Capt. George COFFIN

1693 - 1727  (33 years)

• Name	George COFFIN
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	22 Apr 1693	Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	146380
  Reference Number	160182
  Reference Number	60
  WWW	https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Coffin-263
  Death	1727	Nantucket Island, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay
  Person ID	I553	Gummer
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	James COFFIN, Jr.,   b. 9 May 1664, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. 2 Aug 1741, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Ruth GARDNER,   b. 26 Jan 1676, Nantucket, Massachusetts d. 4 Oct 1748, Nantucket, Massachusetts (Age 72 years)
  Marriage	19 May 1692	Nantucket, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F110	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ruth SWAIN,   b. 1695   d. 8 Feb 1775 (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1717	Nantucket Island, Massachusetts Bay
  Family ID	F439	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2024

  
  

• Notes

  [[Category:Descendants of James Coffin-157]] == Biography == George Coffin, born in 693 to James Coffin and Ruth Gardner, married Ruth Swain, daughter of John Swain Jun. and Experience Folger, in 1717. They had three children. He died in 1727.''Barney Genealogical Record.'' Nantucket Historical Association. [https://genealogy.nha.org/getperson.php?personID=I7363&tree=barney Person ID I7363.]Starbuck, Alexander. ''The History of Nantucket.'' Boston: C. E. Goodspeed & Co., 1924. Pages 704, 713. George was a whaler upon his own vessel. By 1715, he was owner of the ''Speedwell'', a 25-ton whaleship, and he continued in the whale trade into the 1720s.R. R. Coffin. [http://www.islandregister.com/rcoffin/rcoffini.html ''My Father's Shoes: Our Coffin Story.''] The Island Register, 1998-2006. Pages 19-21.Starbuck, Alexander. ''The History of Nantucket.'' Boston: C. E. Goodspeed & Co., 1924. Page 355. == Sources == * Vital Records of Nantucket, Massachusetts * Family Data Collection - Individual Records. Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. * Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry.com.