Bethiah (Macy) Renuff (1681 - 1738)

Born 8 Apr 1681 in Nantucket, New York

Ancestors

Wife of Joseph Coffin — married 12 Dec 1700 in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay

Wife of John Reneuff — married 25 Feb 1725 in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 6 Jun 1738 at age 57 in Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Bethiah (Macy) Renuff descends from Thomas Macy, a Nantucket founder.

Bethiah Macy was born to John and Deborah (Gardner) Macy on 8 April 1681. Her first husband was Joseph Coffin, with whom she had seven children. He died in 1719. She married John Renuff (Reneuff/Renouff/Renough) in 1724-5. They had one child. She died in 1738.

Sources

• Barney Genealogical Record. Nantucket Historical Association. Person I8487.
• Coffin, Allen. The Coffin Family: the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder of the family line in America. Nantucket, Mass.: Hussey & Robinson, publishers, 1881. Page 56.
• Macy, Silvanus Jenkins. Genealogy of the Macy Family From 1635-1868. Albany: J. Munsell, 1868. Pages 67-68.
• Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. Boston, Mass.: The New England Historic Genealogical Society at the charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund, 1925-1928. Vol. 2, Births, p. 265. Vol. 3, Marriages, p. 249. Vol. 5, Deaths, p. 509.