HERE LYES THE
BODY OF MR. JOHN
COFFIN AGED
ABOUT 64 YEARS
DIED SEPT ye 5
1711.

See the headstone detail!


John Coffin was an Edgartown blacksmith who settled here from Nantucket in 1682. He was the son of Tristram, and the husband of Deborah Austin. See The Coffin Family of Martha's Vineyard for more information.

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