Abigail (Starbuck) Coffin (abt. 1641 - aft. 1680)

Born about 1641 in Dover, Norfolk, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Descendants

Died after 1680 at about age 39 in Nantucket, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Biography

The birth of Abigail Starbuck,^[1][2] daughter of Edward Starbuck and Catherine Reynolds, and wife of Peter Coffin, is shown in the Nantucket records, but no birth year is given, and it isn't even clear that she was born in Nantucket.^[3] Given that her husband was born in 1631 and they had their first child in 1657^[4], Abigail was probably born between 1630 and 1640.Watt-266 19:15, 12 May 2016 (EDT)

The marriage date of Peter Coffin and Abigail Starbuck is shown as occurring between 1655 and 1657.^[5]

Peter and Abigail had at least the following children:^[4]

• Abigail, b. Oct. 20, 1657^[6]; m. Dec. 16, 1673, Daniel Davidson, of Ipswich, afterwards of Newbury.
• Peter, Jr., b. Aug. 20, 1660^[7]: d. in Nantucket in 1699.
• Jethro, b. Sept. 16, 1663^[8]; d. in 1726.
• Tristram, b. July 18, 1665.
• Robert, b. in 1667^[9]; m. Joanna, daughter of Hon. John Gilman, of Exeter, N. H., widow of Henry Dyer; d. May 19, 1710. No issue.
• Edward, b. Feb. 20, 1669; m. Anna Gardner^[10]
• Judith, b. Feb. 4, 1672^[11]
• Parnell^[12]
• Elizabeth, born Jan. 27, 1680^[13]; m. June 5, 1608, Col. John Gilman, of Exeter, N. H.; d. July 4, 1720.
• Eliphalet, son, b. New Hampshire^[14]

Birth

Date: ABT 1637

Place: Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

ABT 1625

Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

Date: 1641

Place: Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire

Source: #S65 Record for Abigail Coffin

Although some online trees show that Abigail died in 1660 at Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts,^[15] Peter's last child was born in 1680, and there is no evidence that he married at second wife. Given that, Abigail probably did not die until after 1680.Watt-266 19:18, 12 May 2016 (EDT)

She was buried in the Founders Burial Ground, Nantucket, Nantucket County, Massachusetts

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S-53 Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=15949597&pid=924852828
2. ↑ Source: #S65 Record for Abigail Coffin
3. ↑ Vital Records of Nantucket, Mass. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Record Publishing Co., Haverhill, Mass. 1926. Vol. II, Births (G-Z), page 491. Image copy. Accessed 11 May 2016 at HathiTrust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077229383;view=1up;seq=495)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Macy, Sylvanus J., annotated by Nathaniel W. Coffin and William S. Appleton, "The Coffin Family" New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Image copy. Accessed at Internet Archive 12 May 2016 (https://archive.org/stream/newenglandhisto28unkngoog#page/n167/mode/1up) NEHGR 24 (April 1870):149, at 150.
5. ↑ Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Vol. 1, page 342

   COFFIN, Peter (1630-1715) & Abigail [STARBUCK]; ca 1655, near 1657, by 1657; Dover, NH/Salisbury/Exeter, NH {Reg. 24:150, 33:98; Stickney Anc. ,121-2; Brooks (1932) 34; Coffin (1870) 2; Coffin (1949) 307, 349; Coffin Anc. 50; Pillsbury Anc. 614; GDMNH 657

6. ↑ Nantucket, Vol. I, Page 237
7. ↑ Nantucket, Vol. I, Page 316
8. ↑ Nantucket, Vol. I, Page 259
9. ↑ Nantucket, Vol. I, Page 323
10. ↑ Nantucket, Vol. I, Page 259
11. ↑ Nantucket, Vol. I, Page 291
12. ↑ Nantucket, Vol. I, Page 314
13. ↑ Nantucket, Vol. I, Page 263
14. ↑ Vital Records of Nantucket, Mass. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Wright, Potter Printing Co., Boston, Mass. 1925. Vol. I, Births (A-F), page 261. Image copy. Accessed 11 May 2016 at HathiTrust (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89077229409;view=1up;seq=267)
15. ↑ Source: #S65 Record for Abigail Coffin

See also:

• Coffin, Allen, 1881. The Coffin Family: the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder of the family line in America. Hussey & Robinson, publishers, Nantucket, Mass., pages 52-3
• Find A Grave memorial for Abigail Starbuck Coffin
• Coffin, Louis, ed. The Coffin Family. (Published by Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, Mass., 1962). Page 92 and 121

• Nantucket Historical Association Barney Genealogical Record Person I11297

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