Ruth (Jenkins) Coffin (abt. 1782 - 1816)

Wife of James Coffin — married 1806 in Maine of New Hampshire [uncertain]

Died 1 Jun 1816 at about age 34 in Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States

Biography

This profile is part of the Jenkins Name Study.

JAMES COFFIN, b. at Shapleigh 20 July, 1780; m. in1806 Ruth Jenkins, who d. at Portsmouth, N. H., 1 June, 1816, and he m. in 1817 Anna, daughter of Winthrop Scruggins, widow of Samuel Peterson; d. 8 July, 1847; she d. Children, b. at Portsmouth, N. H.:

1. Eliza Holyoke, b. 22 February, 1807; m. 4 June, 1832, William Dean of Dover, N. H.
2. George, twin, b. 13 April, 1809; d. 23 January, 1843.
3. Ruth, twin, b. 13 April, 1809; m. in January, 1838, Edmund P. Roach.
4. Dorcas Ann Hubbard, b. 23 April, 1818.
5. Margaret Staples, b. 24 July, 1819.
6. James, b. 3 February, 1821; m. at Boston 4 December, 1842, Caroline Hodgeman of Carlisle.
7. Martha Ann Powers, b. 25 July, 1822.
8. Enoch, b. 29 October, 1823.
9. John Norton, b. 11 March, 1825.
10. Nathaniel Johnson, b. 17 February, 1826.
11. Charles Edwin, b. 31 Apri1, 1827.
12. Sarah Alice Card, b. 29 October, 1829; m. 3 January, 1854, George Henry Wiggin of Roxbury, who d. 19 October, 1880.
13. Edward Dempsey, b. 31 March, 1831; d. 6 March, 1895.^[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 37