When Daniel Coffin was born on 17 August 1737, in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Daniel Coffin, was 36 and his mother, Lydia Moulton, was 34. He married Mehitable Harmon before 1758, in Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 4 daughters. He died on 26 November 1812, in Bethel, Oxford, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 75.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
"""At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""""""
Historical Boundaries: 1796: York, Massachusetts, United States 1805: Oxford, Massachusetts, United States 1820: Oxford, Maine, United States
English (southwestern England, of Norman origin) and French: nickname from Middle English cofin, coffin, Old French cof(f)in (from Late Latin cophinus, Greek kophinos) ‘container, basket; coffer, chest (for keeping treasures, documents, armour, etc.)’. Early bearers of this as a hereditary surname were of knightly rank. Old French cofin was synonymous with coffer, and it may be that Cofin was used to denote a keeper of the (royal) coffer, attested in Anglo-Latin cofferarius. Compare Coffer . The modern English word coffin is a specialized development of this term, not attested until the 16th century.
History: Tristram Coffin came from Brixham, Devon, to Haverhill, MA, before 1647. An important line of his descendants is associated with Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.
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