Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 45

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886

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(VII) Henry Salmon, son of Salmon Swan, was born in Halifax, Vermont, February 16, 1829. He was educated in the public schools. graduating from the high school of his native town. He learned the carpenter's trade and followed it for twelve years. In 1853 he bought land at Shelburne, Massachusetts, and built a house there, engaging in business as a carpenter and builder. Many of the buildings and residences of that town were erected by him. In 1862 he engaged in the furniture business in partnership with H. A. Bowen. after two years bought the interests of his partner and continued alone. He built an ad- dition to the building in which the store is lo- cated, and added paper hanging and other lines to his business, prospering constantly. Later his son was associated with him, and in 1901 the business was incorporated as H. S. Swan Company. He was a prominent mem- ber of the Universalist church, and was a trus- tee for many years. He was a staunch Repub- lican, and influential in local affairs, holding many offices of trust and honor. He was deputy sheriff of the county twenty-nine years ;

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selectman, assessor and overseer of the poor; and an active member of the fire department many years. He was a member of Mountain Lodge of Free Masons; past noble grand of Alethia Lodge, No. 128, Odd Fellows. His home was at 63 Bridge street, Shelburne Falls. He married, September 9, 1852, Sophia M. Wilder, born November 1, 1835, daughter of Israel Wilder, of Conway, Massachusetts. Children: I. George H., born August 20, 1854: married Mary Churchill, of Shelburne Falls. 2. Herbert Wilder, born May 20, 1857 ; mentioned below. 3. Minnie, born March 20, 1859; married Rev. F. W. Whippen, of St. Albans, Vermont. 4. Carrie, born February 10, 1861 ; married W. A. Johnson. 5. Frank E., born March 22, 1869. 6. Annie, December 19, 1873.

(VIII) Herbert Wilder, son of Henry Sal- mon Swan, was born at Buckland, Massachu- setts, May 20, 1857, and was educated in the public schools and at the old academy. He then worked as a clerk in his father's furniture store at Shelburne Falls, and later became manager, a position he held for twenty-six years. In 1901 the business was incorporated as H. S. Swan Company, Herbert Swan being treasurer and manager. Mr. Swan has con- tinued at the head of the company and takes rank among the leading merchants of the town. He is a member of Mountain Lodge of Free Masons; of the Ancient Order of United Workmen ; and is charter member of the Shel- burne Falls Club. He served in Company E, Second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, for eleven years, and as captain for six years. In religion he is a Universalist, and politically a Republican. He married, Novem- ber 22, 1882, Nellie L. Blanchard, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, October 16, 1857, daughter of Eliot B. and Samantha ( Morley) Blanchard. They have no children.

(For ancestry see Tristram Coffin 1).

(IV) Tristram (2), son of Peter COFFIN Coffin, was born at Brixton, near Plymouth, county of Devonshire, England, 1605 (another account says 1609), and died October 2, or 3, 1681, at Northam, near Capaum Pond. He first settled at Salis- bury, Massachusetts, moved the same year to Haverhill, where his name appears on the Indian end of that town, November 16, 1642, and where his children were born: Mary (Starbuck) and John (the first John having died in the same place in 1642). In 1648 he removed to Newbury, where his youngest son

Stephen was born. After residing there sev- eral years, during which time he was licensed to keep an inn and a ferry over the Merrimac river, he returned to Salisbury, where he be- came a county magistrate, and in 1660 or 1661 he abandoned New England, and with his wife, four children, and his aged mother settled upon the island of Nantucket. Prior to his removal and early in 1659 he made a voyage of inquiry and observation to the group of islands off the Massachusetts coast, with a view to this change of residence. He first visited Martha's Vine- yard, and taking from there Peter Folger. grand father of Benjamin Franklin, as an inter- preter of the Indian language, proceeded to Nantucket. It has been supposed that relig- ious persecution was the cause of these fre- quent changes and of his final departure from the mainland, but the statement cannot be traced to a reliable source. He was one of a company of ten that purchased Nantucket from the Indians, which fact appears in a conveyance from the Sachems Wanackmamack and Nick- anoose, dated May 10, 1660. The original manuscript. of this instrument is still extant. bearing the signature of Peter Folger as one of the witnesses. Prior to this purchase from the natives the English title to the greater por- tion of the island had been obtained from Thomas Mayhew, who held the same under a conveyance from Lord Stirling. The deed from Mayhew is dated July 2, 1639, and runs to the grantees in the following order: Tris- tram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Christopher Hus- sey, Richard Swaine, Thomas Barnard, Peter Coffin, Stephen Greenleaf, John Swaine and William Pile. Tristram Coffin and his sons at one time owned about one-fourth of Nan- tucket and the whole of the island adjacent to it on the west, called Tuckernuck, contain- ing one thousand acres, which he purchased of the old Sachem Potconel at the time of his visit in 1659. He appears to have been a lead- ing spirit among the first settlers and was frequently selected by the inhabitants to trans- act important public business. His letters to the colonial government of New York ( Nan- tucket was at that time a dependency of New York) are preserved in the archives of the Department of State, Albany. The following oath of office and administrator's bond are on file in the record office at Nantucket :

Whereas I, Tristram Coffin senior, have Received a Commission dated the 16th of September 1677 In- vestinge me with power to be Chefe Magistrate on the Ile of Nantucket and depending for this ye four years ensuinge under further order I Tristram

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Coffin a bond said doe engage myselfe under the penalty of perjury to doe Justice in all causes that come before me according to Law and endeavor to my best understanding and hereunto I have sub- scribed TRISTRAM COFFYN,

Chief Magistrate.

Mr. Tristram Coffin Senior acknowledges this a bond Subscription to be his act and office deed before me. PETER COFFIN, Assistant.

November ye 5th, 1677.

We James Coffin John Coffin Steve Coffin do bind ourselves jointly and severally in the some of an hundred pounds sterling to perform the trust and administer on our father's estate and to bare the court harmless according to law.

JAMES COFFIN JOHN COFFIN STEPHEN COFFIN.

At the Court of Sessions held the 29th of Novem- ber 1681 there granted administration unto me James Coffin John Coffin and Stephen Coffin on the estate of Mr. Tristram Coffin deceased the 2nd or 3rd of October 1681 they having given security according to law.

The body of the oath was evidently written by Peter Coffin (son of Tristram); the signature is an autograph. It will be observed that Tristram used the letter y instead of i in writing the family name. It is said that his ancestors spelled it in the same manner. The letter of the administration appended to the bond fixes the date of his death (October 3. 1681) beyond question.

Accompanying the foregoing is the com- mission which was issued under "the hand and seal of Fran. Lovelace, Secretary of the State of New York," dated June 29, 1671, to "Mr. Tristram Coffin Senr., to be chiefe magistrate in and over the islands of Nantucket and Tuck- anucket.

"In the year 1826, Sir Isaac Coffin, a native of Boston ( who went to England in early life and became a baronet and an admiral in the British navy), visited Nantucket and founded the Coffin school (the original fund being £2000 sterling), which is still flourishing. The act of incorporation provides for an establish- ment of a school for the purpose of promoting decency, good order and morality, and for a good English education to youths who are de- scendants of the late Tristram Coffin, who emigrated from England, etc. The act further provides 'that the trustees shall all be descend- ants of the above mentioned Tristram Coffin in the male or female line.'"

Tristram Coffin married, in England, Dionis, (laughter of Robert Stevens, of Brixton, coun- ty Devon, England. Children : 1. Hon. Peter, born in England, 1631, died in Exeter, New Hampshire, March 2, 1715. 2. Tristram, Jr., born 1632, see forward. 3. Elizabeth, born in England ; married, in Newbury, November 13,

1651, Captain Stephen Greenleaf; died No- vember 29, 1678. 4. James, born August 12, 1640. 5. John, born in England, died in Haver- hill, October 30, 1642. 6. Deborah, born in Haverhill, November 15, 1642, died there De- cember 8, 1642. 7. Mary, born in Haverhill, February 20, 1645: married Nathaniel Star- buck, and was mother of the first white child born in Nantucket; died there September 13, 1717. 8. John, born in Haverhill, October 30, 1647, died in Edgartown, 1711. 9. Stephen, born in Newbury, May 11, 1652, died in Nan- tucket, May 18, 1734.

(V) Tristram (3), son of Tristram (2) Coffin, was born in England, in 1632, died at Newbury, Massachusetts, February 4, 1704. He settled in Newbury, and was admitted a freeman April 29, 1668. He is the ancestor of all the Newbury families of the name. His house, which at last accounts was still occu- pied by his descendants, was built about 1649 or 1654. and is therefore two hundred and fifty years old. He married, in Newbury, March 2, 1652-53. Judith Greenleaf, born 1625. died at Newbury, December 15, 1705, daugh- ter of Edmund and Sarah Greenleaf, and widow of Henry Sowerby. Children, born at Newbury: I. Judith, December 4, 1653, mar- ried John Sanborn. 2. Deborah, November IO, 1655. married, October 31, 1677, Joseph Knight. 3. Mary, November 12, 1657, married. October 31, 1677, Joseph Little. 4. James, April 22, 1659. 5. John, September 8, 1660. died May 13, 1677. 6. Lydia, April 22, 1662, married (first) Moses Little ; (second) March 18, 1695, John Pike. 7. Enoch, January 21, 1663, died November 12, 1775. 8. Stephen. August 18, 1664, see forward. 9. Peter, July 27, 1667, died January 19, 1746. 10. Hon. Nathaniel, March 22, 1669. died February 20. 1748-49.

(VI) Stephen, son of Tristram (3) Coffin, was born in Newbury, August 18, 1664. died August 31, 1725. He married, October 8, 1685. Sarah Atkinson, born November 27. 1665, daughter of John and Sarah ( Mirick) Atkinson. Children, born at Newbury : I. Sarah, May 16, 1686, died November 20, 1768 ; married, February 4, 1706, Joshua Bailey. 2. Tristram, January 14, 1688, died August 6, 1700. 3. Tristram, March 6, 1689, died Janu- ary 23, 1707. 4. Lydia, July 21, 1691, mar- ried, November 18, 1715. Richard Carr. 5. Judith, February 23, 1693, married, June 7. 1714, Nathaniel Greenleaf. 6. John, January 30, 1695. 7. Abigail, September 25, 1696, mar-

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ried Robert Morgan. 8. Stephen, 1698. 9. Daniel, September 19, 1700, see forward. IO. Abner, April 29, 1702.

(VII) Daniel, son of Stephen Coffin, was born at Newbury, September 19, 1700. He married Lydia Moulton, of Hampton, New Hampshire. Children: I. Lydia, born De- cember 10, 1727, married Sterling Sargent. 2. Stephen, August 6, 1729, married Sarah Holt. 3. Simeon, October 17, 1731, married Eleanor Huse. 4. Mary, January 28, 1734, married John Knight. 5. Daniel, August 17, 1737, see forward. 6. Isaac, February 26. 1739. 7. Peter, born at Haverhill. 8. Sarah, born at Haverhill, married Valentine Straw.

(VIII) Daniel (2), son of Daniel ( I) Coffin, was born August 17, 1737. He served in the revolution, at Sanford, Maine, in Captain Joshua Bragdon's company, Colonel James Scammon's regiment (Third) in 1775; also in Captain John Evans' company in 1781, on guard duty at Androscoggin river. He mar- ried Mehitable Harmer, of Sanford, Maine, and settled in Alfred, Maine. Children, some born in Bethel, Maine: I. Daniel, married Lydia Bean. 2. Benjamin, married Sarah Pike. 3. Mehitable, married John Clough. 4. Napthali, see forward. 5. Rhoda, married - Bean. 6. David, married - Swan. 7. Joel.

(IX) Napthali, son of Daniel (2) Coffin, was born at Bethel, Maine, May 8. 1769, died at Londonderry, New Hampshire, May 5. 1837. He married Abigail Scribner. Chil- dren : I. Warren, born at Bethel, Maine, March 23. 1802, died at Winchester, Massa- chusetts, October 7, 1889; married, 1826, Han- nah Burbank, born July 31, 1809, in Gilead, Maine. 2. David, see forward.

(X) David, son of Napthali Coffin, was born in Bethel, Maine. December 24, 1806. He married Harriet Atwood Burbank, born April 6. 1816, died in Aberdeen, South Dakota, December 8. 1906, daughter of Abraham and Priscilla (Severy) Burbank, who were the parents of another daughter. Hannah Bur- bank. Children, born in Londonderry, New Hampshire: 1. Harriet Augusta, born Sep- tember 13, 1837, married Moses Noyes Holmes. 2. Charles Warren. December 21, 1840, see forward. 3. AAlma Frances, September 26. 1844, married Joseph Edwin Chase. 4. Frank- lin Leland, February 18, 1850, died August 31, 1879, unmarried.

(X1) Charles Warren, son of David Coffin, was born in Londonderry, New Hampshire, December 21, 1840. He graduated from Dart-

mouth College with the degree of C. E. in 1864. He served two years in the Maine legis- lature. He married Ruth Abbie, born Decem- ber 21, 1838, in Hampden, Maine, daughter of Arad and Emeline (Peabody) Walker. Chil- dren, born at Bangor, Maine: I. Rockwell Augustus, July 31, 1870, see forward. 2. Ermengarde Arvilla, March 29, 1873; mar- ried Francis Payne Mason, born in Cleveland. Ohio, but lived and was educated in Europe, and holds the degree of Ph. D. from Bern University. Children: Francis Van Wyke and Charles Coffin Mason. Frank Holcomb Mason, father of Francis Payne Mason, was born at Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, 1839. He graduated from Hiram College, Ohio, 1860; served through the civil war, two years as private in the Forty-second Ohio Regiment ; re-enlisted as captain of the Twelfth Ohio Cavalry "for the war" and served to the end. He was appointed in 1879 to the consulate at Basel by President Hayes ; in 1884 transferred to Marseilles ; in 1889 promoted to the con- sulate general at Frankfort-on-the-Main; in 1898 sent to Berlin as consul general ; in 1905 to Paris, which position he still occupies. In 1866 he married Jennie Van Wyck, daughter of Judge Matthew and Jane Van Wyck (Weaver) Birchard.

(XII) Dr. Rockwell Augustus, son of Charles Warren Coffin, was born in Bangor, Maine, July 31, 1870. He attended private and public schools and the Bangor high school, completing his preparation for college in Phillips Academy. Andover, Massachusetts. He entered Amherst College, class of 1892, but left after one year, and entered on his professional studies at the Harvard Medical School, where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine with the class of 1893. He was resident physician in St. Luke's Hospital, Den- ver, Colorado, for the year 1894, and then studied abroad two years, at Berlin University and Vienna General Hospital, and while in Vienna served as assistant of Dr. Hajek, the celebrated laryngologist. Since. 1897 he has practiced in Boston, making a specialty of laryngology and otology. He is surgeon for diseases of the throat and nose at the Boston City Hospital and 'instructor in laryngology in the Harvard Medical School. He is the anthor of "A Differential Diagnosis of Empy- ema of Accessory Cavities of the Nose by Internal Examination," published in the Medi- co-Surgical Journal, March 24, 1898. He is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society. New England Otological and Laryngological

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Society, University Club, Hoosic-Whisick Club. He is a Republican in politics.

The following is an account written by Mrs. Mary Coffin Johnson to her nephew, William E. Coffin, of Richmond, Indiana, of her visit to "Portledge," the ancient seat of the Coffin family in Devonshire, England :

We took a carriage at Bideford (North Devon) at two p. m. and had a pleasant drive of four miles on a shaded road, lined on either side with luxuriant hedges, brambled vines and grasses to the old Manor House which has so long belonged to the Coffin family, eight hundred years. It is one of the few estates which has remained for so great a length of time in a family and retained its original name.

After entering the great gateway, the ride in the grounds was half a mile before reaching the Manor House. The butler admitted us and we sent our cards to Mr. J. F. P. Coffin, the hospitable owner and resident of "Portledge" who soon appeared and cordially welcomed us. I had previously exchanged letters with him about our proposed visit. We regretted the absence of Mrs. J. F. Pine Coffin, his wife, who is a sister of the late Captain Speke, the Nile voyager. She was with her mother, Mrs. Speke, who was very ill.

Mr. Coffin made our visit most interesting and gave us every attention. He has in his possession manuscript deeds extending back hundreds of years and showed us the first original copies given in the time of Henry Third, about 1220, signed by "Richard Cophin." One dated 1224 is signed "Richard Coffyn." There are seals of green wax attached, one by a silken cord in almost perfect preservation and bear- ing a figure of the king on horseback. These deeds are inscribed with great neatness in Saxon.

In the large entrance hall, which has a gallery around the second floor, formed by a balustrade, and in the dining room, are hanging old family portraits of the ancestors of the past centuries. These interested me greatly. They are of both men and women, all dressed in very antiquated style, but the faces were very fine, blue eyes, and the charac- teristic features of the Coffins of the present day. The names of Richard, Mary and Honor were among them.

The Manor House is a fine old building with very handsome carved doors and containing all the appointments of an English home of the high classes. It is two stories in height, as most English houses of this kind, with arched windows and steep roof. Like all the ancient buildings and fortifications of Feudal time the house is built in a valley or hollow surrounded by hills, so that it is not seen until one is quite near it. The coat-of-arms is on the ceiling of the dining room, but it has been blended with that of the Pine family with whom the Coffins have intermarried.

The grounds belonging to the estate comprise most of the parish, about twenty-seven hundred acres, and extend to the sea. There is a lovely walk to the beach along the ferns, trees, thick shrubs, rich with verdure and seats are placed for enjoyment of the view and sea breezes. Lawn and garden are in most beautiful state of cultivation. The lawn is like a rich green carpet and there are numerous noble trees and fine shrubs, many of them very old.

Two stone corn-grinders stood on the lawn, of very ancient date, formerly raised by ancestors.

We next visited Arlington Church, a mile from the house, where the Coffin family has worshipped for centuries; where they have been given in mar- riage and where numerous tombs designate their last resting places. The church is a handsome old stone structure of great antiquity. It has a tower and is surrounded by a church yard, in which are fine old trees, shade and shrub, standing in a quiet solitude with no dwellings in sight. It seemed a solemn and romantic spot to me, proclaiming afresh the passing away of early lives and things. The huge key given us by which to enter was fully a foot long and large in proportion, truly a relic of "ye olden time." There are inside the edifice many prettily carved pews and pulpit. An ancient bap- tismal font still stands, to which I suggested that the latest born Tristram shall be brought and bap- tized. Many of the tablets which cover the floor are so worn by age that the inscriptions beyond the name of Coffin cannot be deciphered. In the church yard many of the stones still stand erect, but they are worn so thin and crumbled by the "stones of time" that the inscriptions cannot be read. I found some horizontal slabs in the shape of a Coffin, with a curious Roman cross carved upon them.

The inscriptions which we could not make out were singular in expression, revealing the fact that they had their day and generation long ago. The "Sole Surviving Son," James Coffin, fifth of Sir Richard Coffin and his wife, erected a curious tablet "to the pious memory of his parents in the year 1651," which reads as follows: "Mr. S. Richard Coffin of Portledge, Esqr. and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Leonard Lovis Vebare in the Countie Esqr. Hee deceased July ye 25th, Anno Dni. 1617, set at Svae 78, shee departed this life, May ye 3rd, An. Do. 1631, act at Svae 80.

"All her portrayed sieves one wynd Coffin sent Through Heavens canopy and to earth here lent Performed with virtues and bedowed with grace I adorn thee with a progeny for a space One man took life from dead Elisha's bones 8 marchalled sons lived from this Coffin's loins With daughters seven, they from this vine did sprout Like olive plants their table round about. Thrice happy fruitful Coffin may thy buds spring And to Eternity Hallelejars sing."

The surname of Coffin is English and knightly, and of great antiquity in the county of Devon, Eng- land. Sir Elias Coffin, of Clist and Ingarty, lived in the reign of King John; Sir Jefferey Coffin, of Arling- ton, in that of Henry II, and Sir Jeffrey Coffin, of Coombe Coffin, in that of Henry III. Sir William Coffin, sheriff of Devonshire, was master of the horse at the coronation of Anne Bolwyn and was afterwards one of the eighteen assistants of King Henry VIII, at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1519; at his death he bequeathed his hawks and best horses to his master, Henry VIII. Leaving no issue, his estate went to his brother's eldest son, Richard Coffin, Esq., of Portledge, County Devon. The present representative is John F. Pine Coffin, Esq., of Port- ledge.

The crest is a Phoenix, the motto "Post tenebras speramus lumin de lumine."

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PEARSON William Henry Pearson was born in England in 1812 and resided in Stockport. He was the overseer of the cotton mills of George Fernley & Company, and in 1865 came to America. He settled in Ashuelot, New Hamp- shire, and was engaged in the manufacture of woolen goods until his death. He married in England, Emma Cross, born 1812. They had a family of nine children.

(II) Henry, son of William Henry Pear- son, was born at Stockport, England, Septem- ber 14, 1852. He attended the public schools of England until eleven years of age, when he entered the employ of George Fernley & Sons as office boy. He was promoted from time to time until he was given charge of the loom products of the mill office. On November 5, 1866, he came to America to join his father, and secured a situation in the finishing depart- ment of a mill in Ashuelot, New Hampshire, remaining about a year. He attended school part of the time in this country until he was sixteen years old. He went to Hinsdale, New Hampshire, where for a short time he was employed in the weaving-room of Haile, Frost & Company's woolen mill. Desiring to learn the trade of machinist, he decided to accept a situation which had been offered him in the machine shop of Holman & Merriman. For twelve years Mr. Pearson was with this firm, with the exception of an interval of six months, when he acted as inspector at the Millers Falls Manufacturing Works. His reputation as a good mechanic was soon recognized and his next situation was as toolmaker in the Harris Corliss Engine Works, at Providence, Rhode Island. A year later he was offered the fore- manship of the machine department of the Wason Manufacturing Company, at Spring- field, Massachusetts, which he accepted, enter- ing upon his duties in the spring of 1881. This company is one of the oldest manufacturers of steam cars in the country. The following year he was promoted to the position of assistant superintendent, and in 1883 was made me- chanical superintendent. He afterwards be- came vice-president and general manager of the company, and is now the president of this large and successful corporation. Mr. Pearson is a Republican in politics, and a Universalist in religion. He is a mem- ber of the Nayasset Club of Springfield, the Engineers' Club of New York City, and several railroad clubs ; of the Hampden Lodge of Odd Fellows, and Massachusetts Grand Lodge; of the Roswell Lee Lodge of Free

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume IV, Part 45

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 886

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 886