Nathaniel Coffin Jr.

Life

Event:

Coffin family accounts hold him responsible for having the Liberty Tree cut down in 1775; the standard Boston histories name one Job Williams as the leader of the party.^[1][2][3][4]

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. Samuel Adams Drake, Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873), 331, 358, 396–401, 405. archive.org
4. Justin Winsor, ed., The Memorial History of Boston, 1630–1880, vol. 3 (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881), 12, 19, 36, 158–59 and 159 n. 2, 175–80 and 180 n. 191. archive.org

Appears On

• A House Divided: The Coffins in the RevolutionCut down the Liberty Tree; fled Boston; Collector of Customs St. Kitts 34 years

Sources

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Mentioned On

• A House Divided: The Coffins in the American Revolution
• The Liberty Tree (2 mentions: 1 2)