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Tristram Coffin, Sr.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14]

Male 1610 - 1681  (71 years)


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  • Name Tristram Coffin 
    Suffix Sr. 
    Birth 1609/10  Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 15, 16, 17, 18] 
    • Savage says about 1605 or 1609, "...Clark and Worth..." says 1610.
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 11 Mar 1609/10  Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [18, 19, 20] 
    Occupation Bef 1642  Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    farmer
    Migration 1642  From England Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 11, 14, 18, 21] 
    To New England
    aboard unknown vessel 
    • The ship arrived before October 1642.
    • Role: Family2
    • The NYGBR seems to indicate that he and his family came on one of four ships: Hector, Griffin, Job Clement or Margaret Clement.
    Removed to Bef 15 Nov 1642  Haverhill, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [21, 22] 
    From: Salisbury
    Occupation Bef 1644  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [18] 
    farmer
    Occupation 1644  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [9, 23] 
    tavern keeper and ferryman
    Freeman 4 Nov 1645  Haverhill, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [24] 
    Removed to Abt 1648  Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [21, 22] 
    From: Haverhill
    Removed to Abt 1654  Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [21, 22] 
    From: Newbury
    Property 2 Jul 1659  Nantucket, Nieuw Nederland Find all individuals with events at this location  [25, 26, 27, 28] 
    a deed was given by Thomas Mayhew confirming the sale of the island to nine purchasers.
    the purchase of Nantucket

    • Copy of Deed of Nantucket to Nine Purchasers
       (dated July 2, 1659).

      Recorded for Mr Coffin and Mr Macy aforesd ye Day and Year aforesd.
      Be it known unto all Men by these Presents that I, Thomas Mayhew of Martha's Vineyard, Merchant, doe hereby acknowledge that I have sould unto Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hussey, Richard Swayne, Thomas Bernard, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleafe, John Swayne and William Pike that Right and Interest I have in ye Land of Nantuckett by Patent; ye wch Right I bought of James Fforrett, Gent. and Steward to ye Lord Sterling and of Richard Vines, sometimes of Sacho, Gent., Steward-Genrll unto Sir Georges Knight as by Conveyances under their Hands and Seales doe appeare, ffor them ye aforesaid to Injoy, and their Heyres and Assignes forever wth all the Privileges thereunto belonging, for in consideration of ye Sume of Thirty Pounds of Current Pay unto whomsoever I ye said Thomas Mayhew, mine Heyres or Assignes shall appoint.
      And also two Beaver Hatts one for myself and one for my wife.
      And further this is to declare that I the said Thomas Mayhew have received to myself that Neck upon Nantucket called Masquetuck or that Neck of Land called Nashayte the Neck (but one) northerly of Masquetuck, ye aforesaid Sayle in anywise notwithstanding. And further, I ye said Thomas Mayhew am to beare my Part of the Charge of ye said Purchase above named, and to hold one twentieth Part of all Lands purchased already, or shall be hereafter purchased, upon ye said Island by ye aforesd Purchasrs or Heyres and Assignes forever.
      Briefly: It is thus: That I really sold all my Patent to ye aforesaid nine Men and they are to pay mee or whomsoever I shall appoint them, ye sume of Thirty Pounds in good Marchantable Pay in ye Massachusetts, under wch Governmt they now Inhabit, and 2 Beaver Hatts, and I am to beare a 20th Part of ye Charge of ye Purchase, and to have a 20th Part of all Lands and Priviledges; and to have wch of ye Necks aforsd that I will myselfe, paying for it; only ye Purchasers are to pay what ye Sachem is to have for Masquetuck, although I have ye other Neck.
      And in witness hereof I have hereunto sett my Hand and Scale this second Day of July sixteen hundred and fifty-nine—(1659).
      Per me
      Tho. Mayhew.
      Witness John Smith
      Edwaed Seaele
    • Role: Buyer
    Jury Duty 27 Sep 1659  Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [24] 
    Where:
    Quarterly Court
    Removed to 1660  Nantucket, Nieuw Nederland Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 29] 
    From: Salisbury
    Office 29 Jun 1671  Nantucket, Nieuw Nederland Find all individuals with events at this location  [30, 31] 
    Chief Magistrate
    Death 2 Oct 1681  Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 22, 32, 33, 34, 35] 
    • Hinchman says he died the tenth month, 2nd day 1681, which to me says December. Williams says 3 Oct 1681.
    Administration 29 Nov 1681  [20] 
    Inventory 8 Aug 1682  [20] 
    Burial Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [34] 
    Cemetery:
    Founders Burial Ground
    Person ID I7204  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 9 Mar 2020 

    Father Peter Coffin,   b. Abt 1582, Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 21 Dec 1627, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 45 years) 
    Mother Joan Kember,   b. Abt 1584, Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 May 1661, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Marriage BY Abt 1609  [1, 2, 9, 18] 
    Family ID F2964  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Dionis Stevens,   b. 1609/10, Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Sep 1684, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)  [9, 10, 11, 13] 
    Marriage Bef 1630  Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 15, 17, 18, 20, 22, 36] 
    Children 
    +1. Lt. Tristram Coffin, Jr.,   b. 1 Feb 1631/2, Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Feb 1703/4, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    +2. Hon. Peter Coffin,   b. 1630, Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Mar 1715, Exeter, New Hampshire, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 85 years)
    +3. Elizabeth Coffin,   b. Abt 1634/5, Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1678, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 43 years)
     4. Lt. John Coffin,   b. 30 Oct 1647, Haverhill, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Sep 1711, Edgartown, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
     5. James Coffin,   b. 12 Aug 1640, Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jul 1720, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
     6. John Coffin,   b. Abt 1641, Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Oct 1642, Haverhill, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 1 years)
     7. Deborah Coffin,   b. 15 Nov 1642, Haverhill, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Dec 1642, Haverhill, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
     8. Mary Coffin,   b. 20 Feb 1644/5, Haverhill, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1717, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
     9. Stephen Coffin,   b. 11 May 1652, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 May 1734, Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F2959  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1609/10 - Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 11 Mar 1609/10 - Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - Bef 1630 - Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - Bef 1642 - Brixton Parish, Plymouth, Devonshire, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMigration - To New England,aboard unknown vessel  - 1642 - England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsRemoved to - From: Salisbury - Bef 15 Nov 1642 - Haverhill, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - farmer - Bef 1644 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - tavern keeper and ferryman - 1644 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsFreeman - 4 Nov 1645 - Haverhill, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsRemoved to - From: Haverhill - Abt 1648 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsRemoved to - From: Newbury - Abt 1654 - Salisbury, Norfolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsProperty - a deed was given by Thomas Mayhew confirming the sale of the island to nine purchasers.,the purchase of Nantucket - 2 Jul 1659 - Nantucket, Nieuw Nederland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsJury Duty - Where:
    Quarterly Court - 27 Sep 1659 - Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America    		 Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsRemoved to - From: Salisbury - 1660 - Nantucket, Nieuw Nederland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOffice - Chief Magistrate - 29 Jun 1671 - Nantucket, Nieuw Nederland Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 2 Oct 1681 - Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - Cemetery:
    Founders Burial Ground - - Nantucket, Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States    		 Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 


    • On the fifteenth of November, 1642, Passaquo and Saggahew, with the consent of Passaconaway who was leader of the Merrimacs, sold for L3 10s. 'to the inhabitants of Pentucket,' now Haverhill, a track of land fourteen miles long and six miles wide, 'with ye isleand and the river that ye isleand stands in' etc. Among the witnesses to this deed was Tristram Coffyn, who had this year, arrived in New England and had moved from Salisbury to Haverhill.
      Tristram is said to have been the first man to use a plow in Haverhill. He was a royalist, and was one of the few, if not the only early settler to come to New England as a consequence of the success of Oliver Cromwell. In about 1644, Tristram and his family moved to Newbury, where he became a prominent inn keeper and ferryman. In Newbury in 1644 Tristram was granted permission to keep an "ordinary" (saloon), sell wine and keep a ferry on the Newbury side of the Merrimack between Newbury and Carr's island. George Carr ran the ferry from Carr's island to Salisbury. This arrangement was confirmed in the town records on December 26,1647: 'Tristram Coffin (senior) is allowed to keep an ordinary and retayle wine, paying according to order, and also granted liberty to keep a ferry at Newbury side. In September 1653, 'Tristram Coffyn's wife Dionis Coffin was presented for selling beer', at his ordinary in Newbury, 'for three pence a quart.' (higher than the set price for beer). Having proved 'upon the testimony of Samuel Moores, that she put six bushels of malt into a hogshead she was discharged.' Dionis was found to be "doctoring" the beer sold at the ordinary. Contrary to current practice Dionis was making her beer stronger and charging a correspondingly higher price. The law at the time called for beer to be 'good wholesome beer of four bushels of malt to the hogshead.' Goodwife Coffin is said to have remarked: 'I'll have better beer than my neighbors and be paid for it. A fig for the law.'
      In 1654 or 1655, Tristram returned to Salisbury where he signed his name as "Tristram Coffyn Commissioner of Salisbury."

      Submitted by: Bob Bamford - bob@essexbooks.com © 1997 Heritage Associates

  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S939] First Settlers of New England, Vol. 1, 419, 00190.

    2.  2.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 24:149, 00390.

    3.  3.  [S142] Vital Records of Haverhill, MA, Vol. 1, 72, 00585.

    4.  4.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 2:340, 00390.

    5.  5.  [S521] Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family, 193, 00231.

    6.  6.  [S590] Descendants of Thomas Farr, 252, 00155.

    7.  7.  [S646] Colonial Families of Martha's Vineyard, 96, 00646.

    8.  8.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 38:300, 00390.

    9.  9.  [S987] New England Ancestors Magazine, 9:21, 00862.

    10.  10.  [S1151] Ancestors of American Presidents, 553, 01001.

    11.  11.  [S1448] Early Settlers of Nantucket, 24, 01171.

    12.  12.  [S259] NEHGS Register, 7:261, 00390.

    13.  13.  [S1253] NYGBR, 17:5, 01097.

    14.  14.  [S1154] Early New England Families, Tristram Coffin (m. 1627):1, 01004.

    15.  15.  [S15] Enoch & Mary G. Noyes Inquiry response, 00179.

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