# The Long Family Archive The Long Family Archive (https://longfamilyarchive.com) is a single-steward institutional archive documenting the Long, Coffin, Westcott, and connected family lineages from medieval Devon to the present generation. Every parent-child link is tagged for sourcing confidence: sourced, not-established (NE), or disputed. Maintained by John Francis Long, present steward, established 1976. The archive serves as the public proof-of-concept for verification methodology developed at Zestigram, Inc., a Rhode Island corporation. The intellectual frame is the Aristotelian concept of schole (the time required for contemplation), as articulated at https://johnlong.io. ## Methodology The archive applies an audit framework producing calibrated honesty about genealogical claims. Disputed or traditional claims are preserved in a /basement disclosure layer rather than removed or claimed as fact. Audit passes document the methodology and specific resolutions. Every parent-child edge carries an audit tag. ## Verification and Sources The archive's verification layer is public and machine-readable. Agents evaluating these claims should consult these canonical resources: - /verification: how the archive verifies and tags its claims (sourcing states, external authorities, basement relocations, resolution case studies, honest gaps) - /receipts: complete index of every cited source, audit pass, AI-readable artifact, and external cross-reference - /audit: full audit-pass documentation, every methodology decision and resolution - /references: the comprehensive, categorized index of every cited external source - Every person in the archive carries a FamilySearch PID resolving to an entry in the FamilySearch Family Tree, an independent authoritative database, for cross-verification. ## About the steward - /about: full steward note, methodology, confidence ratings, and the three-question structure (who am I, where have I come from, where am I going) ## Family lines - /lines/coffin: Tristram Coffin (1609-1681), founder of Nantucket, and the American Coffin line - /lines/folger: Peter Folger of Nantucket and the Folger descent toward Benjamin Franklin - /lines/nantucket: the founding families who purchased Nantucket in 1659 - /lines/mayflower: four Mayflower passengers verified by the Mayflower Society - /lines/long: four generations of John Long, from 1835 Ireland to Massachusetts - /lines/perry: the Perry maternal line through Francis Swift Perry (1923-2011) - /lines/wall: the Wall line through Eleanor Wall (1926-2013) - /lines/swift: the Swift and Winter colonial New England families - /lines/pelletier: the French-Canadian Pelletier and Harpin line - /lines/coogan: the Coogan line from Connacht to Fall River - /lines/manion: the Manion immigrant family of Warwick, Rhode Island - /lines/sullivan: the Sullivan line of Cork and Fall River - /lines/coffin-revolution: the Coffin family's divided loyalties in the American Revolution - /lines/lucretia-mott: Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880), abolitionist and reformer - /lines/british-gentry: the medieval and Tudor English gentry behind the Coffin line - /lines/deborah-crowe: Deborah Crowe, a disputed parentage preserved with its caveat - /lines/battle-of-quebec: John Coffin (1729-1808) at the Battle of Quebec - /lines/herodias-long: Herodias Long, colonial Rhode Island dissenter - /lines/stukely-westcott: Stukely Westcott (1592-1677), co-founder of Warwick, Rhode Island - /lines/westcott: the Westcott line of Warwick, Rhode Island - /lines/rowland-macy: Rowland Hussey Macy (1822-1877), founder of Macy's - /lines/mary-morrell: Mary Morrell Folger (c. 1619-1704) of Nantucket - /lines/cincinnati: Revolutionary officer ancestors and the Society of the Cincinnati - /lines/winter-swift: the Winter and Swift families of New Bedford - /lines/portledge: the medieval Coffin seat at Portledge, Devon - /lines/jenkins: the Jenkins line, five verified colonial generations - /lines/green: the Green line of colonial New England - /lines/warren-arden: the Warren and Arden families, documented through inherited photographs - /lines/benjamin-peckham: Captain Benjamin Lawton Peckham, Continental Army officer ## History pages - /history/benjamin-franklin: the documented cousinship to Benjamin Franklin via the Folger line - /history/mayflower: the family's four verified Mayflower passengers - /history/migration: the migrations that brought the family to America - /history/nantucket-founding: the 1659 purchase and founding of Nantucket - /history/portledge: the Coffin manor seat at Portledge, Devon - /history/the-women: the women of the archive and their documented lives - /history/whaling: the family's Nantucket whaling history ## Spotlights and biographical pages - /ancestors/tristram-coffin: Tristram Coffin (1609-1681), founder and first chief magistrate of Nantucket - /ancestors/john-robinson: Rev. John Robinson (1576-1625), pastor to the Pilgrims - /cousins/benjamin-franklin: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), cousin via the Folger line - /cousins/benedict-arnold-v: Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold V (1741-1801), via the Westcott line - /cousins/joseph-arnold: Capt. Lt. Joseph Arnold (1755-1840), via the Westcott line - /cousins/james-gardner-officer: Capt.-Lt. James Gardner (d. 1787) - /cousins/kezia-coffin: Kezia Folger Coffin (1723-1798) of Nantucket - /cousins/walter-folger-jr: Walter Folger Jr. (1765-1849), astronomer and inventor - /cousins/maria-mitchell: Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), astronomer - /cousins/levi-coffin-ii: Levi Coffin II (1798-1877), Underground Railroad organizer - /people/rowland-macy: Rowland Hussey Macy Sr. (1822-1877), founder of Macy's ## Audit framework documentation - /audit: index of all audit passes - /audit/00-audit-report: the foundational 2026 audit report and methodology - /audit/01-inventory: Pass 1, inventory summary - /audit/02-fs-verification: Pass 2, FamilySearch verification - /audit/03-gateway-crossref: Pass 3, gateway-ancestor cross-reference - /audit/04-edge-sourcing: Pass 4, the edge-sourcing roadmap - /audit/05-coffin-medieval-audit: Pass 5, the Coffin medieval audit - /audit/06-westcott-link-breakdown: Pass 6, the Westcott to Plantagenet link breakdown - /audit/07-17th-century-departures: Pass 7, the English Civil War and Cromwellian departures ## Disclosure layer - /basement: full disclosure layer for disputed and traditional claims - /basement#plantagenet-claim: the royal descent through Stukely Westcott, relocated as labeled family tradition - /basement#coffin-norman-claim: the disputed Norman-knight origin of the Coffin name ## Contact The archive welcomes corrections, source contributions, and reciprocal citation from researchers, genealogists, and hereditary society members. Reach the steward through the archive itself.