--- 1st Generation ---

1. Elizabeth Coffin was born circa 1634.  She married Stephen Greenleaf, son of Edmund Greenleaf and Sarah Dole, on 13 November 1651 in Newbury, MA.
She died on 19 November 1678 in Newbury, MA .
 

--- 2nd Generation ---

2. Tristram Coffin was born circa 1609 in Brixton Parish, Devonshire, England. He was christened on 11 Mar 1610.
He married Dionis Stevens, daughter of Robert Stevens and Mrs. Robert Stevens (--?--), circa 1630 in Brixton Parish , Devonshire, England..
He was selected in 1640 as a warden in Brixton Parish, but leased his farm at Butlers (Butlass) for five hundred years on 6 November 1640 and went to New England, probably on the Hector but possibly on the Margaret Clememt or the Job Clement all owned by Robert Clement.
Robert Clement signed the Indian Deed to Haverhill with Tristram Coffin 15 November 1642. Tristram brought with him his mother and his two sisters who were married in America, Eunice to William Butler and Mary to Alexander Adams. Mary's daughter Elizabeth married William Parkman and from that marriage descended the historian Framcis Parkman (1823-1893). Tristram first settled in Haverhill, removed to Newbury in 1648, thence to Salisbury in 1654 and in 1680 to Nantucket of which island he was one of the original propriators. See: The Coffin Family; edited by Louis Coffin; Nantucket Historical Assn.; Nantucket, MA.
He died on 2 October 1681 in MA, probably.

--- 3rd Generation ---

4. Peter Coffin was born circa 1580 in Brixton, England.
He married Joan Thember circa 1630 in England.
He died circa 1627, probably in Brixton. His estate was probated on 13 March 1628, probably  in Brixton.  His will mentions a "tenament" called Silferhey in Butlers (now Butlass) in 1628.

--- 4th Generation ---

8. Nicholas Coffin was born circa 1550 in Devonshire, England. He died  8 October 1613. His estate was probated on 3 November 1613.

--- 5th Generation ---

17. Mary Boscawen was born 20 January 1535. She married Peter Coffin circa 1560. She died 4 September 1622 in Pankev  Brixton, Devonshire, England.

 Cautionary Note: The connection between  Peter  and  Mary Boscawen Coffin and  Nicholas Coffin and the line of ascent to deQuincey is very much in doubt.   It was first proposed by Thomas Coffin Amory in a speech delivered at a family reunion in 1881. Since that time numerous researchers have discounted the connection. One researcher suggests that Peter and Mary Coffin had no children. Thus, you may wish to do your own verification of this and the subsequent  generations. They appear in "the Magna Carta Sureties" by Arthur Adams ,  "The Visitations of the County of Cornwall " by Vivian and in other sources.

--- 6th Generation ---

35. Phillippa Carminow   was born circa 1519 in Boconnoc, Cornwall, England.
She married Hugh Boscawen circa 1536. She died  9 August 1593.

--- 7th Generation ---

70. Nicholas Carminhow  was born circa 1490. He married Catherine Wolverton. He died circa 1538.

--- 8th Generation ---

140. John Carminhow married Phillipa Trenwith. He died in 1520.

--- 9th Generation ---

280. Walter Carminhow married Jane Resprin.

--- 10th Generation ---

560. William Carminhow married Margaret Kelly.

--- 11th Generation ---

1120. Walter Carminhow married Alice Tynton.

--- 12th Generation ---

2240. John Carminhow married Anne Maryett.

--- 13th Generation ---

4480. Roger Carminhow married Katherine Shirley.

--- 14th Generation ---

8961. Elizabeth Holland married Oliver Carminhow.

--- 15th Generation ---

17922. Thomas Holland  was a Knight of the Garter. On 20 November 1360 he assumed the
title of Earl of Kent. . He married Joan Plantagenet, daughter of Edmund Plantagenet, circa 1339.
 He died on 8 December 1360 in Normandy, France. He was buried circa 1360 in Co. Lincoln, England.

--- 16th Generation ---

35845. Maud Zouche married Robert Holland.

--- 17th Generation ---

71690. Alan la Zouche married Eleanor Segrave, daughter of Nicholas Seagrave. He was born
circa 1267. He died circa 1314.

--- 18th Generation ---

143380. Roger Zouche married Ela Longespee, daughter of Stephen Longespee. He died circa
1285.

--- 19th Generation ---

286761. Ela deQuincey married Alan la Zouche. She died on 20 Aug 1296.

--- 20th Generation ---

573522. Roger deQuincey.  He held his father's estates while his older brother Robert was
absent in the Holy Land and scceeded as Earl of Winchester in 1235. In the same year he
became lord high constable of Scotland. Because he had no sons, the Earldom reverted to
the crown on his death. He married Helen MacDonal, daughter of Allan MacDonal and Margaret
David. He was born circa 1195. He died in April 1264.

--- 21st Generation ---

1147044. Saire deQuincey.  He was one of the Barons present when William the Lion of Scotland
did homage to the English Monarch in October 1200. At the beginning of King John's reign
he was not a Baron much less a great one. However, he obtained large grants from King John
and was created Earl of Winchester on 2 March 1207. He is credited with rewriting Magna
Carta from the Charter of King Henry I and the Saxon Code which was agreed to by King John
on 19 June 1215. He was one of the 24 Barons who, along with the Mayor of London, were
sureties for the Magna Carta.  He was born before 1154. He married Margaret Bellomont before 1173.
He died on 3 November 1219   "on the way, to Jerusalem".

I would very much like to have comments, particularly about the dubious connection between Peter and Mary Boscawen Coffin and Nicholis Coffin.

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