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Thomas Coffin
(1766–1815)
BIRTH
September 5, 1766
PLACE
Nantucket, Massachusetts
DEATH
February 1815
PLACE
Unknown
FAMILY
CHILDREN
Lucretia Mott
(1793-1880)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
QUAKER
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Thomas Coffin Jr. was a Nantucket Quaker, ship captain and later merchant. He and Anna Folger were parents of abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Lucretia Mott and her sister Martha Coffin Wright.
EARLY LIFE
He was a ship captain and later a merchant.
CAREER
DEATH
Thomas Coffin, a former Nantucket whaling captain and later merchant and nail manufacturer, died of typhus in 1815. His daughter Lucretia Mott and the wider family had faced financial difficulties after his nail business failed. His precise death site and grave were not established in the consulted sources.
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