Ebenezer Coffin

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About Ebenezer Coffin

St. Helena Sound, Beaufort County, South Carolina plantation owner, born in Boston, Massachusetts. Ebenezer Coffin married Mary Matthews in 1793, and later married Eliza Matthews. Coffin's son Thomas Aston Coffin (1795-1863) became the owner of his father's Coffin Point Plantation on St. Helena Island (S.C.). (1)

EBENEZER COFFIN, the third son of William Coffin, Jr., was born at Boston, 1763, went to South Carolina where he acquired property as a merchant and planter and was the father of Thomas Aston Coffin of Charleston, South Carolina, whose descendants, with an hereditary instinct, distinguished themselves by their chivalrous devotion to a failing cause in the late Confederate war. (2)

Sources

  1. Coffin Point Plantation journals, 1800-1816.
  2. The Loyalists of Massachusetts by James H. Stark- The second son of William Coffin
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Ebenezer Coffin's Timeline

1763
May 6, 1763
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
1795
January 3, 1795
Coffin Point Plantation, St. Helena Island, Beaufort, South Carolina, United States
January 3, 1795
1797
February 7, 1797
1798
November 5, 1798
1800
April 17, 1800
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