| Note* | | Nicholas Coffin Birth: About 1560. Thought to be the oldest son of Peter COFFIN and MarieBOSCAWEN of Cornwall. Peter was the son of Tristram COFFIN of Brixton,Devonshire. Marriage to Joan __: About 1580. Death: 3 Nov 1613. Will proved 3 Nov 1613 at Totness, Brixton,Devonshire, England. Will dtd 13 Sep 1613. Freeholder of Butler's Parish, Devon, England. His property was called'Silverhey,' near Brixton. 1613, 13 Sep: Nicholas COFFIN wrote his will. Bequeaths to oldest sonPeter a 'great brass pan and my minde is that my wief shall have the usethereof during her lief.' Bequeathed to Tristram COFFIN, his son's son,one yearling bullock. Bequeathed to his wife 'the bed steed & beddclothes there unto belonging wherein I do usually lie, one brasse pann &one brasse crock to use the same duringe her lief and after her deceasethe same shall remaine to me said Executors.' Bequeathed to son Nicholasthe majority of his lands and tenements. He mentions his wife Joan; sonsPeter, Tristram, Nicholas and John; daughter Anne; and Joan, a daughterof one of his sons. 1613, 3 Nov: His will proved at Totness. Nicholas Coffyn, Tristram's grandfather, was born during the Tudor era,around 1568, and was married to a woman named Joanna. He died in 1613,having left five children: Peter (the oldest, and Tristram Coffin'sfather), Nicholas, Tristram, John, and Anne. Peter was born during thereign of Queen Elizabeth I, around 1580; he married Joan Thember and diedaround 1627. His children included Tristram, John, Joan, Deborah, Eunice,and Mary.1 |