josiah Franklin, where in 1706 shortly after moving from Nantucket, gave birth to Benjamin Franklin. In turn this made Peter Folger, Ben Franklin's grandfather. Tristram's preliminary discussions with Mayhew were favourable. However, Mayhew insisted that if Coffyn's group wanted to purchase Nantucket, the Indians on the Island would have to be included in the negotiations. It was estimated that Nantucket had about 700 Narragansett Indians living in six villages, mostly on the east shore. Today, unfortunately, there is not a single Indian descendant living on the Island. The last Indian descendant died in the 1850's. Nantucket in Algonquin is interpreted as "far away Island". Coffyn realized that without an interpreter he would have problems communicating with the Indians. To address this problem he enlisted the services of Peter Folger who was also a skilled Surveyor. Shortly thereafter, the group left for the Island. The Indians greeted them favourably and although their interpretation of purchasing land proved to be different than the white interpretation, they agreed on the idea. In later years the Indians were surprised to learn the meaning of trespassing, for in their culture no one ever owns property but instead they only had rights to live upon it, yet anyone could travel through it. After achieving their goal, Coffyn and the rest headed back to Edgartown for further negotiations with Mayhew. Committed to carrying on with his lost son's work, Mayhew had no real interest in Nantucket and therefore agreed to very reasonable terms for the purchase of the Island. The sale price of 30 pounds along with two beaver hats, one for him and one for his wife, was a bargain especially if one considers that after owning the Island for close to twenty years Mayhew was selling it for ten pounds less than he bought it for. The beaver hats incidently were made by Tristram Jr. Today one can only speculate on the mood of the negotiations, but judging by the eventual results, Coffyn and Macy must have respected each other a great deal in order for things to have gone so smoothly. Mayhew did however retain a one twentieth share of the venture so he could have a voice in how the Island affairs were being handled. Coffin returned home to Salisbury to organize the purchase of Nantucket. Once there, his eight partners ratified the agreement with Mayhew and ten new partners and ten tenant inhabitants were admitted into the company. Original Owner Partner Selected Half Share Owners (See attached scan of the actual document of the agreement and purchase terms) Thomas Mayhew Richard Swain Tristram Coffin John Bishop Thomas Macy Edward Starbuck Peter Folger Richard Swain Thomas Coleman Eleager Folger Thomas Barnard Robert Barnard Thomas Macy Peter Coffin James Coffin Joseph Coleman Christopher Hussey Robert Pike Joseph Gardner Stephen Greenleaf Tristram Coffin Jr. John Gardner John Swain John Smith Sam Streton William Pile Thomas Look Nathaniel Holland The half share partners were tradesmen who were needed to help develop the settlement. Folger was the interpreter/surveyor who later became the miller. Joseph Gardner was a shoemaker and Nathaniel Holland was a tailor ect. Some of the other half-share holders listed didn't join the group until the later years. In the fall of 1659 before any formal deed was drawn up with the Indian leaders Wanackmamack and Nickanoose, James Coffin, Thomas Macy and family, Edward Starbuck and Isaac Coleman left Salisbury for Nantucket to take up residence. Macy was in trouble with the Puritan judges for harbouring Quakers during a short rain storm. Nantucket was out of the Judge's legal realm, so rather than stay and face the charges he decided that the sooner he could leave Salisbury the better it would be. Edward Starbuck was Macy's partner in the company and also his best friend. He felt compelled to go with Macy and the rest to see them through what was going to be a tough first winter. James Coffin age 19 went to watch over his father's interests and Isaac Coleman age 13 was probably just looking for adventure. The first winter on Nantucket proved to be one full of hardships. The crossing was reported to have been a rough one in which the tiny craft was almost lost. During the first winter the Indians were said to have been most helpful in seeing to the needs of the first white settlers on the Island. In the spring of 1660 Edward Starbuck returned to Salisbury to update the rest on the progress of Nantucket. The reports were favourable and others made preparations to relocate quickly. The freedom enjoyed in Nantucket, by being independent from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, was the lure that attracted many from Salisbury. But along with their freedom certain laws and regulations had to be drawn-up to keep the new settlement from deteriorating. For instance one guideline was that Indian land could not be purchased by any individual except for use by all its original purchasers. This would ensure a balanced ownership. The Colony of New York claimed jurisdiction over Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket and so it was with the Governor of New York, Francis Lovelace, that the Colony had to deal within terms of being recognized. By the summer of 1661, records show that the meetings were now being held on Nantucket indicating that many of the settlers had made the move to the Island. The first concerns of many were where their house lots would be located. At a town meeting held July 15, 1661 it was agreed upon that each owner would have the freedom to choose his lot within limits not previously occupied. It was also decided that the lot size for each full share holder would be sixty rods square (a rod consisting of 16?"). It was also agreed that Tristram Coffyn would select first, in which he selected a lot on the north western coastline of the Island at a place known as Cappammet Harbour (today known as Capaum Pond). The original Nantucket record states "Tristram Coffyn, Sr., had his house lot laid out at Cappammet, by the aforesaid lot layers, at Cappamet Harbour head, sixty rods square, or thereabouts, the east side line part of it bounded by the highway; the south side by a rock southward of the pond; the north by the harbour head; the west side bounded by the lot of Tristram Coffin Jr." In the aftermath, once all was said and done, Tristram had succeeded with his wish to live out his days in a free society surrounded by his friends and family, not unlike the communes that arose during the 1960's. To his east side, across Cappamet Harbour was his son Peter who didn't reside on the Island but was a frequent visitor seeing as he had secured the rights to supply the settlers with lumber for their homes. To the west was the lot of his son Tristram Jr., again not a full time resident but a frequent visitor. To the south laid the lots of his daughter Mary and her husband Nathaniel Starbuck. Mary and Nathaniel were very much a part of the Island's development. Mary owned the first store on the Island as well as being regarded in later life as a spiritual leader, having embraced Quakerism. Mary and Nathaniel also had the honour of having the first white baby on the Island during the early 1660's. Also to the south lay the lot of James Coffin. After Tristram, James was the head of the Coffin interests on Nantucket. The first years of settlement consisted of building houses along with shelters for their livestock, mainly sheep and oxen, as well as developing pastures and common buildings. The Indians helped to develop the farms and taught the settlers a great deal about living on the Island. In turn they were given employment and some formal education. The first years were often regarded as the best years upon Nantucket, in terms of creating a society that flowed in harmony, where one could rely on their neighbours as though they were family. The great grandson of Thomas Macy would later write, "The little community was kind and courteous to each other and hospitable to strangers. The prevalence of good feeling was remarked and felt by all who came among them". From the beginning Tristram Coffyn and Thomas Macy were the spokesmen for the settlement. In 1671 they were selected by the group to go to New York and meet with Governor Lovelace and secure their claim to the Island. Upon their return the Islanders nominated Coffyn to be Chief Magistrate of Nantucket. The town also selected all other officers except the Chief Military Officer who was to be selected by Governor Lovelace from nominees chosen by the settlement. After a few more years of harmony, or about the early 1670's the first signs of trouble on the Island began to appear. The problems came through the evolution of the two classes of settlers. On one hand they had the full share owners and their partners, who by Nantucket law had two votes each. On the other hand the half share owners only had one vote resulting in less of a say on Island affairs. They viewed themselves just as important as the full share settler. The only thing missing for a revolt by the half share members was a leader. That changed in 1673 when it was decided that the community needed to expand their fishing interests by enlisting the services of a skilled tradesman by the name of John Gardner of Salem, Massachusetts. Gardner was the brother of full share owner Joseph Gardner. Right from the start John Gardner challenged the original owners on most issues and from this began the feud between the Gardners and the Coffins. Another problem arising on the Island involved the Indians and liquor. Some of the white settlers were taking advantage of the Indians' ignorance regarding liquor consumption. Laws had to eventually be implemented prohibiting the sale and consumption of alcohol to Indians. John Gardner often ignored these laws which escalated the tension on the Island. Gardner also attempted to buy land from the Indians, however the final blow most probably resulted from a meeting Gardner set up with Gov. Lovelace's replacement, Governor Francis Andros. One of the requirements of the Islanders was to pay taxes to New York. This payment was met by giving the government four barrels of fish. John Gardner convinced the settlers to let him deliver the payment. While there, he met with Governor Andros and in turn convinced the Governor to name the main town in Nantucket, Sherborne, after his home town back in England. He then managed to get himself appointed as Chief Military Officer. This all came about shortly before the Dutch takeover of New York. With the change in governments in New York, Gardners's group declared that past arrangements with the original settlers were no longer valid. The tension ran high for a short period until the Dutch were run out of New York and the old government was reinstated. Upon this action, Tristram and Mathew Mayhew, grandson of Thomas, once again sailed for New York and had their agreements with the government reinstated. In 1676 Thomas Mayhew became Chief Magistrate on Nantucket with Peter Coffin, a new resident on the Island becoming Assistant Magistrate. Peter and James Coffin had returned to the Island as a result of the conflict on the mainland between the Indians and the white settlers known as King Philip's War. This appointment of Macy and the election of Peter Coffin infuriated the Gardner group. Not only was Peter a "Coffin" he also held government positions back in Dover and was not considered a full time resident of Nantucket. A few years later the tension eased with the elections of James Coffin, John Gardner and Nathaniel Starbuck who would all be elected as Assistant Magistrates. The feud continued toward the late 1670's in a period that would result in Tristram Coffyn being selected as Chief Magistrate by Governor Andros in the hopes of trying to pull the community back together. Coffyn was regarded by most of the settlers as the one person who could rectify Nantucket's struggle with growth. Unfortunately, for everyone, a shipwreck on the Nantucket shoals diverted any plans that Tristram had for the Islanders. In September 1678 a French ship ran aground during a storm, forcing the crew to abandon ship. Shortly thereafter the cargo was salvaged by certain parties and sold for profit. This action put Tristram, who was chief magistrate, in violation with maritime law which stated that the cargo should have been secured until claimed by the owner. In failing to do so, Tristram subjected himself to be responsible for the lost cargo. The courts came down hard on him with a stiff penalty which would ruin him financially. The action cast a dark cloud over Coffyn, who was now in his early 70's. His family rallied to his side but the strain of the penalty along with the feuding years had worn him down. His son James made financial arrangements to pay the fine. In the end, surprisingly, it was John Gardner, who had become the new Chief Magistrate of Nantucket, who stood up to the courts with a touching appeal on Coffyn's behalf. He convinced the courts to reduce the penalty substantially. ________________________________________ Tristram was born in Brixton, Devon, England in 1609, the son of Peter and Jan Kimber Coffin. Dionis Stevens (or Stephens) was born in Plymouth, England also in 1609, the daughter of Robert Stevens and his wife Dionis. Tristram and Dionis were married about 1629. Tristram was a land owner in England, but as taxes grew heavier and heavier he longed to go where they could have more freedom. He always liked adventure and challenge, and after his brother’s death and civil disruptions, he was convinced to come to America. They had five children (one of whom was James, mentioned above, who was two years old at the time), and left while Dionis was pregnant with her sixth. They sailed to America on a ship owned by Robert Clement, a friend of the family. They settled in a new section of Massachusetts, first known as Pentucket and later changed to Haverhill. Shortly after their arrival, their five-year-old son John died. Two weeks later Dionis delivered a baby girl, who only lived for three weeks. They had three more children while living in Massachusetts (one of whom was Mary, mentioned above). In addition to farming, they ran a tavern and a ferry on the Merrimac River. Dionis died in 1676 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Tristram died in 1681. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Founder of the family line of Coffins in America, signed his name Coffyn. ==(See attached image of signature)== He was the first Chief Magistrate of Nantucket. Moved to Nantucket in 1661. ________________________________________ Our Coffin line in America was founded by Tristram Coffin (Coffyn as he always signed his name), who was born in Brixton, a small parish and village, near Plymouth, in the southwestern part of Devonshire County England, in the year 1605. About 1630 he married Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens, Esquire, of Brixton, and in 1642, emigrated to America with his wife, five small children, his widowed mother, and two unmarried sisters. It is not known on what ship they took passage but it is generally believed that it was the same ship that brought Robert Clement, who owned the ships "Hector," "Griffin," "Job Clement," and "Margaret Clement". Both men settled at Haverhill in 1642. --------------------------------- Death date also listed as 2 Oct 1681 in Northam, Capsum Pond, Nantucket, Mass. Coffin Family Papers, 1661- 1962 Historical Note: Tristram Coffyn (as he signed his name), founder of the Coffin family line in America, was born at Brixton, Devonshire County, England in 1605. He married Dionis Stevens, also of Brixton, in 1642 and emigrated to America with his wife, five small children , his widowed mother, and two unmarried sisters. He lived alternately in Salisbury, Haverhill and Newbury, in the colony of Massachusetts, until 1660 when he came to Nantucket, part of which he, along with eight other men, had purchased from Thomas Mayhew, Sr. then under the jurisdiction of New York, and made arrangements for the purchase of the Island by a group of men whom he organized at Salisbury. Later that year, he brought his family to the Island and remained there until his death in 1681. Tristram Coffyn was the leading spirit among the Islanders at the commencement of the settlement, and the interests which he and his sons and sons-in-law represented gave him power to control to a great degree the enterprises of the Island. Among the sons of Tristram was the Hon. James Coffin (1640-1720) who served as Judge of the Probate Court. Mary (Coffin) Starbuck (1645- 1717), daughter of Tristram, participated in town meetings and was consulted on all matters of public importance. In 1701, she became a member of the Society of Friends and held the first Quaker meeting on Nantucket in her home. Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin (1759-1839), Baronet, was the fifth generation from Tristram. Perhaps his most beneficial and philanthropic act was the founding of the Coffin School at Nantucket. Many of the Nantucket Coffins made whaling voyages; others became involved in local political events and land transactions. Several emigrated to North Carolina, New York and California, drawn by dreams of rich farm lands or gold. ________________________________________ Tristram and his family plus his mother and his two sisters had moved to Newbury by 1647. Tristram was authorized by the General Court to, "keep an ordinary and also a ferry" to carry passengers from Newbury to Salisbury. By 1652, he was taxed in Salisbury where he signed his name "Commissioner of Salisbury" until 1660. In Salisbury, Tristram, along with Peter Folger, organized a company of 10 proprietors for the purchase and settlement of Nantucket. On 2 July 1659, they agreed to purchase nine-tenths of the island from Gov. Thomas Mayhew for 10 pounds and other considerations plus two beaver hats, one for Mayhew, the other for his wife. At the time, beaver hats were the fashion in Europe and in America. The ten proprietors included our ancestors Christopher Hussey and Stephen Greenleaf. Stephen was Tristram's son-in-law. In July 1661, house lots were awarded and Tristram Coffin was given first choice. For many years, Tristram lived there and he with his son, Peter, held controlling interest in the island. At that time, Nantucket was under the jurisdiction of New York and Tristram was appointed "Governor" of the island in 1671 (Albany Deeds, vol 3:62). Two years later his commission is found in the Massachusetts Records. He held this office until 1680. Tristram and his wife Dionis (Stevens) Coffin had nine children ________________________________________ Tristram was the eldest son of Peter Coffin and his wife Joan Kember, and was born at Brixton, a parish near Plymouth in Devon; he was baptised on 11 March 1610. He became a churchwarden of the parish church (where his customary pew in the front of the chancel was marked on a plan made in 1638) and also a parish constable - holder of one of the offices created under the Elizabethan reforms of parochial administration. In 1630 or thereabouts he married Dionis, daughter of Robert Stevens of the same parish. Tristram may have inherited some property from his father, as he was the executor both of Peter and of his uncle John, whose will was proved in 1628. Records of Devon Quarter Sessions show that he had a legal dispute with a Thomas Maynard, also of Brixton, which in midsummer 1641 was referred for arbitration to Robert Savery and Henry Pollexfen. The subject of the dispute and the outcome of the arbitration are not known. But they may have had a bearing on Tristram's decision in 1642, shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War in England, to embark for America - taking with him his wife and 5 small children, his mother and two unmarried sisters. None of them ever returned. It is thought that they sailed in one of four ships owned by Robert Clement (the Hector, Griffin, Job Clement and Margaret Clement). Tristram is said to have gone first to Salisbury, in what is now Massachusetts, but to have moved soon afterwards to the new settlement of Pentucket (later renamed Haverhill). Later still he moved to Newbury, and then back to Salisbury (1654-5), from where he set out first to Martha's Vineyard and then to Nantucket, intending (it is said) to report on the disposition of the Indians and the possibility of emigrating thither. His report was satisfactory on all counts. On his return to Salisbury in 1659, a company was organised for the purchase of Nantucket, and the first settlers arrived later that year - Thomas Macy and his family, Edward Starbuck, Isaac Coleman and James Coffin (Tristram's fourth child, and only 19 years of age at the time).Tristram himself seems to have moved to the island in 1660, and to have been given some priority in choosing his house lot at a meeting in July 1661, when it was agreed among the first purchasers that each should be free to choose a lot of 60 rods square. According to Louis Coffin, author of The Coffin Family, his first home was near the Capaum pond, where he lived until his death. Of the other members of Tristram's family, his mother Joan died in Boston in May 1661, and never went to Nantucket. His eldest son Peter was among the original purchasers, and like his father was allotted land near Capaum; but if he lived there, it seems to have been only for a short time. Two of Tristram's other children, Tristram Jr. and Elizabeth, were (like Peter) married by this time; but although among the original purchasers, Tristram Jr. and Elizabeth and her husband (Stephen Greenleaf), are not thought to have ever lived on Nantucket. However, James Coffin, the third son, was allotted land bounded on the west by the common, and on the south by the lot of Nathaniel Starbuck. Tristram Sr. and his three eldest sons also bought the neighbouring island of Tuckernuck in their own right. According to the early accounts, Tristram Coffin Sr. was the leading man on the island, and notably so in his dealings with the American Indians who were its aboriginal inhabitants.He is said to have treated them considerately in all ways, and to have employed numbers of them in farming the land he acquired. However, some white settlers foolishly sold rum to the Indians, who soon became drunk and troublesome as a result. As the first chief magistrate of the island, appointed in 1671, Tristram (with his opposite number from Martha's Vineyard, Thomas Mayhew) had to promulgate a law prohibiting the sale to Indians of intoxicating drink - perhaps the first liquor law on record. Another account: Coffyn's early years in England were during a very eventful time. Intellectual freedom was being claimed as a right for each individual. This period was during the reign of James I. Among the names of the day were William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and Oliver Cromwell. It was a period when the Puritans were making large gains in the Parliament. Tristram had one younger brother, John and four sisters, Johanna, Deborah, Eunice and Mary. When Tristram was 19 his father Peter, died. His will was dated December 21, 1627 and was proved by his widow Johanna on March 13, 1628. In the will it was declared that Tristram was to be provided for according to his degree and calling. Tristram was a farmer and therefore most likely took control of his fathers estate near Plymouth. Two years later Tristram courted and wed Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens of Brixton. Dionis Stevens was born in 1609 although other accounts say 1613. Shortly after their marriage, their first child Peter was born in 1631 followed by their son Tristram Jr., born in 1632. During the early 1630's England entered into a storm of conflict with the death of James I and the succession of Charles I. In 1638 the Scots took up arms against the King. The Presbyterians took control of the Commons and this was followed by an all out civil war in 1642. During this period of time Tristram and Dionis had two more children Elizabeth (d.o.b. unknown) and James born August 12, 1639. Dionis was also pregnant with their fifth child. In 1640 Coffyn was selected as a Warden of Brixton Parish. Shortly after in November 1640, he leased his farm that was located at Butlass. With the civil war closing in on his family and the wounding and eventual death eight days later of his brother John at Plymouth Fort, Tristram decided to take his family, including his mother and two unwed sisters to safety in Colonial America. Tristram's friend Robert Clement was leaving for America shortly, aboard a small fleet of ships, some of which were owned by Clement. Tristram quickly put his affairs in order and embarked on his journey with his family aboard Clement's ship named "Hector Clement" in the spring of 1642. This proved to be the last time Coffyn was to see his home in England. The crossing of the Atlantic took between 60 and 90 days before they arrived in Newburyport Massachusetts, during the summer of 1642. It was a mere twenty years since the pilgrims, aboard the Mayflower had landed at Plymouth. Shortly after their arrival, Tristram secured living quarters for his family and started exploring up the Merrimack River with Robert Clement in search of a good location for a more permanent home. He arrived in a soon to be called settlement named Pentucket, now known as Haverhill Ma. The book "The History of Haverhill" by George Chase states that Clements son, Job Clements had already settled in the area a year earlier, if so, this could be the reason that Coffyn and Clements chose this area. They found the area to have fertile soil with the necessary resources to build a farm, however, it was recorded that the large population of wolves were a problem with the flocks of sheep and a guard had to be posted at all times. In 1641 there were only six homes built in Pentucket. Tristram's group of settlers negotiated with the Indians for the property rights and secured a large area for the sum of three pounds ten shillings. A copy of this deed is still on record and bares witness to the signatures of Robert Clement and Tristram Coffyn, dated November 15, 1642. Not only is this the first record of the first Coffin immigrant in America, but it also indicates how Tristram spelled his surname, Coffyn, with a "y" instead of an "i". It was also during this period that John, their youngest child fell ill and died. Dionis was also pregnant with their sixth child who was later named Deborah. She was born the first Coffin child in America, and the third child born in the tiny settlement but was destined for the same fate as the other newborns and died three weeks later. These deaths give evidence to the harsh conditions that the first immigrants must have encountered upon their arrival in the new world. The living conditions were primitive and unforgiving and many families suffered greatly. It was noted that Coffyn was the first white settler to plough land in the area, having made his own plough from materials at hand. A few years after his arrival in Pentucket, his daughter Mary was born, becoming the first Coffin child to be born and survive to adulthood in America. Shortly after Coffyn's arrival, the settlement was threatened when Indian war parties decided to target the settlers homes. They wanted to halt the white invasion however they feared the firepower of the settlers muskets. The Indian plan was to send a small group to each of the settlers homes at the same time and gain entrance to the houses by way of presenting goods for trade. Upon a predetermined signal, the Indians would jump the white men, cut their throats and ransack the house looking for weapons. What the Indians didn't know was that one of their members was a Colonial informant who revealed the plan to British intelligence and the British soldiers, along with about forty settlers disarmed the Indians before they could set the plan in motion. - Page 2- After only a few years of farming in Pentucket, Tristram embarked on a new direction. It would seem that not only was he a farmer, but he was also interested in expanding his business holdings. When the opportunity arose to operate a ferry back in Newbury, Tristram decided to move his family once again. The History of Newbury states that in 1644 Tristram Coffin Sr. is allowed to keep an Ordinary (Tavern) which consisted of selling wine and keeping a ferry and Inn on the Newbury side of the Merrimack River. George Carr kept a ferry on the Salisbury side across from Carr Island. Tristram's ferry crossed from Newbury on the south side of the river, between Carr Island and Ram Island, over to the north side to the town of Salisbury. The ferry was most likely a tow ferry with oxen providing the power to pull the craft across the river, with his sons helping to load and disembark the passengers. In the 1650's Tristram's eldest children began to expand their horizons with Peter leaving Newbury to go to Dover, New Hampshire, where he became involved in the lumber business along with holding a variety of public office positions. Tristram's daughter Elizabeth wed Stephen Greenleaf in 1651 and resided in Newbury where the couple eventually had ten children before Elizabeth's early death. Tristram Jr. married Judith Somerby in 1653 and became a weaver/tailor and Deacon of the First Parish of Newbury. Tristram Jr. is also the person who brought the Coffin name to the old Coffin house in 1654, which still stands in Newbury, after housing over 240 years of Coffin descendants. ________________________________________ Tristram Coffin was the son of Peter Coffin and Joanna Kember.1 Tristram Coffin was born on 4 March 1609 at Brixton Parish, Plymouth,, Devonshire, England.2,3 He was baptized on 11 March 1610.3 He married Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens and Dionis (?), in 1630 at Brixton, Devonshire, England.1,2 Tristram Coffin died on 2 October 1681 at Nantucket, Nantucket Island, MA, at age 72.2 He left England when Cromwell's men took over his ancestral manor at Brixton. Coffyn's early years in England were during a very eventful time. Intellectual freedom was being claimed as a right for each individual. This period was during the reign of James I. Among the names of the day were William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon and Oliver Cromwell. It was a period when the Puritans were making large gains in the Parliament. He came to the shores of America with his widowed mother, Joanna, his pregnant wife Dionis, and five children, about 1643, to Newbury, MA, then to Salisbury, MA. In 1660 they settled at Nantucket, being one of the first ten purchasers of the island. He was commissioned as the first Chief Magistrate of Nantucket on June 29, 1671, by New York Governor Lovelace and by New York Governor Andres in 1677. In just forty years after Tristram's death his descendants numbered 1,138 born in America. In 1728 the number increased to 1,582. All of them descendants from one couple, Tristram and Dionis Coffin.4,3 ________________________________________ Tristram Coffin was a first-generation immigrant to the United States in his family line. Coming from an ancient family estate called Alwyington, he emigrated to Massachusetts. He and his son were two of the small group of men that purchased Nantucket Island. In Massachusetts he ran a "pub". After purchasing Nantucket, he moved his family and business there. He also owned the ferry to the mainland. He became a leading member of the community on Nantucket. ________________________________________ Royalist. Came over in 1642. Lived in Salisbury, Newbury, Haverhill. County Magistrate at Salem. Kept the ordinary at newbury in 1653. He and 8 others bought nantuckett from the indians for 30 pounds and 2 beaver hats. farmer. first magistrate at nantuckett in 1671 and again in 1677. A few websites: http://www.essexheritage.org/sites/tristram_coffin.shtml http://www.jacksonsweb.org/coffinnotes.htm http://thegoldenbasket.com/family.htm Also, here is a site with full text of book on Coffin history in England http://www.archive.org/stream/coffinfamilylife1881coff/coffinfamilylife1881coff_djvu.txt''' ________________________________________ Tristram and Dionis are the founders of the Coffin family in America. They arrived in New England in 1642 aboard a ship owned by Robert Clement, probably the Hector, but perhaps the Margaret Clement or the Job Clement. He signed an indian deed to Haverhill with Robert Clement in 1642. He brought with him from England his mother and two sisters, Eunice and Mary. In 1648 he moved to Newbury, thence to Salisbury in 1654 and in 1680 to Nantucket, where he joined ten others in purchasing the island (Thomas Macy, Christopher Huffey, Richard Swayne, William Pike, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleafe, John Swayne, and William Pike) from Thomas Mayhew. This info from "The Coffin Family" edited by Louis Coffin and published by the Nantucket Historical Society in 1962. There are also Indian deeds for parts of the island. . ________________________________________ • Name: Tristram COFFIN • Sex: M • Birth: 1605 in Brixton, England • Death: 2 OCT 1681 in Nantucket, R I 1. Note: Brixton, County of Devon, England with wife, mother and two sisters, Mary and Eunice. 1640 2. Note: Salisbury in 1642 3. Note: Nantucket in 1659 Marriage 1 Dionis STEVENS b: in England * Married: 1628 Children 1. Elizabeth COFFIN b: 1629 in England 2. John COFFIN b: 1630 in England 3. Peter COFFIN b: 1630 in England 4. Tristram COFFIN b: 2 MAR 1632 in England 5. James COFFIN b: 13 AUG 1640 in England 6. Deborah COFFIN b: 5 NOV 1642 in Haverhill 7. Mary COFFIN b: 20 FEB 1644 in Haverhill 8. John COFFIN b: 30 OCT 1647 in Haverhill 9. Stephen COFFIN b: 11 MAY 1652 in Newbury, Mass. ________________________________________ tristram coffin left england when cromwell's men took over his ancestral manor at brixton. ________________________________________ Tristram Coffin Moved to Nantucket in 1661. He came to N.E. in 1642. He 1st of Nant. ________________________________________ hurch warden, constable, commissioner, colonist, founder of Nantucket Island, first chief magistrate of the Nantucket colony, governor of Nantucket in 1671 and 1677. He was born in Brixton parish near Plymouth, Devonshire, England in 1609. He was the oldest child of Peter Coffin and Joanna Kember. He married Dionis Stevens in 1630. Their children were: i. Peter Coffin, baptized July 18, 1630 at Brixton ii. Tristram Coffin, b. abt. 1632 in England iii. Elizabeth Coffin b. in England iv. James Coffin, b. Aug. 12, 1639 in Brixton parish v. John Coffin, b. in England vi. Deborah Coffin, b. Nov. 15, 1642 at Haverhill, MA vii. Mary Coffin, b. Feb. 20, 1645 at Haverhill, MA vii. John Coffin, b. Oct. 30, 1647 at Haverhill, MA ix. Stephen Coffin, b. May 11, 1652 at Newbury, MA He was a church warden in Brixton in 1639-40 and a constable in 1641. In 1642, he and his family came to America and settled in Newburyport, Massachussetts. He negotiated with the American Indians for some land and moved his family to what is now Haverill, Massachusetts. He was the first white settler to plow land with a plow he had made with his own hands. After farming for a few years, he moved back to Newburyport, where he operated a ferry and kept Coffyn's Ordinary, a tavern and inn managed by his wife. In the 1650's, he sold his property and moved to Salisbury, where he became Commissioner. In the late 1650's, he and a few others purchased Nantucket island from Thomas Mayhew for the price of 30 pounds and two beaver hats, which were made by his son Tristram Jr. Among the eight original owners of Nantucket island, he became the most prominent. He was granted first choice of land and in 1659, he settled on the eastern slope of what is now called Trott's Hills, near Capaum pond, toward the western end if the island. He was a leader among the first settlers and was often asked by other inhabitants to transact important public business. He and Thomas Macy were the spokesmen for the settlement and were selected by the settlers go to New York and meet with Governor Lovelace and secure their claim to the Island in 1671. His letters to the Colonial Government of New York are preserved in the Archives of the Department of State at Albany. He built a corn mill and employed many Native Americans who were the aboriginal inhabitants of the island. In 1671, he was appointed governor of Nantucket, serving again in that office from 1674 to 1680. He died the following year and was buried on Nantucket Island on the private property he purchased in 1659 (at Trott's Hills, near Capaum pond, toward the western end if the island.) According to the Nantucket Historical Society, the grave is unmarked and its exact location has been lost over the years. A monument was erected to honor the founders of Nantucket island in 1881. The monument is located in the Nantucket Founders Cemetery (also referred to as the First Settlers' Burial Ground and the Forefathers' Cemetery). The Founders Cemetery is a small plot of land located off Cliff Road and overlooking Maxcey's Pond. ________________________________________ • Marriage to Dionis Stevens: (1630 — Age: 25) Brixton, Devon, England • Arrival: (1642 — Age: 37) Massachusetts Colony • Residence: (1653 — Age: 48) Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Colony • Residence: (29 Apr 1668 — Age: 63) Newbery, Essex, Massachusetts Colony • Burial: (6 Oct 1681) Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachuset Colony • Military: Massachusetts, United States • Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via daughter Elizabeth Coffin by SmartCopy: Nov 29 2015, 2:01:50 UTC ________________________________________ Birth: Mar. 11, 1609, England Death: Oct. 2, 1681 Nantucket Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA Church warden, constable, commissioner, colonist, founder of Nantucket Island, first chief magistrate of the Nantucket colony, governor of Nantucket in 1671 and 1677. He was born in Brixton parish near Plymouth, Devonshire, England in 1609. He was the oldest child of Peter Coffin and Joanna Kember. He married Dionis Stevens in 1630. Their children were: i. Peter Coffin, baptized July 18, 1630 at Brixton ii. Tristram Coffin, b. abt. 1632 in England iii. Elizabeth Coffin b. in England iv. James Coffin, b. Aug. 12, 1639 in Brixton parish v. John Coffin, b. in England vi. Deborah Coffin, b. Nov. 15, 1642 at Haverhill, MA vii. Mary Coffin, b. Feb. 20, 1645 at Haverhill, MA vii. John Coffin, b. Oct. 30, 1647 at Haverhill, MA ix. Stephen Coffin, b. May 11, 1652 at Newbury, MA He was a church warden in Brixton in 1639-40 and a constable in 1641. In 1642, he and his family came to America and settled in Newburyport, Massachussetts. He negotiated with the American Indians for some land and moved his family to what is now Haverill, Massachusetts. He was the first white settler to plow land with a plow he had made with his own hands. After farming for a few years, he moved back to Newburyport, where he operated a ferry and kept Coffyn's Ordinary, a tavern and inn managed by his wife. In the 1650's, he sold his property and moved to Salisbury, where he became Commissioner. In the late 1650's, he and a few others purchased Nantucket island from Thomas Mayhew for the price of 30 pounds and two beaver hats, which were made by his son Tristram Jr. Among the eight original owners of Nantucket island, he became the most prominent. He was granted first choice of land and in 1659, he settled on the eastern slope of what is now called Trott's Hills, near Capaum pond, toward the western end if the island. He was a leader among the first settlers and was often asked by other inhabitants to transact important public business. He and Thomas Macy were the spokesmen for the settlement and were selected by the settlers go to New York and meet with Governor Lovelace and secure their claim to the Island in 1671. His letters to the Colonial Government of New York are preserved in the Archives of the Department of State at Albany. He built a corn mill and employed many Native Americans who were the aboriginal inhabitants of the island. In 1671, he was appointed governor of Nantucket, serving again in that office from 1674 to 1680. He died the following year and was buried on Nantucket Island on the private property he purchased in 1659 (at Trott's Hills, near Capaum pond, toward the western end if the island.) According to the Nantucket Historical Society, the grave is unmarked and its exact location has been lost over the years. A monument was erected to honor the founders of Nantucket island in 1881. The monument is located in the Nantucket Founders Cemetery (also referred to as the First Settlers' Burial Ground and the Forefathers' Cemetery). The Founders Cemetery is a small plot of land located off Cliff Road and overlooking Maxcey's Pond. While none of the founders are actually buried in the cemetery, the monument bears the names of the founders and the location is open to the public. Tristram's name is inscribed on the monument as "1609 - Tristram Coffin - 1681." (bio by: Cindy K. Coffin) (bio by: Cindy K. Coffin) Family links: Parents: Peter Coffin (1580 - 1628) Joanna Kember Coffin (1584 - 1661) Spouse: Dionis Stevens Coffin (1610 - 1684)* Children: Peter Coffin (1630 - 1715)* Tristram Coffin (1631 - 1703)* Elizabeth Coffin Greenleaf (1634 - 1678)* James Coffin (1640 - 1720)* Mary Coffin Starbuck (1645 - 1717)* John Coffin (1647 - 1711)* Sibling: Joanna Coffin Hull (1602 - 1632)* Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681) • Calculated relationship Burial: Founders Burial Ground Nantucket Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA Created by: Greg Derylo Record added: May 02, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 10904410 ________________________________________ Tristram Coffin, Sr. ________________________________________ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram_Coffin_%28Nantucket%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram_Coffin_(settler) http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/tristram-coffin_32103195 https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coffin-221 wikitree 'Tristram Coffin Sr. (1608 - 1681) Tristram Coffin Sr. Born 4 Mar 1608 in Brixton, Devonshire, England Son of Peter Coffin and Joanna (Kember) Coffin Brother of Joane Coffin, Christian (Coffin) Davis, Agnes Coffin, Peter Coffyn, Deborah (Coffin) Stevens, Joanna Coffin, Eunice Coffyn, Mary (Coffin) Adams, Ruth Coffin, John Coffin and Infant Coffin Husband of Dionis (Stevens) Coffin — married 1630 in Brixton, Devon, , England Father of Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin Jr., Elizabeth (Coffin) Greenleaf, Stephen Coffin, James Coffin, Deborah Coffin, Mary (Coffin) Starbuck, John Coffin and Stephen S Coffin Died 2 Oct 1681 in Nantucket, Massachusetts Profile managers: Doug Coldwell [send private message], Loren Fay [send private message], Glenn York [send private message], Michael Dunn [send private message], George Bedinger [send private message], and Grant Glover [send private message] Coffin-221 created 14 Apr 2010 | Last modified 28 Nov 2016 This page has been accessed 4,056 times. Categories: Puritan Great Migration | Questionable Gateway Ancestors | Nantucket Founders and Descendants | Descendants of Tristram Coffin-221 | Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Massachusetts. Tristram Coffin Sr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: PGM Tristram Coffin Sr. is notable. Join: Notables Project Discuss: NOTABLES Contents If any one man may be considered the patriarch of Nantucket, to whom more than to any other person, the descendants of old Nantucket families may trace a common origin, that man is Tristram Coffin. In 1639/40, he became a church warden of the parish church (where his customary pew in the front of the chancel was marked on a plan made in 1638) and in 1641 a parish constable-holder of one of the offices created under the Elizabethan reforms of parochial administration. A difficulty arose between him and Thomas Maynard of Brixton, gentleman, which in midsummer of 1641 was referred to the arbitration of Robert Savery and Henry Pallexfeu, Esquires. How this was decided is unknown, but if adverse to Tristram it may have been one of the reasons why he left the parish for New England. Tristram belongs in that class of early immigrants for whose departure from England there seems to be little reason. Like Robert Clements, with whom he is said to have come, he had estates in England for he owned property in Dorset as well as in Devon. He was of the landed gentry and before his departure not of the Puritan faith. One would expect to find him allied with the Royalist forces, yet in the very year of the crisis between Charles I and Parliament he left England for the colonies bringing with him his wife, five children and his mother. Apparently he was moved neither by a desire for property nor freedom in religion in emigrating. The times were troubled ones and it is possible that he could see no peace in prospect for England for some time while perhaps America offered a chance of security and freedom that attracted him. It is stated that his younger brother John was wounded at the battle of Plymouth Fort and died eight days later. If true it may have been a factor in Tristram's decision to emigrate. Tradition in both the Clement and Coffin families places the men as coming together on a ship owned by Robert Clement, but nothing exists to prove the name of the vessel. Tristram settled at Salisbury for a few months moving shortly to Haverhill (Pentucket) where with the other inhabitants he obtained of the Indian Sachems the deed of the township. "Know all men by these presents, that wee Passaquo and Saggahew wth the consent of Passaconaway; have sold unto ye inhabitants of Pentuckett all ye lands wee have in Pentuckett... And wee ye said Passaquo and Saggahew wth ye consent of Passaconnaway, have sold unto ye said inhabitants all ye right that wee or any of us have in ye said ground and Ileand and Rivver: And wee warrant it against all or any other Indeans whatsoever into ye said Inhabitants of Penuckett, and to their heires and assignes forever Dated ye fifteenth day of november Ann Dom 1642. Witnes our hands and seales to this bargayne of sale ye day and year above written (in ye presents of us.) we ye said Passaquo & Saggahew have received in hand, for & in consideration of ye same three pounds & ten shillings: John Ward, Robert Clements, Tristram Coffyn, Hugh Sherratt, William White, Thomas Davis."(1) Tristram settled in Haverhill near to the Clements and tradition states again that he was the first person to plough land in the town, having constructed his own plough. With Robert Clement he was made a freeman in Haverhill in Nov. 1645. About 1643 he moved to another part of Haverhill called the Rocks where he was licensed to keep a tavern "Coffins Ordinary" and before 1647 he moved to Newbury then in 1648 to Salisbury, in 1649 to Newbury again and finally in 1654 to Salisbury.(2) In 1644 Tristram was allowed to keep an ordinary, sell wine and keep a ferry on the Newbury side and George Carr on the Salisbury side of Carr's Island.(3) "Dec. 26, 1647- Tristram Coffin is allowed to keep an ordinary and retayle wine, paying according to order, and also granted liberty to keep a ferry at Newbury side."(4) With Samuel Winsley of Salisbury he sued Richard Ayre of Salisbury about a hogshead of beef and was in Court again in 1649. In 1653 his wife Dionis was presented in Court for selling beer for threepence per quart. She proved by the testimony of Samuel Mooers that she put six bushels of malt into the hogshead and hence was discharged by the Court. The law which she was supposed to have violated was passed in 1645: "Every person licensed to keep an ordinary, shall always be provided with good wholesome beer of four bushels of malt to the hogshead, which he shall not sell above two pence the ale quart, on penalty of forty shillings the first offence and for the second offence shall lose his license."(5) Dionis doubtless intended to make a better beer than was afforded at other ordinaries and as three pence per quart bore the same relation to six bushels of malt as 2d per quart did to four bushels she could see no reason why her beer should not sell for 3d per quart. Proof of this fact secured her discharge and her beer gained a good reputation from this proceeding and Coffyn's ordinary became distinguished as the place where the best beer was sold. In 1653 Tristram acted as attorney for William Furber and in 1654 he served on the jury and signed a petition in Haverhill.(6) This same year he was sued by Theophilus Satchwell for not "insuring him three acres of accomodation according to promise" and won the case.(7) On 18 Jan. 1655 Tristram Coffin of Newbury sold some meadow in Salisbury to William Osgood.(8) While a resident of Salisbury, before his departure for Nantucket he was a commissioner or Justice of the Peace and signed a Salisbury petition in 1658.(9) "The 20th of November 1647. These prsents wittness yt Tristram Coffyn of Nubery have bargained & sould unto Richard Littlehale one dwelling house & house Lott situate in Haverhill wch lately was belonging unto Willi Duglas now of Boston... fower acres... in the ye playne... & also fower acres of Medow... & also all Comonage for Cattell & hoggs & all other beasts... & also all privilidg of tymber & wood wth all accomodacons to ye say'd house & lott apytaining..."(10) "I Tristram Coffyn of Salisbury... for a certaine Sum... have... sold unto Samuel Gile of Haverhill one dwelling house & houselot... in Haverhill... 1648."(11) "I Tristram Coffyn Senr of the Towne of Nubery in ye County of Essex Planter... for fiveteen pounds..by me received of Richard Ormsby of... Salisbury... have wth ye full & free consent of Dionis my wyfe... sell unto ye said Richard Ormsby a certaine dwelling house wth a frame standing att ye end of it together with one halfe of yt houselott on wch ye said house standeth...being... in... Haverhill...ye twenty forth day of ye ninth Mo: one thousand six hundred forty nine."(12) "Tristram Coffyn aged about forty six years testifyeth yt aboute five, six or seven years agoe att Nuberie I herd Ms Cutting make a bargaine wth Josiah Cobham & Richard Currier for two pcells of meadow lying in Salisbury Township & ye aforesaid Ms Cutting did... affirme that she had a letter of Attorney made to hir by hir husband mr John Cutting before he went to sea that gave her full power to act & doe in settling any pt of his estate here in New England duering his absence The price & all ye pay I doe not now remember only one Cowe was to be part of ye pay... Sworn in Court att Salisbury ye 12d 2d mo: 1655."(13) "Tristram Coffin of Newbury... for... eighteen pounds... have sould unto Samuel Poore of Newbury... all his house & houselott... in Newbury... next Mr. Cuttings land... with all & singular the glass, boards, plancks, the dung or soyle, with fences priviledges and appurtenances thereunto belonging... Aprill ye fifteenth one thousand Six hundred fifty & two."(14) "I Tristram Coffin of Salisbury... & Dionis my wife... for... twenty eight pounds...sell... unto Lionel Worth of Newbury... forty acres of upland... in Newbury... being part of the farme formerly granted by the towne of Newbury unto Mr. Edward Rawson... which I the said Tristram Coffin lately purchased of the above named Mr. Rawson" 12 Apr. 1659.(15) About 1658 Tristram became interested in the island of Nantucket forming a company for its purchase and moving there in 1659. It is disputed why Tristram went to Nantucket. The probability is that it came through his acquaintanceship with Thomas Macy a cousin of Thomas Mayhew who owned the island by purchase from the agents of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Lord Sterling. Thomas Macy was a deputy to the General Court from Salisbury in 1654. Thomas Mayhew was a resident of Watertown, before moving to Martha's Vineyard, and was a deputy of the General Court from that place. Mayhew who was governor of Martha's Vineyard probably wanted Nantucket settled and offered the land very cheaply to Coffin, Macy and their associates. The first records of the proceedings in regard to Nantucket were kept at Salisbury but after the island came under the jurisdictin of New York the records were kept at Albany where they are still to be found. Early in 1659 Tristram went to Martha's Vineyard where he took Peter Folger the Grandfather of Benjamin Franklin as an interpreter of the Indian language and went to Nantucket to ascertain the temper of the Indians and the capabilities of the island so that he could report to the citizens of Salisbury. He was apparently favorably impressed by what he saw and heard, for when he returned to Salisbury, a company was formed and the purchase of the island was determined. At Martha's Vineyard he entered into preliminary negotiations with Thomas Mayhew for the purchase of the island before visiting it. After his visit to the island he made additional arrangements for its purchase and returned to Salisbury where his report upon the condition of the island, the character of the Indians and the advantages of a change of residence, was laid before his friends and associates. A company was organized for the immediate purchase of the whole island allowing Thomas Mayhew to retain a one-tenth portion with some other reservations. Several meetings of the purchasers were held at Salisbury and general rules for the government of the island were adopted. "July 2d, 1659- These people after mentioned did buy all right and enterest of the Island of Nantucket that did belong to Sr Ferdinando George and the Lord Sterling, Mr. Richard Vines, Steward, Gentleman to Sir Ferdinando George, and Mr. James Ferrett, Steward to Lord Sterling, which was by them sold unto Mr. Thomas Mayhew, of Marthers Vineyard; these after mentioned did purchas of Mr. Thomas Mayhew these Rights: namely, the pattent Right belonging to the Gentleman aforesaid; and also the piece of Land which Mr. Mayhew did purchass of the Indians at the west end of the Island of Nantucket as by their grant or bill of sale, will largely appear with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof; the aforementioned Purchasers are Tristram Coffin, Senyr, Thomas Macy, Richard Swain, Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin, Christopher Hussey, Stephen Greenleaf, John Swain, William Pile; the Mr. Thomas Mayhew himself also becom a Twentieth part purchaser so that they... had the Sole Interest, Disposell, power, and privilege of said Island and appurtenances thereof."(16) "Bee it known unto all Men by these Presents, that I, Thomas Mayhew, of Martha's Vineyard, Merchant, doe hereby acknowledge, that I have sould unto Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleafe, John Swayne, and William Pike, that Right and Interest I have in ye Land of Nantuckett, by Patent; ye wch Right I bought of James fforrett, Gent. and Steward to ye Lord Sterling, and of Richard Vines sometimes of Sacho, Gent., Steward-Genrll unto Sir Georges, Knight, as by Conveyances under their Hands and Seales doe appeare, ffor them ye aforesaid to Injoy, and their Heyres and Assignes forever, wth all the Priviledges thereunto belonging, for in consideration of ye Sume of Thirty Pounds of Current Pay, unto whomsoever I ye said Thomas Mayhew... shall appoint. And also two Beaver Hatts, one for myselfe, and one for my wife... and to hold one-twentieth Part of all Lands purchased... And in Witness hereof, I have hereunto sett my Hand and Seale this second Day of July, sixteen hundred and fifty-nine."(17) "At Salysbury, February, 1659- At a meeting of the purchasers... it was agreed and Determined and approvd as followss, vizt: tht the ten owners will admitt of Ten more partners who shall have equall power and Interest with themselves, and tht either of the purchasers aforementioned shall have liberty to take a partner whome he pleases not being mostly excepted against by the rest. At that meeting Robert Pike was owned partner with Christopher Hussey, Robert Barnard was owned partner with Thomas Barnard, Edward Starbuck was owned to be Thomas Macy's partner, and Tristram Coffin, jur., partner with Stephen Greenleaf, James Coffin partner with Peter Coffin- at the same meeting it was mutually and unanimously agreed upon... that no man whatsoever shall purchase any land of any of the Indians upon the said iland for his own private or particular use; but whatsoever purchas shall be made, shall be for the general account of the Twenty ownners or purchasers... at the same meeting it was ordered and Determined that there shall be ten other Inhabitants admitted into the Plantation who shall have such accomodation as the Owners or purchasers shall judge meet- as namely necessary tradesman and Seaman."(18) "At a meeting of these owners of the Island of Nantucket at Salisbury it was Debatted, and after debatted, determed and concluded, that as ther had ben a former meeting in Salisbury at the House of Benjamin Cambell, in February, 1659, in which meeting orders was made for Prohibiting of any Person from the purchasing any land from any of the Indians upon the Island of Nantucket except for the use of the Twenty owners or purchasers, the Order shall stand Inviolable unalterable as that which also as that which is likely necessary to the continuance of the well being of the place and the Conturary, that which tends to the confusion and Ruine of the whole and the Suverting of the rules and orders allready agreed upon and the depriveing of the said owners of there Just rights and Interest. Also it was ordered at the same meeting that all the Land that is fit for areable land convenient for House lot shall be forthwith measured, that the quantity thereof may be known, which being done, shall be divided by equel preportions, that is to say Four Fifths parts to the owners or purchasers; and the other Fifth unto the Ten other Inhabitants, whereof John Bishop shall have two parts or shares, that is to say of that Fifth part belonging to the Ten Inhabitant. Also at the same meeting it was ordered that Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Edward Starbuck, Thomas Barnard, Peter Folger of Mathers Vineyard, shall have power to measure and lay out said Land according to the above said awder, and whatsoever shall be done and concluded in the said Case by or any three of them, Peter Folger being one, shall be accounted Legall and valid."(19) Late in the season of 1659 the first settlers arrived including Thomas Macy and his family, Edward Starbuck, Isaac Coleman, and James Coffin. The first village grew up to the south and east of Capaum Pond where many of the cellar indentations are still visible. Tristram built his home near Capaum Pond and resided there until his death. "May the 10th, 1661- At a meeting at Salisbury it was ordered and concluded that the aforementioned parties, vizt: Tristram Coffin, seny., Thomas Macy, Edward Starbuck, Thomas Barnard, Peter Folger, shall also measure and lay out all the rest of the Land, both meadows, Woods and upland, that is convenant to be appropriated within the bounds of the first Plantation; also it is determined that the above mentioned persons, together with Mr. Mayhew, Richard Swain, John Bishop or whatever others of the owners or puchasers that are present, shall have power to Determing what land is convenient to be improved and Laid out, and what should be common or Remain Common, and also, to Lay out the bounds of the Town and record it, provided always that the land being measured, they shall first lay out a convenant quantity of Land with suitable accomodations of all sorts which shall be Particularly reserved for the public use of the Town. Also it was ordered at the same meeting that an authentick Record shall be kept of all that is don about the proseeding and actions about the said Island, both the Island and on the main, untill further orders be taken. At the same meeting it was ordered, that for the particuler apointing which Lot every man shall have it shall be don be casting Lots excepting only those persons that have already taken there Lots, namly, Thomas Macy, Tristram Coffin, Seny., Edward Starbuck and Richard Swain. At the same meeting Robert Pike was appointed to keep the Records concerning the Island of Nantucket at Salisbury, and Thomas Macy to keep the Records at the Island, as in the above said orders expressed at present until further orders be taken by the owners or purchasers."(20) At a meeting held at Nantucket, 15 July 1661, of the owners residing there it was agreed that each man choose his house-lot within the limits not previously occupied and that each lot shall contain sixty rods square. Tristram appears to have been allowed to make the first selection: "Tristram Coffin, Sen., had his house lot layed out at Cappammet, by the aforesaid Lot layers, at Cappamet Harbour head, sixty rods squar, or thereabouts, the east side line part of it bounded by the highway; the south side bounded by a rock southward of the pond; the north by the harbour head; the west side bounded by the lot of Tristram Coffin, Jr., more or less, as it is lay out."(21) "Tristram Coffin, Junior, had his house lot layd out by the aforesaid Lot layers at Coppammet, sixty rods squar, or thereabouts, on the east side by the lot of his father, Tristram Coffin, on the south side by the common; on the west by the lot of William Pile, more or less, as it is layed out."(22) "The one half of the accomodation to Tristram Coffin, sen., being assigned to Mary Starbuck and Nathaniel Starbuck, Tristram also being present at the place commonly called the Parliament House, Sixty rod square, bounded with the land of Thos. Mayhew on the south; and with the land of James Coffin on the north; and on the east with the land of Stephen Greenleaf; on the west by the common-Same land allowed at the east end with reference to rubbage land, more or less."(23) "Tristram Coffin, sen., had an acre of meadow lay out by Edwd Starbuck, Thos. Macy, himself being present, and Peter Folger agreeing thereto, on the neck commonly called Nanna hamak Neck, at the south end of the woodland. At the same time Tristram Coffin, junior, had an acre lot laid out at the same place."(24) "Tristram Coffin, Sen., had a twenty acre lot; being a Second Division answerable to the lot laid out in the five pound purchases, thirty rod in breadth, lying a Long from the north side of the house lot of the said Tristram Coffin lot, by Cuppammet head to the sea, more or less."(25) "Tristram Coffin, Jr., had twenty acre lot layed out by Tristram Coffin, Edward Starbuck & Peter Folger, answerable to the twenty acres on the five pound purches."(26) Tristram was 37 years old upon his arrival in America and 55 years old at the time of his moving to Nantucket. It does not appear that his mother, Joan Coffyn ever lived in Nantucket since she died in Boston in May, 1661. The Rev. Wilson who preached the funeral sermon spoke of her as a woman of extraordinary character. Sewall's Diary which recorded her death says that he "embalmed her memory". For several years after this Tristram, with his sons, held the controlling interest in the Islands, he being conceded to be the richest man there except for his son Peter. With his sons he bought the island of Tuckernuck after trying to have his other associates join in the purchase. "The tenth Day of October, one thousand six hundred fifty and nine; These presents Witness, That I, Thomas Mayhew, of Martin's Vineyard, Mercht, doe Give, Grant, Bargaine, and Sell, all my Right and Interest in Tuckannuck Island, als Tuckannuckett, which I have had, or ought to have, by Vertue of Patent Right, purchased of ye Lord Stirling's Agent and of Mr Richard Vines, Agent unto Sir fferdinando George, Knight, unto Tristram Coffin Sr, Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin Jur, and James Coffin, to them and their Heyres forever, ffor and in consideracon of ye just Sume of six Pounds in Hand paid, and by mee Thomas Mayhew, received in full Satisfaction of ye aforesaid Patent Right, of ye aforesaid Island."(27) "This witnesseth that I, Wanochmamack, chife sachem of Nantucket, hath sold unto Mr. Tristram Coffin and Thomas Macy, their heirs and assigns, that whole nack of land called by the Indians, Pacummohquah, being at the east end of Nantucket, for and in consideration of five pounds to be paid to me in English goods or otherwise to my content by the said Tristram Coffin aforesaid at convenient time as shall be demanded. Witness my hand or mark this 22 of June, 1662."(28) Tristram assumed the obligation to construct a cornmill, built and maintained it. He employed large numbers of Indians on his land. Benjamin Franklin Folger, the historian of Nantucket, says of him: "The christian character which he exhibited and which he practically illustrated in all the varied circumstances and conditions of that infant colony, is analogous to that which subsequently distinguished the founder of Pennsylvania so that the spirit of the one seemed to be but the counterpart of the other." The Indians were divided into bands and sometimes had quarrels among themselves and sometimes were at variance with the settlers. The Indians became troublesome only after they had learned to drink rum. The early court records are mainly devoted to trials, convictions and sentences of Indians to be whipped for getting drunk and for petty larcenies, and of fines imposed upon white men and women for selling rum to Indians. The first General Court for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard composed of Tristram Coffyn, first chief magistrate of Nantucket and Thomas Mayhew, first chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard and two associates from each island enacted a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks to Indians. The law was occasionally enforced and John Gardner (whose gravestone alone marks the spot where the settlers were first interred) complained to Governor Lovelace, 15 Mar. 1676 that a half barrel of rum had been taken from him by Thomas Macy. Gardner also said that the Indian Sachems stated they would fight if the laws against them were enforced. The letter of Thomas Macy to Governor Lovelace, 9 May 1676 shows the fear of the Indians if strong drink was allowed to be sold to them and he asked the Governor to prohibit any ship coming into the harbor from selling strong drink to Indians: "Sir, concerning the Peace we hitherto enjoy, I cannot imagine it could have bin if strong Liquor had bin among the Indians, as formerly: for my owne yt I have been to ye utmost an opposed of the Trade these 38 yeares, and I verily believe (respecting the Indians) tis the only Ground of the miserable psent Ruine to both Nations; for tis that hath kept them from Civility, they have been the drunken Trade kept all the while like Wildernesse."(29) It also seems that the Court on one occasion took possession of all the liquor on the island and dispenced it in small quantities to the settlers. "Whereas ye Honble Coll: Lovelace, Governour of New Yorke, gave forth his Summons for ye Inhabitants of ye Isle of Nantuckett to make their Appearance before his Honor at New Yorke, either in their own Person or by their Agent, to shew their Claymes in respect to their Standing or Clayme of Interest on ye aforesaid Island. Now wee whose Names are underwritten having intrusted our ffather Tristram Coffin to make Answer for us, Wee doe Empower our ffather Tristram Coffin to act and doe for us wth Regard to our Interest, on ye Isle of Nantuckett and Tuckanuckett. Witness our Hands ye 2d Day of ye fourth Month, sixteen hundred and seventy-one, 1671." Signed by James, John, Stephen Coffin and Nathaniel Starbuck.(30) Tristram as the chief magistrate of Nantucket and Thomas Mayhew as chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard with two assistants from each island were to constitute a General Court with appellate jurisdiction over both islands. "Imprimis, Wee humbly propose Liberty for ye Inhabitants to chuse annually a Man or Men to be Chiefe in ye Governmt, and chosen or appointed by his Honor to Stand in place, contantly invested wth Power of Confirmacon by Oath or Engagemt, or otherwise as his Honor shall appoint, one to be Chiefe in ye Cort and to have Magistraticall Power at all times wth regard to ye Peace and other necessary Consideracon. 2ly. Wee take for granted yt ye Lawes of England are Standard of Governmt, soe farre as wee know them, and are suitable to or Condicon not repugnant to ye Lawes of England. 3ly. In Point of carrying on ye Governmt from Time to Time, wee are willing to joyne with or Neighbor Island ye Vineyard, to keep together one Cort every Yeare, one Yeare at or Island, ye next wth them, and Power at Home to End all Cases not exceeding 20lb; And in all cases Liberty of Appeale to ye Genrll Cort in all Actions above 40lb. And in all Actions amounting to ye vallue of 100lb Liberty of Appeale to his Highnesse his Cort at ye Citty of New York; And in Capitall Cases, or such Mattrs as concerne Life, Limbe, or Banishmt. All such cases to be tryed at New Yorke. 4. And feeling ye Indians are numerous among us, Wee propose that or Governmt may Extend to them, and Power to Summon them to our Corts wth respect to Mattrs of Trespass Debt, and other Miscarriages, and Try and Judge them according to Lawes, when published amongst them. And Lastly, some Military Power committed to us, respecting our Defence, either in respect of Indyans or Strangrs invadeing, &c."(31) The town voted to have a harrow for the use of the inhabitants and Tristram was to provide the harrow and he along with Thomas Macy were empowered to see that every man sowed seed "according to order". "Francis Lovelace, Esq., &c.: Whereas upon address made unto mee by Mr. Tristram Coffin and Mr. Thomas Macy on ye behalfe of themselves and ye rest of ye inhabitants of Nantuckett Island concerning ye Mannor and Method of Government to be used amongst themselves, and having by ye advice of my councell pitcht upon a way for them; That is to say, That they be governed by a person as Chiefe Magistrate, and two Assistants, ye former to be nominated by myselfe, ye other to be chosen and confirmed by ye inhabitants as in ye instructions sent unto them is more prticularly sett forth. And having conceived a good opinion of ye fitness and capacity of Mr. Tristram Coffin to be ye present Chiefe Magistrate to manage affayres with ye Ayd and good advice of ye Assistants in ye Islands of Nantuckett and Tuckanuckett, I have thought fit to nominate, constitute, and appoint, and by these presents doe hereby nominate, constitute and appoint Mr. Tristram Coffin to be Chief Magistrate of ye said Islands of Nantuckett and Tuckanuckett. In ye management of which said employment hee is to use his best skill and endeavour to preserve his Maties Peace and to keep ye Inhabitants in good Order. And all Persons are hereby required to give ye said Mr. Tristram Coffin such respect and obedience as belongs to a Person invested by commission from authority of his Royall Highness in ye place and employment of a Chiefe Magistrate in ye Islands aforesaid. And hee is duly to observe the Orders and Instructions which are already given forth for ye well governing of ye Place; or such others as from time to time shall hereafter bee given by mee: And for whatsoever ye said Mr. Tristram Coffin shall lawfully Act or Doe in Prosecution of ye Premises, This my Commission which is to bee of fforce until ye 13th day of October, which shall bee in ye yeare of our Lord, 1672, when a new Magistrate is to enter into the employment shall be his sufficient Warrant and Discharge. Given under my Hand and Seale at fforte James, in New Yorke, this 29th day of June, in ye 22d yeare of his Maties Reigne, Annoq Dni. 1671."(32) Between 1675-6 there was a dispute in court between Thomas Macy then chief magistrate and William Worth his son-in-law on one side and John Gardner, Peter Folger and others on the other side. The islanders lined up on one side or the other. The matter was a question of land and superior authority, for Massachusetts vs. New York. Tristram was of Macy's party and aligned against Gardner although subsequently he again became friends with Gardner. "Testimony of Tristram Coffin aged 67 years: That on the 6th day of June 1677, the General Court being set in the town of Sherburne, and Capt. John Gardner being brought into Court, and sot down on a chest where I sat, ther being of the members of the Court that spake to him concerning the contmptuous carriages in regard to the King's authority then and there present, and he accused and brought as a delinquent. I spake to him and told him I was very sorry that he did not behave himself. The aforesaid Capt. John Gardner replied and said: 'I know my business and it may be some of these that have meddled with me had better have eaten fier.' Witnes my hand to the verity of this Tristram Coffin."(33) The feeling for accepting the jurisdiction of Massachusetts instead of New York grew stronger and Governor Andros, who had succeeded Lovelace, again made Tristram governor perhaps in hope of settling the controversy. This commission is on the Nantucket Records instead of the New York ones: "Edmund Andros, Esqr., seigneur of Sausmarez, Lieut. & Governour General under his Royall Highnesse James, Duke of Yorke and Albany, &c., of all his Territories in America: Whereas an undue or illegall returne of the Chief Magistrate of Nantuckett hath been make two yeares successively from thence, the one being by law wholly incapable thereof: Therefore by advice of my Counsell, by vertue of Majesties Letters Pattents, & authority from his Royall Highnesse, I doe hereby in his Majesty's names, nominate, constitute, and Authorize Mr. Tristram Coffin, Senr., to be Chief Magistrate of the said Island of Nantucket and dependencyes for the ensuing yeare, or further order, in the place and stead of Mr. Thomas Macy, late Chiefe Magistrate, and being thereunto sworn by him, or next in place, to act as Chiefe Magistrate according to Law and lawfull custome and practice, requiring all persons who it may concern, to conform themselves thereunto accordingly. Given under my hand and seale of the Province of New Yorke, this sixteenth day of September 1677. E. Andross."(34) He was appointed Chief Magistrate of Nantucket by Governor Andros in 1667, and again by Governor Lovelace on 29 June 1671. Tristram held the office of Governor until 1680 when John Gardner was appointed. During his entire residence on Nantucket he resided near Capsum, for the most part at a house that he built and named Northam. His house lot was a tract of the usual dimensions, bounded on the north by Cappam Harbor. The spot where his house was placed is marked by a stone monument. The interests which he and his sons and sons-in-law represented gave him power to control, to a large extent, the enterprises of the island. "I Tristram Coffin of Nantucket, do for divers good considerations, as Also in regard of my Fatherly affections, do give unto my daughter, Mary Starbuck, the one half of my accomodations of my purchase, on Nantucket Island... 14th 4th mo. 1664."(35) This unusual gift to a daughter was probably due to the fact that his sons were all co-purchasers with him in the island. Later he gave to his sons the remainder of his real estate. "I Tristram Coffin, of Nantucket, Senore, do give... unto my son, Stephen Coffin, the one-half of my land at Cappan, Alies Northam, within the township of Sherborn, situated upon Nantucket Island... all... except... my new dwelling house upon the hill, and my old dwelling house under the hill, by the Erbe garden; now, for and in consideration of the aforesaid premisses, my son, Stephen Coffin, shall always from time to time do the best he can in managing my other half of my lands and accomodation during mine and my wife's life, and tht he be helpfull to me and his mother in our old age and sickness, what he can:... the fifteenth of the elventh mone, one thousand six hundred and seventy-six."(36) "Tristram Coffin, Senior, in the town of Sherborn, on the Island of Nantucket... in regard to my naturall afections unto my son, John Coffin, now of Sherborn, as also for divers other good and Lawful consideration... I... do freely give unto my son, John Coffin... my new Dwelling house, with all other houses Adjoining unto it, and also the whole half share of land and accomodation... to have and to hold forever, imediatly after the Decease of me... and my now wife Dionis Coffin" 3 Dec. 1678.(37) "I Tristram Coffin of Sherborn... in Regard of my Natural afection unto my Grand Children... give unto every one of them Ten Acres of land to plant or sow English grain on... upon the Island of Tuckernuck... and if they... shall sow their land with english hay seed they shall have liberty to keep four shep upon every acre during their Lifetime... 3d 10th 1678."(38) Tristram in 1680 was brought into Court for an infringement of the Admiralty law. A ship having been cast away was salvaged by the people of the Island while he was magistrate and he neglected to make an accounting satisfactory to the Court. He was penalized for the full amount of her estimated value and this after he had parted with all of his property excepting enough for the old age of himself and his wife. The court evidently thought the fine excessive and remitted a part of it, Capt. John Gardner standing his friend in this. "At a Court of Admiralty, held at the Island of Nantuckett ye twenty-eighth day of August, by his Maties Athority, in the thirty-second Yeare of the Reiagne of our Sovereigne Lord King Charles the Second, and in the Yeare of our Lord on thousand six hundred and eighty. Present, Captn Cesar Knapton, Captn Richard Hall, Mr. John West, Capt John Gardner, Magistrate. Mr. Tristram Coffin, late Magistrate, being called to give an Accoumpt of what was saved out of the Rack of a French Ship, cast away on this Island by some of Capt. Bernard Lamoyn's Men about the latter Part of the Yeare seventy-eight, declared he had formerly given an Accoumpt, which being produced and read, it appeared that thare ware saved out of the said Rack two thousand and sixteen Hydes, which he confesseth are disposed of by his Order, Alowance and Aprobation and by Information given, we valleu at fouer Shillings per Hyde, which amounts toe fouer hundred and three Pound fouer Shillings; and also one Cable and a Pece, likwise sold by the said Tristram Coffin at forty fouer Pounds; and one Sayle at six Pounds ten Shillings; and two Pecis of Hafers at eleven Pounds, and an Ancker at thirteen Pounds; which in all amounts toe fouer hundred seventy-seven Pounds fourteen Shillings, for which no Claime hath bin make according to Law. This Court tharefore, taking into Consideration the Allowance of Salvage of said Goods, and understanding the Difeculty and Hardship the Savers endured, doe alow on fifth Part thareof for Salvage, according to Law, which amounts toe ninety-five Pounds ten Shillings And for what was disburred by the said Tristram Coffin on Accoumpt of some Duch Prissoners left one the Island, and what was paid by him to William Worth, for his Wound, forty Pound one Shilling. In all, on hundred thirty-five Pounds eleaven Shillings; which being deducted out of the said Sum of fower hundred seventy seaven Pounds fourteen Shillings. They doe adjudge and determine that the said Coffin doe make Payment and Sattisfaction toe the Governor or his Order, on Accoumpt of his Royall Highness to whom by Law it doth appertain the Remainder of the said Sum, being three hundred forty-three Pounds ten Shillings. And as for what Guns or Rigeing or other Things that are undisposed of, toe be apprised and Salvage to be alowed as above, and to be sent to New York for his Royall Highness use, the Salvage toe be lickwise paid by the said Coffin, to be deduckted out of the three hundred fourty-three Pounds ten Shillings. The Court lickewise declare thare Opinion that the said Coffin's Actings Proceedings in disposing of the said Goods, are contrary to Law."(39) "To the Right Honrabell Ser Edmund Andros, Knight, Signeur of Safmaryoe, Lieut. Generall under his Royall Hynes James Duke of York and Albany, and Governor Generall of his Royal Hynes Territorys in America. These present. Nantuckett, 30th of August, 1680. Right Honerabell Sir: My humbell Service presented unto your Excellencye humblie shewing my hartie Sorow yt I should in any way give your Excelency just occasion of Offence, as I now plainly see, in actinge contrary to the Law, as I am convinced I did, throw Ignorance in regard to not beinge acquainted with the maretime Lawes, and yet I humblie intreat your Exclency to consider yt in on Respect my weeackness I hope may bee a littell born with: for I did tender diverse Persons theone halfe to save the other halfe, and I could not get any to doe it: and for the Hides I could not get any to goe but for to tacke all for their Labor, because it was judged by many yt the weare not worth the saving; so I was nesesetated to doe as I did or else the had bin quite lost. Thare fore I humblye intreat your Excelency not to think yt I did it for any bye Respects or selfe Ends; for I doe assure your Excelency yt theare was not any on Person yt did indent with me for any on Shillinge Proffit, only I did tell foure of them yt if I should bee by any cal'd to accot, the should bee accountabell to me. But now the will not owne it and I can not prove it, so I by Law am caust to beare all, only my hop is yt your Excelency will bee pleased out of your Leniency and Favor to me to except of int Money, and Bill is sent for the answeringe of the Judgement of the Court; for had not my Sonn James Coffyn borrowed Money and ingaged for the rest of my Bill, I could not have done it, but must have gone to Prison. Now I humblye intreat your Excelency to heare my loving Nighbor, Capt John Gardner, in my behalfe, and wth your Excelency shall bee pleased to order Concerning the Case, I shall thankfulye except, knowing your Excelency to be a compashonate mercyeful Man. And I hop I shall for Time to com... to be more wiser and doe kept your Excelency's humbell Sarvant whylst I live to my Power. Tristram Coffyn."(40) The court accepted £150 in full payment, 6 Nov. 1680. Less than a year later Tristram died leaving a very small estate as he had given most of it away to his sons and daughter and the fine inflicted by the Court of Admiralty took a large amount of the residue. "Mr James Coffin, John Coffin, Steven Coffin doe bind ourselves, Joyntly and severally, in the some of an hundred pounds starlinge, to performe the trust in administering on our father's estate, and to baer the Court harmless according to law."(41) "The 8th day of August, 1682, an Inventory being presented to the Court of the estate of Mr. Tristram Coffin, Senior, who departed this life the third day of October, on thousand six hundred eighty one, the Court taking into consideration the present state of the estate, together with the best Information of his mind before his decease: doe order the use of the estate for Ms Dionis Coffin, his widdow, during her life after al Just debts are paid."(42) Ref: (1) Norfolk Co. Deeds- book 2, p.209 (2) History of Haverhill- pp.49-50 (3) A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury- p.43 (4) Ibid- p.49 (5) The Coffin Family- p.40 (6) Mass. Archives- Vol.10, p.300 (7) Essex Co. Court Files (8) Mass. Archives- Vol.15b, p.41 (9) Ibid- Vol.10, p.45 (10) Norfolk Co. Deeds- Vol.1, p.30 (11) Ibid- p.74 (12) Ibid- p.41 (13) Ibid- p.42 (14) Ipswich Deeds- Vol.1, p.117 (15) Ibid- p.240 (16) The Coffin Family- p.44 (17) Albany Deeds- Vol.III, p.56 (18) The Coffin Family- pp.44-5 (19) Ibid- p.45 (20) Ibid- pp.45-6 (21) First Book of Nantucket Records (22) Ibid- (23) Ibid- (24) Ibid- (25) Ibid- (26) Ibid- (27) Albany Deeds- Vol.III, p.57 (28) Ibid- (29) The Coffin Family- p.49 (30) Albany Deeds- Vol.III, p.58 (31) Ibid- p.59 (32) Ibid- p.62 (33) Publication of the Nantucket Historical Society- p.36 (34) Nantucket Records- Vol.1, p.101 (35) Nantucket Deeds- Vol.1, p.197 (36) Ibid- old book, p.63 (37) Ibid- Vol.2, p.19 (38) Ibid- Vol.2, p.17 (39) New York Colonial MSS, XXIX (40) Ibid- p.29 (41) Nantucket Records (42) Ibid- 1827 medal depicting Tristram Coffin His Image on a coin: The Tristram House Built in 1652 Wikitree: Tristram Coffin is believed born/baptized 11 Mar 1609 at Plymouth, Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England however primary source documentation is lacking[1]. Considered the patriarch of Nantucket his beliefs and actions held considerable influence over the early colony. Old England In 1639/40, he was made churchwarden of the parish church (his customary pew in the front of the chancel is marked on a plan made in 1638) and in 1641 a parish constable-holder, one of the offices created under the Elizabethan reforms. A difficulty arose between him and Thomas Maynard of Brixton, gentleman, which in midsummer of 1641 was referred to arbitration. The outcome remains unknown but it is speculated this may be one reason he left for New England. New England Tristram belongs among early immigrants whose reason for leaving England is hard to pinpoint. Like Robert Clements, with whom he is said to have come, he had estates in England owning property in Dorset and Devon. He was landed gentry and not a Puritan. He left for New England at age 37 in the year of crisis between Charles I and Parliament bringing with him his wife, five children, his mother and some state two of his unmarried sisters. It is stated that his younger brother John was wounded at the battle of Plymouth Fort and died eight days later. If true it may have been a factor in Tristram's decision to emigrate. Clement and Coffin family tradition places the men coming together on a ship owned by Robert Clement but nothing exists to prove the name of the vessel. Tristram settled at Salisbury for a few months moving shortly to Haverhill (Pentucket) where with the other inhabitants he obtained of the Indian Sachems the deed of the township.[2][3] Tristram settled in Haverhill near to the Clements and tradition states again that he was the first person to plough land in the town, having constructed his own plough. With Robert Clement he was made a freeman in Haverhill in Nov. 1645. About 1643 he moved to another part of Haverhill called the Rocks where he was licensed to keep a tavern "Coffins Ordinary"[4] and before 1647 he moved to Newbury then in 1648 to Salisbury, in 1649 to Newbury again and finally in 1654 to Salisbury.[5] While a resident of Salisbury, before his departure for Nantucket he was a commissioner or Justice of the Peace and signed a Salisbury petition in 1658.[6] Nantucket About 1658 Tristram formed a company for the purchase of Nanctucker and moved there in 1659. It is disputed why Tristram went to Nantucket. The probability is that it came through his acquaintanceship with Thomas Macy a cousin of Thomas Mayhew who owned the island by purchase from the agents of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Lord Sterling. Mayhew who was governor of Martha's Vineyard probably wanted Nantucket settled and offered the land very cheaply to Coffin, Macy and their associates. The first records of the proceedings in regard to Nantucket were kept at Salisbury but after the island came under the jurisdiction of New York the records were kept at Albany where they are still to be found. Early in 1659, Tristram went to Martha's Vineyard where he took Peter Folger the Grandfather of Benjamin Franklin as an interpreter of the Indian language and went to Nantucket to ascertain the temper of the Indians and the capabilities of the island so that he could report to the citizens of Salisbury. When he returned to Salisbury, a company was organized for the immediate purchase of the whole island allowing Thomas Mayhew to retain a one-tenth portion with some other reservations. Late in the season of 1659 the first settlers arrived including Thomas Macy and his family, Edward Starbuck, Isaac Coleman, and James Coffin. Tristram built his home near Capaum Pond and resided there until his death. At a meeting held at Nantucket, 15 July 1661, of the owners residing there it was agreed that each man choose his house-lot within the limits not previously occupied and that each lot shall contain sixty rods square. Tristram appears to have been allowed to make the first selection. Tristram was 55 years old at the time of his moving to Nantucket. It does not appear that his mother, Joan Coffyn ever lived in Nantucket since she died in Boston in May, 1661. The Rev. Wilson who preached the funeral sermon spoke of her as a woman of extraordinary character. Sewall's Diary which recorded her death says that he "embalmed her memory". Go here for Nanctucket deeds and related records. Tuckernuck For several years after this Tristram, with his sons, held the controlling interest in the Islands, he being the wealthiest man there except for his son Peter. With his sons he bought the island of Tuckernuck after trying to have his other associates join in the purchase. Go here for Tuckernuck records. Tristram assumed the obligation to construct a cornmill, built and maintained it. He employed large numbers of Indians on his land. Nantucket historian Benjamin Franklin Folger says of him: "The christian character which he exhibited and which he practically illustrated in all the varied circumstances and conditions of that infant colony, is analogous to that which subsequently distinguished the founder of Pennsylvania so that the spirit of the one seemed to be but the counterpart of the other." It has been written that problems with the Native Americans began only after they had been introduced to rum. The first General Court for Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard composed of Tristram Coffyn, first chief magistrate of Nantucket and Thomas Mayhew, first chief magistrate of Martha's Vineyard and two associates from each island enacted a law prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks to Indians. The law was occasionally enforced and John Gardner (whose gravestone alone marks the spot where the settlers were first interred) complained to Governor Lovelace, 15 Mar. 1676 that a half barrel of rum had been taken from him by Thomas Macy. Gardner also said that the Indian Sachems stated they would fight if the laws against them were enforced. The letter of Thomas Macy to Governor Lovelace, 9 May 1676 shows the fear of the Indians if strong drink was allowed to be sold to them and he asked the Governor to prohibit any ship coming into the harbor from selling strong drink to Indians. It also seems that the Court on one occasion took possession of all the liquor on the island and dispensed it in small quantities to the settlers. The town voted to have a harrow for the use of the inhabitants and Tristram was to provide the harrow and he along with Thomas Macy were empowered to see that every man sowed seed "according to order". In 1675-76 the question of whether New York or Massachusetts would be the governing authority loomed large and the islanders lined up on one side or the other. The feeling for accepting the jurisdiction of Massachusetts instead of New York grew stronger. Tristiam was appointed Chief Magistrate of Nantucket by Governor Andros in 1667 (perhaps in hope of settling the controversy), and again by Governor Lovelace on 29 June 1671. Tristram held the office of Governor until 1680 when John Gardner was appointed. During his entire residence on Nantucket he resided near Capsum, for the most part at a house that he built and named Northam. His house lot was a tract of the usual dimensions, bounded on the north by Cappam Harbor. The spot where his house was placed is marked by a stone monument. The interests which he and his sons and sons-in-law represented gave him power to control, to a large extent, the enterprises of the island. Later Life and Death Tristram in 1680 was brought into Court for an infringement of the Admiralty law. A ship having been cast away was salvaged by the people of the Island while he was magistrate and he neglected to make an accounting satisfactory to the Court. He was penalized for the full amount of her estimated value and this after he had parted with all of his property excepting enough for the old age of himself and his wife. The court evidently thought the fine excessive and remitted a part of it, Capt. John Gardner standing his friend in this. The court accepted £150 in full payment, 6 Nov 1680. Less than a year later Tristram died on 2 Oct 1681[7] leaving a very small estate as he had given most of it away to his sons and daughter and the fine inflicted by the Court of Admiralty took a large amount of the residue. Will Go here for text of the Will with property record citations. Legacy Perhaps the most historically significant descendant is his third great grandson Levi Coffin known as the "president" of the Underground Railroad. Some branches of the Coffin family were prominent in New England, grouped among the so-called Boston Brahmins. For example, Elizabeth Coffin, daughter of a wealthy merchant from Nantucket, was mother of the prominent Massachusetts industrialists Henry Coffin Nevins and David Nevins, Jr. Charles A. Coffin (1844-1926) born in Somerset, Massachusetts, became cofounder and first President of General Electric corporation. In the eighth generation, Elizabeth Coffin (1850-1930), an artist, educator and Quaker philanthropist, was known for her paintings of Nantucket and for helping revive Sir Isaac Coffin's school with a new emphasis on craft. Tristram Coffin, Sr Birth: Mar. 11, 1609, England Death: Oct. 2, 1681 Nantucket Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA Church warden, constable, commissioner, colonist, founder of Nantucket Island, first chief magistrate of the Nantucket colony, governor of Nantucket in 1671 and 1677. He was born in Brixton parish near Plymouth, Devonshire, England in 1609. He was the oldest child of Peter Coffin and Joanna Kember. He married Dionis Stevens in 1630. Their children were: i. Peter Coffin, baptized July 18, 1630 at Brixton ii. Tristram Coffin, b. abt. 1632 in England iii. Elizabeth Coffin b. in England iv. James Coffin, b. Aug. 12, 1639 in Brixton parish v. John Coffin, b. in England vi. Deborah Coffin, b. Nov. 15, 1642 at Haverhill, MA vii. Mary Coffin, b. Feb. 20, 1645 at Haverhill, MA vii. John Coffin, b. Oct. 30, 1647 at Haverhill, MA ix. Stephen Coffin, b. May 11, 1652 at Newbury, MA He was a church warden in Brixton in 1639-40 and a constable in 1641. In 1642, he and his family came to America and settled in Newburyport, Massachussetts. He negotiated with the American Indians for some land and moved his family to what is now Haverill, Massachusetts. He was the first white settler to plow land with a plow he had made with his own hands. After farming for a few years, he moved back to Newburyport, where he operated a ferry and kept Coffyn's Ordinary, a tavern and inn managed by his wife. In the 1650's, he sold his property and moved to Salisbury, where he became Commissioner. In the late 1650's, he and a few others purchased Nantucket island from Thomas Mayhew for the price of 30 pounds and two beaver hats, which were made by his son Tristram Jr. Among the eight original owners of Nantucket island, he became the most prominent. He was granted first choice of land and in 1659, he settled on the eastern slope of what is now called Trott's Hills, near Capaum pond, toward the western end if the island. He was a leader among the first settlers and was often asked by other inhabitants to transact important public business. He and Thomas Macy were the spokesmen for the settlement and were selected by the settlers go to New York and meet with Governor Lovelace and secure their claim to the Island in 1671. His letters to the Colonial Government of New York are preserved in the Archives of the Department of State at Albany. He built a corn mill and employed many Native Americans who were the aboriginal inhabitants of the island. In 1671, he was appointed governor of Nantucket, serving again in that office from 1674 to 1680. He died the following year and was buried on Nantucket Island on the private property he purchased in 1659 (at Trott's Hills, near Capaum pond, toward the western end if the island.) According to the Nantucket Historical Society, the grave is unmarked and its exact location has been lost over the years. A monument was erected to honor the founders of Nantucket island in 1881. The monument is located in the Nantucket Founders Cemetery (also referred to as the First Settlers' Burial Ground and the Forefathers' Cemetery). The Founders Cemetery is a small plot of land located off Cliff Road and overlooking Maxcey's Pond. While none of the founders are actually buried in the cemetery, the monument bears the names of the founders and the location is open to the public. Tristram's name is inscribed on the monument as "1609 - Tristram Coffin - 1681." (bio by: Cindy K. Coffin) (bio by: Cindy K. Coffin) Family links: Parents: Peter Coffin (1580 - 1628) Joanna Kember Coffin (1584 - 1661) Spouse: Dionis Stevens Coffin (1610 - 1684)* Children: Peter Coffin (1630 - 1715)* Tristram Coffin (1631 - 1703)* Elizabeth Coffin Greenleaf (1634 - 1678)* James Coffin (1640 - 1720)* John Coffin (1641 - 1642)* Mary Coffin Starbuck (1645 - 1717)* John Coffin (1647 - 1711)* Stephen Coffin (1652 - 1734)* Siblings: Joanna Coffin Hull (1602 - 1632)* Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681) Eunice Coffin Butler (1617 - 1648)* Mary Coffin Adams (1621 - 1691)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Founders Burial Ground * Nantucket Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA *Cenotaph [?] Created by: Greg Derylo Record added: May 02, 2005 Find A Grave Memorial# 10904410 Added by: Cindy K. Coffin Added by: Adam S. Added by: BurnesC There is 1 more photo not showing... Click here to view all images... Photos may be scaled. Click on image for full size. [1642] DIONIS STEVENS was born 4 March 1609 in Brixton, Devonshire, England to *Robert Stevens (1563-1627) and (1) Katherine; (2) *Dionis Unknown (1585-1647.) Dionis married in about 1630 to Tristram Coffin, at St. Mary’s Church, Brixton, Devonshire, England. St. Mary’s Church, Brixton, Devonshire, England Dionis Stevens passed away 16 September 1684, Nantucket, Massachusetts, age 75. Buried at Founders Burial round, Nantucket, Massachusetts. Nantucket Founding Women's Monument..... via Find a Grave Wikitree: Biography Baptised 4 March 1609/10. [1] Name Name: Dionis /Stevens/[2][3][4][5][6] Birth Date: 10 MAR 1609 Place: Brixton, Devon, England Birth: Date: 04 MAR 1609 Place: Brixton, Devon, England 04 MAR 1609/10. Plymouth, Brixton, Devonshire, England. [7][8][9][10] Baptism: 04 MAR 1609. Brixton, Devons, England. [11] Residence Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA[12] Place: USA[13] Date: BET 1602 AND 1882 Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA[14] Place: USA[15] Marriage Husband (Gov) Tristram Coffin. Wife Dionis Stephens. Marriage: 1630, Braxton Parish, Devonshire England. [16][17] Died 02 OCT 1681. [18] 06 NOV 1684. Nantucket Massachusetts. [19][20][21][22][23] Buried Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. Tristram and Dionis arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1642 with their young family: Peter, Tristram Jr., Elizabeth, and James. Also Tristram’s widowed mother. First settling in Salisbury, the family later moved to Haverhill, where Dionis gave birth to three more children: Deborah, Mary, and John. The Coffin’s moved to Newbury in 1648, where their last child, Stephen, was born in 1652. In 1654, the family returned to Salisbury. Her only appearance in the Essex County court records, Goodwife Coffin was charged with setting beer at three pence per quart with the requisite amount of malt; she proved by evidence of witnesses that she not only used the required amount of malt, but even more, Dionis was, in fact, entitled to charge three pence a quart, and the case against her was dropped. Dionis’s life during the Great Migration was one of upheaval and struggle in a new and hostile environment. The Massachusetts Bay Colony allowed women to run their own businesses, but strictly regimented individual action. She and her husband moved to Nantucket in 1659, which wouldn’t have been an easy feat traveling across 30 miles of ocean to get there. Dionis Stevens died in 1684 at age 74 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. From WIKITREE: Name: Dionis /Stevens/[2][3][4][5][6] Birth Date: 10 MAR 1609 Place: Brixton, Devon, England Birth: Date: 04 MAR 1609 Place: Brixton, Devon, England 04 MAR 1609/10. Plymouth, Brixton, Devonshire, England. [7][8][9][10] Baptism: 04 MAR 1609. Brixton, Devons, England. [11] Residence Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA[12] Place: USA[13] Date: BET 1602 AND 1882 Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA[14] Place: USA[15] Marriage Husband (Gov) Tristram Coffin. Wife Dionis Stephens. Marriage: 1630, Braxton Parish, Devonshire England. [16][17] Died 02 OCT 1681. [18] 06 NOV 1684. Nantucket Massachusetts. [19][20][21][22][23] Buried Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA. [24][25] FROM GENI: About Dionis Coffin In 1644 Tristram obtained a license to "keep an ordinary, sell wine, and keep a ferry" in Newbury, where the family had moved. In 1647 he got another license to do the same. The pub, "Coffin's Ordinary," was run by his wife Dionis; at the time brewing beer was a common occupation for women. In 1653 Dionis was charged with violating a law, passed in 1645, which said that beer could not be sold for more than two pence a quart. Her case was presented and dismissed when she showed that she was putting more malt in her beer than was usual, and that the beer should be sold for a proportionately larger fee. Her pub became known as "the place where the best beer was sold." ________________________________________ • Marriage: (1629 — Age: 20) Brixton, Devon, England • Marriage to Tristram Coffin: (1630 — Age: 21) Brixton, Devon, England • Updated from Ancestry Genealogy via daughter Elizabeth Coffin by SmartCopy: Nov 29 2015, 2:01:50 UTC ________________________________________ Birth: Mar. 4, 1610, England Death: Sep. 16, 1684 Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA Dionis Stevens was the daughter of Robert and Dionis Stevens of Brixton, England. She married Tristram Coffin about 1630 in Devonshire, England, and they were the progenitors of the Coffin family of Nantucket Island. Their children were: Peter Tristram Jr. Elizabeth James John Deborah Mary John Steven Family links: Spouse: Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681) Children: Peter Coffin (1630 - 1715)* Tristram Coffin (1631 - 1703)* Elizabeth Coffin Greenleaf (1634 - 1678)* James Coffin (1640 - 1720)* Mary Coffin Starbuck (1645 - 1717)* John Coffin (1647 - 1711)* • Calculated relationship Burial: Founders Burial Ground * Nantucket Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA • Cenotaph [?] Created by: Mary Harrell-Sesniak Record added: Mar 17, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 34909547 Parents: Robert Stevens 1567 - 1627 Dionis Stevens 1578 - 1647 Siblings: Thomas Stevens 1600 - ? John Stevens 1605 - ? Elizabeth Stevens 1611 - ? Johan Stevens 1611 - ? Stephen Stevens William Stevens 1603 - ? Tristram Stevens 1607 - 1644 Johan Stevens 1611 - ? Lydia Stevens 1613 - ? ________________________________________ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Stevens-67 wikitree 'Dionis (Stevens) Coffin (1609 - 1676) Dionis Coffin formerly Stevens Born 4 Mar 1609 in Brixton, Devon, England Daughter of Robert Stevens and Dionis (Unknown) Stevens Sister of Thomas Stevens, William Stevens, John Stevens, Tristram Stevens, Elizabeth Stevens, Johan Stevens and Lydia (Stevens) Kember Wife of Tristram Coffin Sr. — married 1630 in Brixton, Devon, , England Mother of Peter Coffin, Tristram Coffin Jr., Elizabeth (Coffin) Greenleaf, Stephen Coffin, James Coffin, Deborah Coffin, Mary (Coffin) Starbuck, John Coffin and Stephen S Coffin Died 16 Sep 1676 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA Profile managers: Doug Coldwell [send private message], Loren Fay [send private message], Glenn York [send private message], Andrew White [send private message], and George Bedinger [send private message] Stevens-67 created 14 Apr 2010 | Last modified 31 May 2016 Categories: Puritan Great Migration | Nantucket Founders and Descendants. Dionis (Stevens) Coffin migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: PGM Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Doug Coldwell, Loren Fay, Glenn York, Andrew White, and George Bedinger. (Best when privacy is an issue.) Name: Dionis /Stevens/[1][2][3][4][5] Birth Date: 10 MAR 1609 Place: Brixton, Devon, England Birth: Date: 04 MAR 1609 Place: Brixton, Devon, England Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 10 MAR 1609 Residence Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA[6] Place: USA[7] Date: BET 1602 AND 1882 Place: Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA[8] Place: USA[9] Sources Dionis Stevens Coffin Birth: Mar. 4, 1610, England Death: Sep. 16, 1684 Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA Dionis Stevens was the daughter of Robert and Dionis Stevens of Brixton, England. She married Tristram Coffin about 1630 in Devonshire, England, and they were the progenitors of the Coffin family of Nantucket Island. Their children were: Peter Tristram Jr. Elizabeth James John Deborah Mary John Steven Family links: Spouse: Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681) Children: Peter Coffin (1630 - 1715)* Tristram Coffin (1631 - 1703)* Elizabeth Coffin Greenleaf (1634 - 1678)* James Coffin (1640 - 1720)* John Coffin (1641 - 1642)* Mary Coffin Starbuck (1645 - 1717)* John Coffin (1647 - 1711)* Stephen Coffin (1652 - 1734)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Founders Burial Ground * Nantucket Nantucket County Massachusetts, USA *Cenotaph [?] Created by: Mary Harrell-Sesniak Record added: Mar 17, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 34909547 Added by: L. S. STEPHENS Photos may be scaled. Click on image for full size. - Elizabeth Kane Added: Apr. 21, 2018 - Daniel M. Parkman, Sr. Added: Sep. 25, 2017 - Carol Bolton Peak Added: Feb. 6, 2018 There are 43 more notes not showing... Click here to view all notes. Children of Tristram Coffyn and Dionis Stevens: 1. Hon. Peter Coffin, b. 18 Jul 1631 at Brixton; md. Abigail Starbuck; Freeman 1666 at Dover; Lieut. in 1675 King Philip’s War; Rep. of Legislature; Moved to NH 1690; judge; d. 21 March 1715, Exeter. NH. 2. *TRISTRAM COFFIN was born, 1 Feb 1632, in England, to Tristram Coffyn (1609-1681) and Dionis Stevens (1609-1684.) He Married Judith Greenleaf Somerby, widow of Henry Somerby and daughter of Edmund and Sarah Greenleaf, in Newbury, Massachusetts. Judith Greenleaf was born in 1625, and died in Newbury, Massachusetts 15 December 1705, at age 80. Tristram Coffin died 4 February 1704 in Newbury, Massachusetts, at age 71. 3. Elizabeth Coffin, b. 13 Nov 1634 in England; md. Stephen Greenleaf, 3 Nov 1651; D. 19 Nov 1678. 4. Christana Coffin (1636-1668) 5. James Coffin, b. 12 Aug 1640 in England; md. Deborah Austin; d. 1711. 6. John Coffin (1641-1642) 7. Deborah Coffin, b. 16 Nov 1642, at Haverhill, MA; d. 8 Dec 1642. Child. 8. Mary Coffin, b. 20 Apr 1645, at Haverhill, MA, md. Nathaniel Starbuck in 1662; d. Nantucket, 13 November 1777. 9. Lieut. John Tristram Coffin, b. 30 Oct 1647, at Haverhill, MA; md. Deborah Austin, 1668; d. 5 Sep 1711. 10. Stephen Coffin, b. 10 May 1652, at Newbury, MA; md. Mary Bunker about 1668/69. Died in Nantucket, 14 November 1734. 11. Deborah Coffin, b. 10 Nov 1655; md. Joseph Knight 31 Oct 1677; D. 29 Jan 1723. (Sources: US New England Marriages prior to 1700; MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988; The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650; Richard A. Bourne website; The Coffin Family.) + 10. DEACON TRISTRAM COFFIN JR. (1632-1704) 10.a. JUDITH GREENLEAF (SOMERBY) (1623-1703) (SEE GREENLEAF FAMILY) [1642] DEACON TRISTRAM COFFIN JR. was born 1 Feb 1632 in Brixton, Devonshire, England, to Tristram Coffin (1609-1681) and Dionis Stevens (1609-1684.) He immigrated to New England with his parents in the summer of 1642. He married Judith Greenleaf Somerby, widow of Henry Somerby and daughter of Edmund and Sarah Greenleaf, in Newbury, Massachusetts, 2 March 1653. Tristram Coffin died 4 February 1704, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, age 71. He was buried 7 February 1704 at First Parish Burying Ground, High Street, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts. Wikitree: Biography The gravestone of Tristram Coffin states his death and age. "To the memory of Tristram Coffin Esq., who having served the church of Christ in the office of a deacon 20 years died Feb. 4th 1703/4 aged 72 years. On earth he purchased a good degree, Great boldness in the faith and liberty And now possesses immortality." The stone is located in the Burial-Place at "Old-Town"[1] The cemetery is currently designated as the First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury. [2] He was the son of Tristram Coffin and Dionis Stephens who were married in 1630, as residents of Brixton, Devonshire, England.[3] Tristram was born in 1631 or 1632, probably in Brixton. There is a date of 1 Feb 1631 or 1632,[2] Judith was previously married to Henry Somerby. Judith Coffin was named in the 1668 will of her father Edmund Greenleaf, who named Tristram as one of his executors.[4] Tristram lived mostly at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (1) April 29, 1668 -- Tristram Coffin, Jr., was made a freeman 29 Apr. 1668. (1) 1667 -- Tristram Coffin, Jr., signed a petition at Salisbury. (1) He was a merchant tailor and he filled many positions of trust and honor in Newbury including deacon of the 1st church in Newbury for 20 years. As a man of property, Tristram dealt largely in lands. There are many deeds to and from Tristram in the Norfolk, Ipswich, and Essex records at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. "I Stephen Greenleaf of Newbury... Have with the asent & consent of Elizabeth my wife... Sould... unto... Tristram Coffin... parsell of Salt marsh in Plumbe Island... which was my father Edmond Greenleafs grant, the wch my sd ffather gave mee... I the sd Stephen Greenleafe & Elizabeth my wife have sett to or hands & seales November the ninth... one thousand Six hundred & Seaventy..."(2) In 1671 Tristram deposed in court that he paid Mr. Richard Lowell, eight pounds sterling for the debt which Henry Somerby, his wife's former husband, owed. "I Stephen Greenleafe of Newbury... for... nyne pounds... payd... by... my Brother Tristram Coffin of the abovesd Towne... sell unto.. Tristram Coffin all my... right... in marsh... in Newbury... & I... & Elizabeth my wife have sett to our hands & seales this 12th day of december one thousand six hundred seventy & one."(3) November 22, 1676 -- "Henry Short with the free and volentary consent of Sarah my wife... of Newbury.. sell unto... Tristram Coffin a certain parcell of meadow... in... Newbury... only by this tis provided and to be understood that the Sayd Coffin... are not to be possessed, of the above bounded mead while my Unkle Richard Kent is living but Imediatly after his death..." (4) 1678 -- Tristram, in his 47th year, took the oath of Allegiance at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Circa 1678 - Tristram Coffin, Jr., built the Coffin mansion which still stands. The house was originally thought to have been built in 1654, however, sample borings studied by the Oxford University Dendrochronology Lab in 2002 shows that the original house was built in 1678 and the front addition was added in 1712. It is now known as the Coffin House, and is located at 14 High Road, Newbury, Mass. 01951. The House is owned by Historic New England, and is open to the public. He served on the Grand Jury several years. June 13, 1678 -- "Peter Coffin of... Dover... County of Dover & Portsmouth... Sendeth Greeting... Know ye that whereas George Goldwyer of... Salsburie... did by his deed of... ffourteenth day of May... one thousand Six hundred Seventie Eight... sell unto the said Peter Coffin... Twentie Acers... in... Salsburie... I the sd Peter Coffin... In consideration of the Sum of One Hundred pounds... hath... Sold... unto... Tristram Coffin... one half of the... lott." (5) 1681 -- Tristram Coffin, Jr., sold land as Lieutenant Tristram Coffin. April 1, 1684 -- "Laurence Hammond of Charlestowne... Merchant Executor of the last will & Testamt of Margaret his late wife who formerly was the Relict widow and sole Executrix of the last will and Testament of Francis Willoughby Esqr of Charlestown abovesd Deced Sendeth Greeting Know ye that the sd Lawrence Hammond... in consideration of... three hundred Sixty & eight pounds... paid by Tristram Coffin of Newbury... Taylor... Viz. Two hundred Forty five pounds... unto Samuel Nowell Esqr Treasurer for Harvard Colledge in Cambridge and the remaining One hundred twenty three pounds unto Mr. Peter Coffin of Pisctaqua for the discharge of alike sums oweing from Francis Willoughby unto Harvard Colledge and Peter Coffin respectively... doth... sell... unto the sd Tristram Coffin... his messuage... within the... Limits of Glocester... containeing all that Newck of Land... between the Rivers of Annisquam and Chebacco." (6) 1680 -- Tristram sold back to his brother Peter Coffin of Dover the land that Peter sold him in 1678. (7) 1681 -- Tristram Coffin, Jr., signed a Newbury petition. (7) January 3, 1684/1685 (i.e., 1685) -- Tristram Coffin, Henry Short, and Abraham Morrill were appointed to survey for a new precinct at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (8) September 26, 1682 -- Tristram was appointed appraiser, executor and distributor of the estate of Mr. George Carr of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (9) Tristram was listed in the tax lists of Gov. Andros: “An Invoyes of August, ’88. Newbury- Heads 3, Houses 4, Plow Lands 5, Meadow 8, Pastr 3, Horses 2, oxen 4, Cows 5, 3 yr old 2, 2 yr. old 1, 1 yr old 3, sheep 30, Hoggs 2”. (19) "This Indenture made the tenth day of march one thousand six hundred Eighty and Eight... Between Jonathan Willoughby of the Parrish of St. Martins, Outwich, in the Citty of London, Barber, Chyrurgion, Eldest Son of Jonathan Willoughby who was the Eldest Son of Francis Willoughby Late of Charlestowne Esq... both Deceased of the one part. And Tristram Coffin of Newbary... Taylor, of the other part... Witnesseth that said Jonathan Willoughby... In Consideration of five shillings... doth... sell unto the sd Tristram Coffin all that... Tenement... within... Glocester... one dwelling house... with about five hundred acres of land... between the Rivers of Annasquam and Chebacco."(10) The next day Jonathan Willoughby made a similar deed but this time for £10/5. "Tristram Coffin of Newbury... Sendeth Greeting... Know Yee that I... In Respect of Natural affections... Have Given... unto my son Peter Coffin all tht my farme which was formerly... by me purchased of Capt. Hammonds ye Heire of... Willoughby in England... In... Glocester... provided allwayes... That he ye said Peter My Son shall... pay... to me and to his mother Judith... during our naturall lives The... Sum of Six pounds per annum... Also... if my said son Doo Dye and Leave no... Children to Inherit ye abovesaid premises That then... ye said ffarme shall Returne to me... his father again if I survive my said Son & In case my Self be not surviving... ye said Inheritance shall be divided amongst my Sons, which are Surviving. Alwayes Provided... tht I ye said Tristram or my Son Surviving shall... pay... unto ye Wife Widow or Relict of my said son Peter, In case she survives him ye... sum of One hundred & fiftie pounds... Provided allwayes... that what Stock & moveables my said son Peter hath Received of me In his lifetime shall be accounted as part payment" 1691.(11) Stephen Blandford of Sudbury conveyed to Tristram Coffin of Newbury, land there, "which was my father in laws Deacon Robert Long late of Newbury Deced... Set out to my Wife Susannah and her Sister Martha Long equally" 4 Apr. 1693.(12) Between this date and 16 Aug. 1700, the date of Tristram's last conveyance, there are over thirty deeds recorded in his name. At the time of his death, he owned considerable property and left a very long will, written by himself. "In the Name of god Amen I Tristram Coffin of Newbury... being sensaball of my owne mortallity and at this time of a disposing mind do mak this as my last will and testament... as for my worldly goods which god hath given me I dispose of them as followeth. 1. I doe ordan and appoynt my son Nathaniel Coffin to take spesshall care of my Wife his mother to provid for her in all Respects duering har life all things nessesary for har comfortabell being both In sickness and In helth. 2. my will is and I dow hearby give to my son James Coffin.. the hous he now livith in and the shop the two barns next his hous and an half of the pastoor land ajoyning Including his orchard... As allso all the plowland I boubt of John long and Shuball: in one year aftere my death and two parts in five of all Coman priviliges In the town Comans: and the one half part of my orchard and pasture at wattes bridg and one half of the meddow I bouft of parsifill lowell; and fower acre of that meddow ajoyning to Deacon Cotin Noys...” [Tristram gives him various pieces of real estate and lists from whom he purchased them] “provided that my son James Coffin pay to his brother Nathaniell Coffin fortey Shillins a yeare during his Mothers life... 3. my will is and I dow give to my son Stephen Coffin... all my howsing and upland and meddows with priviligis of Comman Reights belonging to me In haverhill and all my meddo within the bounds of Mr hookes farme... in Newbury” [more land] “he paiing to his Son William five pounds. 4. My will is I give to my son peter Coffin... the farm at gloster with the Iland and all priviligis in comon With In the toun ship of glostar the which I have given him a deed of and I give him six shillins and I dow hearby ordar my said son peter Coffin to pay to his brother Nathaniel Coffin all tht Is due to me from him eithar by book bill or bond; and the 6sh a year that my wife should reseave of him annually dureing har natural life becas my son Nathaniel must provide for his mother. 5. my Will is and I dow give to my son Nathaniel Coffin... my now dwelling house with my barnes and pastural lands ajoyning and orchards... and all my plowland property ajoyning to Joseph Downes land...” [Tristram gives him various pieces of land and lists from whom he purchased them] ”as allso all My houshowld goods and Cattell and sheep and swines and horsis and all othar things belonging to me and all my debts due to me... 6. My Will is I give to my grandson Tristram Samborn fower pounds to be paid to him by his father out of the money I lent him to by meddow with and the Remainder I give to my dafter Judeth. 7. Item I give to my daftar deborah knights 5s and twelf walnut trees: In that land I bowft of edman moores and to har son Tristram knight a Cowe. 8. I give to my dafter Mary littel 5s and to har son Tristram littel a cow and 2 Sheep 9. I give to my dafter lidia pike 5s 10. I give to my grand dafter Mary littell a fethar bed and bostar and pillo and a par of blinkits and 2 coverleds and 2 pare of sheets. 11. My will is and I dow hearby appoynt my son Nathaniell Coffin to be the Executar of this my will to pay all my honest deptes and to reseve all my debtes and to par forme the legissis according to this my will and to take speshall Care of his mother In har age and I dow Renouns all formar wils by Me made... this 12 dy of May 1703."(13) Deacon Tristam Coffin died in Newbury, 4 Feb 1703/4[5] and was buried at the "Old Town" Burial Ground: "To the memory of Tristam Coffin Esq, who having served the church of Christ in the office of a deacon 20 years died Feb. 4th 1703-4 aged 72 years. "On earth he pur-chas-ed a good degree, Great boldness in the faith and liberty And now possesses immortality."[6] After his death Judith quit to her sons her dower in Henry Somerby’s estate and they acquired the rest of his estate by purchase. “I Judith Coffin of... Newbury... Widdow and relict of Tristram Coffin Esq. late of Newbury deceased... for and in Consideration of the love goodwill and affection which I have and doe beare unto my loving and dutifull Sons James Coffin, Stephen Coffin and Nathaniel Coffin of Newbury Abovesd... give... unto my Said Sons... all my right and Intrest which I have in or unto Any prt or ercha of My former Husbands Estate viz. Mr Henry Somerby deceased which became Mine by... A settlement of Court... the 30th day of the Ninth Month one thousand Six hundred and fifty and two... in Such manner and proportion as My late Husband Tristram Coffin late of Newbury deceased gave unto them by his last will and Testament bearing date the twelfth day one thousand Seven Hundred and three... this twenty Eighth of August... one thousand Seven hundred and five.” Children Child: Judith Coffin Child: Deborah Coffin Child: Mary Coffin Child: James Coffin Child: John Coffin Child: Lydia Coffin Child: Enoch Coffin Child: Stephen Coffin Child: Peter Coffin Child: Nathaniel Coffin First Parish Cemeter, Newbury He was admitted to Freedom 29 April 1668, Newbury. His occupation was a tailor. He was a Lieutenant in the Military. When Tristram’s father left Newbury in about 1660, Tristram Jr. stayed behind. He was very active in town and church affairs holding a number of positions in town government. In about 1654 Tristram erected the Coffin home on what is now High Street in Newbury. This house, one of the oldest still standing in North America, is now owned by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities and may be visited by the public. The Rev. Thomas Parker first settled Newbury in 1635 with a group of about one hundred of his followers. The church in Newbury was led by Rev. Parker for many years and in the 1660’s great controversy arose as to its administration and religious practices. Two factions developed in the town and Tristram, throughout was a supporter of Rev. Parker, signing petitions and giving testimony throughout the period. On May 14, 1654, Tristram signed a petition in defense of Robert Pike who was accused of “intemperate Zeal and seditious speech.” On March 7, 1663, he was appointed a fence viewer. On May 29, 1668, Tristram was admitted as a freeman. In the years 1669, 1670, 1680, and 1681 he swerved as a selectman of the town. Additionally, on September 29, 1681, he was appointed by the General Court as one of three commissioners of small claims. On March 1, 1682, Tristram was appointed “standing way warden to see that evry inhabitant do their part on the hye ways.” By the year 1683, Tristram was one of the largest sheep owners in Newbury with a herd of 55. In 1686 he was a member of the committee that partitioned the balance of the undivided common lands in Newbury. On November 21, 1693, having previously been made a Deacon of the church, Tristram, with the other two deacons were chosen as standing overseers of the poor in Newbury and he was made Treasurer for the Poor In 1695, Newbury, having grown substantially was divided into two parishes. Tristram and two others were selected to make the geographical division. This was the beginning of the parish divisions which would result in the break off of Newburyport seventy years later. Remaining active in church and town affairs until the end, on October 18, 1700, Tristram was appointed to a committee to procure a new bell for the First Parish Meeting House. FROM WIKITREE: Tristram lived mostly at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (1) April 29, 1668 -- Tristram Coffin, Jr., was made a freeman 29 Apr. 1668. (1) 1667 -- Tristram Coffin, Jr., signed a petition at Salisbury. (1) He was a merchant tailor and he filled many positions of trust and honor in Newbury including deacon of the 1st church in Newbury for 20 years. As a man of property, Tristram dealt largely in lands. There are many deeds to and from Tristram in the Norfolk, Ipswich, and Essex records at Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. "I Stephen Greenleaf of Newbury... Have with the asent & consent of Elizabeth my wife... Sould... unto... Tristram Coffin... parsell of Salt marsh in Plumbe Island... which was my father Edmond Greenleafs grant, the wch my sd ffather gave mee... I the sd Stephen Greenleafe & Elizabeth my wife have sett to or hands & seales November the ninth... one thousand Six hundred & Seaventy..."(2) In 1671 Tristram deposed in court that he paid Mr. Richard Lowell, eight pounds sterling for the debt which Henry Somerby, his wife's former husband, owed. "I Stephen Greenleafe of Newbury... for... nyne pounds... payd... by... my Brother Tristram Coffin of the abovesd Towne... sell unto.. Tristram Coffin all my... right... in marsh... in Newbury... & I... & Elizabeth my wife have sett to our hands & seales this 12th day of december one thousand six hundred seventy & one."(3) November 22, 1676 -- "Henry Short with the free and volentary consent of Sarah my wife... of Newbury.. sell unto... Tristram Coffin a certain parcell of meadow... in... Newbury... only by this tis provided and to be understood that the Sayd Coffin... are not to be possessed, of the above bounded mead while my Unkle Richard Kent is living but Imediatly after his death..." (4) 1678 -- Tristram, in his 47th year, took the oath of Allegiance at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Circa 1678 - Tristram Coffin, Jr., built the Coffin mansion which still stands. The house was originally thought to have been built in 1654, however, sample borings studied by the Oxford University Dendrochronology Lab in 2002 shows that the original house was built in 1678 and the front addition was added in 1712. He served on the Grand Jury several years. June 13, 1678 -- "Peter Coffin of... Dover... County of Dover & Portsmouth... Sendeth Greeting... Know ye that whereas George Goldwyer of... Salsburie... did by his deed of... ffourteenth day of May... one thousand Six hundred Seventie Eight... sell unto the said Peter Coffin... Twentie Acers... in... Salsburie... I the sd Peter Coffin... In consideration of the Sum of One Hundred pounds... hath... Sold... unto... Tristram Coffin... one half of the... lott." (5) 1681 -- Tristram Coffin, Jr., sold land as Lieutenant Tristram Coffin. April 1, 1684 -- "Laurence Hammond of Charlestowne... Merchant Executor of the last will & Testamt of Margaret his late wife who formerly was the Relict widow and sole Executrix of the last will and Testament of Francis Willoughby Esqr of Charlestown abovesd Deced Sendeth Greeting Know ye that the sd Lawrence Hammond... in consideration of... three hundred Sixty & eight pounds... paid by Tristram Coffin of Newbury... Taylor... Viz. Two hundred Forty five pounds... unto Samuel Nowell Esqr Treasurer for Harvard Colledge in Cambridge and the remaining One hundred twenty three pounds unto Mr. Peter Coffin of Pisctaqua for the discharge of alike sums oweing from Francis Willoughby unto Harvard Colledge and Peter Coffin respectively... doth... sell... unto the sd Tristram Coffin... his messuage... within the... Limits of Glocester... containeing all that Newck of Land... between the Rivers of Annisquam and Chebacco." (6) 1680 -- Tristram sold back to his brother Peter Coffin of Dover the land that Peter sold him in 1678. (7) 1681 -- Tristram Coffin, Jr., signed a Newbury petition. (7) January 3, 1684/1685 (i.e., 1685) -- Tristram Coffin, Henry Short, and Abraham Morrill were appointed to survey for a new precinct at Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (8) September 26, 1682 -- Tristram was appointed appraiser, executor and distributor of the estate of Mr. George Carr of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. (9) Tristram was listed in the tax lists of Gov. Andros: “An Invoyes of August, ’88. Newbury- Heads 3, Houses 4, Plow Lands 5, Meadow 8, Pastr 3, Horses 2, oxen 4, Cows 5, 3 yr old 2, 2 yr. old 1, 1 yr old 3, sheep 30, Hoggs 2”. (19) "This Indenture made the tenth day of march one thousand six hundred Eighty and Eight... Between Jonathan Willoughby of the Parrish of St. Martins, Outwich, in the Citty of London, Barber, Chyrurgion, Eldest Son of Jonathan Willoughby who was the Eldest Son of Francis Willoughby Late of Charlestowne Esq... both Deceased of the one part. And Tristram Coffin of Newbary... Taylor, of the other part... Witnesseth that said Jonathan Willoughby... In Consideration of five shillings... doth... sell unto the sd Tristram Coffin all that... Tenement... within... Glocester... one dwelling house... with about five hundred acres of land... between the Rivers of Annasquam and Chebacco."(10) The next day Jonathan Willoughby made a similar deed but this time for £10/5. "Tristram Coffin of Newbury... Sendeth Greeting... Know Yee that I... In Respect of Natural affections... Have Given... unto my son Peter Coffin all tht my farme which was formerly... by me purchased of Capt. Hammonds ye Heire of... Willoughby in England... In... Glocester... provided allwayes... That he ye said Peter My Son shall... pay... to me and to his mother Judith... during our naturall lives The... Sum of Six pounds per annum... Also... if my said son Doo Dye and Leave no... Children to Inherit ye abovesaid premises That then... ye said ffarme shall Returne to me... his father again if I survive my said Son & In case my Self be not surviving... ye said Inheritance shall be divided amongst my Sons, which are Surviving. Alwayes Provided... tht I ye said Tristram or my Son Surviving shall... pay... unto ye Wife Widow or Relict of my said son Peter, In case she survives him ye... sum of One hundred & fiftie pounds... Provided allwayes... that what Stock & moveables my said son Peter hath Received of me In his lifetime shall be accounted as part payment" 1691.(11) Stephen Blandford of Sudbury conveyed to Tristram Coffin of Newbury, land there, "which was my father in laws Deacon Robert Long late of Newbury Deced... Set out to my Wife Susannah and her Sister Martha Long equally" 4 Apr. 1693.(12) Between this date and 16 Aug. 1700, the date of Tristram's last conveyance, there are over thirty deeds recorded in his name. At the time of his death, he owned considerable property and left a very long will, written by himself. "In the Name of god Amen I Tristram Coffin of Newbury... being sensaball of my owne mortallity and at this time of a disposing mind do mak this as my last will and testament... as for my worldly goods which god hath given me I dispose of them as followeth. 1. I doe ordan and appoynt my son Nathaniel Coffin to take spesshall care of my Wife his mother to provid for her in all Respects duering har life all things nessesary for har comfortabell being both In sickness and In helth. 2. my will is and I dow hearby give to my son James Coffin.. the hous he now livith in and the shop the two barns next his hous and an half of the pastoor land ajoyning Including his orchard... As allso all the plowland I boubt of John long and Shuball: in one year aftere my death and two parts in five of all Coman priviliges In the town Comans: and the one half part of my orchard and pasture at wattes bridg and one half of the meddow I bouft of parsifill lowell; and fower acre of that meddow ajoyning to Deacon Cotin Noys...” [Tristram gives him various pieces of real estate and lists from whom he purchased them] “provided that my son James Coffin pay to his brother Nathaniell Coffin fortey Shillins a yeare during his Mothers life... 3. my will is and I dow give to my son Stephen Coffin... all my howsing and upland and meddows with priviligis of Comman Reights belonging to me In haverhill and all my meddo within the bounds of Mr hookes farme... in Newbury” [more land] “he paiing to his Son William five pounds. 4. My will is I give to my son peter Coffin... the farm at gloster with the Iland and all priviligis in comon With In the toun ship of glostar the which I have given him a deed of and I give him six shillins and I dow hearby ordar my said son peter Coffin to pay to his brother Nathaniel Coffin all tht Is due to me from him eithar by book bill or bond; and the 6sh a year that my wife should reseave of him annually dureing har natural life becas my son Nathaniel must provide for his mother. 5. my Will is and I dow give to my son Nathaniel Coffin... my now dwelling house with my barnes and pastural lands ajoyning and orchards... and all my plowland property ajoyning to Joseph Downes land...” [Tristram gives him various pieces of land and lists from whom he purchased them] ”as allso all My houshowld goods and Cattell and sheep and swines and horsis and all othar things belonging to me and all my debts due to me... 6. My Will is I give to my grandson Tristram Samborn fower pounds to be paid to him by his father out of the money I lent him to by meddow with and the Remainder I give to my dafter Judeth. 7. Item I give to my daftar deborah knights 5s and twelf walnut trees: In that land I bowft of edman moores and to har son Tristram knight a Cowe. 8. I give to my dafter Mary littel 5s and to har son Tristram littel a cow and 2 Sheep 9. I give to my dafter lidia pike 5s 10. I give to my grand dafter Mary littell a fethar bed and bostar and pillo and a par of blinkits and 2 coverleds and 2 pare of sheets. 11. My will is and I dow hearby appoynt my son Nathaniell Coffin to be the Executar of this my will to pay all my honest deptes and to reseve all my debtes and to par forme the legissis according to this my will and to take speshall Care of his mother In har age and I dow Renouns all formar wils by Me made... this 12 dy of May 1703."(13) After his death Judith quit to her sons her dower in Henry Somerby’s estate and they acquired the rest of his estate by purchase. “I Judith Coffin of... Newbury... Widdow and relict of Tristram Coffin Esq. late of Newbury deceased... for and in Consideration of the love goodwill and affection which I have and doe beare unto my loving and dutifull Sons James Coffin, Stephen Coffin and Nathaniel Coffin of Newbury Abovesd... give... unto my Said Sons... all my right and Intrest which I have in or unto Any prt or ercha of My former Husbands Estate viz. Mr Henry Somerby deceased which became Mine by... A settlement of Court... the 30th day of the Ninth Month one thousand Six hundred and fifty and two... in Such manner and proportion as My late Husband Tristram Coffin late of Newbury deceased gave unto them by his last will and Testament bearing date the twelfth day one thousand Seven Hundred and three... this twenty Eighth of August... one thousand Seven hundred and five.” Tristram Coffin[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Birth ABT 1632 Newberry, Massachusetts, USA 1632 Brixton, Devon, England[11][12] 1 FEB 1632 Plymouth, Brixton, Devon, England[13][14] Marriage 2 Mar 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA[15][16] Wife: Judith Greenleaf Child: Judith Coffin Child: Deborah Coffin Child: Mary Coffin Child: James Coffin Child: John Coffin Child: Lydia Coffin Child: Enoch Coffin Child: Stephen Coffin Child: Peter Coffin Child: Nathaniel Coffin Residence BET 1750 AND 1849 Essex, Massachusetts, USA[17] Event Arrival 1642 Massachusetts[18] Death 4 FEB 1704 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA[19][20] Burial AFT 4 Feb 1704 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts + When Tristram Coffin died 4 February 1704 in Newbury, Massachusetts, at age 71, a memorial inscribed as follows was erected in the First Church burial ground in Newbury: To the memory of Tristram Coffin, Esq., Who having served the first church of Newbury in the office of Deacon 20 years Died Feb, 1703-4 aged 72 years. ‘On earth he pur-chas-ed a good degree, Great boldness in the faith and liberty, And now possesses immortality.’ Tristram Coffin, Jr Birth: Feb. 1, 1631 Devon, England Death: Feb. 4, 1703 Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA He was married to Judith Greenleaf on 2 Mar 1652/53 in Newbury, Essex Co., Mass. From The Coffin Family, The Life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., by Allen Coffin, LL.B. page 54 Tristram Coffin, second child [of Tristram and Dionis], was born in England, in 1632. He married in Newbury, Mass., March 2, 1652, Judith Somerby, widow of Henry, and daughter of Edmund and Sarah Greenleaf. She was born in 1625 and died in Newbury, Dec. 15, 1705. He was made freeman April 29, 1668, and died in Newbury, Feb. 4, 1704 [1703?], aged 72, leaving 177 descendants. He was a merchant tailor, and filled many positions of trust and honor in Newbury. Two monuments in the grave yard of the first parish church of Newbury bear these inscriptions: "To the memory of Tristram Coffin, Esq., who having served the first church of Newbury in the office of a deacon 20 years died Feb. 4, 1703 aged 72 years." Tristram Junior's children: Judith b. in Newbury, Mass., Dec. 4, 1653; m. John Sanborn, of Hampton, N. H., Nov. 19, 1674. Deborah, b. in Newbury, Nov. 12, 1655; m. Joseph Knight, Oct. 31, 1677. Mary, b. in Newbury, Nov. 15, 1657; m. Joseph Little, Oct. 31, 1677 James, b. Newbury, April 22, 1659; m. Florence Hooke, Nov. 16, 1685. John, b. Newbury, Sept. 8, 1660; d. there May 13, 1677. Lydia, b. in Newbury, April 22, 1662; m. 1st, Moses Little; 2d March 18, 1695, John Pike. Enoch, b. in Newbury, Jan 21, 1664; d. Nov. 12 1675. Stephen, b. in Newbury, Aug 18, 1665; m. Sarah Atkinson, Oct. 8, 1685; d. Aug. 31, 1725. Peter, b. in Newbury, July 27, 1667; m. Apphia Dole; d. in Gloucester, (?) Jan. 19, 1746. Nathaniel, Hon., b. in Newbury, March 22, 1669; m. Sarah Dole, March 29, 1693; d. Feb. 20, 1748-9. Family links: Parents: Tristram Coffin (1609 - 1681) Dionis Stevens Coffin (1610 - 1684) Spouse: Judith Greenleaf Coffin (1625 - 1705)* Children: Judith Coffin Sanborn (1653 - 1725)* Mary Coffin Little (1657 - 1725)* Lydia Coffin Pike (1662 - 1719)* Peter Coffin (1667 - 1745)* Nathaniel Coffin (1669 - 1749)* Siblings: Peter Coffin (1630 - 1715)* Tristram Coffin (1631 - 1703) Elizabeth Coffin Greenleaf (1634 - 1678)* James Coffin (1640 - 1720)* John Coffin (1641 - 1642)* Mary Coffin Starbuck (1645 - 1717)* John Coffin (1647 - 1711)* Stephen Coffin (1652 - 1734)* *Calculated relationship Inscription: In Memory of Tristram Coffin Esq, who having served the Church of Christ in the office of deacon 20 years died February 4th 1703/4 aged 72 years. On earth he purchased a good degree Great boldness in the faith and liberty and now possesses immortality. Burial: First Parish Burying Ground Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA Maintained by: Jeffrey James Originally Created by: Nareen, et al Record added: Jul 25, 2007 Find A Grave Memorial# 20630324 Added by: Mary Pirch Little Added by: Jeffrey James Added by: Dean Grow There are 2 more photos not showing... Click here to view all images... Photos may be scaled. Click on image for full size. [1635] JUDITH GREENLEAF (SOMERBY) was born 2 September 1623, in Ipswich, Suffolk, England, to Edmund Greenleaf (1574-1671) and Sarah Moore (1588-1663.) Judith Greenleaf Somerby, widow of (1) Henry Somerby, married (2) *Tristram Coffin in Newbury, Massachusetts, 2 March 1653. Tristram Coffin had been apprenticed to her first husband who died in 1652. Judith Greenleaf died in Newbury, Massachusetts, 15 December 1703, at age 81. She was buried 18 December 1703, at Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her husband, Tristram Coffin, died 4 February 1704. A gravestone in the burial ground of Oldtown, Newbury, has this inscription. It will be noticed that the date is at variance with other records: To the memory of Mrs. Judith, Late virtuous wife of Deacon Tristram Coffin, Esq., Who having lived to see one hundred and seventy-seven Of her children and children’s children to the third generation. Died 13 Dec. 1705, age 80. Grave, sober, faithful, fruitful vine was she, A rare example of true piety; Widowed awhile she waited, wished for rest, With her dear Husband in her Saviour’s breast. Wikitree: Judith was born in Ipswick, Suffolk, England to Edmund Greenleaf and Sarah Moore. She married (1) Tristram Coffin in 1628 and (2) Henry Somerby in 1644. Some of her children : Sarah Somerby Hale 1645–1672, Elizabeth Somerby Hale 1646–1717, Judith Coffin Sanborn 1653–1725, Mary Coffin Little 1657–1725, Lydia Coffin Pike 1662–1719, Peter Coffin 1667–1745, Nathaniel Coffin 1669–1749 Inscription : To the memory of Mrs. Judeth Late Vertuous wife of Deacon Tristram Coffin ESQR. Who having liv'd to see 177 of her children and children's children to (?) generation. Died December 15 1705 Aetatis 80 (some words unclear) Name Judith Greenleaf[1][2][3][4][5] Mary Wells[6] Birth Judith, dtr of Edmund and Sarah, bpt 29 Sep 1626 at St. Margaret's parish, Ipswich, England[7] Birth: 02 SEP 1625 Ipswich, England[8] Event Arrival 1638 Newbury, Massachusetts[9] Residence BET 1635 AND 1845 Essex, Massachusetts, USA[10] Marriage 2 Mar 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA[11][12] Husband: Tristram Coffin Wife: Judith Greenleaf Child: Judith Coffin Child: Deborah Coffin Child: Mary Coffin Child: James Coffin Child: John Coffin Child: Lydia Coffin Child: Enoch Coffin Child: Stephen Coffin Child: Peter Coffin Child: Nathaniel Coffin Death 1705-12-15 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA 15 DEC 1705 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA[13] gravestone says 13 Dec 1705 5 Dec 1705 15 DEC 1705 Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States 15 DEC 1705 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Burial Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Judith Greenleaf Coffin Birth: Sep. 2, 1625 Ipswich Ipswich Borough Suffolk, England Death: Dec. 15, 1705 Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA Judith was born in Ipswick, Suffolk, Eng. Family links: Parents: Edmund Greenleaf (1574 - 1671) Sarah Moore Greenleaf (1588 - 1663) Spouses: Tristram Coffin (1631 - 1703) Henry Somerby (1612 - 1652)* Children: Sarah Somerby Hale (1645 - 1672)* Elizabeth Somerby Hale (1646 - 1717)* Judith Coffin Sanborn (1653 - 1725)* Mary Coffin Little (1657 - 1725)* Lydia Coffin Pike (1662 - 1719)* Peter Coffin (1667 - 1745)* Nathaniel Coffin (1669 - 1749)* Siblings: Samuel Greenleaf (____ - 1627)** Margaret Greenleaf Tidd (1600 - 1651)** Enoch Greenleaf (1613 - 1617)** Judith Greenleaf Coffin (1625 - 1705) Stephen Greenleaf (1628 - 1690)** John Greenleaf (1632 - 1712)* *Calculated relationship **Half-sibling Inscription: To the memory of Mrs. Judeth Late Vertuous wife of Deacon Tristram Coffin ESQR. Who having liv'd to see 177 of her children and children's children to (?) generation. Died December 15 1705 Aetatis 80 (I wasn't sure of a couple of words - Linda Hayward) Burial: First Parish Burying Ground Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA Created by: Bonnie Weller Record added: Nov 01, 2001 Find A Grave Memorial# 5919898 Added by: Jeffrey James Added by: Karen Avery Miller Added by: Karen Avery Miller FROM WIKITREE: Judith, dtr of Edmund and Sarah, bpt 29 Sep 1626 at St. Margaret's parish, Ipswich, England[7] Birth: 02 SEP 1625 Ipswich, England[8] Event Arrival 1638 Newbury, Massachusetts[9] Residence BET 1635 AND 1845 Essex, Massachusetts, USA[10] Marriage 2 Mar 1652 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA[11][12] Husband: Tristram Coffin Wife: Judith Greenleaf Child: Judith Coffin Child: Deborah Coffin Child: Mary Coffin Child: James Coffin Child: John Coffin Child: Lydia Coffin Child: Enoch Coffin Child: Stephen Coffin Child: Peter Coffin Child: Nathaniel Coffin Death 1705-12-15 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA 15 DEC 1705 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA[13] gravestone says 13 Dec 1705 5 Dec 1705 15 DEC 1705 Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, United States 15 DEC 1705 Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Burial Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts FROM GENI: About Tristram Coffin, II https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Coffin-221 ________________________________________ 'Tristram Coffin Made freeman 29 Apr 1668. When Tristram's father left Newbury, Tristram Jr. stayed behind. He was very active in town and church affairs holding a number of positions in town government. In about 1654 Tristram erected the Coffin home on what is now High Street in Newbury. This house, one of the oldest still standing in North America, is now owned by the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. And may be visited by the public. The Rev. Thomas Parker first settled Newbury in 1635 with a group of about one hundred of his followers. The church in Newbury was led by Rev. Parker for many years and in the 1660's great controversy arose as to its administration and religious practices. Two factions developed in the town and Tristram, throughout was a supporter of Rev. Parker, signing petitions and giving testimony throughout the period. On May 14, 1654, Tristram signed petition in defense of Robert Pike who was accused of "intemperate zeal and seditious speech". On March 7, 1663, he was appointed a fence viewer. On May 29, 1668 Tristram was admitted as freeman. In March of 1674, Tristram, among others was appointed to lay out six acres to be used as pasture for the future ministry. This, apparently led to him being appointed lot layer on September 21, 1677. In the years, 1669, 1670, 1680, and 1681 he served as a selectman of the town. Additionally, on September 29, 1681 he was appointed by General Court as one of three commissioners of small claims. On March 1, 1682 Tristram was appointed "standing way warden to see that evry inhabitant do their part on the hye wayes" By the year 1683, Tristram was one of the largest sheep owners in Newbury with a herd of 55. In 1686 he was a member of the committee that partitioned the balance of the undivided common lands in Newbury. On November 21, 1693, having previously been made a Deacon of the church, Tristram, with the other two deacons were chosen as standing overseers of the poor in Newbury and he was made Treasurer for the Poor. In 1695, Newbury, having grown substantially was divided into two parishes, Tristram and two others were selected to make the geographical division. This was the beginning of the parish divisions which would result in the break off of Newburyport seventy years later. Remaining active in church and town affairs until the end, on October 18, 1700 Tristram was appointed to a committee to procure a new bell for the First Parish Meeting House. When Tristram died in 1704 a memorial inscribed as follows was erected in the First Church burial ground in Newbury: To the memory of Tristram Coffin, Esq., who having served the first church of Newbury in the office of Deacon 20 years died Feb, 1703-4 aged 72 years. 'On earth he pur-chas-ed a good degree, Great boldness in the faith and liberty, And now possesses immortality.' • **************** Tristram Coffin Jr. was born in England in 1632. He married Judith Somerby of Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1652. Tristram was a weaver and filled many notable positions on the Newbury Town Council. He was named Deacon to the first Parish of Newbury. His house in Newbury is known as the Old Coffin House. Tristram Jr. and his wife Judith's graves are marked in the cemetery of the First Parish of Newbury which is located across the street from the Coffin house. Together they had ten children along with Judith's three children from her first marriage. Grave TO THE MEMORY OF TRISTRAM COFFIN ESQr WHO HAVEING SERVED THE FIRST CHURCH OF NEWBURY IN Ye OFFICE OF A DEACON 20 YEARS DIED FEBR Ye 4th 1703/4 ÆTATIS SUE 72 ON EARTH HE PURCHASED A GOOD DEGREE GREAT BOLDNESS IN Ye FAITH & LIBERTY AND NOW POSSESSES IMMORTALITY ________________________________________ Came over with parents from England in 1642. Freeman 1668, 20 years deacon. merchant tailor. learned his trade from his wifes first husband who he had been apprenticed to. ________________________________________ The photo of the Coffin House is dated to 1678 and is the oldest house in the Newbury Historic District.It was built by Tristram Coffin Jr. Tristram Coffin Jr. Became a weaver/ tailor and Deacon of the First Parish of Newbury. ________________________________________ Tristan Coffin was born in 1632 at Brixton, Devonshire. He married Judith Greenleaf, daughter of Edmund Greenleaf and Sarah Dole, on 2 Mar 1652/53 at Newbury, Mass. He died on 4 Feb 1704. Children of TristanCoffin and Judith Greenleaf were as follows: 1. Judith; born 4 Dec 1653 at Newbury; married John Sanborn 19 Nov 1674. 2. Deborah; born 10 Nov 1655 at Newbury; married Joseph Knight 31 Oct 1677. 3. Mary; born 12 Nov 1657 at Newbury; married Joseph Little 31 Oct 1677. 4. James; born 22 Apr 1659 at Newbury; married Florence Hook, daughter of Horace Hook, 16 Nov 1685. 5. John; born 8 Sep 1660 at Newbury; died 13 May 1677 at Newbury at age 16. 6. Lydia; married Moses Little; born 22 Apr 1662 at Newbury; married John Pike 18 Mar 1685.. 7. Enoch; born 21 Jan 1663 at Newbury; died 12 Nov 1675 at Newbury at age 12. 8. Stephen; born 18 Aug 1664 at Newbury; married Sarah Atkinson, daughter of John Atkinson and Sarah Mirack, 8 Oct 1685; died 31 Aug 1725 at Newbury at age 61. 9. Peter; married Apphia Dole, daughter of Richard Dole and Hannah Rolfe; born 27 Jul 1667 at Newbury; died 19 Jan 1746 at Gloucester, Mass, at age 78. 10. Nathaniel, married Sarah Brocklebank; born 1669. Children of Tristram Coffin and Widow Judith Greenleaf Somerby: 1. Judith Coffin, b. 4 Dec 1653; md. John Sanboro, 19 Nov 1674; d. 17 May 1724. 2. Deborah Coffin, b. 19 Nov 1655; md. Joseph Knight., 31 Oct 1677; d. 29 Jan 1723. 3. *MARY COFFIN was born 12 November 1657, in Newbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony, to Tristram Coffin (1632-1704) and Judith Greenleaf (Somerby) (1623-1703.) She married Lieutenant Joseph Little on 3 October 1677 in Newbury. Mary Coffin Little died 20 November 1725 in Newbury, at the age of 68. 4. James Coffin, b. 22 Apr 1659; md. Florence Hooke, 16 Nov 1685; d. 4 Mar 1736. 5. John Coffin, b. 8 Sep 1660; d. 13 May 1677. 6. Lydia Coffin, b. 22 Apr 1662; md. (1) Moses Little, 1679; (2) John Pike; d. 25 Mar 1719. 7. Enoch Coffin, b. 21 Nov 1663; d. 12 Nov 1675. 8. Stephen Coffin, b. 18 Aug 1665; md. Sarah Atkinson, 8 Oct 1865; d. 31 Aug 1725. 9. Peter Coffin, b. 27 July 1667; md. Apphia Dole, 1687; d. 31 Aug 1725. 10. Nathaniel Coffin, b. 22 Mar 1669; md. Sarah Dole, 29 Mar 1693; d. 20 Feb 1748. (Sources: US New England Marriages prior to 1700; MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988; The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650; Richard A. Bourne website; The Coffin Family.) + CAPTAIN JOSEPH LITTLE (1663-1740) (See: LITTLE FAMILY) 11. MARY COFFIN (1657-1725) CAPTAIN JOSEPH LITTLE was born 22 Sep 1653, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, to George Little (1618-1694) and Alice Poore (1617-1680.) He married Mary Coffin, 31 Oct 1677, in Newbury. He died 6 Sep 1740 in Newbury at the age of 86. Captain Joseph Little was much more prominent in town affairs than his father George Little (1618-1694.) He was tythingman in 1685, and selectman in 1692/93, 1700, 1704/05. He seems to have always been connected with the established (Congregational) Church, of which he and his wife were members. It was then the custom to seat the congregation according to their rank in the community, and in the allotment of seats after the erection of a new house of worship in 1700, quite a prominent one was given him. In 1688 he was taxed for two houses, twelve acres of ploughed land, twelve of meadow, twenty of pasture, two horses, one colt, five hogs, thirty sheep, and thirty-two head of cattle. His lands were afterwards largely increased by inheritance and numerous purchases. He is believed to have lived at Turkey Hill from his marriage till about 1730, when he removed to the part of Newbury now Newburyport, where several of his sons were engaged in trade. He distributed his real estate among his sons before his death, and in his will dated 27 Jan 1737, and proved 1 Oct 1740, he divides his household goods between his daughters Judith Moody and Sarah Thing, and gives one-third to his grandson Nathan, one-third to his grandson Ebenezer. The latter was administrator with the will annexed. The appraisal was £173.8.6. The following is the inscription upon his gravestone at Burying Hill, Newburyport: Capt Joseph Little Birth: Sep. 22, 1653 Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA Death: Sep. 6, 1740 Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA Son of George Little and Alice Poore. Husband of Mary Coffin married 31 October 1677 in Newbury, Essex, MA. Father of: Judith Little 1678 – 1761 Joseph Little 1679 – 1693 George Little 1682 – 1760 Sarah Little 1683 – 1710 Enoch Little 1685 – 1766 Tristram Little 1688 – 1762 Moses Little 1690 – 1725 Daniel Little 1692 – 1777 Joseph Little/Littell 1693 – Benjamin Little 1696 – 1736 Family links: Parents: George Little (1618 - 1694) Alice Poore Little (1619 - 1680) Spouse: Mary Coffin Little (1657 - 1725)* Children: Judith Little Moodey (1678 - 1761)* Enoch Little (1685 - 1766)* Tristram Little (1688 - 1762)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Old Hill Burying Ground Newburyport Essex County Massachusetts, USA Created by: Bonnie Weller Record added: Nov 02, 2001 Find A Grave Memorial# 5924432 Added by: BluMoKitty Added by: Amy Levesque Added by: Robert Davis Purple Sr. MARY COFFIN was born 12 Nov 1657, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, to Tristram Coffin, Jr. (1632-1704) and Judith Greenleaf (1623-1703.) She married Joseph Little 3 Oct 1677, in Newbury. Mary Coffin passed away 20 Nov 1725 in Newbury at the age of 68. Mary Coffin, a daughter of Tristram Coffin and Judith Greenleaf, was born November 12, 1657 in Newbury, Massachusetts [1] and died there November 28, 1725. [2][3] She married Joseph Little on October 31, 1677 in Newbury, Massachusetts.[4] They had nine children. Mary Coffin Little Birth: Nov. 12, 1657 Newbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA Death: Nov. 28, 1725 Essex County Massachusetts, USA Mary was born to Tristram & Judith Greenleaf Coffin in Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts She married Capt. Joseph Little on Oct 31, 1677 They were the parents of Enoch Little, Joseph Little, Judith Little, Sarah Little, and George Little (1681 – 1760) (bio by: Matthew Waack) Family links: Parents: Tristram Coffin (1631 - 1703) Judith Greenleaf Coffin (1625 - 1705) Spouse: Joseph Little (1653 - 1740) Children: Judith Little Moodey (1678 - 1761)* Enoch Little (1685 - 1766)* Tristram Little (1688 - 1762)* Siblings: Sarah Somerby Hale (1645 - 1672)** Elizabeth Somerby Hale (1646 - 1717)** Judith Coffin Sanborn (1653 - 1725)* Mary Coffin Little (1657 - 1725) Lydia Coffin Pike (1662 - 1719)* Peter Coffin (1667 - 1745)* Nathaniel Coffin (1669 - 1749)* *Calculated relationship **Half-sibling Burial: Sawyer Hill Burying Ground Newburyport Essex County Massachusetts, USA Created by: John Rodgers Record added: Mar 05, 2011 Find A Grave Memorial# 66512479 Added by: Paul M. Noyes Added by: John Glassford Added by: Carolyn Ellis Children of Joseph Little and Mary Coffin: 1. Judith Little, b. 19 Jul 1678, Mass.; md. Mr. Moore; d. 30 Apr 1761. 2. Joseph Little, b. 23 Feb 1679, Mass.; d. 2 July 1760. 3. George Little, b. 12 Jan 1681, Mass.; d. 1760. 4. Sarah Little, b. 23 Oct 1683; md. Mr. Thing. 5. Enoch Little, b. 9 Dec 1685, Mass.; d. 28 Apr 1766. 6. Tristram Little, b. 1688, Mass.; d. Apr 1762. 7. Moses Little, b. 1690, Mass.; d. 15 Aug 1725. 8. *DANIEL LITTLE, Esq., was born 13 Jan 1692, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, to Joseph Little (1653-1740) and Mary Coffin (1657-1725.) He was married to (1) *Abiah Clement, 5 September 1712, Newbury, Massachusetts; she died 24 August 1766. Daniel married (2) Hannah Morrill, Feb. 1768. He died 17 November 1777, Hampstead, Rockingham, New Hampshire, age 86. 9. Joseph Little (1693-1740) 10. Benjamin Little, b. 13 Oct 1696; d. 1737. (Sources: US New England Marriages prior to 1700; MA Town and Vital Records 1620-1988; The New England Historical and Genealogical Register; Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650; Richard A. Bourne website; The Coffin Family.) +