Nathaniel Coffin

b. 1725, Boston · d. 1780, at sea

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Life

Office:
King's Cashier of Customs in Boston.[1][2][3]
Residence:
Lived near the corner of Essex Street and Rainsford Lane, steps from the Liberty Tree.[1][2][4]
Migration:
Left Boston with the British army for Halifax in 1776.[3][2]
Event:
Named among the Loyalists in the Massachusetts Banishment Act of September 1778.[2]
  1. Thomas C. Amory, The Life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet (Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1886), 31–33. archive.org
  2. 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
  3. Lorenzo Sabine, Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution, vol. 1 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1864), 323–26. archive.org
  4. 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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