Captain Peter Coffin

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Captain Peter Coffin

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
Death: October 03, 1835 (70)
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Burial: Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Captain Eddy Coffin and Sarah Coffin
Husband of Lois Coffin
Father of Jerusha Pease Coffin; Sally Martin Coffin, died young; Jerusha Fisher / Pease; Peter Martin Coffin; Sarah Martin Skiffe / Luce / Baylies and 8 others
Brother of Hepsibah Lambert
Half brother of Captain Thomas Martin Coffin; Bartlett Coffin; Jane Warner; Freeman Coffin; Sarah "Sally" Graves and 4 others

Occupation: Ship Captain, master mariner
Managed by: Christopher Moore
Last Updated:

About Captain Peter Coffin

it does not look like he married Sarah Coffin.



Google Arts & Culture

This painting depicts the American whaling Captain Peter Coffin sitting in an arm chair holding a copy of Bowditch Navigator (an encyclopaedia of Navigation). Coffin's three-masted vessel the COLUMBUS can be seen just behind the Captain, flying the American flag. Coffin was active in the Pacific region and present on a number of whaling ships.

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Captain Peter Coffin's Timeline

1765
February 26, 1765
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1792
December 19, 1792
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1794
April 18, 1794
April 18, 1794
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1796
March 31, 1796
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1797
November 5, 1797
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1799
August 27, 1799
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1801
March 9, 1801
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States
1802
September 6, 1802
Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts, United States