Brief Life History of Jonathan B
When Jonathan B Coffin was born on 11 February 1796, in Deep River, Guilford, North Carolina, United States, his father, Joseph Coffin, was 22 and his mother, Hannah Ballinger, was 21. He married Martha Patsy Parker on 28 August 1814, in Guilford, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Greens Fork, Clay Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1860 and Clay Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States in 1870. He died on 31 January 1874, in Greens Fork, Wayne, Indiana, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Fairfield Cemetery, Greens Fork, Clay Township, Wayne, Indiana, United States.
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- Johathan Coffin, "United States Census, 1860"
- Jonathan Coffin, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
- Jonathan B Coffin, "Find A Grave Index"
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1799 · Gold Nuggets Found
In 1799, in Little Meadow Creak located in Cabarrus County, North Carolina a large yellow ""rock"" was found by Conrad Reed. A few years later it was determined that the ""rock"" was a gold nugget.
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1818
Historical Boundaries: 1818: Wayne, Indiana, United States
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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