Starbuck / Coffin Family Project: Colonial America in Nantucket, Massachusetts

I'm really excited about this project. My fourth great grandmother is Sarah Coffin Simpson Wright. Please let me know when you create it.

Do you have any good resources to add? That's part of what's held me up from starting: I like to have some reading references.

Hey we're on an actual family tree for Noah finally!

I hope you're a Battlestar Galactica fan because Captain Starbuck, in both the original and remake, rocks big time. It's going to be hard for me to resist adding him / her to the Starbuck tree.

Have you been to Nantucket? It's really spectacular, and very different feel from Martha's Vineyard.

Nantucket Historical Association is a really great resouce: http://nha.org/library/genealogy.html

I've found a couple of really interesting books on google books in the past, I'd have to look them up again.

I haven't gotten around to reading this book yet, but it looks really interesting and applicable: In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick http://t.co/a5gCf8s

Great resources, thanks!

I'll have the project going shortly. This is going to be fun.

Now just cleaning up around the Coffins has been fascinating. I discovered a whole new line in my own ancestry: Greenleaf's of Newbury, MA, which was a Hugenot family. They married into the Coffins.

I just found a blog here:

http://familyhistory.wordpress.com/genealogies/coffin/

Associated families:

Bolles
Coffin
Currier
Dickie
Eaton
Frost
Greenleaf
Mitchell
Noyes
Olson
Walton
Veazie

And we happen to have curators with the names Veazy and Walton ....

It's really true we're all connected. Dang.

Coffin family tree from 1610: http://jacksonsweb.org/coffinnotes.htm
Coffin family tree from 1280: http://jacksonsweb.org/coffin.htm
Coffin: a 1910 history: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hubbard/NNY_index...

Among famous Coffins are:

Sir, Richard Coffin

Sir, William Coffin (brother of Sir, Richard Coffin)

The Library of Richard Coffin High Sheriff of Devon 1685

Coffins in the Early New England Historical Register

Levi Coffin, Reputed President of The Underground Railroad

Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad: Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents. Cincinnati: R. Clarke & Co, 1880. Print.
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/752333
available for purchase through "digitize and download" --
http://kirtasbooks.com/index.php?page=shop.product_details&prod...

I noticed all of the merges you did in the area yesterday, thanks! When are we going to get the project going?

Project created and you are permitted as a curator / collaborator. I also joined curator Lori Wilkes to it.

http://www.geni.com/projects/Starbuck+%252F+Coffin+Family+Project

P.S. I ordered the book, "The Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex."

Noah Tutak

Not sure of your relationship to him, but he was certainly a notable American hero:

Levi Coffin, Jr.

and quite an honor to geni-meet him.

Cool - my first cousin 7 times removed! Do you know how to use the thumbtack to find a relationship between a profile and another profile that isn't you?

It's on the blog!

Here's how to find the relationship between two profiles:

1. Click the green thumbtack on the top right of the first profile (to the right of "You are connected to...")
2. Click the "How are they related? button on the second profile
3. Look for the green notification strip once we've found the relationship

I just found this info and am very pleased that someone is working to include the Coffin family on Geni. I'm descended through Tristram's son John and have relied on a book we picked up in Nantucket: The Coffin Family, published by the Nantucket Historical Association. Are you working from this?

Am going to try the thumbtacks now. Very cool.
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I just found a disconnected early Coffin father / daughter:

Thomas Coffin

Anyone up to locate the rest of their families? The "published family trees," which should already be reflected in Geni, I would think, start at 1280.

Looks like Tristram Coffin, II is in the wrong place in the tree. He should be merged with his father. Can you take a look Erica Howton?

No, there are different wives. The problem is the dates for Jr are incorrect. I'm fixing it based on this website:

http://jacksonsweb.org/coffin.htm#id1079

Merged with his brother and fixed.

I did my wife's tree and found that she was a descendant of Tristram Coffin. Did my coworkers family tree found he was a descendant of Tristram Coffin. Did another coworkers tree and found he was a descendant of Tristram Coffin/Starbuck/Macy line. Can all New England Yankees trace their lineage to the Coffin line?

Probably! I'm in there and not quite sure how ... through the Greenleafs, whom I also don't know anything about. My father is so taken about all these semi famous names he had no idea he was related to.

I've aded you to the Project, Robert.

I, on the other hand, have found connections to a good chuck of Geni followers to either Sarah 1725 Hoyt's mother or Mary 1697 Williams...

Check for yourselves...

And yes...I can also find Tristam Coffin....

I think it's called blood line...the 'Big Tree' ....or we just 'get around'

It seems my ancestress Willmot Coffin b.c. 1595, dau of Richard Coffin and Elizabeth Loveys or Loveis, is of this family line.
This information came along with another line I'm researching, and seems very - um - mixed up regarding dates and generations.
I'd appreciate any input (meaning, has anyone ever heard of her) anyone might have of a Wilmot Coffin (b 1595) marrying a Francis Weekes (b 1590) April 16, 1617, according to the source whatever they might be. Their son Francis, b c 1621 (?) is my ancestor. According to the info I came across, Willmot/Wilmot had siblings: John, Mary, Ibbof, Elizabeth, Julian, Katherine, Richard, William, Edward, Leonard, Edmund, James, Henry (all b between 1592 and 1616) and a Christian with a birthdate a full generation or more later - 1660. The Coffins in my line were from the area of Devon England.
This is another whole area I have to explore. Since my Coffin line daughtered out, we don't have any direct ancestors in the US of the Coffin name, just Francis Weekes.

Hello. I just came across this site while trying to find some info on my family. I am pretty certain I am a decendant of the Starbucks and coffins... My grandmothers family bible has listings of family members like Tristram and many more of these names mentioned. My father gas a ton of papers and records from his mother. I have to ask him to get on board of this conversation/project. I am out in CA but my parents are in NY -- I would love to share info and hear more from you all . Please respond if you are still tracking and working on this project. Thank you!!!

Of course we are!

http://www.geni.com/projects/Starbuck-Coffin-Family-Project

"Follow" the project first. Try and learn the tree a little bit (it's probably still messy -- haven't visited in a while).

It's always exciting to find new family. What I did was build my family tree backwards from myself before I ventured into the "World Family Tree," trying to make sure there were no duplicates before I added profiles. And I always put in "source data" if I get information from another website including the URL (address from the browser bar).

If you can get those family papers scanned into image (jpg) or document with image (pdf) files that would be a wonderful contribution to our family history.

I'm following this for some reason, but I can't remember why. I'm a 12 th cousin to Levi Coffin, Jr.

but that's no reason to follow. I think I'm losing it (or did I ever even have it?).

carin,
we would love to have you on geni. don't be intimidated, just jump in.....add what you know & off you go into an addictive experience. great fun & a good way to look at history.who would have thought that we were related to so many important people from the past. good to have you aboard.

Well, I am slowly adding info that my father has shared. I'll have to check out the extended family tree. But, there is a lot more to add...
There are also Lineages for the Hulls, Quicks, Martins and Tebbets as well as Worths and Barney.

It would be wonderful if you contributed your data to the World Family Tree. Obviously a lot of the "old families" are already on Geni.

Hello All,

I'm new here, I have been plugging my little piece of the Coffin family history into a tree, and I have some questions;
I have several documents(more on the way) relating to my family. ie 27 page oral family history taken from Harry and Marie Coffin in 1969. Where is the best place to upload this to? And best format? (PDF, Tif etc?) I have put in 400+ profiles so far (includes in laws) Starting at Tristram Jr. I am inviting interested family members to update information, but that will take some time.
Should I merge this tree w/the Starbuck/Coffin Family Project tree---or wait for it to be brought more up-to-date? (most recent deaths/births etc)

Thanks

Some sources:

http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalpers04cutt#page/n9/mode/2up
A sketch of the history of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, from 1635

http://www.archive.org/stream/lifetravelsofaddis00coff#page/n7/mode...
Life and travels of Addison Coffin (1897)

http://www.archive.org/stream/rhodamcoffinherr00coff#page/n7/mode/2up
Rhoda M. Coffin, her reminiscences, addresses, papers and ancestry (1910)

http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogicalpers04cutt#page/n9/mode/2up
Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts; (1910)

http://www.archive.org/stream/tristramcoffinfa00luki#page/n5/mode/2up
Tristram Coffin family (Unknown)

http://www.archive.org/stream/charlesfcoffinqu00john#page/n7/mode/2up
Charles F. Coffin, a Quaker pioneer (1923)

http://www.archive.org/stream/amemoirgeneralj00coffgoog#page/n4/mod...
A Memoir of General John Coffin (1874)

http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeelijahcoffi00johngoog#page/n10/mo...
The Life of Elijah Coffin: With a Reminiscence (1863)

http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesle03coffgoog#page/n10/mo...
Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground ... (1880)

http://www.archive.org/stream/charlescarletonc00grif#page/18/mode/2up
Charles Carleton Coffin, war correspondent, traveller, author, and statesman (1898)

http://www.archive.org/stream/charlescarletonc00grif#page/n9/mode/2up
Gatherings toward a genealogy of the Coffin family (1896)

http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeofadmiralsir00inamor#page/n9/mode...
The life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, baronet, his English and American ancestors; (1886)

http://www.archive.org/stream/earlywillsillust00appl#page/n7/mode/2up
Early wills illustrating the ancestry of Harriot Coffin, with genealogical and biographical notes (1893)

http://www.archive.org/stream/annalsofsinnottr01sinn#page/n137/mode...
Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families (1905)

http://www.archive.org/stream/coffinfamilylife00coff#page/n5/mode/2up
The Coffin family : the life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., founder of the family line in America; together with reminiscences and anecdotes of some of his numerous descendants, and some historical information concerning the ancient families named Coffyn (1881)

http://www.archive.org/stream/talksaboutoldnan00huss#page/n7/mode/2up
Talks about old Nantucket (1901)

http://www.archive.org/stream/onehundredandfi00coffgoog#page/n130/m...
One hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of Boscawen and Webster, Merrimack Co., N.H., August 16, 1883. Also births recorded on the town records from 1733 to 1850 (1884)

http://www.archive.org/stream/trustumhisgrandc1881worr#page/n1/mode...
"Trustum" and his grandchildren (1881)