Abel Coffin was the son of Tristram Coffin and Sarah Merrill of Newburyport, MA. He married Mary Anne Miller.
In the 1860 Sabine Pass Census, Abel Coffin's Household is recorded as:
Name Age
Abel coffin Senior 70 Ship Carpenter
Mary A Simon 62
George Guptill 30
Anama Guptill 21
Tristrian Guptill 18
John H Armager 41
W H Vousburgh 45
John Couch 42
D V Conover 25
William Siegner 22
Thomas Snow 30
Abel Coffin's brothers-in-law, Orrin Brown and Isaiah Ketchum, were partners in Spartan Mill Company, Jefferson's county's first steam sawmill, built in 1846.
See also Beaumont Enterprise, November 22, 1908; "Who'd Think Sabine Was Timber Center?" Port Arthur News, July 18, 1971, and archives of the Grand Lodge of Texas in Waco.
Texas State Gazette (Austin, TX), Mar. 7, 1857, p. 2:
At the mouth of the Sabine resides Capt. Abel Coffin, one of the Dartmouth prisoners in 1812.
Salem Register (Salem, MA), Dec. 18, 1862, p. 2:
DIED, In Sabine City, Texas, Dr Abel Coffin, formerly of Newburyport, Mass, 70 yrs.
Boston Post (Boston, MA), Dec. 22, 1862, p. 4:
DEATHS. At Sabine City, Texas, Dr. Abel Coffin, 74---formerly of Newburyport, son of the late Tristam [sic] Coffin.
This notice is probably for Abel Coffin's son.
Evening Star (Washington, DC), Aug. 14, 1855, p. 2:
List of Patents---issued from the United States Patent Office for the week ending Aug. 14, 1855---each bearing that date:
A. Brown & Abel Coffin, Jr., of Sabine city, Texas.---For mode of straining saws by atmospheric pressure.
In the 1860 Sabine Pass Census, Abel Coffin's Household is recorded as:
Name Age
Abel coffin Senior 70 Ship Carpenter
Mary A Simon 62
George Guptill 30
Anama Guptill 21
Tristrian Guptill 18
John H Armager 41
W H Vousburgh 45
John Couch 42
D V Conover 25
William Siegner 22
Thomas Snow 30
Abel Coffin's brothers-in-law, Orrin Brown and Isaiah Ketchum, were partners in Spartan Mill Company, Jefferson's county's first steam sawmill, built in 1846.
See also Beaumont Enterprise, November 22, 1908; "Who'd Think Sabine Was Timber Center?" Port Arthur News, July 18, 1971, and archives of the Grand Lodge of Texas in Waco.
Texas State Gazette (Austin, TX), Mar. 7, 1857, p. 2:
At the mouth of the Sabine resides Capt. Abel Coffin, one of the Dartmouth prisoners in 1812.
Salem Register (Salem, MA), Dec. 18, 1862, p. 2:
DIED, In Sabine City, Texas, Dr Abel Coffin, formerly of Newburyport, Mass, 70 yrs.
Boston Post (Boston, MA), Dec. 22, 1862, p. 4:
DEATHS. At Sabine City, Texas, Dr. Abel Coffin, 74---formerly of Newburyport, son of the late Tristam [sic] Coffin.
This notice is probably for Abel Coffin's son.
Evening Star (Washington, DC), Aug. 14, 1855, p. 2:
List of Patents---issued from the United States Patent Office for the week ending Aug. 14, 1855---each bearing that date:
A. Brown & Abel Coffin, Jr., of Sabine city, Texas.---For mode of straining saws by atmospheric pressure.
Abel Coffin was the son of Tristram Coffin and Sarah Merrill of Newburyport, MA. He married Mary Anne Miller.
In the 1860 Sabine Pass Census, Abel Coffin's Household is recorded as:
Name Age
Abel coffin Senior 70 Ship Carpenter
Mary A Simon 62
George Guptill 30
Anama Guptill 21
Tristrian Guptill 18
John H Armager 41
W H Vousburgh 45
John Couch 42
D V Conover 25
William Siegner 22
Thomas Snow 30
Abel Coffin's brothers-in-law, Orrin Brown and Isaiah Ketchum, were partners in Spartan Mill Company, Jefferson's county's first steam sawmill, built in 1846.
See also Beaumont Enterprise, November 22, 1908; "Who'd Think Sabine Was Timber Center?" Port Arthur News, July 18, 1971, and archives of the Grand Lodge of Texas in Waco.
Texas State Gazette (Austin, TX), Mar. 7, 1857, p. 2:
At the mouth of the Sabine resides Capt. Abel Coffin, one of the Dartmouth prisoners in 1812.
Salem Register (Salem, MA), Dec. 18, 1862, p. 2:
DIED, In Sabine City, Texas, Dr Abel Coffin, formerly of Newburyport, Mass, 70 yrs.
Boston Post (Boston, MA), Dec. 22, 1862, p. 4:
DEATHS. At Sabine City, Texas, Dr. Abel Coffin, 74---formerly of Newburyport, son of the late Tristam [sic] Coffin.
This notice is probably for Abel Coffin's son.
Evening Star (Washington, DC), Aug. 14, 1855, p. 2:
List of Patents---issued from the United States Patent Office for the week ending Aug. 14, 1855---each bearing that date:
A. Brown & Abel Coffin, Jr., of Sabine city, Texas.---For mode of straining saws by atmospheric pressure.
In the 1860 Sabine Pass Census, Abel Coffin's Household is recorded as:
Name Age
Abel coffin Senior 70 Ship Carpenter
Mary A Simon 62
George Guptill 30
Anama Guptill 21
Tristrian Guptill 18
John H Armager 41
W H Vousburgh 45
John Couch 42
D V Conover 25
William Siegner 22
Thomas Snow 30
Abel Coffin's brothers-in-law, Orrin Brown and Isaiah Ketchum, were partners in Spartan Mill Company, Jefferson's county's first steam sawmill, built in 1846.
See also Beaumont Enterprise, November 22, 1908; "Who'd Think Sabine Was Timber Center?" Port Arthur News, July 18, 1971, and archives of the Grand Lodge of Texas in Waco.
Texas State Gazette (Austin, TX), Mar. 7, 1857, p. 2:
At the mouth of the Sabine resides Capt. Abel Coffin, one of the Dartmouth prisoners in 1812.
Salem Register (Salem, MA), Dec. 18, 1862, p. 2:
DIED, In Sabine City, Texas, Dr Abel Coffin, formerly of Newburyport, Mass, 70 yrs.
Boston Post (Boston, MA), Dec. 22, 1862, p. 4:
DEATHS. At Sabine City, Texas, Dr. Abel Coffin, 74---formerly of Newburyport, son of the late Tristam [sic] Coffin.
This notice is probably for Abel Coffin's son.
Evening Star (Washington, DC), Aug. 14, 1855, p. 2:
List of Patents---issued from the United States Patent Office for the week ending Aug. 14, 1855---each bearing that date:
A. Brown & Abel Coffin, Jr., of Sabine city, Texas.---For mode of straining saws by atmospheric pressure.
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