Joshua Coffin
American
Joshua Coffin was an American abolitioist, teacher and the able, eccentric historian of Newbury, Massachusetts. - AsNotedIn
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- Father Joseph Coffin
Joshua Coffin was an American abolitioist, teacher and the able, eccentric historian of Newbury, Massachusetts. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1792/10/12 | Judith Toppan Coffin, wife of Joseph Coffin, gives birth to a son Joshua, in Newbury, Massachusetts. | Born | Coffin House | Newbury | |||
| 1817/06/00 | Joshua Coffin graduates from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. | Education | Dartmouth College campus | Hanover, NH | |||
| 1821/00/00 | My first school-master, Joshua Coffin, the able, eccentric historian of Newbury, brought with him to our house a volume of Burns' poems, from which he read, greatly to my delight. I begged him to leave the book with me... - John Whittier | Work | John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead | Haverhill | |||
| 1825/00/00 | Joshua Coffin and his cousin Lucy Coffin each live in one side of Coffin duplax through most of the 19th century. | Home | Coffin House | Newbury | |||
| 1831/01/01 | The New England Anti-Slavery Society holds its founding meeting in the vestry of the Belknap Street Church in Boston. | Recording Secretary | African Meeting House | Boston | |||
| 1843/03/23 | There would be a meeting in Belknap Street Church on Thursday evening March 23 at the usual house, at which Joshua Coffin will give a narrative of his recent tour of the South with numerous anecdotes of self-emancipated slaves! A collection will be taken | Abolitionist | African Meeting House | Boston | |||
| 1845/00/00 | "A sketch of the history of Newbury, Newburyport and West Newbury, from 1635 to 1845" by Joshua Coffin is published in Boston, Massachusetts. | Author | |||||
| 1850/03/12 | Joshua Coffin is elected Newbury Town Clerk. | Work | Upper Green Historic District, Newbury | Newbury | |||
| 1857/02/13 | Owing to the impairment of his intellectual faculties, Joshua Coffin is unable to attend to his duties as Newbury Town Clerk and the selectmen appoint William Little 'Clerk pro tempore'. | Health | |||||
| 1860/00/00 | "An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections" by Joshua Coffin is published. | Author | |||||
| 1864/06/24 | Joshua Coffin dies in Newbury, Massachusetts. He is buried at First Parish Burying Ground in Newburyport, Massachusetts. | Died | First Parish Burying Ground, Newbery | Newbury |
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