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2. Coffin (whaling family) - Wikipedia

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   Family history Tristram Coffin , born in 1609 in Brixton, Devon , sailed for America in 1642, first settling in Newbury, Massachusetts , then moving to Nantucket. [1] [2] The Coffins, along with other Nantucket families, including the Gardners and the Starbucks , began whaling seriously in the 1690s in local waters, and by 1715 the family owned ...

3. Tristram Coffin (settler) - Wikipedia

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   Tristram Coffin was born to Peter and Joanna (Kember) Coffin and baptized in the parish of Brixton near Plymouth, England, on 11 March 1609–10. [1] He belonged to the landed gentry. [5] He married Dionis Stevens in 1630 and they were to have nine children, the first five born in England. Coffin was a Brixton church warden from 1639 to 1640 ...

4. Gardner (whaling family) - Wikipedia

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   Gardner (whaling family) The Gardner family were a group of whalers operating out of Nantucket, Massachusetts, from the 17th to 19th centuries. Some members of the family gained wider exposure due to their discovery of various islands in the Pacific Ocean. By marriage, they were related to the Coffins, another Nantucket whaling family.

5. Starbuck (whaling family) - Wikipedia

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   Obed Starbuck[edit] Obed Starbuck was born on May 11, 1797, also in Nantucket, and died June 27, 1882. Whaling in the Pacific for many years, Obed made a number of significant voyages. Sailing on the Hero 1822-1824, which returned to Nantucket with 2,173 barrels of sperm oil, he discovered an island on 5 September 1823, located at 5°32' S, 155 ...

6. Owen Coffin - Wikipedia

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   Owen Coffin (August 24, 1802 – February 2, 1821) was a sailor aboard the Nantucket whaler Essex when it set sail for the Pacific Ocean on a sperm whale-hunting expedition in August 1819, under the command of his cousin, George Pollard, Jr. In November 1820, a whale rammed and breached the hull of Essex in mid-Pacific, causing Essex to sink. [1]

7. Timeline of Nantucket - Wikipedia

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   1673 – Town named "Sherburne." [5] 1683 – Island becomes part of Dukes County, Province of New York. [6] 1686 – Jethro Coffin house built. [6] 1692 – Island becomes part of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. [2] 1695 – Nantucket County established.