A Thousand Years
of Ancestry
From a general at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, to four passengers on the Mayflower, to the families who purchased Nantucket for thirty pounds and two beaver hats, to the maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin. Documented, sourced, and preserved.
A private family archive.
HIGHLIGHTS OF YOUR ANCESTRY
The Coffin Line: 1066 to Nantucket
The family’s verified connection from 1066 to Nantucket — nearly a thousand years
Benjamin Franklin
The archive documents the family’s 1st cousin, 10 times removed, through Peter Folger
Four Mayflower Passengers
Francis Cooke, Richard Warren, Degory Priest, George Soule — direct ancestors, PID-verified
Nantucket Founders
Descended from nearly every family that purchased the island in 1659
Rep. John J. Long
Massachusetts State Representative, 1956–1980. Primary source documentation preserved
Lucretia Coffin Mott
Abolitionist, women’s rights pioneer, co-organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention
THE FAMILY
The Long family, Westport Point
We grew up at Westport Point, where the harbor meets the bay. The family has been in this corner of New England for a long time.
The Long family of Westport, Massachusetts and Tiverton, Rhode Island is an American family of colonial New England descent, with verified lineage to the founding families of Nantucket Island (1659), four Mayflower passengers (1620), and Norman-era English gentry (1066). The archive documents the family’s connections to Benjamin Franklin (1st cousin, 10 times removed), 17 U.S. Presidents, Lucretia Coffin Mott, and other notable figures through primary-source-verified chains of descent. Records preserved in the family collection include original Kennedy correspondence and primary source documentation spanning four centuries.