Notable Cousin · via the maternal line
1798-1877 · Quaker abolitionist called the “President of the Underground Railroad”, he and his wife Catharine are credited with helping some three thousand freedom-seekers escape slavery through their Indiana and Ohio homes.
Relationship
Levi Coffin II is the 4th cousin, 7 times removed of John, Perry, and Patrick Long.
Through Tristram Coffin (c. 1605-1681), founder of Nantucket. Levi Coffin descends from the Nantucket/Carolina Coffin line; the family descends through Tristram’s son John Coffin (via his daughter Hannah) and the Gardner → Macy → Folger → Perry line.
Tristram Coffin (c. 1605-1681). founder of Nantucket; the shared ancestor. This is the single shared ancestor that connects Levi Coffin II to John, Perry, and Patrick. FamilySearch PID: L8BH-G24.
Both lines descending from the most recent common ancestor, Tristram Coffin. Research-in-Progress markers flag generations not yet enumerated. Click any PID to open the FamilySearch record.
VERIFIED on the shared ancestor Tristram Coffin (L8BH-G24) and the family’s own John-Coffin line to the Perrys. Levi Coffin’s own record is L8PD-B2J. His intermediate Coffin generations come from the famous-relatives walk recomputed at 4th cousin 7× under the FS-verified 12-step depth; per-generation PIDs are not re-enumerated here and none are invented.
“The children of Tristram Coffin were Peter, Tristram, Elizabeth, James, John and Stephen. We trace our line of the family from John. He married Deborah Austin; their son Samuel married Miriam Gardner; their son William married Priscilla Paddock; their son Levi married Prudence Williams. These last were my parents, and this places me in the fifth generation from the first Tristram Coffin, of Nantucket.”[1]
From the opening of his Reminiscences, "Genealogy."
“I was pained to hear of the capture of these fugitives, and inquired of some of the Friends in our village why they did not take them in and secrete them, when they were pursued, and then aid them on their way to Canada? I found that they were afraid of the penalty of the law. I told them that I read in the Bible when I was a boy that it was right to take in the stranger and administer to those in distress, and that I thought it was always safe to do right. The Bible, in bidding us to feed the hungry and clothe the naked, said nothing about color, and I should try to follow out the teachings of that good book.”[2]
From his account of his first years at Newport, Indiana; the next paragraph begins, "In the winter of 1826–27, fugitives began to come to our house."