Mary (Shaw) Coffin (abt. 1782 - 1839)

Born about 1782 in Of Standish, Maine

Ancestors

Wife of Simeon Coffin — married 25 Jul 1804 in Standish or Thorndike, Maine [uncertain]

Descendants

Biography

SIMEON COFFIN, b. at Alfred, [Maine] 29 June, 1780; m. 25 July, 1804, Mary Shaw of Standish, who d. 6 July, 1839, and he m. 20 February, 1840, Ann S. Morton of Standish; d. at Thorndike, ME, 15 October, 1850; she d. 7 May, 1856. Children, b. at Thorndike. The first ten are probably her children:

1. Joseph, b. 14 March, 1805; m. 14 November, 1831, Martha F. Higgins; d. at Plymouth, Me., in 1888.
2. Sargent, b. 29 December, 1806; m. in March, 1833, Emily Morton of Jackson; d. at Jackson, ME, 2 August, 1845.
3. Phebe, b. 24 December, 1808; m. in January, 1831, William F. Higgins; d. 5 July, 1854.
4. Enoch S., b. 4 September, 1810; m. 8 March, 1832, Martha Jones; d. 18 February, 1885; she d. 25 August, 1880.
5. Isaac, b. 22 July, 1812; m. in March, 1838, Susan Evans of Jackson; d. in 1882.
6. Salome, b. 10 June, 1814; In. 7 November, 1832, Hezekiah Whitcomb; d. in Kansas in 1893.
7. Mary Ann, b. 13 February, 1816; d. 18 June, 1830.
8. Eleanor, b. 28 November, 1817; d. in 1888.
9. Simeon, b. 30 November, 1820; m. in May, 1846, Jane A. Boothby of Unity, Me.; d. 31 March, 1847. # James M., b. 25 December, 1825; m. 17 March, 1850, Elizabeth H. Philbrick; d. at Pittsfield, Me., 29 June, 1891.
10. Darius, d. y.
11. Alonzo, b. 25 July, 1841.
12. Mary Ann, b. 16 April, 1843; d. 7 November, 1862.
13. Frank, b. 25 March, 1845; killed at Gettysburg 2 July, 1863.
14. Milton, b. 25 February, 1848^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ COFFIN GATHERINGS: Five Generations of Descendants of Tristram Coffin of Newbury and Nantucket, By W. S. Appleton. Boston: Press of David Clapp & Son, 1896, p 25-26. [An outgrowth of the anniversary meeting of the Coffin family at Nantucket in 1881.]