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Oral history of the Coffin family passed down to some living descendants speaks to the smuggling of slaves into Canada for freedom, while other Coffin descendants at the same time were illegally smuggling slaves into Canada to enslave them, despite the international slave trade being banned in 1808.
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The progenitor of the Coffin Family, Tristram Coffin Sr., was a colonist who came to
Massachusetts from Butlas Parish, Devon, England with his family in 1642. Many of his descendants became triangle traders who were merchants, enslavers, and Captains or Masters of vessels dealing in the slave trade
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In April of 1783, a man named Mr. Greentree sold three people who had been forced into slavery to Major John Coffin. The enslaved people came to New
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General John Coffin was buried along with his son
Nathaniel in St. Peter's Cemetery at Woodman's Point where the Nerapis meets the Saint John River. Their markers, under a huge Oak tree simply read General Coffin age 87, Nath Coffin age 15.
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