Lois (Sargent) Coffin (1768 - abt. 1860)

Born 11 Aug 1768 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of John Coffin — married 19 Jan 1797 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

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Biography

Lois was born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1768, the daughter of Thomas Sargent and Sarah Clement. ^[1] She may have been the Lois Sargeant who was christened in Amesbury three days later, through the record gives the mother's name as Prudence.^[2]

She married John Coffin in 1797.^[3] They were living in Auburn, New Hampshire, at the time of the 1850 census.^[4]

She died 02 Jul 1860 at the age of 91 years and is buried at the Long Meadow Cemetery in Auburn, New Hampshire.

Children born at Newbury:

1. Thomas, b. 20 August, 1797
2. Eliphalet, b. 16 January, 1800
3. Hannah

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVD-Q6P : 10 February 2018), Lois Sargent, 11 Aug 1768
2. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCVD-Q6T : 10 February 2018), Lois Sargeant,
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FCZH-WMK : 9 February 2018), John Coffin and Louis Or Lois Sargent, 19 Jan 1797
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWZK-5DR : 12 April 2016), Lois Coffin in household of John Coffin, Auburn, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

• COFFIN GATHERINGS: Five Generations of Descendants of Tristram Coffin of Newbury and Nantucket, By W. S. Appleton. Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1896, p22. [An outgrowth of the anniversary meeting of the Coffin family at Nantucket in 1881.]