Henry Coffin

Henry was born in 1716 on Nantucket. He was the son of Jonathan Coffin and Hepsabeth Harker. He passed away in 1756.

Henry Coffin was the seventh of ten children born to Jonathan Coffin (1692-1773), one of Nantucket's earliest whalers. In a 1749 deed transferring a plot of land from Jonathan, Henry was referred to as a Mariner. Presumably Henry set about to build the house now known as 22 Fair Street soon after taking ownership of the land from his father. He passed away just six years later, at the early age of 40, survived by his parents and many siblings, as well as his wife Mary Woodbury (d. 1794) and five children; Mary likely gave birth to the two youngest -- Shubael and Thaddeus -- in the house that Henry built. Mary went on to remarry after Henry's death.

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Henry Coffin

Born 1716 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay

Son of Jonathan Coffin and Hepsabeth (Harker) Coffin

Brother of James Coffin, Joshua Coffin, Susanna Coffin, Ephraim Coffin, Anna Coffin, Jonathan Coffin, Hepsabeth Coffin, Mary (Coffin) Hussey and Susanna (Coffin) Folger

Husband of Mary (Woodbury) Baxter — married 15 Feb 1739 in Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay

Father of Elizabeth Coffin, Henry Coffin, Mary Coffin, Shubael Coffin and Thaddeus Coffin

Died 1756 in France [uncertain]

Sources

Nantucket Book of Records, Book 5, page 161 White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower (Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1990) Vol. 1, Page 258.