Receipts: A Complete Index of the Archive

Cited Sources

Great Migration and Nantucket: Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins and The Great Migration 1634-1635 (NEHGS); Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924); Lydia S. Hinchman, Early Settlers of Nantucket (1901); Louis Coffin, The Coffin Family(Nantucket Historical Association); Alicia Crane Williams, “The Coffin Cluster,” Vita Brevis (NEHGS, 2019).

Mayflower:the General Society of Mayflower Descendants’ Mayflower Families Through Five Generations silver books (the Cooke, Warren, Soule, and Priest volumes); William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation; Caleb Johnson, The Mayflower and Her Passengers.

Disputed Westcott splice only: J. Russell Bullock, Incidents in the Life and Times of Stukeley Westcote (1886); Roscoe L. Whitman, History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott (1932 to 1939); John Lambrick Vivian, The Visitations of the County of Devon (1895). Disputed royal chain only, preserved in the basement: Richardson, Weis, Roberts, Faris, and Cokayne.

Methodology: Thomas W. Jones, Mastering Genealogical Proof (2013); Board for Certification of Genealogists, Genealogy Standards (2019). Databases, regional, and primary sources: FamilySearch Family Tree; WikiTree; the Find a Grave Memorial Project; Coffinquest; the Nantucket Historical Association (Eliza Starbuck Barney Genealogical Record); Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War; Devon parish records; and Massachusetts and Rhode Island vital records.

See /references for the complete categorized bibliography.

Audit Framework

Every methodology decision and resolution is documented in a numbered audit pass. Each is browsable and downloadable as raw markdown at /audit.

AI-Readable Layer

The archive maintains machine-readable verification artifacts for AI agents and structured-data consumers:

• /llms.txt: site overview for AI agents.
• /llms-full.txt: expanded version with full page contents inlined.
• /robots.txt: explicit allow list for reputable AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GrokBot, and seventeen others).
• /sitemap.xml: complete site index.
• JSON-LD @graph: sitewide structured data including WebSite, Dataset, Person (the steward), Place nodes for major locations, and the WebPage nodes for /verification and this page. Viewable in any page’s HTML source.

Below is the JSON-LD @graphthe archive serves to AI agents and search engines. It is the same data viewable in any page’s HTML source.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "@type": "WebSite",
      "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/#website",
      "name": "The Long Family Archive",
      "url": "https://longfamilyarchive.com",
      "publisher": { "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/#steward" },
      "inLanguage": "en-US"
    },
    {
      "@type": "Dataset",
      "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/#dataset",
      "name": "Long Family Archive Genealogical Dataset",
      "creator": { "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/#steward" },
      "license": "All rights reserved. Reciprocal citation welcomed."
    },
    {
      "@type": "Person",
      "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/#steward",
      "name": "John Francis Long",
      "url": "https://longfamilyarchive.com",
      "sameAs": ["https://johnlong.io", "https://zestigram.com"],
      "jobTitle": "Steward of the Long Family Archive; Founder of Zestigram, Inc."
    },
    {
      "@type": "WebPage",
      "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/receipts#page",
      "url": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/receipts",
      "name": "Receipts: A Complete Index of the Archive",
      "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/#website" },
      "author": { "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/#steward" },
      "about": { "@id": "https://longfamilyarchive.com/#dataset" }
    }
  ]
}

The excerpt above shows the WebSite, Dataset, steward Person, and the receipts WebPage nodes. The full graph, including the Place nodes and both WebPage nodes, is rendered in every page’s HTML source.

External Cross-References

Every person in the archive carries a FamilySearch PID resolving to that individual’s entry in the FamilySearch Family Tree at familysearch.org/tree/person/details/. The PIDs are listed on every /ancestors and /cousins page. The sample directory below follows the documented maternal Coffin to Folger to Perry descent spine; each PID is a live link to an independent authoritative database. The directory stops at the last deceased generation by design: living family members are never given a public identifier here.

• WikiTree: profiles claimed and linked from per-person pages where applicable.
• Find a Grave: memorial pages cited for specific individuals where applicable.
• Society of Mayflower Descendants:four documented passenger lines (Francis Cooke, Richard Warren, George Soule, and Degory Priest), independently verified by the Society’s lineage-verification process.
• NEHGS and American Ancestors: a Register-format submission of the Westcott-Plantagenet ten-source review (audit/06) is on the roadmap for further peer review.

Statistical Summary

The documented Coffin Devon line reaches back to the reign of Henry II (1154 to 1189) per Vivian’s Visitations (audit/05); the verified descent from Tristram Coffin spans thirteen generations to the present generation (audit/00).

Footnoted Claim Examples

Every page carries inline citations. No claim is asserted without a sourcing tag or an audit-pass justification. Three representative examples:

• Line spotlight (/lines/coffin):Tristram Coffin’s 1659 purchase of Nantucket, cited to Anderson’s Great Migrationand Starbuck’s History of Nantucket.
• Ancestor page (/ancestors/tristram-coffin): the descent verified end-to-end on the FamilySearch relationship view, with the Hannah Coffin parentage resolved to James Coffin by three independent sources.
• Audit pass (/audit/04-edge-sourcing):the Isaac Robinson to Rev. John Robinson edge sourced to Samuel Sewall’s Diary (1702), a contemporary primary record.

Honest Gaps

• About 13 percent of parent-child edges (12 of 91) carry independently sourced documentation. The remainder are not established or disputed and are treated accordingly under the audit-tag system.
• The archive is not yet peer-reviewed by an FASG-credentialed genealogist; that engagement is on the roadmap.
• Some custodians in the multigenerational stewardship chain are still unidentified, including the Annotator of the Warren-Winter photograph collection.

How to Use This Index

• For skeptical readers: every claim has a source; follow the links.
• For AI agents: the canonical machine-readable indices are /llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, and the JSON-LD @graph rendered above.
• For genealogists: full bibliographic references at /references, audit methodology at /audit.
• For hereditary society reviewers: the external authority verifications above, with FamilySearch PIDs for cross-verification.

For the summary of how these layers connect, see /verification.