A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS. DAR Ancestor #: A023821

COFFIN, BENJAMIN Ancestor #: A023821

Service: MASSACHUSETTS Rank: PATRIOTIC SERVICE Birth: 4-3-1705 NANTUCKET MASSACHUSETTS Death: 11-3-1780 NANTUCKET NANTUCKET CO MASSACHUSETTS Service Source: STARBUCK, HIST OF NANTUCKET, P 259 Service Description: 1) LOANED MONEY TO AID THE COLONIES Spouse:

1)JEDIDAH HUSSEY  
2)DEBORAH MACY   

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2. Benjamin Coffin (Thomas). Benjamin married Deborah.
They had the following children:
3 M i. Nathan Coffin.
4 M ii. Paul Coffin. He went with the Quakers, in the 1890's, to Guilford, NC.
+ 5 M iii. Thomas Coffin [Whaler;Trader] died 1815.

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From North Carolina & Kentucky Gilliams & Nantucket Gibbs:

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gilliamgibbs/genealogy/gilliamgibbs-o/p103.htm#i3077

Benjamin Coffin[1]

• M, b. 3 April 1705 (Ben M. Angel notes: likely this read "4mo", which would indicate June rather than April in the pre-1752 calendar), d. 3 November 1780

Benjamin Coffin: Part of this family moved to New Garden, N.C., in 1773.[2]

He was born on 3 April 1705 (3 June, see above).[3] He was the son of Nathaniel Coffin and Damaris Gayer.

Benjamin Coffin married Jedida Hussey, daughter of Batchelder Hussey and Abigail Hall, before 1727.[4]

Benjamin Coffin married Deborah Macy, daughter of Thomas Macy and Deborah Coffin, in 1762.[2]

Benjamin Coffin died on 3 November 1780 at age 75.[3]

Children of Benjamin Coffin and Jedida Hussey

• 1. Isaiah Coffin d. 8 May 1749
• 2. Reuben Coffin b. 1727, d. 27 Sep 1804
• 3. Nathaniel Coffin+ b. 27 Jan 1729, d. 27 Sep 1804
• 4. William Coffin+ b. 13 Dec 1730 or 1731, d. 20 Sep 1816
• 5. Benjamin Coffin+ b. 26 Sep 1732, d. 2 Dec 1789
• 6. Micajah Coffin+ b. 29 Oct 1734, d. 25 Apr 1827
• 7. Abigail Coffin+ b. 24 Oct 1736, d. 31 Aug 1758
• 8. Joseph Coffin b. 25 Dec 1738, d. 14 Jan 1739
• 9. Anna Coffin+ b. 28 Jun 1740, d. c 1836
• 10. Seth Coffin+ b. 31 May 1742, d. 02-1816
• 11. Paul Coffin+ b. 21 Nov 1744, d. 12 May 1828
• 12. Elihu Coffin b. 4 Oct 1746, d. 30 Jun 1825
• 13. Abraham Coffin b. 5 Sep 1750
• 14. Abner Coffin+ b. 28 Mar 1753, d. 15 Feb 1802

Children of Benjamin Coffin and Deborah Macy

• 1. ? Coffin b. 1763, d. 28 Aug 1763
• 2. Isaac Coffin+ b. 1 Sep 1764, d. 24 Jan 1842
• 3. Thomas Coffin+ b. 5 Sep 1766, d. 26 Jan 1815
• 4. Deborah Coffin b. 25 Aug 1768, d. 18 Jan 1808

Citations

• 1. [S466] Eliza Starbuck. Barney, Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record Books, NHA Ms. Coll. 186., Vol. I, p. 67. Vol. IV, p. 209..
• 2. [S466] Eliza Starbuck. Barney, Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record Books, NHA Ms. Coll. 186., Vol. II, p. 13..
• 3. [S466] Eliza Starbuck. Barney, Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record Books, NHA Ms. Coll. 186., Vol. II, p. 5..
• 4. [S466] Eliza Starbuck. Barney, Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record Books, NHA Ms. Coll. 186., Vol. II, p. 13. Vol. IV, p. 209..