My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth Coffin
Birth Dateabt 1634
Birth PlaceBrixton, Devonshire, England
FatherTristram Coffyn Coffin Sr. (1605-1681)
MotherDionis Stephens Stevens (1609-1671)
Spouses
Birth Dateabt 10 Aug 1628
Birth PlaceIpswich, Suffolk, England
Death Date1 Dec 1690 Age: 62
Death PlaceAt sea
Memodrowned off Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
FatherCapt. Edmund Greenleaf (1574-1671)
MotherSarah Moore (<1588-1663)
Misc. Notes
In the French and Indian War, Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, Lieutenant James Smith, Ensign William Longfellow, Sergeant Increase Pillsbury, William Mitchell and Jabez Musgrave were cast away and lost on an expedition against Cape Breton.
“The expedition under Sir William Phips, consisting of thirty or forty vessels, carrying about two thousand men, sailed from Nantasket on the ninth day of August 1690, but did not arrive at Quebec until the fifth day of October. Several attempts were made to capture the town, without success; and tempestuous weather having nearly disabled the vessels and driven some of them ashore, it was considered advisable to re-embark the troops and abandon the enterprise. On their way back to Boston, they encountered head winds and violent storms. Some vessels were blown off the coast, and ultimately arrived in the West Indies. One was lost upon the island of Anticosti and several were never heard from. Capt. John March, Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, Lieut. James Smith, Ensign William Longfellow,and Ensign Lawrence Hart, of Newbury, Capt. Philip Nelson, of Rowley, and Capt. Daniel King, of Salem, were among the officers commissioned for service in the expedition to Canada, under the command of Sir William Phips.”
He came to America with his father and resided in Newbury, MA until he was drowned off Cape Breton, 1 Dec. 1690. In 1651, he maried Elizabeth Coffin, the daughter of Tristram and Dionis (Stephens) Coffin Sr. of Newbury, MA, by of whom he had ten children.
9 June 1677, Stephen Greenleaf in full communion with the Christ Church at Newbury, MA.
Freeman 5/23/1677 Newbury, MA.
“The expedition under Sir William Phips, consisting of thirty or forty vessels, carrying about two thousand men, sailed from Nantasket on the ninth day of August 1690, but did not arrive at Quebec until the fifth day of October. Several attempts were made to capture the town, without success; and tempestuous weather having nearly disabled the vessels and driven some of them ashore, it was considered advisable to re-embark the troops and abandon the enterprise. On their way back to Boston, they encountered head winds and violent storms. Some vessels were blown off the coast, and ultimately arrived in the West Indies. One was lost upon the island of Anticosti and several were never heard from. Capt. John March, Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, Lieut. James Smith, Ensign William Longfellow,and Ensign Lawrence Hart, of Newbury, Capt. Philip Nelson, of Rowley, and Capt. Daniel King, of Salem, were among the officers commissioned for service in the expedition to Canada, under the command of Sir William Phips.”
He came to America with his father and resided in Newbury, MA until he was drowned off Cape Breton, 1 Dec. 1690. In 1651, he maried Elizabeth Coffin, the daughter of Tristram and Dionis (Stephens) Coffin Sr. of Newbury, MA, by of whom he had ten children.
9 June 1677, Stephen Greenleaf in full communion with the Christ Church at Newbury, MA.
Freeman 5/23/1677 Newbury, MA.
Marr Date13 Nov 1651
Marr PlaceNewbury, Essex Co., MA