Elizabeth (Rice) Coffin (abt. 1770 - 1855)

Ancestors

Died 28 Apr 1855 at about age 85 in Dorchester, Massachusetts

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Biography

JOHN GORHAM COFFIN; b. at Buxton 14 November, 1769.; M.D. Harvard 1811; m. in September, 1808, Elizabeth Rice; d. at Brookfield 22 January, 1829; she d. at Dorchester 28 April, 1855. Children, b. at Boston:

1. Henry Rice, b. 10 November, 1810; A.B. Harvard College 1830; d. in Boston 2 March, 1880.
2. Sarah E1izabeth, b. 27 January, 1816; m. Rev. Nathaniel Hall of Dorehester, who d. 21 October, 1875.
3. John Gorham, b. 24 March, 1818.
4. George Buckminster, b. 16 July, 1820.^[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 35

• Town of Buxton, Buxton Family Records, vol 1 p 344.

• Andrew Henshaw Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family: Descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, (Boston, C. Benjamin Rcihardson, 1858), 174,272.