Author: Coffin, William A.
Biography:
COFFIN, William A. (1809-31: ancestry.com)
William Allen Coffin was born in Nantucket MA on 4 Jan. 1809, the eldest child of Captain George Bunker Coffin and his wife Abigail Allen, who had married at Nantucket in 1803. He had three younger sisters. Captain Coffin served in the US navy in the War of 1812. The family had ties both to Nantucket MA and to Hudson NY. He died at Hudson, aged 23, on 15 Dec. 1831, and his sister Avis, aged 16, "about two hours afterwards" (Commercial Advertiser). They were presumably related to Alexander Coffin, Jr., q.v. (ancestry.com 17 Aug. 2025; Commercial Advertiser [New York] 22 Dec. 1831) HJ
Books written (1):
Hudson [NY]: printed by Ashbel Stoddard, 1833