Long Family Archive

Sources & References

Every source cited anywhere in the archive, 417 in all, grouped by type. Each entry lists the pages that cite it. Books are given in Chicago bibliography form; records keep their citation as it appears in the notes, with the FamilySearch record ID where there is one.

Published books and journals

  • “A Discharge to Mr. Tristram Coffin from the Judgment of the Court of Admiralty Compounded,” 6 November 1680 (Warrants, Orders, Passes xxii½, 9), in Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany: J. Munsell, 1856). archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • “A Discharge to Mr. Tristram Coffin from the Judgment of the Court of Admiralty Compounded,” 6 November 1680, in Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany: J. Munsell, 1856). archive.orgCited on: John Gardner
  • Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket (1924).Cited on: John Coffin
  • Allen Coffin, The Coffin Family (1881).Cited on: John Coffin
  • American Offshore Whaling Crew Lists, whalinghistory.org (searched 18 October 2026): no Swift of any first name on a crew list after 1878.Cited on: Fanny Harrison Winter · Le Roy Warren Swift
  • Amory, Thomas C. The Life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet: His English and American Ancestors. Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1886. archive.orgCited on: Thirty Pounds and Two Beaver Hats · Thomas Macy II · Tristram Coffin
  • Amory, Thomas C. The Life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet: His English and American Ancestors. Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1886. 71 (reprinting Allen Coffin’s address). archive.orgCited on: Tristram Coffin
  • Amory, Thomas C. The Life of Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet. Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1886. archive.orgCited on: Nathaniel Coffin · Nathaniel Coffin Jr. · The Liberty Tree
  • Amos Otis, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, rev. C. F. Swift, vol. 1 (Barnstable, MA: F. B. & F. P. Goss, 1888). archive.orgCited on: The Deborah Crowell Question
  • Amos Otis, Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families, rev. C. F. Swift, vol. 2 (Barnstable, MA: F. B. & F. P. Goss, 1890). archive.orgCited on: Isaac Robinson · Rev. John Robinson
  • Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. Stukely Westcott entry. The institutional gold standard for the immigration generation; cited in the FamilySearch source set for Stukely as Source #15. Anchors the 1592 birth, 1635 Salem arrival, 1638 banishment, and Providence founding facts.Cited on: Stukely Westcott (1592-1677)
  • Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Vol. 1. Boston: NEHGS, 1995 (entry for Tristram Coffin).Cited on: The Coffins of Nantucket
  • Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633. Vol. 3. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. archive.orgCited on: Isaac Robinson · Mercy 'Mary' Robinson · Rev. John Robinson
  • Anna Powell-Smith, Open Domesday, “All names” index (data from J. J. N. Palmer, University of Hull).Cited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • Association for Library Service to Children, “Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922–Present,” American Library Association.Cited on: The Liberty Tree
  • Austin, John Osborne. The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1887. archive.orgCited on: John Peckham II
  • Banks, Charles Edward. The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. Vol. 2. 1911.Cited on: Robert Cathcart of Tisbury
  • Banks, Charles Edward. The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. Vol. 3. Family Genealogies. Boston: George H. Dean, 1925. : Elisha Crowell, “son of Thomas and Deborah (———) Crowell of Yarmouth.”.Cited on: The Deborah Crowell Question
  • Banks, Charles Edward. The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. Vol. 3. 1925.Cited on: Robert Cathcart of Tisbury
  • Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, vol. 2, 277–78, and vol. 3.Cited on: Robert Cathcart of Tisbury
  • Banks, History of Martha’s Vineyard, vol. 3.Cited on: Phebe Coleman
  • Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography” (1771-90). Part One (on Abiah Folger. Peter Folger parentage).Cited on: Benjamin Franklin
  • Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, ed. John Bigelow (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1868). archive.orgCited on: Peter Folger
  • Boston American, 27 January 1943: “recently graduated from the Armored Force School, Ft. Knox, Ky. … Pvt. Francis S. Perry, of … Commonwealth ave., Newton.”. archive.orgCited on: Francis Swift Perry
  • Bradford, William. Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation." From the Original Manuscript. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1898. archive.orgCited on: Rev. John Robinson
  • Bradford, William. Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation." From the Original Manuscript. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1898. archive.orgCited on: Rev. John Robinson
  • Bradford, William. Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation." From the Original Manuscript. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1898. archive.orgCited on: Rev. John Robinson
  • Bradford, William. Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation." From the Original Manuscript. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1898. archive.orgCited on: Rev. John Robinson
  • Bradford, William. Bradford's History "Of Plimoth Plantation." From the Original Manuscript. Boston: Wright & Potter, 1898. 247–49 (Roger White to William Bradford, Leiden, 28 April 1625). archive.orgCited on: Rev. John Robinson
  • Bullock, J. Russell. Incidents in the Life and Times of Stukeley Westcote, with some of his descendants. 1886, 250 pp. the earliest published biography. Likely source for personal-association anecdotes with Roger Williams; full archive.org text not yet read.Cited on: Stukely Westcott (1592-1677)
  • Burgess, Walter H. John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers: A Study of His Life and Times. London: Williams and Norgate, 1920. archive.orgCited on: Rev. John Robinson
  • Burgess, Walter H. John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers: A Study of His Life and Times. London: Williams and Norgate, 1920. archive.orgCited on: Rev. John Robinson
  • Burgess, Walter H. John Robinson, Pastor of the Pilgrim Fathers: A Study of His Life and Times. London: Williams and Norgate, 1920. archive.orgCited on: Isaac Robinson · Rev. John Robinson
  • Burke, Sir Bernard. The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. London: Harrison & Sons, 1884. archive.orgCited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • Byrne, Muriel St Clare. The Lisle Letters. University of Chicago Press, 1981. over 3,000 letters of Arthur Plantagenet from his years as Lord Deputy of Calais.Cited on: Research in Progress. Basement
  • C. H. Firth, “Cromwell, Oliver (1599–1658),” in Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Leslie Stephen, vol. 13 (London: Smith, Elder, 1888). archive.orgCited on: Tristram Coffin
  • Camp, Wadsworth. History of the 305th Field Artillery. Garden City, N.Y. The Country Life Press, 1919. : “Second Lieutenant Charles F. Perry was assigned by order of July 20th and was sent to Battery B”; 361, roster of officers: “July 20 | Perry, Charles F. | 2 Lt. | B.”. archive.orgCited on: Charles Franklin Perry Jr.
  • Caroline Thorn and Frank Thorn, eds., Domesday Book 9: Devon (Chichester: Phillimore, 1985), 15,8; Open Domesday, “Alwington.”.Cited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • Coffin, Allen. The Coffin Family: The Life of Tristram Coffyn of Nantucket. Nantucket: Hussey & Robinson, 1881. archive.orgCited on: Dionis Stevens · Tristram Coffin
  • Coffin, Allen. The Coffin Family: The Life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass.. Nantucket: Hussey & Robinson, 1881. archive.orgCited on: Dionis Stevens · Thirty Pounds and Two Beaver Hats · Thomas Macy II · Tristram Coffin
  • Coffin, Allen. The Coffin Family: The Life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass.. Nantucket: Hussey & Robinson, 1881. archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • Coffin, Allen. *The Coffin Family: The Life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass.*Nantucket: Hussey & Robinson, 1881. 32. archive.orgCited on: The Coffins of Nantucket
  • Coffin, Allen. The Coffin Family. Nantucket: Hussey & Robinson, 1881. archive.orgCited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name · The Liberty Tree
  • Coffin, Levi. Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad. Cincinnati: Western Tract Society, 1876. archive.orgCited on: Levi Coffin II
  • Coffin, Louis. The Coffin Family: The Life of Tristram Coffyn of Nantucket and His Descendants. Nantucket Historical Association.Cited on: The Coffins of Nantucket
  • Cokayne. The Complete Peerage. Lisle viscountcy entry, vol. 8. noted as the gold-standard external cross-reference; not consulted in full (see Acknowledgments).Cited on: Research in Progress. Basement
  • Dictionary of National Biography, entry on Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle. Edward IV’s acknowledged biological son, the Plantagenet entry point of the Westcott line.Cited on: Research in Progress. Basement
  • Drake, Samuel Adams. Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. archive.orgCited on: General John Coffin · Nathaniel Coffin · Nathaniel Coffin Jr. · The Liberty Tree
  • Duchess of Cleveland, The Battle Abbey Roll, with Some Account of the Norman Lineages, vol. 1 (London: John Murray, 1889). archive.orgCited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • E. Stephen Arnold, The Arnold Memorial: William Arnold of Providence and Pawtuxet, 1587-(1935; Stukely Westcott entry, hosted babel.hathitrust.org). Source for the Arnold-line descent through Damaris Westcott and the Gov. Benedict Arnold I → Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold V chain.Cited on: Stukely Westcott (1592-1677)
  • Emily Sweeney, “Revolutionary War Heroes Remembered at Reopening of Liberty Tree Plaza in Chinatown,” Boston Globe, December 4, 2018.Cited on: The Liberty Tree
  • Emily Yurkus, “Legacy of the Liberty Tree: Where Is It Now in Present-Day Boston?,” Revolutionary Spaces, December 2023.Cited on: The Liberty Tree
  • Family recollection (John Long, 2026).Cited on: Eleanor L. Wall · Francis Swift Perry
  • Family recollection (oral history, Carol Perry Long, recorded 9 April 2026), [00:50–01:10]: a family member writing on the backs of the photos.Cited on: Rachel Winter Swift · The Annotator's Album
  • Family recollection (oral history, Carol Perry Long, recorded 9 April 2026).Cited on: Charles Franklin Perry · Charles Franklin Perry Jr. · Eleanor L. Wall · Fanny Harrison Winter · Fanny P. Harrison · Francis Swift Perry · Herbert Miller Wall · Le Roy Warren Swift · Rachel Winter Swift · The Annotator's Album
  • Folger, Peter. A Looking Glass for the Times, or, The Former Spirit of New-England Revived in this Generation. 1676; printed 1763. Rhode Island Historical Tracts, no. 16 (Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1883). archive.orgCited on: Peter Folger
  • Fox-Davies, A. C. A Complete Guide to Heraldry. London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1929. archive.orgCited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany, 1856). archive.orgCited on: Thirty Pounds and Two Beaver Hats · Tristram Coffin
  • Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany: J. Munsell, 1856), 118 n. 2. archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany: J. Munsell, 1856), xvi–xvii and xvii n. 3. archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany: J. Munsell, 1856). archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • Friends of the National Libraries, “Archives of the Pine-Coffin Family of Portledge,” grant record (acquired 2010).Cited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • G. Andrews Moriarty, Herodias (Long) Hicks-Gardiner-Porter, A Tale of Old Newport, in Rhode Island History, July 1952, pages 84-92, the peer-reviewed authoritative account of the 1644-45 divorce petition language (“many grievances and extreme violence”), the Hicks inheritance dispute, the twenty-year Gardiner common-law household, the 1658 walk and lashing under Governor Endicott, the 1664 separation petition and “horrible sin of uncleanness” fine, and the 1666 Porter cohabitation. Accessible companion treatment: Portsmouth History Notes, Founding Mothers: Herodias Long Hicks Gardiner Porter: “So scandalous a life” (June 27, 2017), portsmouthhistorynotes.wordpress.com.Cited on: Herodias Long (c. 1623, after 1674)
  • G. Andrews Moriarty, The Parentage of George Gardiner of Newport, R.I., The American Genealogist, peer-reviewed source for Gardiner’s Ealing, Middlesex origins and Newport arrival. Paired with Clara Gardner Miller and John M. Stanton, Gardiner-Gardner Genealogy: Including the English Ancestry of George Gardiner Immigrant Ancestor of Newport, RI (Rutland, VT: Tuttle Publishing, 1937).Cited on: Herodias Long (c. 1623, after 1674)
  • G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new ed., ed. Vicary Gibbs and H. A. Doubleday, vol. 6 (London: St Catherine Press, 1926). archive.orgCited on: The Countess and the Tower
  • G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, new ed., vol. 12, pt. 1, ed. Geoffrey H. White (London: St Catherine Press, 1953), app. L, “Companions of the Conqueror,” 47–48.Cited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • George H. Swift, comp., William Swyft of Sandwitch and Some of His Descendants, 1637–1899 (Millbrook, NY: Round Table Press, 1900). archive.orgCited on: Isaac Robinson · Leroy E. Swift (1836–after 1874) · Lydia Weeks · Mercy 'Mary' Robinson · Rev. John Robinson · The Countess and the Tower · William Weeks Jr.
  • Hakluyt, Richard. The Principall Navigations, Voiages and Discoveries of the English Nation. London: George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, 1589. archive.orgCited on: A Ship Called Pole
  • Hallowell, Anna Davis. James and Lucretia Mott: Life and Letters. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1884. archive.orgCited on: Lucretia Coffin Mott (1793-1880) · The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • Harvey O'Connor, “New Bedford's Revolt: Textile Workers in Finish Fight,” Labor Age 17, no. 6 (June 1928): 15–16. archive.orgCited on: 1928: The Strike
  • “Hawkins or Hawkyns, William (d. 1589),” in Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 25 (London: Smith, Elder, 1891).Cited on: A Ship Called Pole
  • Hinchman, Lydia S. Early Settlers of Nantucket: Their Associates and Descendants. 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Friends’ Book Association, 1901.Cited on: The Coffins of Nantucket
  • Historic England, “Portledge Hotel,” Grade II*, list entry 1170778.Cited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • Hough, Franklin B., comp. Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket. Albany: J. Munsell, 1856. 10 and n. 1 (Tuckernuck deed, 1659; the 1661 Indian deed); 118–23 (the wreck, 1678–80). archive.orgCited on: The Coffins of Nantucket
  • “Hundreds of Gallant Strikers Arrested in New Bedford,” in “Flashes from the Labor World,” Labor Age 17, no. 9 (September 1928). archive.orgCited on: 1928: The Strike
  • J. Ingram, trans., The Saxon Chronicle, with an English Translation (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), 264, s.a. 1066. archive.orgCited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • J. Ingram, trans., The Saxon Chronicle, with an English Translation (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823), 288–89, s.a. 1085. archive.orgCited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • J. L. Vivian, ed., The Visitations of the County of Devon (Exeter: H. S. Eland, 1895), 208–11, “Coffin of Porthledge.”. HathiTrustCited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • Jim Korkis, “A Friday Visit with Jim Korkis: The Liberty Tree,” Your First Visit, June 16, 2017.Cited on: The Liberty Tree
  • Jim Lochner, liner notes to Johnny Tremain: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, Intrada Special Collection vol. 425 (Oakland, CA: Intrada, 2019).Cited on: The Liberty Tree
  • JoAnn Butler, Rebel Puritan: A Scandalous Life, reviewed by Jane Fletcher Fiske in The American Genealogist. The modern biography from which the “Rebel Puritan” framing is drawn.Cited on: Herodias Long (c. 1623, after 1674)
  • John Adams, diary entry for 15 January 1766, in Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, ed. L. H. Butterfield, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1961).Cited on: The Liberty Tree
  • John G. Whittier, "The Exiles" (1841), in Poems (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey & Co., 1850). archive.orgCited on: Thomas Macy II
  • John Knox Laughton, “Hawkins or Hawkyns, William (d. 1554?),” in Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 25 (London: Smith, Elder, 1891).Cited on: A Ship Called Pole
  • John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island(1887), pp. 416-419, the canonical Rhode Island genealogical reference. Source for the institutional recounting of the banishment proceeding and Stukely’s RI settlement.Cited on: Stukely Westcott (1592-1677)
  • Judgment of the Court of Admiralty at Nantucket, 28 August 1680 (N.Y. Colonial MSS xxix), in Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany: J. Munsell, 1856). archive.orgCited on: John Gardner · The Wreck and the Fine
  • 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.orgCited on: Nathaniel Coffin Jr. · The Liberty Tree
  • Kidder, Frederic. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1870. 30 n. archive.orgCited on: The Liberty Tree
  • Lincoln Star (Lincoln, Neb.), 25 September 1944: “Lt. Colonel Charles F. Perry, commanding officer, Seventh transportation zone.”. archive.orgCited on: Charles Franklin Perry Jr.
  • Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. : “Minnehaha, Laughing Water.”.Cited on: The Deborah Crowell Question
  • Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, vol. 2 (1938).Cited on: Peter Coffin
  • Massachusetts House Nos. 1800–1802 (1969), petitions of Patrick H. Harrington Jr. and John J. Long: a Battleship Memorial Park on the waterfront at Fall River; directional signs to Battleship Cove; a “Battleship Massachusetts Memorial Day.”. Massachusetts State LibraryCited on: John Joseph Long
  • Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. archive.orgCited on: Edward Starbuck · Rowland Hussey Macy · The Coffins of Nantucket
  • New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.), 28 July 1928, 1, Associated Press: “Battery D of the 101 field artillery which did strike duty recently is now at Camp Devens.”. loc.govCited on: Charles Franklin Perry Jr.
  • New Britain Herald (New Britain, Conn.), 28 July 1928, 1, Associated Press. loc.govCited on: 1928: The Strike
  • Newton Cemetery and Arboretum, Newton, Massachusetts, burial search, Section Y, Family Lot 62: Space 1, “PERRY | CHARLES | F. | 26-Feb-1967”; Space 2, “PERRY | RACHEL | S. | 16-Nov-1984”; Space 3, “SWIFT | LEROY | W. | 02-May-1981.”.Cited on: Charles Franklin Perry Jr. · Rachel Winter Swift
  • Order of Gov. Edmund Andros, 25 October 1678 (N.Y. Colonial MSS, General Entries xxii, 8), and Tristram Coffin to Andros, received 6 August 1680 (N.Y. Colonial MSS xxix), as printed in Alexander Starbuck, The History of Nantucket: County, Island and Town (Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924), 68–70 and n. archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • Phebe Mitchell Kendall, comp., Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1896). archive.orgCited on: Maria Mitchell
  • Richard FitzNigel, Dialogus de Scaccario, bk. 1, ch. 16, in Ernest F. Henderson, trans., Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1912). archive.orgCited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. 2nd ed., 2011. standard reference for the medieval royal and noble descents of colonial American immigrants.Cited on: Research in Progress. Basement
  • Robert Charles Anderson et al., The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 (New England Historic Genealogical Society), for the 1637 Weymouth arrival and the Hicks family passenger record; and Divorce, Annulment, and Separation in 17th Century New York for the 1655 New Amsterdam cross-jurisdictional divorce.Cited on: Herodias Long (c. 1623, after 1674)
  • Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1633, vol. 3 (Boston: NEHGS, 1995).Cited on: Isaac Robinson
  • Roger Virgoe, “Hawkins, William (c.1495–1554/55), of Plymouth, Devon,” in S. T. Bindoff, ed., The History of Parliament: The House of Commons 1509–1558 (London: Secker & Warburg, 1982);. archived copyCited on: A Ship Called Pole
  • Roscoe L. Whitman, History and Genealogy of the Ancestors and Some Descendants of Stukely Westcott : one of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence(1932), the dedicated multi-volume Westcott genealogy. Source for the “thirteen original proprietors” framing (verbatim from the subtitle) and for Capt. Josiah Westcott’s rank attestation (vol. 1, p. 181).Cited on: Stukely Westcott (1592-1677)
  • Sabine, Lorenzo. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, 1864. archive.orgCited on: General John Coffin · Nathaniel Coffin · The Liberty Tree
  • Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown, 1860. archive.orgCited on: Tristram Coffin
  • Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown, 1861. archive.orgCited on: Isaac Robinson · Mercy 'Mary' Robinson · Rev. John Robinson
  • Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England. Vol. 4. Boston: Little, Brown, 1862. archive.orgCited on: Isaac Robinson · Mercy 'Mary' Robinson · Rev. John Robinson
  • “Sewall v. Hancock: Editorial Note,” in Legal Papers of John Adams, ed. L. Kinvin Wroth and Hiller B. Zobel, vol. 2 (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965).Cited on: The Liberty Tree
  • Sidney Lee, “Hastings, Francis (1514?–1561),” in Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 25 (London: Smith, Elder, 1891).Cited on: The Countess and the Tower
  • Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket: County, Island and Town. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924. archive.orgCited on: Mary Coffin Starbuck · Thirty Pounds and Two Beaver Hats · Tristram Coffin
  • Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket: County, Island and Town. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924. archive.orgCited on: John Gardner
  • Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket: County, Island and Town. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924. archive.orgCited on: John Gardner
  • Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket: County, Island and Town. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924. archive.orgCited on: John Gardner · The Wreck and the Fine
  • Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket: County, Island and Town. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924. 42, 50, 52 n. archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket: County, Island and Town. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924. 520, quoting the journal of John Richardson, who visited Nantucket in 1701. archive.orgCited on: Mary Coffin Starbuck
  • Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket: County, Island and Town. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924. 71 n. archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • Starbuck, Alexander. The History of Nantucket: County, Island, and Town. Boston: C. E. Goodspeed, 1924.Cited on: The Coffins of Nantucket
  • Starbuck, History of Nantucket.Cited on: Mary Coffin Starbuck
  • Stark, James H. The Loyalists of Massachusetts and the Other Side of the American Revolution. Boston: W. B. Clarke, 1910. archive.orgCited on: General John Coffin · Nathaniel Coffin · Nathaniel Coffin Jr. · The Liberty Tree
  • Stephen Baxter and C. P. Lewis, “Domesday Book and the Transformation of English Landed Society, 1066–86,” Anglo-Saxon England 46 (2017): 343–403.Cited on: The Domesday Book & the Coffin Name
  • The Peerage of the United Kingdom and Ireland, Volumes I-IV, the Lisle viscountcy and the Plantagenet-Monck-Arscote descent.Cited on: Research in Progress. Basement
  • Tristram Coffyn to Gov. Edmund Andros, Nantucket, 30 August 1680 (N.Y. Colonial MSS xxix), in Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany: J. Munsell, 1856). archive.orgCited on: The Wreck and the Fine
  • Tristram Coffyn to Gov. Edmund Andros, Nantucket, 30 August 1680 (N.Y. Colonial MSS xxix), in Franklin B. Hough, comp., Papers Relating to the Island of Nantucket (Albany: J. Munsell, 1856). Long s modernized; spelling otherwise as printed. archive.orgCited on: Tristram Coffin
  • Tyler, Betsy. “Tristram Coffin Homestead Site Marker.” Nantucket Historical Association Properties Guide, 2015. The 1879 granite-and-marble monument near Capaum Pond, funded by Owen Tristram Coffin and Charles G. Coffin to mark the homestead of Tristram Coffin (c. 1605-81), progenitor of the American Coffin family, has been maintained by the NHA since 1981.Cited on: The Coffins of Nantucket
  • Weir, Alison. Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World. Ballantine, 2013. Edward IV’s family, including the natural son Arthur Plantagenet.Cited on: Research in Progress. Basement
  • Wilbour, Benjamin Franklin. Little Compton Families. Little Compton, RI: Little Compton Historical Society, 1974.Cited on: John Peckham II
  • William Bradford, History of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Charles Deane (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1856). archive.orgCited on: Degory Priest · Francis Cooke · George Soule · Richard Warren
  • Winslow, Edward. Hypocrisie Unmasked. London, 1646; facsimile repr., Providence: Club for Colonial Reprints, 1916. archive.orgCited on: Rev. John Robinson
  • Wolfbein, Seymour Louis. The Decline of a Cotton Textile City: A Study of New Bedford. New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. archive.orgCited on: 1928: The Strike

Vital, census and military records

FamilySearch record IDs (ark) link to the indexed record.

Newspapers and directories

Family documents and research notes

  • Birth (6 Oct 1923) and death (5 Jun 2011, South Yarmouth, Massachusetts) of Francis Swift Perry: obituary, Morris, O’Connor & Blute Funeral Home. Also documented in the Long family archive: perry-family-heritage.pdf and long-perry-heritage-v6.pdf.Cited on: The Perry/Gumbleton Line
  • Cousins audit § 2h, generation recount (research notes, 18 April 2026).Cited on: Benjamin Franklin
  • Family accounts of his death year (1975), as collected by the archive, October 2026.Cited on: Charles Franklin Perry Jr.
  • Famous-relatives FamilySearch walk (raw JSON, recomputed under locked depth).Cited on: Levi Coffin II · Maria Mitchell · Walter Folger Jr.
  • Long family archive, perry-family-heritage.pdf and long-perry-heritage-v6.pdf (family documents).Cited on: Charles Franklin Perry Jr. · Eleanor L. Wall · Francis Swift Perry · John Joseph Long · Le Roy Warren Swift · Rachel Winter Swift
  • Nantucket Historical Association. Folger family papersCited on: Benjamin Franklin
  • The research record (24 May 2026), the FamilySearch ancestry and descendancy walks (Edward IV up to Charlemagne and Rollo; Edward IV down to the Tudor monarchs) from which every PID, lifespan, source count, and generational depth on this page is drawn.Cited on: Research in Progress. Basement
  • Tintype in a pressed case, with red-ink label, Warren-Winter collection, family archive.Cited on: Leroy E. Swift (1836–after 1874)
  • Warren-Winter photo collection, family archive: ambrotype of Elizabeth Arden in a thermoplastic case, with the tape label “My Mother's mother. Elizabeth Arden.” (IMG_5141–IMG_5143).Cited on: The Annotator's Album
  • Warren-Winter photo collection, family archive: blue-ink labels on the photograph mounts and backs (IMG_5092, IMG_5094, IMG_5097, IMG_5098, IMG_5105, IMG_5108, IMG_5110, IMG_5111).Cited on: The Annotator's Album
  • Warren-Winter photo collection, family archive: cabinet card by Gay's studio, Fall River, labeled on the back “Mama's Grandmother Winter,” and a garden photograph labeled “My great grandmother Winter” and “This was in their yard in Fall River.” (IMG_5111–IMG_5114).Cited on: The Annotator's Album
  • Warren-Winter photo collection, family archive: hinged case with a tintype of Leroy E. Swift in uniform, red-ink label “My Father Le Roy W. Swift Sr. / His Father, a Navy Capt.” (IMG_5148, IMG_5149-1).Cited on: The Annotator's Album
  • Warren-Winter photo collection, family archive: oval portrait in a round case, with the tape label “My Father's mother Rachel Warren.” (IMG_5145–IMG_5147).Cited on: The Annotator's Album
  • Warren-Winter photo collection, family archive: the Dartmouth Street living-room photograph, labeled on the front “Granni Winter Papa Mama Grandpa Winter” (IMG_5108).Cited on: Susan D. (Pease) Eldredge Winter
  • Warren-Winter photo collection, family archive: vital-data card, “Richmond C. Winter. Born in Fall River, June 25th 1839, Mass. Died in New Bedford, Mass., Jan 17th 1912. My grandfather, my Mother's father.” (IMG_5138).Cited on: Richmond Chamberlain Winter

Online compilations

Secondary sources: compiled trees and indexes, used as leads and checked against records.

Works consulted

Standard references and records consulted for the archive but not cited in a note on any page.

  • Board for Certification of Genealogists. Genealogy Standards. 2nd ed. Nashville: Ancestry.com and BCG, 2019.Not cited on any page.
  • Beaman, Alden Gamaliel. Rhode Island Vital Records, New Series. Vol. 4, Washington County, Rhode Island, Births from Probate Records, 1685–1860. Princeton, MA: the compiler, 1978.Not cited on any page.
  • Coventry, Rhode Island. Land Evidence, vol. 4, 62: deed of gift, Reuben Peckham to Timothy Peckham, 2 June 1768. Office of the Town Clerk, Coventry.Not cited on any page.
  • Exeter, Rhode Island. Probate Book 1, 2 and 111. Originals not yet viewed; abstracts in Beaman, Rhode Island Vital Records, New Series, vol. 4.Not cited on any page.
  • Faris, David. Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996.Not cited on any page.
  • Johnson, Caleb H. The Mayflower and Her Passengers. Xlibris, 2006.Not cited on any page.
  • Jones, Thomas W. Mastering Genealogical Proof. Arlington, VA: National Genealogical Society, 2013.Not cited on any page.
  • Lawton, Benjamin. Will, made 1765, proved 1769. Portsmouth, Rhode Island, Probate. Original not yet viewed; abstract in Lawton (1949), 28.Not cited on any page.
  • Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War. 17 vols. Boston: Wright and Potter, 1896–1908.Not cited on any page.
  • Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol. 3, George Soule. Compiled by John E. Soule and Robert L. Thomas; edited by Anne Borden Harding. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1980.Not cited on any page.
  • Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol. 8, Degory Priest. Compiled by Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend, Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret Harris Stover; re-edited by Margaret Harris Stover. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2008.Not cited on any page.
  • Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol. 12, Francis Cooke. Compiled by Ralph V. Wood Jr. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2014.Not cited on any page.
  • Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Vol. 18, pt. 1, Richard Warren. Compiled by Robert S. Wakefield; edited by Judith H. Swan. 3rd ed. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004.Not cited on any page.
  • Moriarty, G. Andrews. “Additions and Corrections to Austin’s Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.” The American Genealogist. Reprinted in Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, 1982 ed.Not cited on any page.
  • Peckham, Charles Wesley, Sr. The Peckham Family. Thomson-Shore. Family History Library call no. 929.2 P368p.Not cited on any page.
  • Sewall, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Sewall, 1674–1729. Entry of 1702.Not cited on any page.
  • Weis, Frederick Lewis, et al. Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700. 8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.Not cited on any page.