General John Coffin

The Long brothers' 4th cousin, 7 times removed. They share Tristram Coffin, the Long brothers' 10th great-grandfather.

How they’re connected
  1. General John Coffin
  2. ↓ Nathaniel 'the Cashier'
  3. ↓ William Coffin
  4. ↓ Capt. Nathaniel Coffin
  5. ↓ James Coffin
  6. ↓ Tristram Coffin
  7. ↓ John Coffin
  8. ↓ Hannah Coffin
  9. ↓ Robert Gardner
  10. ↓ Eunice Gardner
  11. ↓ Margaret ‘Peggy’ Macy
  12. ↓ Frederick William Folger
  13. ↓ Harriett Ann Folger
  14. ↓ Charles Franklin Perry
  15. ↓ Charles Franklin Perry Jr.
  16. ↓ Francis Swift Perry
  17. ↓ Carol Perry Long
  18. ↓ John, Perry and Patrick Long

b. 1756, Boston · d. 1838, New Brunswick

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Life

Military service:
As a young ship's master he landed British troops at Bunker Hill on 17 June 1775; he later became a full general in the British Army.[1][2][3]
  1. James H. Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution (Boston: W. B. Clarke, 1910), 137–40, 233–38, 451–52. archive.org
  2. Lorenzo Sabine, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1864), 323–26. archive.org
  3. Samuel Adams Drake, Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873), 331, 358, 396–401, 405. archive.org

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