The Migration Map

From Devon to Nantucket, from Sandwich to Falmouth, from Fall River to New Bedford — how thirteen families moved across the same coastline for four centuries.

1066

Portledge, Devon

Coffin

1609

Plymouth, Devon

Coffin

1620

Plymouth, MA

PriestWarrenCookeHopkins

1627

Sandwich, MA

Swift

~1642

Salisbury, MA

Coffin

1659

Nantucket Island

CoffinMacySwainGardnerColemanFosterStarbuck

1636

Providence, RI

WestcottPeckham

1707

Falmouth, MA

SwiftJenkins

~1800

Waquoit, Falmouth

Swift

1839

Fall River, MA

WinterArden

1836

New Bedford, MA

SwiftWinterWall

Thirty Miles

Sandwich, Falmouth, Waquoit, New Bedford, Fall River, Nantucket — every location in this archive sits within thirty miles of every other. Six families, four centuries, one stretch of coastline. They didn’t just live near each other. They married each other, served together, worshipped together, and built together. The archive isn’t a collection of separate lines. It’s one community across time.

“They rode their bikes from New Bedford to Waquoit.”