Henry COFFIN

1716 - 1756  (39 years)

• Name	Henry COFFIN
  Birth	23 Jan 1716	Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	60
  Reference Number	7402300
  Reference Number	7687232
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Coffin-1697
  Death	1756	France
  Person ID	I277	Gummer
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Jonathan COFFIN,   b. 28 Aug 1692, Nantucket, Nantucket, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 5 Feb 1773, Nantucket, Nantucket, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Hepsabeth HARKER,   b. 1694, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay d. 30 Dec 1773, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	24 Jan 1712	Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F68	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary WOODBURY,   b. Abt 1723   d. 1794 (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	15 Feb 1739	Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay
  Family ID	F289	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

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  Henry Coffin (1716-1756) was the seventh of ten children born to Jonathan Coffin (1692-1773), one of Nantucket's earliest whalers. In a 1749 deed transferring a plot of land from Jonathan to Henry (Book 5, page 161 of the Nantucket Book of Records), Henry was referred to as a Mariner. Presumably Henry set about to build the house now known as 22…

  
  

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  [[Category: Nantucket, Sealers and Whalers]] [[Category:Descendants of Tristram Coffin-221]] == Biography == === Birth ===Henry was born in 1716 on Nantucket. He was the son of [[Coffin-735|Jonathan Coffin]] and [[Harker-61|Hepsabeth Harker]]. Henry Coffin was the seventh of ten children born to Jonathan Coffin (1692-1773), one of Nantucket's earliest whalers. In a 1749 deed transferring a plot of land from Jonathan, Henry was referred to as a Mariner. Presumably Henry set about to build the house now known as 22 Fair Street soon after taking ownership of the land from his father. He passed away just six years later, at the early age of 40, survived by his parents and many siblings, as well as his wife Mary Woodbury (d. 1794) and five children; Mary likely gave birth to the two youngest -- Shubael and Thaddeus -- in the house that Henry built. === Death === Henry Coffin passed away in 1756. Mary went on to remarry after Henry's death. == Sources == * Nantucket Book of Records, Book 5, page 161 * White, Elizabeth Pearson. ''[[Space: John Howland of the Mayflower| John Howland of the Mayflower]]'' (Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1990) Vol. 1, [https://archive.org/details/johnhowlandofmay01whit/page/258 Page 258]. * "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQDZ-JQ9 : 15 January 2020), Hennery Coffin, 1716. * "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910, 1921-1924", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FCZ7-HMG : 28 July 2021), Henry Coffin, 1738.